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About 15 years ago, I met an uncommon and fascinating man. His solid reputation as a scientist and researcher preceded him, a living encyclopedia on plants worldwide — growing in severe and difficult conditions, deprived of light in the shadows of tall trees (where, in contrast to the old saying, there is always something growing), or deprived of nutrients among rocks... Here was a man who was familiar with strolling the Amazon forests and riding under the canopy on a raft.
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Nestled in the hills northwest of Beijing, a lesser-known attraction vies for attention with a well-touristed section of China's Great Wall: eleven ultramodern villas, each designed by a top architect from China, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, or Singapore.
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More Building Culture 'Depressed' Town Wins Plook Award — BBC News, 2009.0129Born and Razed: Preservationists Won't Forget Beta House — The Hook, 2009.0129 Restoration Continues on the Mission San Xavier Del Bac — USA Today, 2009.0128 Visions of Utopia: Le Corbusier at the Barbican — Retro to Go, 2009.0128 Housing Prices Keep Dropping. And They're Not Done Yet — Time, 2009.0128 Dock Street Foes, Supporters Clash at Hearing — Brooklyn Paper, 2009.0128 Land Ho! House Glides Across Ice on White Bear Lake — Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 2009.0128 Home-Builders Nervous as Demand Plummets — Brisbane Times, 2009.0128 Tax Credit for Home Reno a Boost for Building Sector — Vancouver Sun, 2009.0128 EU Faces Daunting Challenges in Rebuilding Gaza — The Media Line, 2009.0127 MoMA Award Goes to Architecture for an Economic Hangover — New York Times, 2009.0127 French Housing Starts Fall Below Expectations in Three Months to December — CEP, 2009.0127 Housing Inventory Slips, but the Market's Still Broken — US Banker, 2009.0127 Fulton Homes Seeks Protection from Creditors, Files Chapter 11 — Arizona Republic, 2009.0127 U.S. Existing Home Sales Rise on Record Price Slump — Bloomberg, 2009.0126 Menil Collection Picks Architect to Design Expansion — Houston Chronicle, 2009.0126 Layoffs Spread to More Sectors of the Economy — New York Times, 2009.0126 Prefab Home Designer Bucks a Downward Trend — NPR, 2009.0126 Architect Built His Career from the Ground Up — Los Angeles Times, 2009.0125 Six Errors on the Path to the Financial Crisis — New York Times, 2009.0125 Recovery Beyond the Beltway — Center for American Progress, 2009.0123 Coffee Linked to Lower Dementia Risk — New York Times, 2009.0123 Vertical Gardens — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0121 American Institute of Architects Seeking $100B in Federal Stimulus Funds — Baltimore Business Journal, 2009.0121 China to Rebuild Quake Town — Straits Times, 2009.0119 Architecture Billings Index Remains Low — Washington Business Journal, 2009.0119 Financial Burden of Homeownership Spread Unequally — Associated Press, 2009.0118 Rediscovered Masterpiece: The Ford Foundation — Metropolis, 2009.0117 Collaborating with Architects — Interior Design, 2009.0117 For a Chapel on the Park, the Bell May Soon Toll — New York Times, 2009.0116
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