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From the outside, Ørestad College in Copenhagen, Denmark, is a simple five-story cuboid. But the conventional exterior form conceals a radical open-plan interior. Designed by Danish architects 3XN, the experimental secondary school seems to embody all kinds of things that a school typically isn't.
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Though surely not as great a source of significant contemporary architecture as cultural institutions, places of worship — in one form or another — continue to generate invention and cutting-edge design. The reuse of places of religion for other purposes sometimes poses the problem of deconsecration, with the reticence some users may have when asked to dine or party in a former church.
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The city of Lecce, located in the southern heel of the Italian peninsula, is associated with highly ornate baroque palaces and churches, their facades overlaid with elaborate decorative carvings in the local limestone.
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Early in the design process of the Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center in Grand Teton National Park, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson made several key design decisions that were critical to the success of the project.
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Renzo Piano is known for his finely tuned designs, especially for a refined talent in dovetailing elegant new architecture with an existing context, playing on contextual strengths without duplicating the neighbors. He has achieved this feat once again at the Art Institute of Chicago, where a light-studded new museum wing by Piano opened in May 2009. The Art Institute's new addition is laudable in its intelligent siting, sensitive scale, urban presence, and manipulation of light.
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More Architecture and Design In Spain, Moving Up the Hill — New York Times, 2009.0929Glass Half Empty: Richard Meier’S Brooklyn Tower — New York Times, 2009.0927 Transparent New Home for Poetry — New York Times, 2009.0925 Designs for Second Bow Bridge Unveiled — Calgary Herald, 2009.0923 AUTODESK UNIVERSITY 2009 Call for Submissions — Autodesk Press Release, 2009.0923 Jewish Community Celebrates Holiday in Student-Designed WesSukkah — Wesleyan Connection, 2009.0922 Man on the Moon: Norman Foster Prepares for Architecture's Lift-Off — Guardian Unlimited, 2009.0922 West Jerusalem Shows Its Hip Secular Side — New York Times, 2009.0920 Mayne's Crazy Wave Evokes Lunar Landing, ‘Blade Runner’: Review — Bloomberg, 2009.0917 Church of Books — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0916 Viñoly-Designed New York Architecture School Opens — Building (UK), 2009.0916 How to Craft a Better Seattle — Crosscut, 2009.0915 57th Street Skyscraper Up in the Air — New York Observer, 2009.0915 Seeking Shangri-La — The Age, 2009.0910 New Yards Design Draws from the Old — New York Times, 2009.0910 "Jewel in the Park" Opens in Donetsk — Arup Press Release, 2009.0907 New Wave — Financial Times, 2009.0905 Parish Church in Lecce — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0902 Architecture Review: Anaheim's Rail Hub — Los Angeles Times, 2009.0827 A City Dedicated to Books and Print — Financial Times, 2009.0821 In Japan, a House of Steel — New York Times, 2009.0819 Grand Teton Visitor Center — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0819 Mosques and Modernity — Financial Times, 2009.0814 Norman Foster Sweeps Heathrow to the Height of Airport Architecture — Guardian Unlimited, 2009.0814 House Rules — Canadian Architect, 2009.0814 When Creativity Diminishes Along with the Cash — New York Times, 2009.0812 Home Sweet Home — The Australian, 2009.0811 Slow Home: Thoughtful Residential Design as Antidote to Suburban Sprawl — Good Ideas Salons, 2009.0803 Ball-Nogues Makes Architecture for the Moment — Los Angeles Times, 2009.0802 Snowdon Centre Architect's Honour — BBC News, 2009.0801
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