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On New York's Fifth Avenue, people approach the Apple Store's glass cube, often first walk around it, then enter and descend by the glass stairs to the below-ground showroom. This store is not only the icon for Apple Inc., but also an exemplar of the architecture of Peter Bohlin: it is an original statement, powerful yet minimalist, that enhances its surroundings and respects the human scale while creating an invigorating sense of movement, pulling in shoppers and spectators in staggering numbers, 24 hours a day.
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CONFESSIONS OF AN ARCHITECTURAL JOURNALIST
Hiroshi Nakamura is an affable, easygoing guy — so much so that he even lay down on the carpet to help me and a colleague to get the right picture for a previous article.
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More Building Culture Oakland Museum's Demure Visage Gets a Face-Lift — San Francisco Chronicle, 2010.0430Rating the Architecture That Frames Downtown St. Petersburg's Waterfront Park — St. Petersburg Times, 2010.0430 Architecture's Ever-Optimistic Daniel Libeskind — Business Week, 2010.0429 Hard Times for Star Architects — Business Week, 2010.0429 Tate Modern: A Symbol of Britain as It Would Like to Be — Telegraph, 2010.0428 A Home to Be Treasured — Aucklander, 2010.0427 5 Key Steps to Buying Your First Home, Tax Credit or No — USA Today, 2010.0426 Tesco 'Mini Village' Building Plans 'Will Make It More Powerful Than Government' — Telegraph, 2010.0426 The (Sickly) Return of Housing — CNNMoney.com, 2010.0426 Has Landmarking in New York Gone Too Far? — New York Post, 2010.0425 Farmer Lives Like the Pioneers in a Modern House in Coupland — Statesman, 2010.0425 Back to the Future: Could a 1970s House Be Made Modern Again? — Washington Post, 2010.0425 Rat Shack Revival — Sydney Morning Herald, 2010.0425 Suburban Homeowners Hone Restoration Skills into a Career Path — Daily Herald, 2010.0424 To Make Cities Livable: $2tn over 20 Yrs — Times Of India, 2010.0423 Agriculture Is the New Golf: Rethinking Suburban Communities — Mother Nature Network, 2010.0423 Tax Credits Sweeten Many Homebuyers' Deal — NPR, 2010.0423 Is Public Housing Ready for the Yuppies? — Toronto Star, 2010.0423 Going with the Grain: Wood Can Breathe Fresh Life into Any Interior — The Independent, 2010.0423 Life Is a Breeze When You Dress Up the Porch — Houstan Chronicle, 2010.0423 McDonald Mansion Shaping Up — Press Democrat, 2010.0423 John Carl Warnecke, Architect to Kennedy, Dies at 91 — New York Times, 2010.0423 A Jungle of Bamboo Is Growing Atop the Met — New York Times, 2010.0423 RIBA Says Press Is to Blame for Low Pay Row — BD, 2010.0423 Converting a Garage Outside Seattle into a Tiny Home — New York Times, 2010.0421 One Worthy of Renewal — News Observer, 2010.0419 the Men Who Built Brazil's Modern Capital Brasilia — BBC News, 2010.0419 The Refinancing Dilemma: Should I Do It? — Smart Money, 2010.0419 Goldman's Brass Had a Hand in Mortgages — Boston Globe, 2010.0419 Exhibition of Architect Kaplicky's Work Opens in Prague — Ceske Noviny, 2010.0415
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