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Corgan in Dallas, Texas — Alexander Gorlin Architects in The Bronx, New York — Ware Malcomb in Panama City, Panama — Abode Communities in East Rancho Dominguez, California — Peter Caradonna Architecture and Planning in Islip, New York — Bogdanow Partners Architects in New York, New York — Frank Gehry in Las Vegas, Nevada — Holzman Moss Bottino Architecture in Manassas, Virginia — Patkau Architects in Mill Run, Pennsylvania — Coop Himmelb(l)au in Frankfurt am Main, Germany...
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Visitors to the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, China, are experiencing a former industrial site reclaimed as a riverside oasis: Houtan Park. Running through this strip of green space, interlaced with walkways, a constructed wetland treats polluted river water for use at the Expo.
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When leaders in Milton Keynes, England, sought a new recreation center in the Central Bletchley district, they had many goals: an iconic presence on the outside, countless fitness and sports facilities on the inside, and a building that could catalyze an overall regeneration of the town. But the overriding goal — one that tied together all these disparate parts — was to make the new Bletchley Leisure Center a state-of-the-art sustainable building.
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The Safari Drive multifamily residential complex in downtown Scottsdale, Arizona, exemplifies a higher-density, pedestrian-scaled alternative to the exploding sprawl of greater Phoenix. Designed by The Miller Hull Partnership, it succeeds as design in the broadest sense: place-making that intertwines architecture, planning, and landscape.
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A boxy new house stands on stilts in the Katrina-ravaged Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. Its form may be distinctly contemporary, but the home has ties to its place: filigree railings recall the ornamental ironwork of the French Quarter, and a linear plan evokes some sense of the regional shotgun house vernacular.
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More Architecture News Daily Architecture Headlines — Updated every day at ArchitectureWeek
Guatemala Sinkhole Created by Humans, Not Nature — National Geographic, 2010.0603
People and Places 0602 — ArchitectureWeek, 2010.0602
Durst, Related in WTC Bid — Wall Street Journal, 2010.0601
Coalition Government to Scrap House Building Targets — BBC, 2010.0531
China Real Estate Bubble Bursts in Bond Market: Credit Markets — Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 2010.0531
Zell Sees Bargain in Brazil Property on Strong Growth — Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 2010.0531
London Housing Shortage to Push Up Prices — Guardian, 2010.0530
Hurricane Season Begins Tuesday with $5.8 Billion of Work Still in Progress — New Orleans Times-Picayune, 2010.0529
Rome’S Maxxi Is Open at Last — Financial Times, 2010.0529
Big Rise in House Building after Surge in Demand — Financial Times, 2010.0528
Estimates Suggest Spill Is Biggest in U.S. History — New York Times, 2010.0528
Expiring Tax Credits Boost New Home Sales; Mortgage Rates, Falling Prices Help — Washington Post, 2010.0527
Tax Deal Fuels New-Home Sales — Wall Street Journal, 2010.0527
New Orleans' Nine Most Endangered Sites Bear Legacies of Music, Worship, Justice — New Orleans Times-Picayune, 2010.0527
Rome's New Contemporary Art Museum Set to Open — CBC News, 2010.0527
Kimbell Art Museum Releases Final Design for Addition to Kahn's Original — Chicago Tribune, 2010.0527
Two Architects Have a Meeting of the Minds at a Texas Museum — New York Times, 2010.0527
Home Sales Data, Toll Results Boost Builder Shares — Wall Street Journal, 2010.0526
Great New Landscapes — ArchitectureWeek, 2010.0526
Boston Properties Bows Out — Wall Street Journal, 2010.0526
Vote Endorses Muslim Center Near Ground Zero — New York Times, 2010.0525
'Amityville Horror' Home Goes on Sale for $1.15m — BBC, 2010.0525
U.S. Economy: Purchases, Inventories of Existing Homes Increase — Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 2010.0524
Fed Says Asset Sales Will Come after Rates Are Raised — Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 2010.0524
Mortgage Delinquencies Decline Broadly in April -S&P — Wall Street Journal, 2010.0524
U.S. Subprime Hunt Targets Goldman, May Skip Cassano: Timeline — Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 2010.0524
Tax Credit and Low Mortgage Rates Boost Home Sales — Associated Press, 2010.0524
Daiwa House Seeking Acquisitions to Expand Renovation Sales — Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 2010.0524
Calif. Homebuilder Agrees to Plea in Fraud Ring — Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 2010.0521
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