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    NEW SAN FRANCISCO ARCHITECTURE

    SFMOMA commissioned a new sculpture garden for the top of its parking structure, with provisions to connect to the main San Francisco Museum of Modern Art building — a late-20th-century classic that prefigured the wave of museums constructed following the Guggenheim Bilbao in 1997. Jensen & Macy Architects conceived of the garden, which was completed by successor firm Jensen Architects, as a gallery without a ceiling.

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    PEOPLE AND PLACES

    AIA in Washington, D.C., USA — Gwathmey Siegel in Sacramento, California — Piercy Connor Architects in Rajarhat, India — Nelligan White Architects in New York, New York — Perkins + Will in San Francisco, California...

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    GREAT NEW LANDSCAPES

    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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    AIA HOUSING AWARDS 2010

    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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    AIA TOP GREEN BUILDINGS 2010

    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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    Australian Building Industry Growth Slowed in May on Apartments — Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 2010.0606

    Burj Khalifa and the Ledge at Willis Tower Win Top Illinois Engineering Honors — Chicago Tribune, 2010.0606

    Texas to Lead Other States in Housing Rebound, Analyst Says — Dallas Morning News, 2010.0604

    Longtime News Architecture Critic David Dillon Dies at 68 — Dallas Morning News, 2010.0604

    Guatemala Sinkhole Created by Humans, Not Nature — National Geographic, 2010.0603

    U.S. Manufacturing Expands, Construction Surges — Reuters, 2010.0602

    Pending Home Sales Jump — Wall Street Journal, 2010.0602

    People and Places 0602 — ArchitectureWeek, 2010.0602

    Construction Spending in U.S. Rose by Most Since 2000 — Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 2010.0601

    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

    Researchers Test Cannon Beach Tsunami-Proof Building — OPB, 2010.0524

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