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An art deco highrise in eastern Mississippi continues to deteriorate, as does one of the last remaining Negro League baseball stadiums, in New Jersey. A 1,300-year-old cultural site in Guam is threatened by U.S. Navy construction plans, and the character of Connecticut's scenic Merritt Parkway is at risk.
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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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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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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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More Architecture News Daily Architecture Headlines — Updated every day at ArchitectureWeek
U.S. Historic Sites in Peril — ArchitectureWeek, 2010.0623
Structural Engineers Checking Gas Blast House — BBC, 2010.0622
House-Senate Negotiators to Weigh Consumer Agency, Mortgage-Risk Retention — Bloomberg, 2010.0622
Proposal Ratified to Raze 20 Palestinian Homes — National Post, 2010.0622
British Architect to Rebuild Haiti's Social Housing — Independent Digital, 2010.0621
U.N. Honors Architect Zaha Hadid — UPI, 2010.0621
Program for Struggling Homeowners Finds Itself Struggling — Chicago Tribune, 2010.0621
Home Loans Get Easier for Spaniards — Wall Street Journal, 2010.0621
East Jerusalem Building Plan Advances — New York Times, 2010.0621
Race to Build Best Solar House Opens in Madrid — AFP, 2010.0619
GSA Violates National Historic Preservation Act by Building Garage — Billings Gazette, 2010.0618
Minorities Hurt More by Foreclosure Crisis, Study Says — Miami Herald, 2010.0618
Storm Blows Out Windows at 110-Story Chicago Tower — Associated Press, 2010.0618
GBCI Introduces LEED AP for Neighborhood Development Credential — Architects' Journal, 2010.0618
Home Construction Fails to Lift Recovery — Associated Press, 2010.0617
Cooper-Hewitt Awards Go to Designers of High Line, Birding Center and Designer Shops — Los Angeles Times, 2010.0617
U.K. Government Announces Bonfire of Cultural Projects — BD, 2010.0617
I.M. Pei's JFK in Terminal Trouble — Architect's Newspaper, 2010.0616
U.S. Home Building Craters after Tax Break Expires — Market Watch, 2010.0616
People and Places 2010.0616 — ArchitectureWeek, 2010.0616
Astrodome Renovation Plan Carries $1.35B Tab — Associated Press, 2010.0614
Canadian Institute of Steel Construction Announces National Steel Design Award Winners — Digital Journal, 2010.0614
U.S. Housing Recovery Dependent on Jobs, Harvard Report Says — Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 2010.0614
Fannie Mae Mortgage-Bond Spreads Fall to Lowest in Three Weeks — Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 2010.0614
FBI to Target Mortgage Fraud — Financial Times, 2010.0611
Aussie Fund Sues Wall Street's Goldman Sachs for $1.2bn Subprime Bill — Austrailian, 2010.0611
Bel-Air Mansion Fetches Highest Price This Year for a U.S. Residence — Los Angeles Times, 2010.0611
Congress Considers Tax-Credit Extension for Some Home Buyers — Wall Street Journal, 2010.0610
New San Francisco Architecture — ArchitectureWeek, 2010.0609
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