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The Chicago building that formerly housed Prentice Women's Hospital is proudly unorthodox. Above a steel-and-glass base, in a sea of more-conventional rectilinear neighbors, the building's quatrefoil concrete tower rises banded with oval-shaped windows.
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NEW ARCHITECTURE IN NEW ORLEANS Located on one of the busiest thoroughfares in the Central Business District of New Orleans, the apartment building at 930 Poydras was designed to translate the dense, communal atmosphere of the French Quarter into a tower. To achieve that effect, architecture firm Eskew+Dumez+Ripple incorporated generous, well designed common spaces into the 250-unit, 21-story building.
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Hurricanes were a primary concern for Michael G. Imber Architects when the firm designed a traditionally styled home for the new Beachtown development in Galveston, Texas. Located on the Gulf of Mexico, the vacation-home development combines New Urbanist architecture and planning with systematic fortification against the fierce storms.
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More Architecture News Daily Architecture Headlines — Updated every day at ArchitectureWeek
Stirling Prize Shortlist Reflects New Austerity in Architecture — Guardian Unlimited, 2011.0721
Hope in Joplin — Architect's Newspaper, 2011.0719
Appeals Court Upholds Building Ban on Architect — New York Times, 2011.0715
People and Places 2011.0713 — ArchitectureWeek, 2011.0713
BVN's Brain Research Building Wins International Prize — Architecture & Design (Australia), 2011.0712
De Bullion St. House Collapse Comes after Stop-Work Order — Montreal Gazette, 2011.0712
Ricardo Legorreta Wins Top Architecture Prize — BD (Registration required), 2011.0711
Vietnamese Bamboo-Made Architectural Work Honored in US — VietnamNet, 2011.0710
Economy Faces a Jolt as Benefit Checks Run Out — New York Times, 2011.0710
Fitzpatrick and Partners Win Competition to Design Sydney Tower — Architecture & Design (Australia), 2011.0707
Hailstorm Devastates Garfield Park Conservatory — Chicago Tribune, 2011.0702
Melbourne's AAMI Park by Cox Architecture Won Three Regional Awards — Architecture & Design (Australia), 2011.0627
Architect Awarded $50m Carnarvon Courthouse Project — Architecture & Design (Australia), 2011.0624
Chinese Dissident Ai Weiwei Free, but Silenced — CBS News, 2011.0624
George M. White, Architect of Capitol, Dies at 90 — New York Times, 2011.0623
Ai Weiwei Released from Detention — Guardian Unlimited, 2011.0622
People and Places 2011.0622 — ArchitectureWeek, 2011.0622
British Architect Wins Award for Berlin Museum — Irish Times, 2011.0621
Perth's One40william Building Wins WA Awards — Architecture & Design (Australia), 2011.0620
Spanish Underdog Triumphs in Lausanne — BD (Registration required), 2011.0620
6 Injured as Building Collapses in Nairobi — Daily Nation, 2011.0619
Zaha Hadid's Serpentine Sackler Gallery Approved — BD (Registration required), 2011.0617
Rensselaer Professor Awarded "Rome Prize" — RPI Press Release, 2011.0616
Chinese Secretly Copy Austrian UNESCO Town — Der Spiegel, 2011.0616
Ambitious Building Designs Invite Debate — Toledo Blade, 2011.0615
People and Places 2011.0615 — ArchitectureWeek, 2011.0615
New Architecture in New Orleans — ArchitectureWeek, 2011.0615
Building Collapse in Kenya's Capital Leaves 2 Dead, 14 Missing — Digital Journal, 2011.0614
Eli Broad Is Selling $150 Million in Bonds for New L. A. Art Museum — Business Insider, 2011.0614
St. Paul Unveiling Great River Park Master Plan — Pioneer Press, 2011.0613
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