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A high-level assessment of the impact of the urban tower on the natural environment would conclude that low land use and possible higher density are the chief advantages, with high energy usage being the chief disadvantage. Concepts of density and of energy usage are relative, and should be examined by comparing high-rise buildings with their low- or mid-rise alternatives.
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The exhibit "Metabolism, the City of the Future" at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo is a major retrospective looking at Japan's most widely known and perhaps least understood modern architecture movement. Subtitled "Dreams and Visions of Reconstruction in Postwar and Present-Day Japan," the exhibit throws up images depicting a sci-fi world of floating cities, metropolises in the sky, and soaring geometric shapes and patterns repeated over and over with little apparent corrspondence to the psychological needs of humans. 2011.1214
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Building Culture Around the Web What's Old Is New Again as Students Build on Lessons from the Past — National, 2012.0107Hotel Normandie in L.A.'S Koreatown to Get $5-Million Makeover — Los Angeles Times, 2012.0107 Cliff Dwellers Club Loses Its Michigan Avenue Perch — Chicago Sun-Times, 2012.0106 Agencies on the Edge — Architect's Newspaper, 2012.0106 New York's 7 Line Extension Steams Ahead. — Architect's Newspaper, 2012.0106 Code for America Opens 'Civic Accelerator' in S.F. — San Francisco Chronicle, 2012.0106 Plans to Restore Crumbling Colosseum Cause Rumblings in Rome — CNN, 2012.0106 Prudential Building Scheduled for Implosion Sunday in Houston — Houston Chronicle, 2012.0106 Architects Find New Ways to Make the Best of Space in Skinny Homes — Ottawa Citizen, 2012.0106 YRM Bosses Jump Ship Leaving Staff Stranded — Building Design (registration required), 2012.0106 Constructive Criticism: The Week in Architecture — Guardian, 2012.0106 Houston Skyscraper Set for Implosion Sunday — Austin-American Statesman, 2012.0106 Constructive Criticism: The Week in Architecture — Guardian, 2012.0106 Paved, but Still Alive — New York Times, 2012.0106 Homes of the Future, on Sale Now — Forbes, 2012.0106 Builders Applaud Fed Report on Housing — NAHB, 2012.0105 Five Things to Build on in 2012 — Curbed SF, 2012.0105 Taiwan Works to Restore Architectural Treasures — BBC, 2012.0105 Grand Galleries for National Treasures — New York Times, 2012.0105 Diller Scofidio + Renfro to Redesign the Pines Pavilion — New York Times, 2012.0105 Hedge Your Home for Protection and Beauty — Examiner, 2012.0105 ‘Unbuilt Washington’ Rescues Alternate Visions of the Capital from Obscurity — Washington Post Express, 2012.0105 In Rotterdam, a Town House Reborn — New York Times, 2012.0104 High-Rise Sustainability — ArchitectureWeek, 2012.0104 Marilyn Throws a Curve at Traditional Toronto Condo Design — Globe and Mail, 2012.0104 Retro Redo: Homeowners Retooling Outdated Split Levels for Today's Lifestyles — Chicago Tribune, 2012.0104 Architect Ricardo Legorreta, 80, Dies; Used Bold Colors in Projects Including U. Of C. Dorm, Pritzker House — Chicago Tribune (Blog), 2012.0104 Lighting as the Unsung Hero in Data Center Energy Efficiency — Data Center Journal, 2012.0104 China Airlines Won't Pay EU Carbon Tax: Industry Body — Reuters, 2012.0104 Construction Spending in U.S. Rises More Than Forecast — Bloomberg, 2012.0103 After 40-Year Battle, Train May Roll for Oahu — New York Times, 2012.0103 COTA Hires Farrera as Sustainability Director — Austin Buisiness Journal, 2012.0103 The Grid at 200: Lines That Shaped Manhattan — New York Times, 2012.0103 Oak Park Couple Takes Advantage of Federal Housing Rehab Loan — Wednesday Journal, 2012.0103 Public and Private Home Prices Moderating — Channel News Asia, 2012.0103 Homebuilding Boosts Construction Spending — NPR, 2012.0103 Vietnam: A Land of Ghosts — Telegraph, 2012.0103 A Getaway with Gaudi in Barcelona — Jakarta Globe, 2012.0103 Staging a Redesign — Wall Street Journal, 2012.0103 The Very Model of a (LEGO) Architect — Chicago Tribune, 2012.0103 Ramot Polin: Crazy Israeli Architecture Gone Terribly Wrong — Green Prophet, 2012.0102 Long Island Non-Profits Receive $4.9 Million in Housing Grants — Long Island Report, 2012.0102 Reading L.A.: The Once and Future Plaza, Nature in the City — Los Angeles Times, 2012.0101 Where the Real Jobs Are — New York Times, 2012.0101 An Unlikely Group Rebels Against Preservation Districts — New York Times, 2011.1231 Cupolas Are More Than Architecture - They're High Points in History — Republic, 2011.1231 Welsh Government's Warmer Homes Plan with New Powers — BBC, 2011.1231 Minneapolis Family Open to Change — Minneapolis Star Tribune, 2011.1231 Cool Area, Hot Rental, $1,000 Deposit — New York Times, 2011.1230 Architectural Eye Candy — New York Times, 2011.1230 Pending Sales of U.S. Existing Homes Rose 7.3% in November — Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 2011.1230 Dumbo on His Mind — New York Times, 2011.1230 Brooklyn's Brownstone Belt Strapped on by Pioneers — Brooklyn Eagle, 2011.1230 The Rise and Fall of Wallace Neff's Bubble Houses — Los Angeles Times, 2011.1230 Reading L.A.: Growth, Mega-Projects and Freud — Los Angeles Times, 2011.1229 FHA Extends Waiver of Anti-Flipping Regulations through 2012 — HUD, 2011.1228 In Costa Rica, Palms, Tiles and Cane — New York Times, 2011.1228 Andrew Geller, Modernist Architect, Is Dead at 87 — New York Times, 2011.1226 Home Sales Rising. Is a New Wave of Home Investors Forming? — Christian Science Monitor, 2011.1221
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