ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 288

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BUENOS AIRES ROW
     by Katharine Logan
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	From the New York brownstone to the Shanghai shop
	house, the rowhouse enjoys widespread success as an
	urban housing type. A mid-rise infill development in
	Buenos Aires, designed by Argentinean firm Canda
	Gazaneo Unga, illustrates the rich potential of this
	type, translating it into an elegant modern idiom and
	configuring it to achieve contemporary urban densities.
	
	Canda Gazaneo Ungar is a young office of three
	architects under 40 years of age. This design won for
	them first prize in the 2005 Alcan and Todo Obras
	Review Contest for Young Architects. "It's a great
	thing we were able to do this here," says principal
	Daniel Canda, "We had an economic crisis in Argentina
	three years ago, and it is sometimes difficult to
	develop our work - but where there's the motivation to
	do things, they can be done."
	
	The strengths of the design lie in the clarity of its
	tectonic expression, the simplicity and intelligence of
	its configuration, and the provision of small-house
	living at condominium densities.
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Yale Mod
     by Michael J. Crosbie
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	When you hear "modular classroom building," what do you
	think of? Cheap gray boxes on cinderblocks? Tacky
	trailers covered with vinyl "brick" siding? Such
	makeshift classrooms can be seen next to schools and
	colleges all across the United States - temporary
	solutions to space shortages that seem to hang around
	for years.
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Google's Globe
     by Evan H. Shu, FAIA
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	In the fall of 2004, Google acquired Keyhole, a global
	satellite imaging program that offers users anything
	from an astronaut's view of the earth down to a bird's
	eye view of a taxi double-parked in a city street. But
	unlike some computer software that stagnates after
	being acquired, this product, now dubbed "Google
	Earth," has only become better.
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