ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 395

Fri Sep 5 09:04:14 PDT 2008

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NEWSEUM BY POLSHEK
    by William Lebovich
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	The Newseum building by Polshek Partnership Architects adds 
	vitality and a sense of time and place to Pennsylvania Avenue, 
	a street that, like so many important streets in Washington, 
	D.C., had been devoid of movement and three-dimensionality. 

	A museum about news, the aptly named Newseum moved from
	across the Potomac River, in Arlington, Virginia, where
	it had outgrown its space. Its parent organization, the
	Freedom Forum, sought a location more heavily frequented
	by tourists.

	With its own deep pockets, plus generous support from
	news media companies and others, the Freedom Forum spent
	more than $450 million to acquire one of the most
	prominent sites in the capital and have a signature
	building designed by Polshek Partnership, with James
	Polshek and Robert Young as the lead designers.

	Observing the Newseum from the other side of
	Pennsylvania Avenue, one can appreciate how Polshek and
	Young have the building climb as it moves back from the
	Avenue, and how on the side street, the building widens
	as it moves from museum display space to Freedom Forum
	offices to condominiums. The condominium portion, with
	its airy sunscreens, appears to reach out to the
	apartments across the street...
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Suntory Museum by Kengo Kuma
    by C.B. Liddell
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	Kengo Kuma strikes a chord when he talks about the
	inspirations for one of his most successful projects:
	the new Suntory Museum of Art, built in 2007 into the
	side of the new Tokyo Midtown development...
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People and Places
    by Nancy Novitski
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	IA Interior Architects in Boston, Massachusetts - RTKL
	in Johannesburg, South Africa - IPD in El Cajon,
	California - SMWM in San Francisco, California -
	Hurricane Gustav in Cocodrie, Louisiana - Moshe Safdie
	and Associates in Washington, D.C., USA...
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	In 1830 the initial grid was laid out for the town of
	Chicago, Illinois, and by 1833 there were 200 houses.
	The population continued to expand and the city was
	mostly built of wood-framed buildings until the Great
	Fire of 1871 gutted Chicago's core. There were 300,000
	people living in Chicago at the time of the fire.

	The rebuilding of Chicago drove a boom and the
	population exploded to two million by 1900. This growth
	created pressure for a taller, denser city. What two
	inventions in 1850 and 1867 allowed for this upward growth?
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	Match each energy type with its geologic origins:
	1. Natural Gas
	2. Oil
	3. Coal
	A. Formed from organic remains of algae that thrived in
	the oceans during two warm periods 90 million and 150
	million years ago.
	B. Also from buried remains of ancient organisms, but
	unlike "A" above, comes from plants and animals that
	decomposed at higher temperatures deeper
	underground.
	C. Warm, wet climates 360 million to 300 million years
	ago gave rise to an explosive growth of swamp plants
	that were eventually buried, subjected to high
	temperatures and transformed into this energy source.
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