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NEWS ABOUT: renovation

renovation stories: 8 news summaries

(Newser) - France has a reputation for stifling bureaucracy and long vacations, but when it comes to stimulus spending, the country is racing ahead of the US. This summer, workers are completing massive renovation projects not just for roads and rails, but to museums and cathedrals, and royal palaces. According to the... More »

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France • recession • reconstruction • economic stimulus package • renovation • stimulus funds

 Met's New Look 
 Lets the Light In 

American Wing reopens tomorrow

May 18, 09 12:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art reopens its American Wing tomorrow after a refurbishment that was “all about transparency,” its chairman says. Where benches and shrubs once constricted movement, now visitors can sit on a fountain’s edge, look out on Central Park, and ride a glass elevator “... More »

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art museum • New York City • Metropolitan Museum of Art • renovation • refurbishing • Jay-ZTV

Obamas Will
Pick Up Tab for
White House Renovations 

First family turns down $100K in public cash

Mar 30, 09 7:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack and Michelle Obama won’t be using the $100,000 in taxpayer cash the first family is allotted for White House renovations, New York magazine reports. Instead, they’ll fund their fix-up out of their own pockets. Which may be a good political investment, since they’ve hired Michael... More »

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Barack Obama • Michelle Obama • White House • Oval Office • taxpayer money • first lady • renovation • President Obama

ARCHITECTURE REVIEW

 Lincoln Center's
 Concert Hall Dazzles 

Renovation at Lincoln Center slices open old building

Feb 20, 09 10:32 AM CST
(Newser) - While cities from LA to Copenhagen have unveiled stunning new concert halls in recent years, New York's Lincoln Center complex "seemed mired in indecision." But Alice Tully Hall, one of the center's smaller spaces, reopens to the public Sunday with a bold new design by the architects Diller... More »

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architecture • classical music • Lincoln Center • renovation • Diller Scofidio & Renfro

Ousted Thain to Repay $1.2M Spent on Office

Lush renovation
was a 'mistake,'
says ex-Merrill CEO

Jan 26, 09 11:37 AM CST
(Newser) - Former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain says he’ll repay the $1.2 million he spent on office renovations last year, Bloomberg reports. “The expenses were incurred over a year ago in a very different environment,” Thain wrote in a memo to Merrill execs. “They were a... More »

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executive compensation • Bank of America • merger • Merrill Lynch • resignation • office • John Thain • renovation • financial crisis • reimbursement

Friend of Stevens Bullied Contractor Into Eating $13K Bill

'Think of it as a political contribution,' pal said

Oct 15, 08 1:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - An Alaska oil exec told a carpenter working on renovations to Sen. Ted Stevens home that he would have to “eat” a final $13,393 bill, the Anchorage Daily News reports. The carpenter, Augie Paone, took the stand in Stevens’ corruption trial today in Washington, telling the court that... More »

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Congress • Alaska • contractors • corruption • Ted Stevens • home renovation • Veco • renovation

Alcatraz Garden Blooms Despite Years of Neglect

Once cared for by prisoners, plants still thrive on 'The Rock'

Sep 27, 08 6:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - The hardened inmates on San Francisco’s Alcatraz Island had tough neighbors who endure to this day: sun-kissed geraniums, snapdragons, gazanias, and roses. Thanks to an ambitious restoration project, “The Rock” is blooming, the Sacramento Bee reports. After work began 5 years ago, gardeners discovered 145 plant varieties that... More »

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San Francisco • prison • flowers • inmates • Alcatraz • renovation

UCLA Looks to Pretty Up Pauley

Famed arena may get small improvements or even a reconstruction

Feb 27, 08 2:37 AM CST
(Newser) - There is no question UCLA's Pauley Pavilion needs a makeover, but Bruin Nation is in an all-out debate as to whether it just needs some Botox or whether the old girl needs a complete facelift, reports the Los Angeles Times. Changes on the table for the famed Westwood Arena range... More »

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NCAA • basketball • Los Angeles • UCLA • gymnastics • Pac-10 Conference • Pauley Pavilion • volleyball • renovation

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