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  • February 2008

    • 10 Must-See Big Apple Buildings

      Associated Press  |  Feb 25, 08 6:35 AM CST

      10 Must-See Big Apple Buildings

      (Newser) - Headed to New York for a burst of sightseeing? Trade the Statue of Liberty for a tour of the Big Apple’s 10 must-see buildings, as compiled by the Center for Architecture: Conde Nast Building Brooklyn Museum Prada New York Rose Center For Earth And Space Apple Store Soho   More »

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      New York City  • architecture  • Brooklyn  • Prada  • Empire State Building  • Frank Gehry  • Renzo Piano

  • January 2008

    • Mahony Griffin: Unsung Genius

      New York Times  |  Jan 1, 08 9:38 AM CST

      Mahony Griffin: Unsung Genius

      (Newser) - You may never have heard of her, but you have seen her work. Marion Mahony Griffin illustrated much of Frank Lloyd Wright's early work. She also illustrated the work of Walter Burley Griffin, her architect husband. She may have been one of America's greatest  architects in her own right, the New York Times reports, overlooked because of her self-effacing nature and the tendency of scholars to pursue "great men" theories of history. More »

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      Chicago  • architecture  • Frank Lloyd Wright

  • December 2007

    • Nazi Architect's Son Has His Own Designs

      Der Spiegel  |  Dec 22, 07 6:14 AM CST

      Nazi Architect's Son Has His Own Designs

      (Newser) - It’s hard to make a name for yourself when you share a name with your father, harder when the father was a famous Nazi architect and friend of Hitler. Urban planner Albert Speer constantly battles the association, keeping a low profile, and, though he has made his mark worldwide, avoiding Berlin. Now, he has his sights on bringing the 2018 Winter Olympics to Munich. More »

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      Germany  • Nazi  • Olympic Games  • architecture  • Adolf Hitler  • urban revitalization  • Munich  • Albert Speer

    • Oscar Niemeyer Threw Life a Curve or Two

      Der Spiegel  |  Dec 16, 07 6:17 PM CST

      Oscar Niemeyer Threw Life a Curve or Two

      (Newser) - Oscar Niemeyer turned 100 this weekend, but the famed Brazilian architect is still planning for the best years of his life: he’s still developing bold designs—including a museum that resembles a giant eye—starting a magazine, and he recently remarried. Niemeyer, who soared to fame in 1956 after dressing Brazil’s capital in exalted curves, has also kept his communist ethic, Der Spiegel says. More »

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      Brazil  • Fidel Castro  • architecture  • Communism  • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva  • revolution  • Oscar Niemeyer

    • Best New Buildings of 2007

      BusinessWeek  |  Dec 6, 07 1:10 PM CST

      Best New Buildings of 2007

      (Newser) - Looks weren't all that mattered to BusinessWeek and Architectural Record in choosing their 2007 architectural awards. "Contribution to business" was important, too. Their top picks: InterActive Corp. Headquarters, New York—Gehry Partners Young Center for the Performing Arts, Toronto—Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects US Census Bureau Headquarters, Suitland, Md.—Skidmore, Owings & Merrill More »

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      list  • architecture  • green building  • top 10  • buildings

    • 2 Downtowns, 1 New Museum

      New York Times  |  Dec 1, 07 10:22 AM CST

      2 Downtowns, 1 New Museum

      (Newser) - New York's New Museum, the scrappy showcase for contemporary art founded in a SoHo loft 30 years ago, reopens this weekend in a building Nicolai Ouroussoff describes as "a series of mismatched galleries precariously stacked one atop the other." For the New York Times ' architectural critic, the building, designed by the Japanese architectural firm Sanaa, "succeeds on a spectacular range of levels." Not since the Museum of Modern Art opened in the 1930s "has a museum seemed so in touch with the present." More »

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      New York  • art  • architecture  • museums  • Gentrification

  • November 2007

    • Atlantic City Takes on Las Vegas

      Associated Press  |  Nov 20, 07 4:11 PM CST

      Atlantic City Takes on Las Vegas

      (Newser) - Atlantic City is about to get a $9 billion makeover, with four companies slated to build  as many new mega-casinos by 2012. The luxury resorts constitute the biggest burst of investment in the city since the start of casino gambling in 1978, the AP reports. As Atlantic City bids to compete with Las Vegas as a luxury travel destination, many older casinos are planning expansions to keep pace. More »

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      gambling  • architecture  • casino  • investments  • Atlantic City

    • MIT Sues Gehry for Negligence

      Boston Globe  |  Nov 6, 07 5:35 PM CST

      MIT Sues Gehry for Negligence

      (Newser) - One of the most famous buildings on the MIT campus is plagued by design flaws, the school says, and it has sued Frank Gehry, alleging the world-famous architect provided "deficient design services" for the $300 million project. The university paid Gehry $15 million to design the Stata Center, which opened in in 2004—and immediately began to fall apart, MIT charges. More »

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      lawsuit  • MIT  • architecture  • negligence  • Frank Gehry

    • Palatial Design, Modest Price

      Chicago Tribune  |  Nov 4, 07 10:33 AM CST

      Palatial Design, Modest Price

      (Newser) - Students of urban design should take a lesson from a new condominium development in Chicago's northern suburbs, the Chicago Tribune' s architectural critic Blair Kamin says. Its three 20-story buildings in Skokie not only "create an instant skyline for a suburb that doesn't have one," they use Lego-like layers of glass and aluminum to create "an ever-shifting profile that unfolds with cinematic theatricality." More »

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      Chicago  • architecture  • Frank Gehry  • Blair Kamin  • Santiago Calatrava

  • October 2007
  • August 2007

    • 10 Modern Chicago Masterpieces

      Chicago Magazine  |  Aug 28, 07 9:34 PM CDT

      10 Modern Chicago Masterpieces

      (Newser) - In a city known for its early 20th Century buildings, Chicago Magazine names 10 early 21st Century masterpieces, boasting that these structures make Chicago "a global epicenter of architecture." GARY COMER YOUTH CENTER (2006)  John Ronan Architects, 7200 South Ingleside Avenue STATE STREET VILLAGE (2003)  Murphy/Jahn Architects, 3301 South State St. JAY PRITZKER MUSIC PAVILION (2004)  Frank Gehry, architect, Millennium Park More »

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      list  • Chicago  • architecture  • Frank Gehry  • Pritzker

  • June 2007
  • March 2007

    • Art Market Fuels Boom in Private Museums

      Wall Street Journal  |  Mar 18, 07 10:13 PM CDT

      (Newser) - Contemporary art collectors, no longer content to hang the Julian Schnabel over the sofa, are commissioning celebrity architects to design special exhibition spaces, complete with soaring ceilings, professional lighting, and temperature controls. With the art market booming, so is the market for private museums, worrying some observers that important works will remain out of the public view. More »

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      art  • architecture  • art market  • art collector  • contemporary art  • Julian Schnabel  • Richard Meier

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