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ARCHITECTURE REVIEW

 2 New Theaters 
 Make Dallas a Hotspot 

One traditional, one progressive, they reaffirm the Big D's vibrancy

Oct 15, 09 9:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dallas has several museums and concert halls that would be the envy of any city, but until now they've seemed more like standalone monuments than elements of a city center. Two new venues opening this Sunday have transformed downtown, "giving the area the cultural stature Dallas has long been... More »

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theater • architecture • Texas • Dallas • opera • Norman Foster • Rem Koolhaas

Ferris Bueller House
Could Be Torn Down

It's on list of endangered landmarks

Sep 17, 09 11:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - The suburban Chicago house where Cameron killed his dad's Ferrari in Ferris Bueller's Day Off is on a list of endangered Illinois landmarks, the Chicago Tribune reports. The Highland Park home is on the market for $2.3 million and is at risk of being torn down. The preservation group... More »

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architecture • Illinois • Frank Lloyd Wright • historic preservation • Ferris Bueller's Day Off • Landmarks Illinois

 Pitt Shells  
 Out $80K for  
 Kids' Gerbil Run 

Wannabe architect's contraption has seesaws, tunnels

Sep 9, 09 12:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - In this edition of Lifestyles of the Rich and Furry: Brad Pitt dropped more than $80,000 on a run for his kids’ gerbils, complete with “tunnels, seesaws and platforms,” the Sun reports. The architecture buff apparently monitored the building of the run himself. “Brad pores over... More »

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pets • Brad Pitt • architecture

APPRECIATION

 Modernist Architect 
 Gwathmey Dies at 71 


Aug 5, 09 7:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Charles Gwathmey, who died of esophageal cancer at 71 this week, began his architectural career as a steely, pared-down Modernist and never wavered from his style over decades of work, writes the New York Times. His larger buildings, such as an extension to Frank Lloyd Wright's landmark Guggenheim Museum, were... More »

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architecture • New York • obituary • modernism • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum • architect • Charles Gwathmey

(Newser) - A fixer-upper is on the market in Los Angeles, but it will still set you back $15 million. Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House, which he built in 1924 and nicknamed the "temple on the hill," is for sale, reports NPR. The architectural gem boasts magnificent views of the... More »

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architecture • Los Angeles • Frank Lloyd Wright • home • Ennis House

(Newser) - Architectural photographer Julius Shulman has died at the age of 98, the Los Angeles Times reports. In a career spanning two-thirds of the 20th century, Shulman became the premier photographer of modernist architecture and worked with the likes of Frank Lloyd Wright and Eero Saarinen. But his most famous shot... More »

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architecture • Los Angeles • obituary • photography • modernism • Frank Lloyd Wright • Julius Shulman

 Tough Times Threaten New England's Triple-Deckers

Foreclosures, neglect thin the ranks of distinctive homes

Jun 20, 09 5:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - The distinctive three-decker homes found throughout urban New England are swiftly becoming an endangered species, the New York Times reports. The homes—mostly built around a century ago to accommodate new immigrants—were snapped up by investors in boom times who rented them out without doing any maintenance. They are... More »

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architecture • housing market • homes • foreclosure • New England • triple-decker

(Newser) - London’s Big Ben will celebrate three 150th birthdays this year, starting with today’s anniversary of the first movement of the huge clock, the Evening Standard reports. July 11 marks the first ringing of “Big Ben,” the Great Bell that eventually gave its name to the tower,... More »

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architecture • London • British Parliament • England • Big Ben • anniversary • landmark • clock tower

EXHIBITION REVIEW

 Guggenheim Plays It 
 Safe on Wright Show 

The models are great, but Wright show disappoints

May 15, 09 8:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fifty years after the death of Frank Lloyd Wright, historians and critics are still fighting over the legacy of an architect called in turns a genius and a megalomaniac. Now, a new exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York—one of Wright's last buildings—offers an anniversary retrospective of... More »

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art museum • architecture • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum • Frank Lloyd Wright • Guggenheim • exhibition

ARCHITECTURE REVIEW

 Modern Meets Classical 
 in Chicago Museum Wing 

Piano's addition for Art Institute called his best in a decade

May 15, 09 8:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - This weekend the Art Institute of Chicago opens a mammoth new modern wing designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano. Nicolai Ouroussof praises Piano's mix of "Modern and classical themes," and "towering glass-and-steel facade, with its floating roof and excruciatingly slender columns" straddling gritty railroad tracks. The New ... More »

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entertainment • art museum • architecture • Chicago • art • modern art • Art Institute of Chicago • Renzo Piano • Jay-ZTV

(Newser) - Development, deterioration, and a lack of funds are endangering the nation's historic treasures, says the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The group released its annual list of the most endangered sites, reports ABC News. They are:
  • The Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles
  • The WWII-era Enola Gay hangar at
... More »

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architecture • United States • development • Galveston • Frank Lloyd Wright • National Trust for HIstoric Preservation • heritage • endangered

 Supporters Battle to Save 
 'West Coast White House' 

'West Coast White House' added to list of America's most endangered buildings

Apr 28, 09 6:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fans of 20th-century architecture are rallying to save an LA landmark from the wrecking ball, reports the Los Angeles Times. Developers want to raze the '60s-modernist Century Plaza hotel—once known as the West Coast White House due to its appeal among politicians and celebs—but supporters have persuaded the... More »

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architecture • Los Angeles • hotel • preservation • National Register of Historic Places

As Money Dries Up, So Does Architecture

Koolhaas reflects on 'end to a period' of megabuildings

Apr 24, 09 9:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - When the tower next to Rem Koolhaas’ mammoth CCTV skyscraper in Beijing went up in flames, it seemed to mark the end of an era. After years of pricey signature projects, architects are seeing commissions cut, and projects are languishing. “I don't even know about the word ‘downturn,... More »

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architecture • Beijing • recession • Norman Foster • Rem Koolhaas • CCTV • financial crisis • economic downturn

Obscure Swiss Architect Wins Pritzker Prize

Zumthor 'reaffirmed architecture’s indispensable place'

Apr 12, 09 5:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - You’ve probably never heard of him, but tomorrow Peter Zumthor will receive what’s considered the Nobel Prize of architecture, the New York Times reports. His work isn’t flashy or well-known, but he “develops buildings of great integrity—untouched by fad or fashion” that have “reaffirmed... More »

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architecture • Switzerland • Nazi • spa • prize • Pritzker Prize • Peter Zumthor

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

Germans Slash Energy Use With 'Passive' Houses

Recycling heat lets green home stay warm without a furnace

Dec 27, 08 7:36 AM CST
(Newser) - A revolutionary house design from Germany keeps inhabitants warm in winter with about as much energy as it takes to run a hairdryer, the New York Times reports. The "passive house" is sealed with ultrathick insulation. A central ventilation system exchanges warm air from inside with cold air from... More »

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energy • architecture • house • renewable energy • insulation


 China to Lop Off Tall Buildings 
 in Hangzhou 

Hangzhou aims to become World Heritage site

Dec 13, 08 11:45 AM CST
(Newser) - Hoping to turn the city into a World Heritage site, China is lopping top floors off tall buildings in Hangzhou, the BBC reports. Two hotels, a TV tower, and other buildings will get the shrinking treatment in a $5.8 million effort; the city’s government has said that all... More »

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China • architecture • tourism • history • UNESCO • building • city • skyline

 Taj Knockoff Angers India 

Say there might be a copyright issue somehow

Dec 12, 08 2:21 PM CST
(Newser) - A knockoff of the Taj Mahal has caused a full-blown diplomatic incident between India and Bangladesh, the London Times reports, and potentially one of the weirdest copyright disputes ever. Bangladeshi film mogul Ahsanullah Moni began showing his $80 million copy of the Taj this week, enraging Indians. “You... More »

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architecture • India • Taj Mahal • copyright • Bangladesh • building

GLOSSIES

Disney's New 'Tomorrowland' House as Bland as Leftovers

'Furiously unimaginative' update reflects down period in our culture: O'Rourke

Dec 4, 08 3:52 PM CST
(Newser) - In the 1950s, Disneyland wowed visitors and architecture aficionados with its dynamic vision of domesticity in its House of the Future, but, as PJ O’Rourke laments in the Atlantic, Disney’s latest house is “almost furiously unimaginative.” A peek at Disney’s domestic vision finds a future... More »

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technology • architecture • plastic • domestication • Disney • P.J. O'Rourke • 1950s

ARCHITECTURE REVIEW

 Toronto Opens 
 Gehry's Sober 
 Masterpiece 

Art Gallery of Ontario eschews wild curves for spare, light-filled spaces

Dec 4, 08 9:28 AM CST
(Newser) - Frank Gehry has lived in Los Angeles for decades, but the celebrity architect was born and raised in Toronto. On the eve of his 80th birthday, his hometown has opened its first Gehry building: the new Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto's Chinatown. Gehry's renovated museum, which displays a... More »

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art museum • architecture • Canada • Frank Gehry • Toronto

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