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The Timelessness of Libraries

SW Oregon Architect

The Foundation chose the downtown Library itself as the venue for Booked 2023. To help celebrate this milestone, the Foundation thought it would be fitting for me, being one of the architects who designed the building, to discuss its architecture and speak to the Foundation’s vision of Building for Generations. The reason?

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"Skyscrapers are irrelevant to architecture" says commenter

Deezen

Join the discussion › World's largest museum captured ahead of opening in Egypt "Looking like a shopping mall in Vegas" Another story attracting interest in the comments section was the world's largest museum nearing completion in Giza, Egypt – more than two decades after the international competition for its design in 2003.

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MPavilion 10 design by Tadao Ando Architect

e-architect

Among his many notable works are the Church of the Light (1989; Osaka, Japan), Pulitzer Arts Foundation (2001; St. MPavilion is an annual initiative of the Naomi Milgrom Foundation and is supported by the City of Melbourne and the Victorian State Government through Creative Victoria. Professor at the University of Tokyo from 1997.

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3 Years and Over $2 Million: What It Costs to Restore a Frank Lloyd Wright Home

Dwell

Weak foundations, leaky roofs, and poor insulation, among other problems, have reportedly caused headaches for homeowners again and again over the decades. And for many Wright superfans, living in one of the roughly 400 remaining homes designed by the famed 20th-century architect is the ultimate dream.

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The Sponge Evangelist

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Photo © Turenscape, courtesy the Cultural Landscape Foundation. In awarding the second biennial Oberlander Prize to the Chinese landscape architect Kongjian Yu, FASLA, the Cultural Landscape Foundation and its 2023 jury sent an unmistakable signal about the future of the field. Elizabeth K.

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Frieze London is 20: what to see at the Art Fair and beyond on its milestone edition

The Spaces

’ The London of 2003 was languishing in a post-YBA, pre-Post-Internet era, Banksy was still carefreely tagging on its streets; Grayson Perry had accepted the Turner Prize, and Olafur Eliasson was enveloping Tate Modern’s (shiny new) Turbine Hall with The Weather Project. Artwork © Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation.

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Rex clads "mystery box" World Trade Center performance arts center in translucent marble

Deezen

It is clad in thin marble and glass On top of that, the architecture studio had to deal with the existing foundation leftover from the cancelled Frank Gehry building initially planned for the site. The Perelman is one of the last buildings in architect Daniel Libeskind 's 2003 masterplan for the World Trade Center site.

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