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More dishing on Brad Pitt

Architecture Here and There

Experimental houses built by Brad Pitt’s Make It Right foundation. Pitt formed a foundation called Make It Right to build 150 affordable, ecologically sustainable houses. Within weeks, houses began to develop mold, leaks and rot. Flicker/Commons). Isn’t that all of them? At any rate, the Daily Kos and the (U.K.)

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Who Gets to Use the Beach?

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There are a lot of bad actors on this front, but two you’ve likely heard of are tech billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, who, in 2016, built a wall around their Kauai estate they purchased at the dismay of locals , greatly diminishing access to a stretch of pristine coastline once easily enjoyed by the public.

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The Architect's Questionnaire: Daniel Toole

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Toole received his bachelor’s of architecture degree from the University of Oregon in 2008, and his master’s in urban design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2016, with a year-long research grant at the Technical University of Berlin in between. Mentorship has been incredibly important to me and my development.

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Serpentine Pavilion 2023, London

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Campbell Thompson, Head of Furniture & Lighting at The Conran Shop said: “It has been a real privilege to collaborate with Lina on the development of her designs from sketches to final pieces. Thank you to Lina, the team at Serpentine and all our partners for collaborating on this pioneering project.”

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Revitalizing a Contaminated Site: The Ford Calumet Environmental Center

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Project Status: Built Year: 2021 Size: 5000 sqft – 10,000 sqft Ford Calumet Environmental Center – Once a dumping ground from nearby steel mills, Big Marsh park opened in 2016 on the southeast side of Chicago. The cost of bringing a sanitary sewer to the site was $2.0M – threatening the viability of the entire development.

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The Downcity Plan, II

Architecture Here and There

Chapter 22 concludes Part II of the book, whose final two chapters record the two major projects that sparked the Providence renaissance, which followed a series of major hiccups in the city’s development, which have been described in the other chapters of Part II, reprinted here over the past several months.

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22 Charming Outdoor Coffee Tables We Love

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A convenient surface to rest drinks and books, the Finn Coffee Table is crafted from sustainably harvested solid teak wood that can be oiled to maintain its original color or left alone to develop a beautiful silvery patina. This collection fell by the wayside until he died at age 100 in 2016. Made in Indonesia. Made in China.