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Newport Spotlight: Touro Synagogue

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Newport is famous for many things and for many “firsts” as it was the fifth largest city in colonial America and a major and prosperous settlement before the Revolutionary War. Among the things that Newport takes great pride in for is being a place of tremendous religious freedom at a time in history when that was a very rare condition.

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YR Pavillion Santiago, Chile building

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Araya image courtesy of architects practice NuMu: New Museum in Santiago Chile Architecture Wooden Temple Japan South American Buildings American Architecture Walking Tours Religious Buildings American Religious Buildings American Architecture Farmacias Ahumada Chile Casa Pedro Lira Santiago Santiago house R.A.I.C.

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A4: Introduction to Touro Synagogue

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Newport is famous for many things and for many “firsts” as it was the fifth largest city in colonial America and a major and prosperous settlement before the Revolutionary War. Among the things that Newport takes great pride in for is being a place of tremendous religious freedom at a time in history when that was a very rare condition.

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A4 Architecture Spotlight: The History and Urban Importance of Long Wharf

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One of Newport, Rhode Island’s oldest and most important landmarks is not a building, but a road called “Long Wharf.” In 1741 the “Old Colony House,” which is one of the oldest extant colony buildings in America, was designed by Richard Munday to face due west directly down the hill on axis with Long Wharf.

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A4 Spotlight: Long Wharf North Renovation

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It was a center of fine furniture Craftmanship (including the famous Townsend and Goddard shops), a center of religious freedom in a world where sectarian conflict was nearly universal, thriving, and a growing community. Before & After From America Cup Ave.

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Kuehm Malvezzi designs Montreal Insectarium to subvert "museological norms and expectations"

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Architecture studios Kuehn Malvezzi , Pelletier de Fontenay and Jodoin Lamarre Pratte Architectes have created an insect zoo and museum in a glazed sawtooth-roof building with interior spaces that emulate the experience of being a bug. Its new building was designed to embody a novel approach to learning about the natural world.

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Environmental Culture Center, Mexico City

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They model different possibilities for generating experiences and relationships with space in a creative process that incorporates people and their needs to build an architectural response. A-001 Taller de Arquitectura’s work begins with the origin of design, basing itself on observation and contemplation as a creative principle.

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