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Doris Duke Theatre, Becket, Massachusetts

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The new building is projected to cost $30 million and is supported by a coalition of donors and foundations, with a formal campaign launching in May 2023. The Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund supported the pre-schematic design phase of the project. The reimagined Doris Duke Theatre will be approximately 20,000 sq.

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Back to the Garden

Landscape Architecture Magazine

The beat goes on at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Upstate New York, the site of the legendary 1969 Woodstock music festival. In August 1969, attendees of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair blanket Max Yasgur’s alfalfa field in Bethel, New York. By Jane Margolies. Photo © Barry Z.

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Eleftheria Square, Nicosia Cyprus

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The moat’s granite paving conveys a timeless solidity, while open joints between the granite slabs create a passive rainwater drainage system that allows the new trees planted within the moat to naturally balance groundwater levels and reduce erosion of the medieval walls’ foundations. Design: Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher, Christos Passas.

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ACLA Redesigns Buhl Community Park and Emphasizes the Importance of Community Connection

Architizer

Our final design could be interpreted as metaphorical rivers flowing diagonally though the square creating a large gathering space and stage for public art where they meet. Our intention was for the park to act as a fulcrum supporting the intersection of past and present, industry and ecology, art and the urban landscape.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

Tellingly, the idea to cofound the studio came while Bordas and her partner were working together at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, an experience where the paradoxical proximity and distance between the world of design and engineering was attenuated. As any good opera fan knows, however, a conflict can be made harmonious.

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You should say 'Yes' more often | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Most of what I ate was buffet line chow at the various evening events I attended – blech. It was a truly beautiful house but if you are familiar with the Arts and Crafts work of van Doren Shaw’s work, you already know this. This is the Aqua Tower by Studio Gang. Today, we’d be arrested for trespassing.