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Rethinking a 'culture of disposability': Docomomo US? names 2022 Modernism in America Awards? winners

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Docomomo US has announced its 2022 Modernism in America Awards winners in recognition of their inspiring commitment to preservation practices resulting in innovations across a broad range of building types and scales. Memorial Library in D.C.;

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"The graffiti rather improves the aesthetics" says commenter

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Join the discussion › Snøhetta creates library to emulate feeling of "sitting under a tree" "Another Insta-archi backdrop for selfies" Also sparking debate in the comments section was the news that Snøhetta has completed Beijing City Library in China, a glass-lined building filled with towering tree-like columns.

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Heatherwick Studio designs Columbia public library as "new type of community centre"

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UK architecture practice Heatherwick Studio has revealed the design for its first public library , a plant-covered building in Columbia, Maryland. Designed for Howard County Libraries, the plant-covered building would be located alongside Lake Kittamaqundi in the community of Columbia near Baltimore, which was developed in the 1960s.

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James Stewart Polshek, academic and designer of important public architecture, has passed away aged 92

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Clinton Presidential Library and Museum in Little Rock, Arkansas, the Newtown Creek sewage plant in Brooklyn, and Newseum in Washington, D.C., His colleagues recalled him as a progressive champion who balanced the ideological pull of high modernism with a sensitivity to different forms, themes, building types, and architectural styles.

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Maarten Baas adds Las Vegas-style signs to Utrecht's Neude Library

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Dutch designer Maarten Baas has updated a historic library building with multi-coloured, illuminated signage. Baas designed the many-layered 3D sign for Neude Library in Utrecht , a former post office that is one of the Dutch city's most revered buildings. Measuring 9.5 The photography is by Maarten Noordijk.

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Nordic Countries Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale highlights Sámi architecture

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A nomadic library created by architect Joar Nango that contains 15 years of material highlighting Indigenous Sámi architecture forms the basis of the Nordic Countries Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. It centres around a nomadic library that includes over 500 books collected by Sámi architect Nango.

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Heatherwick Studio and Barcode Architects unveil design for cylindrical faceted-glass tower

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The building will be made up of a series of stacked cylindrical forms with faceted glass facades, designed to stand out against its surrounding buildings. Nicknamed Oopen, it will aim to achieve net-zero carbon status and be the first zero-emissions mixed-use high-rise building in the Netherlands , according to the studios.

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