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The Strata Tower in Abu Dhabi - An architectural miracle (Luxurylaunches.com)

Fri, 16 May 2008 11:40:40 GMT

Don't get your hopes high to get your bookings, it is not yet complete. It is an underconstruction hotel expected to open sometime in 2011. The Strata Tower, a forty-story luxury residential building is Abu Dhabi's answer to making an architectural statement, which has so far been the forte of its northerly neighbor, Dubai.Designed by New York-based architects Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture of Asymptote....

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Penis museum is offered human samples (Nothing To Do With Arbroath)

Fri, 16 May 2008 08:53:00 GMT

The founder of a penis museum has been inundated with offers to fill a major gap in his collection - a human specimen. Although Sigurdur Hjartarson's Icelandic Phallological Museum boasts 261 penises, it still lacks a human one. However, four men have promised to donate theirs. Mr Hjartarson's collection started as a hobby when he was given a bull's reproductive organ 24 years ago. It now includes...

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City Commission Approves Children's Museum Plan (Chicago news)

Fri, 16 May 2008 11:55:04 GMT

After a marathon session, the Chicago Plan Commission has voted to approve the plan by the Chicago Children's Museum to move to Grant Park.

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The Gallery Susana Raab (Apartment Therapy)

Fri, 16 May 2008 07:27:19 GMT

Eudora's Kitchen, Jackson, Mississippi, 2007 Photographer Susana Raab’s series “A Sense of Place” invites us into the homes of Southern literary greats – Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor and

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How to Preserve Saarinen's Bell Labs HQ? (MediaBistro.com)

Fri, 16 May 2008 12:23:59 GMT

We love a good postwar corporate campus, and in our dictionary, under "corporate campus, postwar" is a stippled rendering of the 472-acre swath of Holmdel, New Jersey that was once home to Bell Labs. At the core of the campus is the 1.9-million-square-foot building designed by Eero Saarinen , who also designed the site's transistor-shaped water tower . In 2006, the property was sold to a developer...

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Fresh Stuff From Buffer diss (Wooster Collective)

Fri, 16 May 2008 12:08:10 GMT

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Seen On The Streets Of Athens (Wooster Collective)

Fri, 16 May 2008 12:08:10 GMT

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Fresh Stuff From Mute in Athens (Wooster Collective)

Fri, 16 May 2008 12:08:10 GMT

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AE5: Folding Facades (A Daily Dose of Architecture)

Fri, 16 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT

The idea of a "folding facade" is not entirely new. Shuttered exteriors have traditionally been used in various locales for protection from the elements, from New Orleans to New England in the United States, and in most other parts of the globe. What separates the newfound use of a folding perimeter to the traditional use is extent and purpose. [Carabanchel Housing | photo by Francisco Andeyro Garcia...

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A sample of "Loving" ... (Books, Inq.)

Fri, 16 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT

... So eternally Green .

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Opening Bell: Bad Numbers On Blackrock (CJR Daily)

Fri, 16 May 2008 11:56:13 GMT

Papers swallow company spin on losses; Dick Armey and Steve Forbes are angry renters; etc.

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Parti Wall Update (A Daily Dose of Architecture)

Fri, 16 May 2008 11:30:00 GMT

PartiWall 250 , originally uploaded by ehoweler . Eric Howeler , a member of the Young Architect's Boston Group, has posted photos of the installation of the "Parti Wall, Hanging Green," featured previously on this page.

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Shaking up the crowd at Cannes (International Herald Tribune)

Fri, 16 May 2008 11:18:53 GMT

The apocalypse came early to the Cannes Film Festival this year, filling screening rooms with snarling dogs, bursting bombs, shouting men and screaming women.

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Hummingbird CaughtThoreau's Journal: 16-May-1858 (The Blog of Henry David Thoreau)

noreply@blogger.com (Greg) — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:09:00 GMT

A hummingbird yesterday came into the next house and was caught. Flew about our parlor to-day and tasted Sophia’s flowers. In some lights you saw none of the colors of its throat. In others, in the shade the throat was clear bright scarlet, but in the sun it glowed with splendid metallic, fiery reflections about the neck and throat. It uttered from time to time, as it flew, a faint squeaking chirp...

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Offshoring of Automotive Design & Engineering Services to India

Fri, 16 May 2008 09:56:16 GMT

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Arts, Briefly: 'Idol' Semifinals Buoy Fox (New York Times)

Fri, 16 May 2008 05:00:34 GMT

Fox’s “American Idol” dominated another night of television ratings on Wednesday.