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Marmol Radziner + Associates: Between Architecture and Construction (Archinect)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:55:13 GMT

If you design some of the most stylish and beautiful modern houses in the Los Angeles area, including many for celebrity clients, how do you ensure that the projects are built to the standards you, and your patrons, demand? If you re the highly sought-after firm of Marmol Radziner + Associates, you do what an increasing number of practices are doing: become your own contractor and build your projects...

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Architecture for Everyone (Archinect)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:19:39 GMT

Inspired by the murder of Steven Lawrence, and the subsequent vandalism of the Adjaye-designed building in Lawrence's name , RMJM has announced the "Architecture for Everyone" initiative. The initiative is funded with £1 million from RMJM, with the goal of introducing creative street youth to architecture. Six will ultimately be selected to complete an introductory course in architecture at Harvard...

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An Architecture Show That’s Better Than the Book (News & Information)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Most architectural exhibitions are not worth seeing. In general, they consist of little more than panels whose text and illustrations are already available in book form or on the Web. Which is also to……Read more

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RIAI Irish Architecture Awards 2008 (Archinect)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:41:42 GMT

ABK Architects are this year's big winners and rake in three awards for their New Civic Offices in Cork, Ireland. Bustler

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Half Dose #50: Concurso Fiscalia (A Daily Dose of Architecture)

noreply@blogger.com (John) — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:30:00 GMT

Here's a project that looks pretty straightforward at first... [model exterior | image source ] ...but which reveals itself to be more than a platonic solid. [model cutaway | image source ] The large public office building designed for the periphery of Madrid is like a city within a cylinder. Orthogonal blocks sit within a ring, in the process creating a complex solid-void composition, dramatic from...

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NEXT-GENE20 (Archinect)

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:23:22 GMT

NEXT-GENE20 is a project that challenges 20 architects from around the world to design villas along the Northeast Coast National Scenic Area in Taiwan. A little over a week ago the designs were unveiled in a ceremony in Taipei, attended by all the architects, developers and project organizers. Now they are available online, here, with more detailed presentations scheduled for the official exhibition...

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Parks and Wreck: L.A.'s Fight for Public Green Space (Archinect)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:43:16 GMT

The most park-impoverished major city in America, Los Angeles devotes only 4 percent of its land to public greenery. By contrast, parkland comprises 17 percent of New York City and 9 percent of Boston (where 97 percent of the city's children have immediate access to a park as opposed to one-third of kids in Los Angeles). The LAWeekly's MATTHEW FLEISCHER gives LA a well-deserved slap in the face,...

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Comment of the Day: "The point of the show is... (Curbed)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:04:45 GMT

"The point of the show is to create as much conflict and drama as possible. How are you going to that if the kids have no incentive to stay indoors and are surrounded by bars and hipsters, as they'd be...

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CurbedWire: Big Box Fears Overtaken by Art, Chrysler Building Sale (Sort of) Clarified (Curbed)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:42:14 GMT

[Photo: Will Femia] WEST VILLAGEWell, it turns out that a potential big box store space in a building at Seventh Avenue South and Clarkson Street will be something else entirely. It will be the future home of The Jerome...

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And Now, Hot Karl's Lipstick Jungle in the Burg (Curbed)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:37:34 GMT

[Photo: Will Femia] First, Karl Fischer Row scored the Top Chef contestants, even though it turns out that it was snubbed in favor of Downtown Brooklyn, then Carroll Gardens and (now) Red Hook for Real World Brooklyn. Yes, Dumbo's...

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PreFabapalooza (Archinect)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:18:55 GMT

Architect's Newspaper: Can Prefab Deliver? | Inga Saffron: Changing Skyline: Setting up house | See-through Phila. house is N.Y. museum 'exhibit' | Metropolis: Industrialists Without Factories - Kieran Timberlake's Cellophane House takes the mass and the production out of mass production. | prev.

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North Korea's "Hotel of Doom" wakes from its coma (Archinect)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:18:54 GMT

North Korea's phantom hotel is stirring back to life. The 105-storey Ryugyong Hotel is back under construction after a 16-year lull in the capital of N. Korea. Egypt's Orascom group is the contractor. yahoo news | previously

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Herzog & de Meuron's revised Tate Modern extension revealed (Archinect)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:18:54 GMT

Herzog & de Meuron and the Tate today unveiled their substantially revised scheme, now in brick, for the £215 million extension to London's Tate Modern. BD 1 & 2 | Evening Standard | discuss

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50 Franklin Street Flies In Under the Radar (Curbed)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:04:45 GMT

Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Down near the end of little Cortlandt Alley, where the eastern edge of Tribeca starts butting up against the courthouses north of Foley Square, a new condo project from Rawlings Architects...

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w-4-doorman: To the hot doorman with an... (Curbed)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:48:52 GMT

To the hot doorman with an accent working at 77th and Park - w4m - 26 (Upper East Side): "You were working on Sunday standing in the doorway with a green canopy across the sidewalk. I was with my friend...

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Eater Tastings: Delicatessen Opens, Merkato 55 Continues to Brutalize Meatpacking District! (Curbed)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:30:43 GMT

This week's top dish from Eater, Curbed's restaurant, bar, and nightlife blog... 1) West Village over-done, under-crowded restaurant Sheridan Square lost its chef, got a new one and found itself on the Deathwatch. 2) The long anticipated Delicatessen finally opened...

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Queens Bucks React: The Starbucks closing have so shaken... (Curbed)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:06:17 GMT

The Starbucks closing have so shaken up Queens that at least one blogger was speculating that there was a secret list of Bucks that were going to get de-frapped in the future. The obit for the Queens losses, one of...

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On the Auction Block: Rare Gottleib Sale at 79 Horatio (Curbed)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:44:15 GMT

Click the image above to view the full photogallery. The William Gottleib Management Company, founded by notorious West Village property hoarder Bill Gottleib, will put 79 Horatio Street up for public auction next month. The parcel—a 5 story, 6,370 sq....

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Like a Guest on Oprah: Go to the southwest corner of... (Curbed)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:28:26 GMT

Go to the southwest corner of McCarren Park to soak up some break dancing culture. "E Rock, a more boisterous 20-year-old...interjected some breakdancing proselytizing. 'Breaking inspired me to change my life,' he said, sounding not unlike a guest on Oprah...

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Growing Pains in the Land of Bollywood (Archinect)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:21:51 GMT

Mumbai, or Bombay as many Indians still call it, is India's largest city, one of the world's greatest commercial centers and home to the vast, vibrant Bollywood film industry. Sure, you knew that. Ever heard of Navi Mumbai though? It's the two million people metropolis rapidly growing right next to Mumbai, trying to avoid the mistakes of the old twin city. However, environmentalists call it the "first...

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