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Edwin Heathcote, the FT's archictecture critic, visited Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Qatar to take a look at the schemes underway. FT>
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"Our national search for a new School of Architecture dean has ended in resounding success. Kenneth Schwartz, a professor of architecture at the University of Virginia (UVA), will become the new dean of Tulane's School of Architecture effective July 1... entire letter after the jump...
Archinect (Free subscription) | yesterday
It is suggested Berliners nickname the building by California architects Moore Ruble Yudell the "Pancake," in reference to the main-road side that tourists will pass on their way to the Holocaust Memorial. deutsche welle
architecture.mnp (Free subscription) | 40 minutes ago
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/05/bike-tree-keeps-bikes-high-and-safe.php Bike riding ninjas may never need to fear leaving their ride again, now that there are thumb-print scanning “bike trees” in development. My ninjas, please [click the title of this post to read the article].
Archinect (Free subscription) | yesterday
Archinect has special agent Emily Kemper at the GRAVITY FREE interdisciplinary design conference in Chicago. She will be reporting live from the conference for the next three days. For fresh reports + photos + discussion, click here .
Archinect (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Dean Robert Storr, explores the consequences of when patrons wrestle power from museum curators and directors. What does such a move mean for the public? In the end Storr thinks Eli Broad should have just gone traditional. However, the public not LACMA is the real looser. Frieze Magazine
Curbed (Free subscription) | yesterday
Someone is playing very loud music in a car in the Burg. Two cops turn to see where it's coming from, and one says to the other in a "deadpan and dismissive" way: "We should arrest them for having really bad taste in music." And so, "hipster music snob cops in Williamsburg are a real thing now." [lindsayism.com]...
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Registration deadlines approaching... Tofteg�rds Plads Syd K�benhavn , May 14 IDEAS SPRING / Hotel Milano - COMPETITION , May 15 Sham Spiritual Oasis Competition , May 15 New Arts Center/Theatre Building in Sundsvall , May 15 Ample Sample 2008 Competition , May 16 2008 AIA New Practices New York Competition , May 16 The 2008 AIA National Healthcare Design Awards , May 19 Warwick University Student...
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A statement just released by the MTA: "MTA Chief Financial Officer Gary Dellaverson met today with Tishman Speyer President Rob Speyer to discuss development of the Hudson Yards. They have agreed to meet again tomorrow to continue the discussion." So short, so dramatic. [CurbedWire Inbox; HY collapse coverage]...
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A statement just released by the MTA: "MTA Chief Financial Officer Gary Dellaverson met today with Tishman Speyer President Rob Speyer to discuss development of the Hudson Yards. They have agreed to meet again tomorrow to continue the discussion." So short, so dramatic. [CurbedWire Inbox; HY collapse coverage]...
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Shipping moves more than 80% of the world's commodities and transfers up to five billion tonnes of ballast water internationally each year. Vessels, especially large container ships, need ballast tanks to provide stability in the water and correct any shift in the ships' mass. The UN lists "invasive species" dispersed by ballast water discharges as one of the four main threats to the world's marine...
Curbed (Free subscription) | yesterday
WILLIAMSBURGThe crane is now looming large over the sprawling Edge site on the Williamsburg waterfront. Steel is also being put in place behind the fence, so it's probably only a few more weeks before Edge starts rising for real. [CurbedWire Staff] EVERYWHEREHere's something for early Sunday morning risers who are real estate addicts: a new show on CW 11 at 9AM on Sundays that will debut in June...
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"I am totally conflicted, whose side should I be on? PS breeder moms with their obnoxious brats in SUV strollers, or PBR soaked hipsters on their ironic fixed gears? Can't they just destroy each other in a all out battle ala 'The Gangs of New York'?" [Slope Stroller Blowouts Lead to Line Cutting, Busier Bike Shops]...
Archinect (Free subscription) | yesterday
As some of you may know, I recently started a magazine. Well, maybe it's more of a zine. Anyway, one of the participating designers seems to have divided up his/her submission space into discreet units and is selling them off on craigslist . Obviously I love this turn of events and encourage any and all of you to skip the foot-long at Subway and get while the gettin's good.
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Up in Washington Heights, where any new moving around of dirt is cause for both curiosity and the popping of champagne bottles, The Gay Recluse confirms via an "unnamed receptionist at an architect's office" that a six-story condo building is coming to 573-575 West 161st Street. Of course, this being WaHI, there may be excavation work going on without the correct permits, and "evil doctors" are somehow...
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teatrends | 04/01/2008
Roberto Casiraghi, the director of R.O.M.A. Road to contemporary art, wanted to respond to these requirements within this event. R.O.M.A is the first art exhibition dedicated to contemporary art organised in Rome from the 28th February to the 2nd March 2009 with the participation of more than 80 Italian and foreign galleries.
