Jean Nouvel, Renzo Piano, Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry with Charlie Rose
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Weekly design calendar: Design Miami
The Independent (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Coming up the week of November 30 and the following weeks: design weeks in Hong Kong, Miami, and Tokyo, the world's largest building opens some parts to the public, and architects including Norman Foster and Frank Gehry take part in a London auction.
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"You don’t have to travel far to change countries"
12 Degrees of Freedom (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
I do love cities. I realize that no two cities are alike, so maybe what I love is the idea of the city. That doesn't mean that I don't like rural and wild areas. Given the fact that The world population has been growing pretty steadily since the end of the Black Death around 1400 (and is currently around 6.799 billion), rural and wild areas would be under much greater pressures than they currently...
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S.Korea pension fund to buy Sydney building -paper
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
SYDNEY, Nov 23 (Reuters) - South Korea's state pension fund is set to buy an office building in central Sydney for around A$685 million ($627 million), its first foray into Australia, the Australian newspaper reported on Monday.
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Art Institute Examines the Psychological Effects of Architecture through Exhibition
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
CHICAGO, IL.- Italian born, Berlin-based artist Monica Bonvicini (b. 1965) creates videos, sculptures, installations, and drawings that explore the physical and psychological effects of institutional, particularly museum, architecture. The first focus contemporary art exhibition presented in the Art Institute of Chicago 's Modern Wing, Monica Bonvicini: Light Me Black--on view November 20, 2009 through...
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Monica Bonvicini: Light Me Black
Art (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
[ November 20, 2009 to January 24, 2010. ] Monica Bonvicini: Light Me Black Art Institute of Chicago November 20, 2009 through January 24, 2010 [ad#lb] Italian born, Berlin-based artist Monica Bonvicini (b. 1965) creates videos, sculptures, installations, and drawings that explore the physical and psychological effects of institutional, particularly museum, architecture. The first focus contemporary...
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Italy opens new contemporary arts museum
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Italy is opening its first national museum for contemporary arts and architecture in a bid to shed its image as merely a keeper of a glorious artistic past.
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Zaha Hadid Goes Maxxi-malist in Rome
Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Slated to open in February 2010 is Zaha Hadid's plan for Maxxi, the Italian national museum of 21st century art. The museum is situated in the northern outskirts of Rome, near the grounds of the 1960 Olympics and a stone's throw away from two other architectural attractions, Renzo Piano's music hall and Pier Luigi Nervi's sports palace. The museum, empty of artwork until the spring, will be the main...
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Hadid in Rome
Slow Painting (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
The interior of Maxxi, the new contemporary art museum designed by Zaha Hadid, looking up from the lobby. (Photo: Roland Halbe) What would Pope Urban VIII have made of Maxxi, the new museum of contemporary art designed by Zaha Hadid on the outskirts of this city’s historic quarter? My guess is that he would have been [...]
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The Seven-Year Ditch
kenneth in the (212) (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
For those who don't already know (my bosses had asked me not to mention it), I've spent the last seven years employed as a staff editor at The New York Times. For a guy who set up his own newspaper in his family's basement back in elementary school, you can imagine what a dream this is. Working in the venerable paper's News Service department -- where stories are edited on deadline for distribution...
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Weekly design calendar: Toronto exhibits Japanese architecture
The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
During the week of November 7, the Toronto Design Exchange is hosting a large retrospective called Parallel Nippon , and the Index design fair kicks off in Dubai. Coming up within the next four weeks: the Singapore Design festival, Interior Lifestyle in Tokyo, and the opening of the world's tallest building.
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Gardner, moving forward
Exhibitionist (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
It has taken a while in his sluggish economy, but it appears that the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is pushing forward on its building project. Boston Business Journal reports on Moody's rating of the museum, which is going to use...
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Reaches Fundraising Milestone
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
BOSTON, MA.- The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston has reached a critical benchmark in early fundraising for its new building and palace restoration project. The Gardner Museum has raised, to date, more than $100 million in gifts and pledges, representing support from the museum's entire Boardof Trustees, as well as from museum overseers, other individuals and institutional funders. This early...
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Willard Spiegelman on Winspear and the Dallas Arts District
The Best American Poetry (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Except in Dallas, that is, where the skyline made famous by the J.R. Ewing clan on television 30 years ago has undergone multiple transformations. None is more exciting than what opened here earlier this month, the new AT&T Performing Arts Center, a $354 million, 10-acre assemblage aligned on one central axis beside a bustling freeway at the edge of downtown. It constitutes the latest addition...
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Lingotto Factory Fiat, Turin Italy
Architecture Revived (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Renzo Piano transformed the historic Lingotto building into a mixed-used complex of hotels, concert halls, cinema, shops, and businesses. Mattè Trucco designed the automobile factory 1923 with its distinctive racetrack on the rooftop. Modernist Le Corbusier praised the innovative design as the largest and most respected plant of its day. Fiat closed the factory, but Lingotto moved to solidify...