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Sustainable Landscape Project Takes Root

Greener pastures for a Super Bowl village, a black history museum, and a wealth of other land developments in the United States and beyondREAD»

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Apple Store Cube Is More Popular Landmark Than Statue of Liberty: Cornell Report

A Cornell study says the Cube came in at number 28 worldwide, and number 5 in New York City.READ»

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Why Can't the World's Best Architects Build Better Web Sites?

I'd love to write about your latest architectural masterpiece, I really would. If only your Web site wasn't such an information architecture disaster.READ»

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KieranTimberlake Wins Commission for the New American Embassy in London

In a huge coup for the Philadelphia firm, their moat-tastic design takes the prize over bigger names at Morphosis, I.M. Pei, and Richard Meier.READ»

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Zaha Hadid Turns From Potato Chips to AC Vents for Inspiration

Hadid gets the construction go-ahead for an eccentric new museum.READ»

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It’s On: A Critic Says L.A. Is Now Architecture’s Leading Light. A Brooklyn Designer Says No Way

Could this be the architecture equivalent of Tupac versus Biggie? Last Sunday Nicolai Ouroussoff, the architecture critic for The New York Times, published an essay (“As Heroes Disappear, the City Nees More”) lamenting the 1970s ...READ»

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ForYourArt Connects Art Institutions With Patrons Just When They Need Them Most

Faced with dwindling membership and evaporating funding, museums across the country are slashing staffs and cutting back on programming--and, in some cases, like at MOCA in Los Angeles, eliminating the position of architecture and ...READ»

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The 10 Most Creative People in Architecture

Which architects have the most unusual, influential visions for the field?READ»

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L.A.'s Best Architecture Is on the Ground

Don't go gazing at the Los Angeles skyline if you want to see the most exciting new architecture in town. The 9.5-acre Vista Hermosa Park in downtown L.A. was given the grand prize at the 39th annual Los Angeles Architectural Awards.READ»

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Which State Has the Boldest Architecture?

Quick: Which state has the boldest architecture? Ohio didn't roll of your tongue, did it? But Bowling Green State University, near Toledo, just broke ground on a new building by Snøhetta. And that's on top of a slew of other ...READ»

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Los Angeles and Mass Transit? Designers Can Dream

Los Angeles has had dalliances with various mass-transit ideas the way Jennifer Aniston has relationships with other celebrities: They seem perfect until the heartbreak starts. So we're both excited and nervous with the ...READ»

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Enough With the Scary Architecture Already!

We scan thousands of headlines each day, and read hundreds of blog posts. And what keeps coming up is that contemporary architecture is very often terrifying. Not just vaguely sinister. But straight-up Darth Vader-would-love-this, ...READ»

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Built Brave

How will terror and its aftermath reshape the design of office buildings? The new federal center in Oklahoma City offers some surprising (and surprisingly hopeful) answers.READ»