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Filthy Lucre
Bird of Prey: A Macabre Twist on James McNeill Whistler’s Peacock Room Architectural Record, May 18, 2015 Painted by James McNeill Whistler in the 1870s, the Peacock Room, on display in the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is one of the most celebrated interiors in history. Decorations in teal and gold swirl over…
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RA Design Awards
Residential Architect, May 2015 I wrote about four projects that won 2015 Residential Architect Design Awards, including Johnsen Schmaling Architects’ Pleated House (shown). Photograph by John J. Macaulay
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Broadgate Exchange House
AIA Twenty-Five Year Award: Broadgate Exchange House Architect, May 2015 The Big Bang, at least the British version of it, took place on Oct. 27, 1986, when Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher deregulated the London stock market. Very swiftly after that, the City of London morphed from an insular old-boys club into a modern, global financial center.…
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Pulp Pavilion
Why a Building Made From Papier-Mâché Isn’t as Crazy as It Sounds Fast Company Design, April 28, 2015 The Los Angeles studio Ball-Nogues is known for making architectural installations out of unlikely materials: glass beads, stainless steel orbs, and even T-shirts and coffee tables. Now it has moved on to paper pulp. Several years ago,…
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Free-Range Kids & the Law
The Murky Law on Free-Range Kids CityLab, April 17, 2015 On April 12, it happened again: Rafi and Dvora Meitiv, the “free-range kids” of Silver Spring, Maryland, were picked up and detained by police. The siblings, aged 10 and six, were playing unsupervised in their neighborhood when a man walking his dog spotted them and…
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