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Malls Aren’t Dying
Shopping Malls Aren’t Actually Dying CityLab, March 25, 2015 On March 5, the Miami Herald revealed a new plan to build a 200-acre mega-mall in the suburbs of Miami, complete with an attached hotel and condos, a sea-lion show, and an artificial ski slope. It would be the largest shopping mall in the United States,…
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Whither Sweet Briar?
What Will Happen to Sweet Briar College’s Historic Campus? Architect, March 24, 2015 On March 4, Virginia’s Sweet Briar College, a liberal-arts college for women founded in 1901, prompted widespread shock when it announced that it will close this August due to “insurmountable financial challenges.” The decision by the board of directors left Sweet Briar’s…
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College Park, College Town?
The Plan to Make College Park a College Town Washingtonian, March 2015 US Route 1 inside the Beltway in Maryland is no crummier than the turnpikes outside Amherst, Massachusetts; Bloomington, Indiana; or any other town that hosts a major state university. A traveler headed south through College Park takes in a view of Taco Bell,…
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Social Design’s Rise & Fall
One Mayor’s Downfall Killed the Design Project That Could’ve Changed Everything Next City, Feb. 23, 2015 On June 29, 2014, the four city staffers who made up the San Diego Civic Innovation Lab were hard at work all around the city, never mind that it was a Sunday. Ilisa Goldman was in Encanto, hurrying along…
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Museum of the Bible
Hobby Lobby Owners Break Ground on Bible Museum Architectural Record, Feb. 20, 2015 If the founders of the incipient Museum of the Bible had asked Frank Gehry to represent the parting of the Red Sea in billows of metal and glass, it might have been the least controversial thing about the project, which broke ground…
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