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Bjarke Ingels’ Hot to Cold
Review: Bjarke Ingels Group’s Hot to Cold at the National Building Museum Architectural Record, Jan. 28, 2015 How to account for the unstoppable rise of Bjarke Ingels? The Danish architect touched down at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., last week to launch Hot to Cold, a new exhibition of his firm’s work. Tousle-haired…
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Architects and Second-Tier Cities
Why Architects and Second-Tier Cities Need Each Other CityLab, Jan. 23, 2015 A couple of weeks ago, the American Institute of Architects announced which buildings had won its annual honor awards, one of the highest prizes in the field. The real winners, of course, are not the buildings but the architects who designed them. This…
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BBC Brutalism
BBC’s The Game Does for Brutalism What Mad Men Did for Mid-Century Design CityLab, Dec. 12, 2014 If you’re a fan of spy thrillers, you’ll enjoy BBC America’s miniseries The Game the way you might a dog-eared novel and a cup of tea on a winter’s night. The pace is leisurely, and the plot elements familiar…
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Germany’s Car-Sharing Paradise
How Bremen, Germany, Became a Car-Sharing Paradise CityLab, Dec. 11, 2014 Bremen, in Northwestern Germany, could not be described as car-dependent in the North American sense of the term. In this city of 550,000, most daily journeys happen on mass transit (14 percent of all trips), on foot (20 percent), or by bike (25 percent).…
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D.C. Punk’s Salad Days
Celebrating D.C.’s Punk ‘Salad Days’ CityLab, Nov. 28, 2014 In 2012, Scott Crawford launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a project he’d already begun, a documentary about the heyday of punk music in Washington, D.C., during the 1980s. Crawford was an established music journalist and graphic designer (he edited the now-defunct Harp magazine from 2001 to…
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