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Architect Loses Copyright Suit
Architect, June 12, 2014 Zalewski v. Cicero underscores the difficulty that courts face in determining where imitation ends and originality begins in the design of buildings. On June 5, a New York-based federal appeals courts tackled the tricky question of how to define originality in architecture, ruling against an architect who claimed two construction companies…
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Urban-Think Tank
Going Top Down Urban-Think Tank, best known for its vertical gyms in the Caracas barrios, has a new strategy for building in Third World slums. Architect, May 2014 When I call him, Alfredo Brillembourg is eating lunch in Zurich, on a terrace beside the lake, the Swiss Alps on the horizon. He describes the scene…
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Review: Designing for Disaster
Architectural Record, May 13, 2014 In the weeks before the exhibition Designing for Disaster opened on May 11 at Washington, D.C.’s National Building Museum, a wildfire in Oklahoma forced 1,000 people to evacuate and tornadoes ripped through the South and Midwest, killing 34 people. In the U.S., the threat of natural disaster is always with…
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Skyscrapers in the Subdivision
Far From Dead, the North American Suburb Is Growing Up Next City, May 12, 2014 A Forefront story sponsored by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Dead malls. Zombie subdivisions. Metastasizing sprawl. Not a horror movie, but the suburbs circa 2014, or at least the media version of them. We’ve all seen the “suburban wasteland”…
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Walmart Scales Down
Walmart Scales Down and Branches Out Fort Totten Square in Washington, D.C., designed by Hickok Cole Architects, is a sharp departure from the retailer’s usual formula. Architectural Record, April 2014 If you heard that urban redevelopment in some Washington, D.C., neighborhoods was being spurred by Walmart, you might think it was a joke: Walmart, with…
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