Tag: adaptive reuse
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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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The Tandoor Oven in a Park
How an Oven Changed the Fate of a Neglected Toronto Park CityLab, Sept. 18, 2014 Ask a city planner or designer to name some popular amenities for a park, and they’ll rattle off a list: children’s play area, water feature, shade, seating. “Tandoor oven” will not be on it—unless you’re in Toronto, where residents of […]
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Past Perfect
Forget the old anti-progress preservationists. Françoise Bollack’s new book highlights how the movement’s future lies with projects that deftly merge historic and new. Architect, December 2013 A few weeks into my first year of college in St. Andrews, Scotland, I told a new acquaintance that I was studying history. He smiled archly and said: “Naturally […]
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Don’t Forget the Burbs
Architect, May 2013 Remember when we were going to save the suburbs? In 2008, Ellen Dunham-Jones, AIA, and June Williamson released Retrofitting Suburbia, a handbook for turning sprawl into walkable, sustainable, more urban places. The book got national media attention, Dunham-Jones gave a TED talk, and for a while, dead malls were the topic du […]
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