Tag: architecture
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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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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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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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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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