Tag: architecture
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First Look: BIG Maze
First Look: BIG’s BIG Maze at the National Building Museum Architectural Record, July 7, 2014 The vast Great Hall of the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., is as tricky to program as it is impressive to behold. More than 300 feet long and several stories high, the Renaissance Revival hall is often rented out…
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Pablo Bronstein
The Artful Façades of Pablo Bronstein For artist Pablo Bronstein, the avant-garde has become so institutionalized that history seems radical. Architect, June 2014 Several years ago, the artist Pablo Bronstein published a new edition of Horace Walpole’s novel The Castle of Otranto, with a cover he had drawn by hand. Walpole, an 18th-century English aristocrat,…
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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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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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