Ward Sutton takes a graphic look at what posters say about candidates for the U.S. presidency. NYT
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In south Beirut, long a Hezbollah stronghold, most of the families have promised to give their rebuilding compensation ? about $53,000 each ? to Hezbollah to redevelop the devastated area in an ambitious plan likely to bolster Hezbollah’s standing.AP
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Had a great time in Dallas reviewing some brilliant entries at this year’s KROB Delineation Competition. Congratulations to all the winners–see all of them here.
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Los Angeles planning commision has made LEED certification the law for all new buildings larger then 50,000 sf or 50 units.
I thought that points were not the point, now they are law?
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Heike Hanada, a female architect from Germany, has been announced the winner of the 6,000+ submission international competition to design and expansion to Gunnar Asplund’s Stockholm City Library. More info and images at Bustler
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Together, U.S. Border Patrol agents and government engineers, in a nine-week project called Fence Lab, were trying to solve one of the nation’s most vexing problems — how to find fencing strong enough to protect the U.S. from one of the largest human migrations in history but sensitive to the fact that Mexico and the U.S. are friendly nations.latimes
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At 74, Richard Rogers is as busy as ever shaping the future. TimesOnline
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Ten months before the official kickoff of the Summer Olympics, China has already prepared the stage for the world’s top sporting event. Twenty new sports facilities have been built and 11 others renovated. The message from Beijing is clear: Nothing about the 2008 Olympics has been left to chance.
Via Der spiegel
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Dezeen has published 18 different renderings of Ateliers Jean Nouvel’s proposed 75-story gallery/hotel/condo tower that go way above and beyond the little NY Times tease unleashed on the world yesterday. Also, Dezeen points out…
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Researchers at Harvard University have developed a polymer that is coated with living muscle cells. These “Muscular Thin Films” can bend, roll up, and writhe when electricity is applied to them, and could have many uses, including integration into soft robotic devices. Link
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Architects are now having to incorporate anti-terror elements into their designs. bbc radio
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The finger-pointing has already begun in response to a lawsuit filed by MIT against Frank Gehry?s firm, Gehry Partners, and general contractor Skanska USA. ArchRecord |…
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BusinessWeek is becoming an architectural must read. They got the fab-globe-trotting-italian to list his favorite inspirations from classical antiquity, victorian ingenuity, to modern masterpieces (including a few of his own creations). Slideshow
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Some of Croydon’s best-known landmarks could disappear as part of ambitious plans unveiled by a leading British architect (Will Alsop) to transform the town centre from an urban concrete jungle to a cosmopolitan oasis.Croyden Guardian
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“The Crazy Robertson” on The Wall Street Journal
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The Detroit News on the Eero Saarinen exhibition opening this Saturday at the Cranbrook Art Museum.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on the overhaul of the Paul Rudolph building.Mr. Stern said the Rudolph structure was ?the Bilbao of its day,? pictured on the cover of every important design publication and visited by architects from around the world.
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Berlin-New York Dialogues: Building in Context, an exhibition at the Center for Architecture on La Guardia Place in Greenwich Village, compares Berlin’s Chausseestrasse district with NY’s Red Hook. NYT
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Gehry is briefly interviewed by Motor Trend about the Audi Cross Cabriolet quattro concept vehicle. (better make sure that convertible top doesn’t leak) Read
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At Billy Graham Library, opened last spring, the man and the message are one and the same.
The library was built for $27 million and features 40,000-square-foot exhibition space. Via NYT
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