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No CAMPing Here?

07.24.2008

Debate heats up over proposed art museum in SF's Presidio

Courtesy Gluckman Mayner Architects

Good Housekeeping

07.24.2008

Council cracks down on building-site tidiness, strengthens New York construction regs

Hawaii H20

07.24.2008

State becomes first to require solar water heaters on all new homes

Big Three

07.24.2008

Vornado's Port Authority tower plans unveiled

A Pritzker-Winner in Providence

07.22.2008

Moneo's Chace Center at RISD nears completion

Courtesy RISD

Cease and Desist

07.22.2008

Stuytown councilman asks owners to back off on lawsuits

Fighting for Neutra in the O.C.

07.21.2008

Temporary reprieve for Newport Beach Neutra

courtesy John Linnert

NY FEATURED SECTION

Courtesy MGM Grand Mirage

Las Vegas Is Learning

Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown changed the way we think about Vegas, but the city they loved and wrote about so compellingly has changed almost beyond recognition, and will keep on doing so. Its latest metamorphosis is a startling one: high-rise density oriented toward pedestrians. Is this urbanism in drag, or can CityCenter successfully bring traditional ideas about the civic realm to the most car-oriented place in the country? Sam Lubell checks in.

CA FEATURED SECTION

courtesy KAA Design

Can Prefab Deliver?

The modern dream of the readymade has carried prefab far since it was ﬁrst imagined over 100 years ago, but now with the pressure to be all things to all people -- green, luxurious, and even one-of-a-kind -- Kimberly Stevens wonders if prefab can ever live up to its own potential.

DIARY

Rem Koolhaas/Courtesy MoMA

Dreamland: Architectural Experiments Since the 1970s

Museum of Modern Art

11 West 53rd St.

Philip Johnson Architecture and Design Galleries

7/23/2008

As she so often does, New York City plays the role of muse in the latest show at MoMA. The exhibition of work from the museum’s architecture and design collection probes the many ways in which the city’s landscape has inspired, goaded, and liberated architects since the 1970s, proving fertile ground...

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COMPETITIONS

Round Building Reuse: 360

Deadline :Friday, August 08, 2008

The American Federal Building in Orlando, Fl., designed by Bob Murphy, has been scheduled for demolition to make room for Orlando's new performing arts center. In an effort to preserve a piece of modern architecture in Orlando, Nils M. Schweizer Fellows | Central Florida Modern invites ideas for the re-use of the iconic building's brise soliel facade. The RBR:360 International Design Competition is an open competition and asks architects, designers, artists or any other individual interested in submitting a creative solution to participate. A Central Florida site is preferred for reuse of the facade, and three locations have been suggested on the competition's website. All 120 diamond stacked panels must be used and dimensions and images for these can also be found on the website.

www.rbr360.com

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