Table of Contents November-December 2006
Dialogue
Features
Like many U.S. cities, Washington, D.C., is booming. But capital expansion comes at a price. The city's library system may abandon its Mies-designed headquarters. The site is ripe for redevelopment, and the building's future is unclear.
Tiffany is best known for his brilliantly colored leaded-glass lamps, which fetch astonishing prices on the antiques market. But the full impact of Tiffany's vision played out at Laurelton Hall, his 600-acre estate on the north shore of Long Island in New York. Tiffany designed and built an 84-room...
The Kresge Foundation supports green building in a big way. The 82-year-old organization dispenses grants from its $3 billion in assets toward the capital campaigns of other nonprofits to advance the well-being of humanity.
In the Sweet Earth series of photographs and accompanying texts, artist Joel Sternfeld documents Utopian communities across the United States—several centuries' worth of experiments in alternative place-making.
Products are the stuff of architecture, in a very literal sense, and yet it's fair to say that the building products industry and the profession of architecture maintain an awkward alliance.
Report
News
BuildingGreen's Top 10 Products for 2006
An artificial sky is taking shape at Oklahoma State University (OSU). Designed to simulate both clear and cloudy weather, the sky dome will assist OSU students, practicing architects, and others in the research of day-lighting systems.
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News and notes from the architecture and design world.
During the early morning hours of Nov. 4, the 1888 wood frame George Harvey House, which had been undergoing unspecified repairs, was consumed by fire. The home's owner had considered demolishing the building earlier in the year but apparently reconsidered after receiving heavy local press coverage.
Screen Capture
Sites, blog posts, and other web items of interest.
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High-tech ways of bringing architectural classics to life.
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Culture
Object Lesson
Books
Exhibits
Q&A
The Swiss ambassador to the United States discusses his new residence in Washington, D.C. designed by Steven Holl and Justin Rüssli, the building sits adjacent to a 1959 chancery designed by the Swiss-American modernist William Lescaze.
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