Table of Contents February 2008
Dialogue
Everybody's talking recession. As this issue of ARCHITECT went to press in late January, economists for financial giants like Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs were shifting their predictions from gloom to doom, the Asian and European stock markets had dipp
Features
The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away—although sometimes in reverse order, as in the case of the Cathedral of Christ the Light now nearing completion in Oakland, Calif.
“Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes,” on view through May 18 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, exhibits the new realities—and surrealities—of 21st Century suburbia.
Landmark's CEO Ted Mundorff sees the new flagship cinema in Los Angeles as a nod to the past: “It's a return to service, a revival of the customer experience that was around in the '30s but has since diminished,” he says.
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Report
Other Articles
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News briefs from around the world of architecture.
In an age of professional specialization, the vanishing Renaissance man still dwells in Italy in that permeable membrane between design, architecture, and writing. But even by Italian standards, no designer-architect-editor-writer was more the Renaissance
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New York City's Greening Campaign has a new frontier on Governors Island. In December, the results of an international design competition were announced: A jury had selected an alliance comprising West 8, Rogers Marvel, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Quennell
New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has promoted its influential architecture and design curator, Paola Antonelli, to senior curator, a signal that design matters more than ever in the modern pantheon.
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Successful transportation projects can result in multiple benefits, if properly designed, according to a report released by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in January. Titled “Moving Communities Forward: How Well-Designed Transportation Project
Although the 785-foot-long rigid-frame airship USS Macon crashed into the ocean in 1935, less than two years after its first flight, its monumental home has remained as an emblem of Machine Age exuberance. Yet even with its storied past, Hangar One at Mof
The United Nations Headquarters complex has long stood as an icon of postwar politics and architecture. The 39-story glass-and-steel Secretariat tower and the curving, white General Assembly building in Manhattan have become monuments with global signific
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When the Rhode Island School Of Design (RISD) announced in December that John Maeda, guru of technology and design at MIT, would be its 16th president, there was reason to anticipate an infusion of geek consciousness at the 130-year-old fine arts school.
Williamsburg museum, closed for last three years, suffered from poor attendance
Local Market
Numbers
Screen Grab
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Sites, blog posts, and other web items of interest.
Urso Chappell was 15 when he visited his first world's fair. Held in Knoxville, Tenn., Expo '82 wasn't perfect: Its theme, “Energy Turns the World,” was a carryover from the cost-of-oil–conscious '70s, and attendance was low, historically speaking. But wi
Technology
Products
Lightweight, Kevlar-reinforced crack-prevention mortar
Inherently water-resistant
Features embedded fossilized artifacts and a rough stonelike face
Pre-engineered limestone architectural elements
Asphalt roofing shingle system that mimics natural slate
Manufactured using aggregates, pigments, and different colors and textures of sand.
Culture
Other Articles
Q&A
Other Articles
What if a global corporation sponsored a green building contest with $2 million in prize money and nobody noticed?
Letting an employee go is never easy. And architects, whose practices are particularly sensitive to changes in the economy, may do more firing than members of other professions. The process isn't just emotionally tricky—it can also have legal consequences
It wasn't just the dust that chased families off their farms during the Depression. The bright lights of the city beckoned, symbolizing all that electricity made possible.
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The word “durable” is associated most often with those products we hope to enjoy long after freeing them from their protective packaging. But intellectual property, especially the exclusive rights of copyright protection, enjoys an extended warranty unmat
When I.M. Pei designed the first building for Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 1963, media was a different thing altogether. Primary outlets included Time magazine, which cost 30 cents, and CBS, where Walter Cronkite