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The 1913 Art Nouveau department store in Goerlitz, Germany, where "The Grand Budapest Hotel" was filmed.

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The 1913 Art Nouveau department store in Goerlitz, Germany, where "The Grand Budapest Hotel" was filmed.

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D.C. United released new renderings of their proposed stadium. [Washington City Paper]

Looking back in time at Brazil’s Estádio do Maracanã stadium. [CityLab]

Google, The Cooper Union, Hyper Island, School of Visual Arts, Parsons, and Pratt are launching a design school-slash-tech incubator called “30 Weeks.” [Wired]

Architecture critic Blair Kamin on why the title of his job is too limiting. [Chicago Tribune]

A wheelchair designed by Michael Graves, FAIA. [Quartz]

The first phase of the $120-million FirstEnergy Stadium renovation is on schedule to open for the Cleveland Browns’ preseason opening game in August. [Crain’s Cleveland Business]

Photos of a mostly-demolished Prentice Women’s Hospital. [Curbed Chicago]

Now anyone can own a Jeff Koons balloon dogon a fast-fashion handbag. [Fast Co.Design]

Washington, D.C., tops of a list of cities with walkable real estate projects, followed by New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Chicago. [Washington Business Journal]

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Betsy Williams now part of Northfield, Ill.-based Orren Pickell Building Group’s architectural department. [Chicago Tribune]

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