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Flashback: Union Station in Los Angeles turned 75 years old over the weekend. The 1939 station cost $11 million and was designed by John and Donald Parkinson. Christopher Hawthorne writes: "While it is easy to think that [photographs of the station opening] depict some Golden Age of rail travel in Los Angeles, the truth is that the Golden Age of rail travel in Los Angeles is just getting underway." He continues: "Union Station ... wasn't advertising the importance of rail to 20th-century Los Angeles when it opened as much as mourning it. It was clear by that point that the private car and air travel represented the future." [Los Angeles Times]
Map of the Day: Where tech companies have signed leases in New York City. [The Wall Street Journal]
Tweet of the Day:
C'mon, @sfplanning, is this really the corner for a 4-story glass box? Across from BofA tower? pic.twitter.com/ss38Ku05tq
— John King (@JohnKingSFChron)
May 2, 2014
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Chicago Design Museum successfully funded a Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign for a permanent space. [Chicago Tribune]
U.K.-based architects Christopher Christophi and Lucas Mazarrasa designed the Hyperspeed Vertical Train Hub for the eVolo skyscraper competition. [Gizmodo]
Japan's "disposable-home culture" has produced a large number of architects in a market where construction is always booming without a major increase in the number of houses. [The Guardian]
Kansas State University landscape architecture student Elizabeth Decker created a toolkit for architects and planners to address the needs of adults with autism. [Science World Report]
The Chicago Maroon, University of Chicago's newspaper, interviewed Jeanne Gang, FAIA, about her work on the campus. [The Chicago Maroon]
Critic Mark Lamster reviews architect Jamie Carpenter's "Light Veil," a $8-million installation at the Cotton Bowl made of steel mesh ribbons. [The Dallas Morning News]
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