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The Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, reopened its doors in spring 2008 after an expansion designed by Ann Beha Architects. This was both a sympathetic and a very modern expansion, and the results provide quite an elegant increase in the museum's scope.
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Underlying the almost infinite variety of Victorian houses were a few basic structural forms, repeated millions of times over by builders following well established principles. The Masonry House
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Kengo Kuma strikes a chord when he talks about the inspirations for one of his most successful projects: the new Suntory Museum of Art, built in 2007 into the side of the new Tokyo Midtown development.
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On a December day of 1955, fresh over from Paris, I walked into the small Eero Saarinen office in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, with a beat-up box of eight-by-tens of my Beaux-Arts graduation work. "Can I see Mr. Saarinen? I'm looking for a job." He did see me, and having reviewed my prints, asked whether I could start that very afternoon — for $2.75 an hour pay. I did.
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More Building Culture Stephen A. Kliment, Former RECORD Editor in Chief, Dies at 78 — Architectural Record, 2008.0918A.I.G.'s Building, after the Bailout — New York Times, 2008.0918 Restoring Wright: New Life for an Icon — Old House Journal, 2008.0918 Beha's Currier Museum — ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0917 I Dig Modern — Examiner, 2008.0917 Redesigning the World — Prague Post, 2008.0917 Aussie Architects Need to Quit Playing Cute — Sydney Morning Herald, 2008.0916 Ex-Dog Biscuit Factory Is Among 5 Landmarks — New York Times, 2008.0916 William Rogers: Architect of Groundbreaking Office Towers — The Times (UK), 2008.0915 Housing the Universe — New York Times, 2008.0915 A Look at Historic Galveston Buildings — Houston Chronicle, 2008.0915 Low-Cost Housing Design: How FAR Is Feasible? — Jakarta Post, 2008.0915 RIBA Gold Medallist at Architecture Nights — Times of Malta, 2008.0914 The Finn Who Shaped Modern America — Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 2008.0912 Best Landmarks of 2008 Honored by Chicago — Chicago Sun-Times, 2008.0912 A Bit of Bauhaus Outside Boston — Washington Post, 2008.0912 Architect Designed Temple — Miami Herald, 2008.0911 Ben Franklin, Urbanist — Metropolis, 2008.0911 House for Sweden — ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0910 Houses for Victorians — ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0910 NYC Suspends School Visits to UN over Fire Safety — Boston Globe, 2008.0910 NYC Suspends School Visits to U.N. Over Fire Safety — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2008.0910 Benchmarking 9/11: Terrorism, Hurricanes, and Climate-Change Challenges — Buildings, 2008.0910 Bright Days, Best House Tours — San Francisco Chronicle, 2008.0909 Talking with Rem Koolhaas, the Architect Behind the Central Library — Seattle Times, 2008.0908 Star Power — Chicago Tribune, 2008.0907 Trading New York for Midwest Grit — New York Times, 2008.0904 Surroundings / Miscarriage of Architecture — Haaretz, 2008.0904 Cuba: Escaping Castro's Shadow — Telegraph, 2008.0904
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