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A US federal judge has halted the demolition of Greenwood Pond: Double Site, a 1996 work of environmental art in Des Moines, Iowa, by Mary Miss, and a German court has ruled that Ravensburger can continue to produce jigsaw puzzles bearing the iconic image of Leonardo da Vinci's... John Hill
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on 16/12/2021
A development plan preserving the James R. Thompson Center in Chicago, a postmodern icon designed by Helmut Jahn, has been accepted in the State of Illinois's bid to sell the building. John Hill
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on 08/09/2021
He lived his life with a natural cosmopolitan attitude and open-mindedness into his old age. Jörg Schlaich was a quiet and modest man, yet self-confident and without the airs and graces of many of the stars acting on the architecture stage worldwide. Jörg Schlaich died on September 4. Falk Jaeger
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on 24/09/2020
The hyperrealistic renderings of Peter Zumthor's design for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) that were recently made public focus on the gallery spaces that sit behind the glass walls of the curving plan. John Hill
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on 22/05/2020
The Chicago Plan Commission voted unanimously in favor of Related Midwest's two-tower residential development for 400 North Lake Shore Drive, the site of Santiago Calatrava's proposed Spire. John Hill
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on 21/04/2020
Mecanoo has won the international architectural competition for the development of the Senezh Management LAB in Russia with a plan that organizes four functional zones around an "Agora." John Hill
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on 12/12/2019
Four months after three visions for the La Brea Tar Pits were unveiled, New York's WEISS/MANFREDI has been selected to lead the master plan to re-imagine the Los Angeles... John Hill
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on 14/01/2019
Chicago's Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture has won the design competition for the Shimao Shenzhen Longgang master plan and its associated tower, Shenzhen-Hong Kong International Center, which will reach approximately 700 meters (2,300 feet). John Hill
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on 30/10/2018
Google has announced that it is withdrawing its plan to transform an old electric company building in Berlin's Kreuzberg neighborhood into an incubator for tech start-ups. John Hill
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on 04/01/2018
Apple's plan for a global flagship store at Melbourne's Federation Square, unveiled last month, is being met by opposition, due in part to the proposed plan's demolition of one of the buildings in the 15-year-old project. John Hill
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on 22/11/2017
Three and a half years after the New York Public Library shelved Norman Foster's plan to dramatically transform the library's 1911 home in Midtown Manhattan, Mecanoo's pared-down master plan for the building has been unveiled. John Hill
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on 09/01/2017
Exhibit Columbus, the annual celebration of the Indiana city's extraordinary design heritage, has announced the five winners of its inaugural J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize Competition, which will realize the winning temporary pavilions later this year. John Hill
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on 05/01/2017
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has unveiled an ambitious plan for the transformation of JFK International Airport "to meet the needs of the 21st-century economy." John Hill
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on 16/06/2016
The team of Adjaye Associates and AB3D with Plan A, AKTII, BuroHappold, Turner & Townsend, and Martha Schwartz Partners has won the two-stage competition for the Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art in the historic center of Riga. John Hill
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on 29/04/2016
Two years after David Chipperfield Architects, with their "Nobelhuset" entry, won the competition for the Nobel Center in Sweden, the Stockholm City Council has... John Hill
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on 03/03/2016
The competition-winning proposal by architects from VOA Architecture and engineers from Werner Sobek New York envisions the Pan Am Building (now the MetLife Building) at 200 Park Avenue in New York City covered in a patterned, double-glazed curtain wall. John Hill
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on 07/01/2016
Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a $22 billion plan to modernize transportation infrastructure throughout New York state, with $3 billion going toward a renovated Penn Station, the busiest – and considered the worst – train station in New York City. John Hill
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on 23/11/2015
REX, the Brooklyn firm headed by former OMA partner Joshua Prince-Ramus, has been selected to design the Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center, long a question mark in the sixteen-acre master plan. John Hill
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on 11/10/2015
Called the River Building for its plan flowing across the landscape, the new building designed by the duo of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa for Grace Farms Foundation opened to the public this weekend in New Canaan, Connecticut. John Hill
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on 09/07/2015
The European Parliament has rejected the plan that would have restricted the so-called Freedom of Panorama, the right to use pictures of public buildings and sculptures without restriction. John Hill
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on 04/06/2015
The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has selected 5 teams to participate in the second stage of the Rail Corridor competition aimed at developing a conceptual master plan for a 24-kilometer-long former railway in Singapore. John Hill
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on 12/03/2015
Every month brings news of another city trying to create its own version of Manhattan's wildly successful High Line. Most recent is Miami's Underline, which has hired High Line landscape architect James Corner to plan a 10-mile "mobility corridor." John Hill
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on 14/11/2014
The Smithsonian has unveiled BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group's proposed master plan for the institution's Washington, D.C. South Mall campus, made up of the museums and gardens along Independence Avenue S.W., from Seventh to 12th streets. John Hill