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A window to customizing home
Special to the Chicago TribuneGlance around many area subdivisions and you'll find two common window styles: double hung and casement. Double-hung windows have upper and lower sashes that move up and down, while casement windows have hinges that allow the entire window to open...Tags: House and Home
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Family legacy to preserve city's architectural gems
Chicago Tribune reporterMetropolitan Properties of Chicago LLC has prospered by preserving pieces of downtown's built legacy and adapting them to changing markets. When Louis D'Angelo formed the property management and investment firm in 1991, he was deepening already...Tags: Michigan, Labor Markets, Property, Renzo Piano, Millennium Park
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Wright's Taliesin showcases 'organic' architecture
Associated Press WriterThousands come each year to the Wisconsin River valley where Frank Lloyd Wright built his home and tested his ideas about building in harmony with nature. Nestled on a hillside overlooking the river, Wright's Taliesin has the cantilever roofs, wide...Tags: Guggenheim Museum, Easton (Northampton, Pennsylvania), Lakewood, Arizona, Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania)
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'Hearst the Collector' comes to LACMA
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer"A collection of everything. So big it can never be cataloged or appraised. Enough for 10 museums. The loot of the world." That's the description of the art collection in "Citizen Kane," Orson Welles' masterpiece inspired by William Randolph Hearst....Tags: Libraries and Museums, Gucci Group NV, Weaponry, New York, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Incorporated
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ARCHITECTURE
Architect Renzo Piano seems to have bounced back with his new home for the California Academy of Sciences, among the new highlights on the horizon:
Museum of Arts and Design, New York
Edward Durell Stone's 1964 Gallery of Modern Art on the southern edge...Tags: Libraries and Museums, New York Times, Town of Huntington, New York, Renzo Piano
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Madison's home celebrates $24 million restoration
Associated Press WriterIt isn't exactly common to make a house two-thirds smaller, or to remove the indoor plumbing. But that's what's been done at Montpelier, the plantation mansion of President James Madison. The brick Georgian home at the foothills of the Blue Ridge...Tags: Virginia, Tourism and Leisure, Monuments and Heritage Sites, Government, George Washington
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New York Real Estate: Kew Gardens, Queens
Special to amNewYorkIf you are a believer of "great things come in small packages," then Kew Gardens might be your kind of neighborhood. This triangular-shaped enclave has many conveniences of city life, yet retains a small-town feel. One of seven planned communities in...Tags: Murder, Restaurant and Catering Industry, United Nations, Long Island Rail Road, Horace Mann
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Paul Rudolph Hall Reopens With Hawaii Exhibit
The Art + Architecture building at Yale, designed by Paul Rudolph, reopens its gallery today with an exhibition of the work of Vladimir Ossipoff (1907-1998), master architect of Hawaii. The building has been closed for renovations and restoration. The...Tags: Hawaii
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Spending way too much for new law building
Does anyone else think that the University of Baltimore spending $107 million for a law building involving world-class architecture is too much ("Courting Architects," Aug. 12)? The University of Baltimore has courted many architects to its design...Tags: Colleges and Universities
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Architectural Style Combines Extravagant Flourishes Into Often-Pleasing Designs
Queen Victoria reigned for more than 60 years, from 1837 to 1901, and several architectural styles came and went during that period: classically inspired Greek Revival, picturesque Gothic Revival and Italianate, sober Second Empire, inventive late-century...Tags: House and Home, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Hamden, Metal and Mineral, Connecticut
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City taps top architects for prototype revision
Chicago Tribune criticI have never been a fan of Chicago's "prototype" building program, which builds look-alike public libraries, police and fire stations, as well as schools, around the city. The program may save money by eliminating the need to reinvent the wheel on every...Tags: Richard M. Daley, Schools, High Schools, Chicago Public Schools, House Building
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Twin Cities welcome GOP and offer plenty for a party
Special to the Chicago TribuneThe Twin Cities are far from identical twins. St. Paul, the Minnesota capital and host to the Republican National Convention this week, historically looked to the East Coast for architectural inspiration and retains a human-feeling scale. Minneapolis...Tags: Minnesota, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Marsden Hartley, Religious Leaders, Theater
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