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Art Institute addition set to open in May
The Art Institute of Chicago has scheduled the public opening of the 264,000-square-foot Modern Wing, the largest addition in the museum's history, on May 16, the museum announced Thursday. A pedestrian bridge that leads from Millennium Park to the...Tags: Art Institute of Chicago, Millennium Park
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Rods go up, up—and away
NEW YORK — Responding to an unexpected flurry of urban mountaineering, The New York Times has decided to alter part of the facade of its new Manhattan headquarters, which suddenly has become the Mt. Everest of skyscrapers. The ceramic rods that...Tags: New York Times, Manhattan
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Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena -- John Lautner's architectural heirs
Special to The TimesWalk into Anthony Pearson and Ramona Trent's Mar Vista home and it's difficult to tell that the dynamic space, rippling into the outdoors from a deceptively low entryway, began its life as a simple postwar California bungalow. By the time its latest...Tags: Los Angeles, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Topanga, Alternative Energy, Carnegie Museum of Art
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2 architects to design Burnham pavilions
Tribune criticTwo internationally renowned architects, including Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Zaha Hadid, will design temporary pavilions in Millennium Park to serve as focal points for next year's regionwide celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Burnham...Tags: Society, University of Illinois at Chicago, Cloud Gate, Chicago Park District, Colleges and Universities
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Inside the Art Institute's new Modern Wing with the building's architect, Renzo Piano
Here's a prediction about the Art Institute of Chicago's modern and contemporary art wing that opens next May: The third-floor galleries, which overlook Millennium Park, will be hailed by critics and the public as some of the most beautiful rooms in...Tags: Aon Corporation, Structural Failures, Metra, Riccardo Muti, Court Administration
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Brooklyn man, French daredevil climb New York Times building
msweeney@am-ny.comIt was daredevil deja vu. Just fives hours after the French Spiderman scaled the New York Times building on Eighth Avenue Thursday, a man from Brooklyn matched his death-defying feat by climbing to the tower's roof, raising questions about the skyscraper...Tags: Forest Hills, United Nations, New York Times, Climbing, New York City Police Department
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French daredevil scales New York Times building
A French skyscraper climber has been taken into custody after scaling the New York Times building in midtown Manhattan to draw attention to global warming. During his ascent, Alain Robert unfurled a banner about global warming. Construction workers...Tags: New York Times, Global Change, Global Warming, Spider-Man, Manhattan
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BCAM elevator has its ups and downs
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWhen the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's new Broad Contemporary Art Museum opened in February, one of the architectural centerpieces of Renzo Piano's building was the enormous glass-enclosed elevator, containing artist Barbara Kruger’s three-...Tags: Los Angeles, Libraries and Museums, Metal and Mineral
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Stunt climbers use buildings for their own causes
Times Architecture CriticRenzo Piano, the Italian architect who designed the New York Times tower on 8th Avenue at 40th Street in Manhattan, made a point of keeping the building transparent at ground level. His goal, he said before the building opened last summer, was to avoid...Tags: New York Times, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Climbing, Spider-Man, Manhattan
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Is NYC becoming a college town?
dfreedlander@am-ny.comColumbia's brand-new 17-acre campus in Harlem. Six million square feet of additional space for NYU dorms and classrooms, stretching from Washington Square to the outer boroughs. A Fordham "fortress" springing up on the Upper West Side. Colleges and...Tags: Greenwich Village, Government, New York University, New York, Colleges and Universities
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