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...Though I have long been in charge of the construction crew, Charlie should forever be credited with being the architect.”...
...The Danish landscape architect Carl Theodor Sørensen promoted the radical idea that children were happiest playing in “junk playgrounds” – unsupervised empty lots kitted out with construction materials –...
...A painter, draughtsman, architect, archaeologist, and poet, Raphael captured in his art the human and the divine, love and friendship, learning and power....
...It begins with a commission for this month’s London Design Biennale, the Pavilion of the African Diaspora, a temporary “folly” created in collaboration with architect Zena Howard from Perkins+Will....
...“We’ve been working nonstop as have the architects and contractors in the area who are benefiting from people doing renovations.”...
...There are landscapes, and landscapes – and then there are the inimitable encounters between earth, sea and sky in Baja California Sur, the state at the tip of the 1,200km-long peninsula that separates the...
...Founded after the first world war by architect Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus school sought to bridge the gap between art and industry, requiring students to learn a range of practical skills and spurning the...
...That’s really dangerous because it means continuing to build more and more landscapes that are not resilient, that can’t deal with future shocks that may cause shifts in the economics of driving....
...Jobs’ widow, Laurene Powell Jobs, said that “Steve was exhilarated, and inspired, by the California landscape, by its light and its expansiveness. It was his favourite setting for thought....
...His biggest legacy was as chief architect for the computers that bestrode the tech landscape from the mid-1960s: the System/360 family of mainframes, which cemented the dominance of Big Blue, as IBM is known...
...One of the architects of the new strategy was 37-year-old Shinji Odashima, who studied how other mature conglomerates such as Procter & Gamble and General Electric managed to keep growing....
...The young milords not only brought back art and objets from their travels, but took inspiration to create Italianate country houses and landscapes....
...As well as food stalls and small retailers, Pop will include a radio station, a bike repair shop and a greenhouse....
...But the new $65m building, designed by New York-based Thomas Phifer (and funded by Corning Inc) is something else again....
...David Cohen, the architect of Comcast’s regulatory strategy, has hosted several fundraisers for the president at his home....
...Landscape architect Martha Schwartz’s “neon red carpet” offers a new kind of Irish welcome. It announces to visitors they have arrived somewhere bold and modern: Dublin’s “Silicon Docks”....
...If the deal goes ahead, it will create the world’s biggest provider of broadband and cable television services, reshaping the media landscape in the process....
...When every home and every commercial interior is impeccably designed and filled with beautiful design objects, the aesthetic landscape can become almost anodyne....
...Facebook was keen to make the design as unobtrusive as possible – and Mr Gehry has responded by wrapping the landscape around it....
...This is the definitive book on the great architect of modernism, Mr Minimal himself, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe....
...One of the architects who oversaw the creation of Omnicom in 1986, Mr Wren took over as chief executive of the group in 1997....
...In addition, the architects of infrastructure projects now approach leverage more cautiously than they did before the financial crisis....
...It is, essentially, just a big shed set in the suburban landscape, around San Francisco’s Bay Area....
...“The danger with aluminium,” said architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1956, “is that you can do with it what you like, that it has no real limitations.”...
...The text is concise and the photographs, some taken by American landscape architect Martha Swartz, instructive....
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