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Corbusier's vertical hold on history (Guardian Unlimited)
The gloomy crypt is all that was finished of Edward Lutyens' Catholic cathedral in Liverpool. Now, with dissonant irony, it houses a major exhibition of Le Corbusier. Why irony? Generally, because Lutyens was historicist and Corb was anti-sentiment, at least of the historic sort.
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Blackfriars skyscraper inquiry closes: "sarcophagus" or "sculptural elegance"? (London SE1)
The public inquiry into two proposed skyscraper developments near Blackfriars Bridge has heard closing submissions from the schemes' supporters and objectors.
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Mentorship grew into partnership (Asbury Park Press)
What started out with one person mentoring the other soon blossomed into a beautiful partnership.
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Niemeyer & the Sweep of History (Washington Post)
At almost 101 years of age, the great Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer's eyesight is pretty much limited to peripheral vision, but he's still working. There are cultural centers in Spain and Chile to be finished, and a corporate headquarters in Paraguay. And he is still busy in his native Brazi...
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Books about new architecture and design that stretch the imagination (The Christian Science Monitor)
Spinning structures, China's dizzying new urban designs, mind-bending high-tech, and not-so-big apartments.
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Gary Bradski's Top Tips for Getting the Most Out of OpenCV--3 of 10 (O'Reilly Media)
Dr. Gary Rost Bradski and Adrian Kaehler, the creators of OpenCV, have put their knowledge into a new book for O'Reilly. With Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library developers and hobbyists can learn how to build simple or sophisticated vision applications. Over the next few days Gary--a consulting professor at Stanford, senior scientist at Willow Garage, a robotics institute ...
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Now Entering the City of Ember (Part 1) (Coming Soon)
With a string of successful adaptations under their belt, especially the "Narnia" series, Walden Media has been at the forefront of the current fantasy revival. And when they left Disney to join the Murdoch family as the freshly-minted FoxWalden, they needed some new titles to bring to the big screen. Luckily for them, Tom Hanks and Play•Tone had just picked up the rights to one of the latest, ...
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Kenya: Demolishing Mental Slavery (AllAfrica.com)
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Venice goes retro (Mail and Guardian)
When architects are asked to imagine futuristic buildings, they tend to come up with colourful sci-fi blobs, big swirling objects and intense videos set to monotonous electronic music.
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New Paris Building Casts No Shadows, Generates Electricity [Architecture] (Gizmodo)
Le Project Triangle is one of those buildings that make us think that we may actually drive flying cars one day. To be completed by 2014 in the Porte de Versailles area in Paris, its most impressive...
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