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Is the Academy building a death star at its new museum?
ReutersLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The Academy has tweeted a picture of a model of its upcoming Academy Museum of Motion Pictures - and from the looks of things, they're building a "Star Wars" Death Star adjacent to the former May Company building in the Miracle...Tags: Renzo Piano, Museums, Tom Hanks, Golden Globe Awards, Star Wars (movie)
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Culture clash: New history of Chicago taps into our malaise
Thomas Dyja looked at me with abject horror, then humor, then, as his face crumbled in defeat, resignation. A face that said, "See? This is why I wrote a 412-page cultural history of Chicago at midcentury that — as much as it pulls together...
Tags: Upper West Side, Nelson Algren, Arts, Marshall Field, New York City
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Architecture review: Bush presidential library is fittingly blunt
DALLAS — What do neo-classicism and neo-conservatism have in common? That's the question at the heart of the design by New York's Robert A.M. Stern Architects for the George W. Bush presidential library, set to open to the public May 1 on the...Tags: White House, Museums, Arts, Southern Methodist University, George W. Bush
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John Frane house: Creating a sense of seclusion in urban Venice
Architect John Frane saw plenty of promise in the Venice Beach shoe box, a 1930s bungalow Spanish-ized with interior doorway arches, a tiled parapet and swirled metalwork on the windows and fence. "Ugly duckling is a good way to describe it," Frane said...
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Motion Picture Academy unveils new drawings for film museum
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has unveiled new concept drawings for its film museum — including a giant, domed theater structure — to open in 2017 at the historic May Co. building on the LACMA campus at Fairfax Avenue and...Tags: The Wizard of Oz (movie, 1939), Human Interest, Arts, Entertainment, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Paolo Soleri dies at 93; architect of innovative city Arcosanti
Paolo Soleri, an Italian-born architect who created a visionary prototype for a new kind of ecologically sensitive city in the remote Arizona desert four decades ago, only to watch the suburban sprawl he detested begin to creep near it in recent years,...
Tags: Arts, Philosophy, Italy, Arts and Culture, Washington, DC
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After referendum win in District 113, five years of work on the agenda
The work to earn the community's backing is done, but implementation of a five-year infrastructure and facilities project at Township High School District 113 is just beginning. On Tuesday, 52.4 percent of voters approved the divisive referendum to...
Tags: Technology, Science and Technology, Referenda, Finance, Deerfield
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Decking the patio
Chicago ShoppingFurnishing your patio can mean the difference between a flat, lifeless slab and a welcoming outdoor room fit for memorable get-togethers and intimate moments. Like any other space in your home, your patio is meant to flow with the needs of the residents...Tags: Target, Walmart, Arts and Culture
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School board plans renovation for Warner Elementary
jkleppinger@jessaminejournal.comWarner Elementary School will soon undergo a substantial face lift, the last major school-construction project for Jessamine County in a string that began with a new middle school four and a half years ago. Two architectural firms made presentations...Tags: Science and Technology, Students, Arts and Culture, Environmental Issues, Renovation
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1917 billboard war
FrameworkAfter a 1917 U.S. Supreme Court decision, the Los Angeles Times campaigns against billboards in residential areas.... -
Grand 1912 Plan Helped Shape Hartford
The Hartford CourantHartford's iQuilt plan, which focuses on the arts and cultural institutions around Bushnell Park, is one of many land-use master plans and studies produced for the city. The most prominent of these plans is arguably the 1912 Carrere and Hastings plan....Tags: New York Public Library, Arts and Culture, New Britain, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Farmington (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Jersey Shore plans lifesaving museum at 1885 station
OCEAN CITY, N.J. — Ocean City has taken 15 years to start restoring its nearly 130-year-old lifesaving station, and it looks like it will take a few more before the property becomes a functioning museum, as many hope it will. Still, members of...Tags: Ocean City, Museums, U.S. Coast Guard, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Arts and Culture
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