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Stuart Graff steps down as Frank Lloyd Wright foundation CEO

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American architecture organisation The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation has announced its president and CEO Stuart Graff will step down after eight years of acting as the head executive. Graff, trained as an intellectual property lawyer, has held the position since 2016.

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Preserving Tashkent's modernist architecture an act of "cultural diplomacy" says cultural foundation's head

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Conserving Tashkent's modernist architecture is a way of boosting the city's international profile, Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation chair Gayane Umerova tells Dezeen in this interview.

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Construction commences on SOM skyscrapers at former Chicago Spire site

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American developer Related Midwest has resumed construction on the 400 Lake Shore skyscraper in Chicago on a site that has experienced more than a decade's worth of revisions and delays. Construction teams in Chicago have begun work on the foundation for the 72-storey skyscraper designed by SOM. Images courtesy of Related Midwest.

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"Architecture without architects" can teach valuable lessons says Norman Foster

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Designed as part of the Norman Foster Foundation with building materials company Holcim , the project is aimed at improving the living conditions of people displaced by natural and manmade disasters. The foundation is able to do what a practice by virtue of its commercial reality can't," he said. "In

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The Sponge Evangelist

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Photo © Turenscape, courtesy the Cultural Landscape Foundation. In awarding the second biennial Oberlander Prize to the Chinese landscape architect Kongjian Yu, FASLA, the Cultural Landscape Foundation and its 2023 jury sent an unmistakable signal about the future of the field. His village had been destroyed, paved over with concrete.

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Architectural landmarks star in "utopian" poster for Paris 2024 Olympics

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It is based on the golden ratio and has a strong academic foundation with a lot of architecture. Thirteen designs were produced for Rio 2016 , while artists including Tracey Emin, Martin Creed and Rachel Whiteread created posters for the London 2012 Games. For me, this design has to be timeless," he said. "It

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Stephen Lawrence Prize 2023 News

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Now in its 25 th year, the annual Stephen Lawrence Prize was founded by the Marco Goldschmied Foundation and Baroness Doreen Lawrence in 1998, in memory of Stephen Lawrence, an aspiring architect who was tragically murdered in a racist attack in 1993. Matthew Goldschmied , Managing Trustee at the Marco Goldschmied Foundation,?said: