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Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation searches for new Executive Director after Cynthia Phifer Kracauer steps down

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Cynthia Phifer Kracauer, the well-respected longtime head of the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (BWAF), has announced she will be retiring from the organization at the end of December after serving as its executive director for more than seven years. Interested candidates can find more details and apply through Archinect Jobs.

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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. The foundation was not formed to secure or protect any building or heritage – we started with an arts and culture agenda," explained Umerova.

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Under Construction: Infraestudio and the new Cuban Architecture

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Image © Mauricio Chavez Infraestudio is an architecture and art practice based in Havana that has been obsessed with fiction since its foundation in 2016. Center for Contemporary Art Línea 508.

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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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A historic home in Cape Cod is teetering on the brink after this weekend’s bomb cyclone

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In Truro, a house was left suspended on stilts over a beach after violent waves from the blizzard’s storm surge essentially washed away its remaining foundation. A 2016 profile of the beach community published by The Seattle Times revealed a rare “managed retreat” organized amongst the locals.

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Needle-felted chair and spiky ceramic egg feature in Loewe Foundation Craft Prize exhibition

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The Loewe Foundation Craft Prize exhibition is on show at the Noguchi Museum The sculptural egg looks almost furry or soft to the touch but is actually covered in hundreds of minuscule ceramic protrusions, rolled into shape between two fingers. For me, it was a touching thing to bring this leaf back to life."

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Construction commences on SOM skyscrapers at former Chicago Spire site

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Construction teams in Chicago have begun work on the foundation for the 72-storey skyscraper designed by SOM. Images show workers filling the giant foundation hole that has been left at the site alongside the Chicago River on Lake Michigan for nearly twenty years.

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