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Büro Ole Scheeren Unveils a Live-Work-Play Development in Hangzhou, China

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Image © Büro Ole Scheeren Büro Ole Scheeren has revealed their design for an 800,000 sq ft development following the concept of live-work-lay in Hangzhou , China. Urban Glen by Ole Scheeren. Titled Urban Glen, the project situated between West Lake and the Qiantang River comprises two towers connected by a central plinth. Read more »

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BIG Unveils Design for Kosovo’s First Opera House with Undulating Photovoltaic Roof

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Image bloomimages Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) , in collaboration with ALB-Architect, has unveiled the design for the Opera & Ballet Theatre of Kosovo , a new cultural venue set to reshape Prishtina's performing arts landscape.

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UNStudio debuts K.Wah G72 mixed-use development in Nanjing

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UNStudio has just unveiled plans for another new mixed-use development project in the Chinese city of Nanjing. It aims to be a benchmark for newly integrated urban developments in Nanjing, across the country, and beyond.”

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Herzog & de Meuron Set to Revamp Breuer Building for Sotheby’s in New York

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Previously, the Breuer building was home to the Whitney, later accommodating the Frick Collection and serving as a venue for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's modern and contemporary pieces. The project, developed together with PBDW Architects , is slated for completion by the fall of 2025. Read more »

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Art deco Chrysler Airflow was "America's most talked-about car"

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The next art deco icon in our Art Deco Centenary series is the streamlined Chrysler Airflow a revolutionary car that pioneered aerodynamic automobile design. The carmaker had already made itself a major part of the art deco story with its development of the Chrysler Building in New York.

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IM Pei's Museum of Islamic Art was the most significant building of 2008

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Next up in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series is the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha , Qatar, by IM Pei , the first "mega-museum in the Gulf". Such references led the New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ourousoff to describe the museum as a "temple of high art, placing culture on the same pedestal as religion".

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Des Moines Art Center, Mary Miss settle lawsuit over land art demolition

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A settlement has been reached in a dispute over the removal of land artist Mary Miss ’ Greenwood Pond: Double Site at the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa. The Art Center will pay the artist $900,000 for a breach of contract in its plans for its planned demolition of the 29-year-old outdoor sculpture last spring despite a court injunction.

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