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Allied Works selected to design new art museum for Middlebury College

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Allied Works has shared details of a new college art museum project on the campus of Middlebury College in Vermont. Middlebury reports this is an estimated $50 million construction that will be completed in 2028. Its announcement follows two similar projects for Dartmouth and Williams College.

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New Penn Station proposal calls for classical rebirth, MSG move for $7.5B

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Conservative commentator Justin Shubow’s National Civic Art Society group is behind a new proposal that would radically alter the Penn Station area to move Madison Square Garden and deliver a new public plaza and open-air train hall in its place. As Gothamist reported, the estimated cost quoted by the architect was $7.5

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The Architecture of Restraint

SW Oregon Architect

Restraint, be damned: SoFi Stadium, which cost an estimated $6 billion to construct (photo by Troutfarm27 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, [link] The seductiveness of "more, more, more" is easy to understand. Through design, we shape not only physical spaces but also the ideals we wish to upholda profound responsibility for any architect.

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LA ART releases draft environmental report for proposed Dodger Stadium gondola

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According to the environmental study, maximum capacity on the gondola system would be 5,000 passengers per hour, with an estimated end-to-end trip of seven minutes. Admission to the system is intended to be free with a ticket to a Dodger game, and rides would otherwise be set at the same price as a Metro fare.

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Populous advances new downtown ballpark district proposal in Kansas City

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The proposal calls for an experience-laden "Arts District" to be enacted alongside the new ballpark, with a new hotel, shops, a residential component, and shopping also included. Cost estimates for the project are between $1–2 billion. Slotted into a 17.5-acre

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andy warhol’s iconic marilyn monroe painting estimated to fetch $200 million at auction

designboom

it could become the most expensive work of art ever sold at an auction. The post andy warhol’s iconic marilyn monroe painting estimated to fetch $200 million at auction appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Norman Foster’s Francis Bacon triptych is expected to fetch $47.3 to $74.3 million

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Bacon’s Triptych 1986–7, which is scheduled to be sold with an estimate of £35 million to £55 million ($47.3 million) on March 1 in the first of a series of high-stakes 20th- and 21st-century art auctions, is being sold by star architect Norman Foster, according to people familiar with the work. million to $74.3