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Santa Monica Clock Tower building sold to Italian investors
The Clock Tower, a Santa Monica office building beloved by Westside creative firms, has been snapped up by Italian investors who specialize in buying trophy historic properties. Clad in white terra cotta, the 12-story Art Deco-style office high-rise on...
Tags: LivingSocial, Inc., Real Estate Sellers, Arts, Rental Service, Flatiron
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Lake Forest school unveils high-tech classroom
High-tech learning recently got a new home in Deerpath Middle School in Lake Forest, with planners unveiling "The Cube," their nickname for the 21st Century learning space that includes everything from a green room for shooting movies to a "genius bar"...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Merchandise Mart, Arts and Culture, Teachers, Students
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MOCA architecture show, funded by Getty, could face cancellation
Times Architecture CriticThe curator of a major architecture exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art says he is concerned it will be canceled in advance of its planned June 2 opening. “A New Sculpturalism: Contemporary Architecture from Southern California”...Tags: Museums, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Thom Mayne, The Getty, Standards
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Lazarus' legacy of great architecture
Fred Lazarus has made many great contributions to Baltimore, but perhaps one of his lesser known and appreciated ones is raising the bar for high quality architectural design, as represented by the Brown Center and the Gateway student dorm building on the...
Tags: Arts and Culture
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Harlan: Discovering the joy of books
On Tuesday afternoon, after an underwhelming and predictable Costa Mesa City Council study session about the proposed charter, I left the Council Chambers and decided to take a quick stroll to the greenbelt across the street from the Police Station. The...Tags: Arts and Culture, Libraries
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LACMA draws up ambitious plans for a $650-million new look
At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, an acclaimed Swiss architect is hoping to pull off what an acclaimed Dutch one could not. Next month LACMA will publicly unveil a $650-million plan by Pritzker Prize winner Peter Zumthor for a dramatic new museum...
Tags: Museums, SCI-Arc, Rem Koolhaas, Fine Artists, Peter Zumthor
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S.B. architectural tours start Friday
South Bend Tribune ReportSOUTH BEND -- Popular downtown South Bend architectural walking tours will return, starting this Friday. The tour will be offered nine times between now and early September. "Then & Now: A Downtown South Bend Architecture Walking Tour" provides a...Tags: Travel, Arts and Culture, Tourism and Leisure
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div.article div.byline p.date {display:none;} Susan Hahn Susan Hahn was editor of TriQuarterly for 14 years. She is author of a recent novel, “The Six Granddaughters of Cecil Slaughter”; nine books of poetry, including “Self/Pity&...Tags: England, Journalism, Teachers, GQ, University of New Haven
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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: Oprah Winfrey, David Letterman, Northwestern University, Racism, Lake Forest College
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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: Museums, Arts and Culture, White House, Southern Methodist University, George W. Bush Presidential Center
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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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Tony Unruh to discuss Gregory Ain restoration in Silver Lake
When Kathleen Nolen approached architect Tony Unruh about restoring her 1941 Silver Lake home by Midcentury great Gregory Ain, Unruh said he viewed the project as “bringing this masterpiece into the 21st century.” For Ain, who grew up in...
Tags: Arts and Culture
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