Posted by Meredith Kahn on April 14, 2009
More interesting architecture news from the New York Times here:
A dream almost a century old moved another step closer to reality on Tuesday as the Smithsonian Institution chose a team led by David Adjaye, the celebrated Tanzanian-born architect, to design the National Museum of African American History and Culture, scheduled to open on the National Mall in Washington in 2015.
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Posted by Meredith Kahn on April 12, 2009
See the story at the New York Times:
He is not a celebrity architect — not one of the names that show up on short lists for museums and concert hall projects or known outside of architecture circles. He hasn’t designed many buildings; the one he’s best known for is a thermal spa in an Alpine commune. And he has toiled in relative obscurity for the last 30 years in a remote village in the Swiss mountains, out of the limelight and away from the crowd.
But on Monday, the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, was to earn the highest recognition of his profession: the Pritzker Prize.
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Posted by Meredith Kahn on February 24, 2009
Here’s a lovely piece from Allison Arieff’s By Design blog at the New York Times. It’s about that dying breed–the specialty bookstore:
“Shelf Life”
Great quote: “Stout is a collector in the best sense of the word. Though he joked that he began acquiring books when he realized he’d never have a 401k, it is probably more accurate to say that Stout is in complete thrall of the smell of ink, the feel of paper, the intellectual and physical heft of the literary object, the near-indiscernible sound of the turning of pages.”
After reading this, I don’t feel so bad about schlepping endless boxes of books across the country over the past few years.
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Posted by Carter on October 23, 2008
New York Times reports about plans to renovate the New York Public Library:
Some are bound to question whether the library can raise the necessary funds, given the current financial crisis. But library officials said they were determined to press on. “We are committed to this program,” Ms. Marron said. “We recognize the world is different than what it was, and it might take a longer time. We’re not going to be foolhardy.” “Libraries are needed in times like this,” she added. “More people need to borrow books, to get job information — it’s free. So I think everybody strongly believes the library is needed more than ever.”
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Posted by mmacken on February 28, 2008
From Slate.com:
Borrowed Time
How do you build a public library in the age of Google?
By Witold Rybczynski
Posted Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008, at 7:02 AM ET
Click here to read a slide-show essay about the architecture of libraries.
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