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Whitney Goes LO-TEK
Via inhabitat.com
May 2012
This week the Whitney Museum of American Art inaugurated its new gallery and studio space—a shipping container designed by LO-TEK. The six recycled shipping containers will provide an eco-friendly facility for education programs like art-making workshops.
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Peavey Row
Via nytimes.com
May 2012
Once hailed as a landscape architecture gem, Minneapolis’ timeworn Peavey Plaza is the site of conflict between preservationists set on saving M. Paul Friedberg’s work and those backing an Oslund & Associates-designed reimagining of the public space.
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Sneak Peek
Via artic.edu
May 2012
As finishing touches are made for its Roy Lichtenstein show (opening next week), the Art Institute of Chicago offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the exhibition-making process, from placing tiny paintings in replica galleries to uncrating the actual art.
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Remixing Architecture
Via smh.com.au
May 2012
For a month starting May 25, Urbanscreen will have the iconic roof of the Sydney Opera House as its canvas. The German collective considers its 3D projections—in which “dancers try to explore the shape” of the building—architectural “remixing.”
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Hamilton Wood Type
Via designobserver.com
May 2012
Founded in 1880, the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum in Two Rivers, Wisc., is a living museum: it displays its collection of 1.5 million pieces of wood type, while also working with designers like Matthew Carter to create new typefaces.
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Fun & Function
Via ft.com
May 2012
The Barbican’s Bauhaus: Art as Life reframes the sober form-follows-function movement, highlighting the fun in it, writes Jackie Wullschlager, who notes the show’s emphasis on lesser-known works, artistic personalities, and discipline-crossing experiments.
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“No Text Means No Context”
Via wordlessweb.com
May 2012
Ji Lee, whose World Trade Center Preservation Project is part of our Graphic Design: Now in Production show (opening at Cooper-Hewitt May 26), is back with Wordless Web, a browser bookmarklet that strips text from favorite websites.
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Breuer Archive Launches
Via syr.edu
May 2012
Syracuse University just launched the Marcel Breuer archive, a repository for 30,000 digitized drawings, photographs, and letters by the modernist architect, including blueprints and models for his iconic 1961 Abbey Church at Minnesota’s St. John’s University.
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Weiwei’s Week
Via galleristny.com
May 2012
It’s a big week for Ai Weiwei: plans for his Serpentine Gallery pavilion (co-designed with the architects of the new Walker, Herzog & de Meuron) were released, and a Chinese court agreed to hear his appeal on a $2.4 million tax evasion fine.