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Moving Wright
via NYtimes.com
Sep 2012
“It’s what guarantees the deepest impact, the highest level of conservation and access in perpetuity”: Frank Lloyd Wright’s immense archive is permanently moving from Taliesin sites in Wisconsin and Arizona to the MoMA and Columbia in New York.
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Islamic Journey
Via latimes.com
Sep 2012
The Louvre’s new Islamic art wing—an undulating, butterfly-like glass structure—is set to open this month. Through a newly expanded and restored collection aimed at educating patrons “the space allows one to plunge into another experience as if on a journey.”
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Space Savers
Via architizer.com
Sep 2012
Latvia-based firm Rolands Landsbergs is trying to maximize space with a minimalist design. Their Boxetti Collection is comprised of five wooden housing modules that condense entire rooms into one, compact box—including sound systems, bedrooms, and kitchens.
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Fun With Form
Via architizer.com
Aug 2012
Chicago’s Architecture Is Fun recently completed “baby’s first art museum” in Davie, Florida. The Young at Art Children’s Museum hopes to transform the arts for kids through imaginative design—one example, an 8-bit mosaic of René Magritte’s The Son of Man.
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Wright for Romney?
Via latimes.com
Aug 2012
The staging at the Republican National Convention takes its cues from Frank Lloyd Wright’s residential designs, but given the architect’s link to Ayn Rand, Christopher Hawthorne wonders if that’s a risky choice.
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Razing Wright
Via archpaper.com
Aug 2012
Developers in Phoenix, Arizona are hoping to demolition a Frank Lloyd Wright House and build two luxury mansions in its place. Conservationists are circulating a petition in hopes of stopping construction and getting the building named a historic landmark.
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Frankbook
Via bloomberg.com
Aug 2012
Frank Gehry has been tapped to create Facebook West in San Francisco. The large, collaborative space will have 26-ft. ceilings and skylights to achieve Gehry’s goal of “ephemeral connectivity” and satisfy Zuckerberg’s desire to share space with his engineers.
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Sitting Soundly
Via architizer.com
Aug 2012
RISD student Erica Sellers has made a set of “sound furniture” by transforming digital readings of soundwaves into a table and chair. To do so, Sellers made a 2D image of Grimes’ “Symphonia IX,” made it 3D, and then processed the furniture with a CNC machine.
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Studio Music
Via studiomusic.fm
Aug 2012
Design director Emmet Byrne provides the newest playlist for Studio Music, with picks ranging from the “greatest cheating song ever written” to a Black Dice brain-tickler to Os Mutantes’ “Bat Macumba” (its lyrics “look like bat wings when they’re left justified”).