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POSTCARD FROM LISLE, ILLINOIS Dear ArchitectureWeek, Sure, education should be fun, and fun should be educational, but what does it take to create a playground that helps kids see it that way? The answer may be found at the new Children's Garden at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois. Landscape architects from the Hitchcock Design Group collaborated with engineers and educators in designing a park that teaches kids about nature in a four-acre (1.6-hectare), interactive learning environment.
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MERCEDES-BENZ BUILDING With the bulging prow of its aluminum and glass skeleton looming beside the fast lanes of Highway B14 in Stuttgart, Germany, the new Mercedes-Benz Museum lives up to the German automaker's refined engineering image. On entering the structure designed by the Dutch firm UN Studio, visitors ascend eight stories to the top, then wind down twin ramps through a collection of 160 vehicles displayed over 178,000 square feet (16,500 square meters) of exhibition space.
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NOUVEL'S TORRE AGBAR The Torre Agbar, a new tall building from Ateliers Jean Nouvel, in collaboration with b720 Arquitectura, Garcia-Ventosa Arquitectura, and Leopoldo Rodes Arquitecto, thrusts into Barcelona's skyline from the Placa de las Glories, a gritty district that Barcelona's planners have designated "the next big thing," a new center of commercial activity.
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FACULTY OF MUSIC "Everything happens as if there were one-to-one oscillations between symmetry, order, rationality, and asymmetry, disorder, irrationality in the reactions between the epochs of civilizations. My own musical research on sounds with continuous variation in relation to time [...] led me to lean towards geometric structures based on straight lines: ruled surfaces" Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer and architect (1922 - 2001)
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More Architecture and Design NY Architect Puts NOLA Residents at Ease — eOculus, 2006.0906Flights of Fancy — Guardian Unlimited, 2006.0905 In Cities across the United States, It’s Raining Concert Halls — New York Times, 2006.0903 Blending with the Landscape — Malasian Star, 2006.0903 Architecture: One Steppe Beyond — U.K. Times, 2006.0903 Man about the House — The Telegraph, 2006.0902 Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany — Frieze, 2006.0902 New Lab Features Space Probe — WorldNow/WTKR, 2006.0830 Sanath Shetty’s Pyramid House a Beauty in Simplicity — Daiji World, 2006.0829 Competition Hots Up for the UK's Most Prestigious Award — World Architecture News, 2006.0828 Glass Pavilion's Beauty is Transparent to Visitors on Opening Day — Toledo Blade, 2006.0828 A Crystal Showcase Reflects a City’s Glass Legacy — New York Times, 2006.0828 Building Boon — The Age, 2006.0825 East Coast Retreat Steels Glory — Examiner, 2006.0824 Concrete Does Justice to New Brisbane Magistrates Court — Infolink, 2006.0823 A Simple Beauty as Clear as Glass — Los Angeles Times, 2006.0823 New Portsmouth Library Evokes Shades of Coleman's — PilotOnline, 2006.0823 Peek of Success — Sydney Morning Herald, 2006.0821 Architect Takes Lead in Designing Collaborative Biotech Project — San Diego Business Journal, 2006.0821 His 'n' Hers Lake House: Sharp at the Edges, Veiled in Pines — New York Times, 2006.0817 Valletta Waterfront to Host Architecture Nights — Di-Ve, 2006.0817 Architect Institute Announces 2006 Design Awards — San Diego Business Journal, 2006.0814 Our Man in Shanghai: Ben Wood Takes On History — New York Times, 2006.0813 Saviour of the World Chinese Catholic Church — AIArchitect, 2006.0811 Dynamism Tamed by Cost-Cutters — New York Times, 2006.0810
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