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• Take a winter vacation in Chicago — seriously
... convince more visitors to come, promoting everything from nine ice rinks around the city to deals at hotels and museums. And they also want people to know that although tour boats aren't running this time of year, visitors can still take architecture ...
• When building green harms the environment
Concrete is very durable, all natural and technically recyclable," says Eric Corey Freed, the principal of organicARCHITECT, a green architecture firm in San Francisco. "But its chief ingredient is Portland cement, which is heated to 5,000 degrees ...
• Architects design building with waterfall walls
The MIT team's pavilion showcases the potential of "digital water" and will be the first time that this idea has been implemented in architecture. Since recycled water is sometimes cheap and plentiful, water walls could conceivably be created on a ...
• The eyes have it: Bette Davis stars on stamp
Imagination, featuring animated characters. Olympic Games, to coincide with the Games to be held from Aug. 8-24 in Beijing, China. Charles and Ray Eames, who made contributions to architecture, furniture design, manufacturing and photographic arts ...
• Sleep with Picasso and Schnabel at these artsy hotels
In case all you’ve done recently is check in, snooze and check out, know that a global movement originally best represented by high-style boutique hotels is driving art as a component of architecture. Designers are cultivating gallery and dealer ...