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Closest thing to walking on water
Take a stroll for a rare opportunity to get up close to historic and modern mansions Traversing the famous Geneva Lake Shore Path, never straying more than 20 feet from the water's edge is about as close as you'll ever get to walking on water. Any...
Tags: Lakes and Ponds, State Parks, Landforms, Robin Williams, Glaciers
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Harris: Digital push builds to rectify 1991 Pritzker Prize omission
Denise Scott Brown has worked side by side with her husband, architect Robert Venturi, since the early 1960s, joining his firm and marrying him in 1967 and becoming the firm's principal in charge of planning in 1969. In 1991, Venturi won their...
Tags: Ryue Nishizawa, Kazuyo Sejima, Art Institute of Chicago, Academy Awards, Rem Koolhaas
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Los Angeles calls upon star French designers for 'Figaro' opera
ReutersLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Count Almaviva, muscles bulging and resplendent in white, struts like a peacock across the stage belting his baritone at his countess, who sits in a flowing red gown against a sparse backdrop of sleek, modernist lines. It is...Tags: Family, Human Rights, Marriage, Zaha Hadid, Jean Nouvel
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Museums
Boeing Galleries Millennium Park, 201 E. Randolph St.; 312-742-1168, millenniumpark.org The alfresco galleries flanking Cloud Gate ("The Bean") showcase modern and contemporary art, offering visitors a historical, social and cultural context of modern...Tags: Fine Artists, Artists, Cloud Gate, Daniel Burnham, Millennium Park
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Florida Travel Tips & Deals
Special CorrespondentCheck this list often as new tips, events and deals around Florida come in: Culinary features on Anna Maria Island Mainsail Beach Inn on Florida’s Anna Maria Island has partnered with the Beach Bistro to offer a number of culinary luxuries to...Tags: NASA, SeaWorld, Marlins Park, Canoeing and Kayaking, Shipbuilding
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Yale Gets Egyptomania
Echoes of Egypt: Conjuring the Land of the Pharoahs Ends Jan. 4, 2014, Peabody Museum of Natural History, 170 Whitney Ave., New Haven, (203) 432-5050, peabody.yale.edu. Colleen Manassa, curator of Echoes of Egypt, gives a tour of the exhibition on...
Tags: Egypt, Grateful Dead (music group), New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Museums, Peabody Museum of Natural History
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Zoning board vote soon on Gage House
John O'Brien is a patient man. For months, O'Brien and his architect have met with Winnetka preservationists and others in the north suburb who want to see at least part of the historic lakefront Gage House spared from the wrecking ball. O'Brien bought...Tags: Housing and Urban Planning, Interior Policy, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Tornado touches off new interest in safe rooms, architect says
St. Louis Post-DispatchST. LOUIS Brad Erwin was in junior high that day in August 1990, when a tornado destroyed much of his hometown of Plainfield. Ill., including two schools. Twenty-nine people died during the storm. Erwin believes the death toll could have been much higher...Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Financial Aid, FEMA, Natural Disasters, Health and Safety at School
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Wilmette Golf Club to close for major renovations
The Wilmette Park District will close its public golf course on July 29 for a $2 million renovation that officials say will reduce flood problems and provide new challenges for golfers. It will be the largest renovation ever for the Wilmette Golf Club,...
Tags: Renovation, Chicago Tribune, Golf
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A last look: St. Petersburg's Pier
Orlando SentinelSigns reading "Stop the Lens" appear as you near St. Petersburg Pier, the iconic landmark built in the 1970s. The Lens is the proposed award-winning design by architect Michael Maltzan that will replace The Pier, as the locals call it. The city has...Tags: Tour Operations Industry, Saint Petersberg (Russia)
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Deadline today for CTA bus shelter contest
RedEyeToday is the deadline to submit ideas for the Chicago Architecture Foundation's contest to design bus shelters for express bus service that's coming to Ashland Avenue and the Loop. The "Next Stop" contest was created to encourage conversation about...Tags: Public Transportation, Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago Loop
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Sliding door basics: Switching to glide
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A sliding door - say, a door of planks hanging from exposed hardware - transforms a room. It's so eye-catching, so unexpected, that it invites closer looks. It brings smiles. There are also practical reasons for choosing sliding doors....Tags: IKEA, Charlotte
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