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Gey your first look at Orlando's new performing-arts center
SENTINEL STAFF WRITERA great steel roof, resembling the outstretched wings of a bird in flight, will draw visitors into the new Dr. P. Phillips Orlando Performing Arts Center, scheduled to open in 2012 across Orange Avenue from Orlando City Hall. The center's design team...Tags: Campaign Finance, Culture, Dance, Buddy Dyer, Music Theater
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Living in hope, waiting to heal
Sun reporterRaymundo Martinez just wanted a new watch. His plan was to pick one out at Wal-Mart, then ride his bike home to change for a gathering with other summer exchange students. He got the watch, but never made it to the party. Martinez, an architecture...Tags: Private Health Care, Injuries, Vehicles, Government Health Care, Health Treatments
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Who calls the shots in your backyard? Not you.
Chicago Tribune reportersCity politicians call Chicago a national model for how to involve the public in real estate development debates. But the view from the streets of the city's neighborhoods is markedly different. When a longtime homeowner tried to speak up at the only City...Tags: Business Enterprises, Political Candidates, House Building, Legal Services, Bernard Stone
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New arts center likely to draw from inspirations in our midst
Sentinel Staff WriterArchitect Barton Myers' design for Orlando's new performing-arts center, to be revealed to the public Friday, is a mystery. But clues can be had, both in the choices Myers has made elsewhere during his long career and the cues he takes from the...Tags: Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, Culture, Buddy Dyer, Michael Graves
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Charity Hospital Renovation Feasible
The Associated PressRenovating the flooded public hospital in New Orleans would be cheaper and faster than building a new hospital, a team of architects said Wednesday after studying the shuttered Charity Hospital facility. The hospital, known as Big Charity, has been...Tags: Renovation, Government, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Disasters, Veterans Affairs
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PASSINGS
Pervis Jackson Bass singer for The Spinners Pervis Jackson, 70, the man behind the deep, rolling bass voice in a string of 1970s R&B hits by The Spinners, died Monday morning at Detroit Sinai-Grace Hospital after being diagnosed last week with brain...Tags: Castaic, Cancer, Van Nuys, San Fernando, Rotary International
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Housing competition like a 'Project Driveway'
This summer's rather blah season of "Project Runway" isn't exactly ringing my chimes; perhaps, like me, you're looking for an alternative. Then again, maybe your idea of a good competitive-reality show is ABC's addictive and silly obstacle-course show...Tags: Hurricanes, Housing and Urban Planning, Meteorological Disasters, Interior Policy, Sundance Channel
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Another Opening Day
Sun architecture criticThe new Hilton Baltimore Convention Center Hotel has been described as the city's first true "convention hotel," in part because it's the first one connected by enclosed sky bridges to Baltimore's 29-year-old convention center. But that's not the only...Tags: Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Hotels and Accommodations, Tourism and Leisure
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Green seal of approval
Special to the SunEnergyStar has been a welcome guest in homes since the labeling for energy-efficient appliances was approved by the government in 1992. Another label that might soon become commonplace in residences is LEED. For years, architects and environmental...Tags: Energy Saving, Academic Progress, Air Pollution, Nancy Taylor, Weather Reports
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Splendor restored
Sun ReporterWorkers removed scaffolding from the old American Brewery's towers, revealing a 19th century exuberance of restored copper, slate, brick and brownstone. Emerging from a $21.2 million restoration, the East Baltimore landmark is ending 35 years of...Tags: Renovation, Distilling and Brewing Industry, Government, Building Material, Monuments and Heritage Sites
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A house where history lives
Special to The SunSince the days when Junius Brutus Booth had Tudor Hall built in 1847, people have journeyed to the property for a glimpse into the lives of its famous first owners and their dream digs. Some people want to know about the Booths, the first family of...Tags: Government, National Government, Local Authority, Abraham Lincoln, Murder
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Landmark in all but name
It's certainly not to everyone's taste, but there's no doubt the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre at Baltimore and Charles streets qualifies as a genuine architectural landmark. Built in 1967 in a Brutalist style, it's neither sleek nor inviting by today's...Tags: Morris A. Mechanic Theatre
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