Oscar Niemeyer, the architect who designed many of the buildings in the Brazilian capital, Brasilia, is 100 today and still working.
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Between Earth and Heaven will be the first large-scale museum exhibition devoted to this innovative, yet underappreciated, American architect. The exhibition will run from July 13 to October 12, 2008.
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One of the strongest and most efficient construction designs is the dome. Dome structures like the Pantheon in Rome have survived for centuries, while other buildings around them have crumbled. Modern architecture has avoided the dome, but it is making a comeback thanks in part to production techniques developed here in the United States.
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This year marks the 50th anniversary of Max Miedinger and Edouard Hoffmann's design Helvetica, the most ubiquitous of all typefaces. Considered to be one of the most important typefaces of the 20th century, Helvetica communicates with simple, well-proportioned letterforms that convey an aesthetic clarity that is at once universal, neutral, and modern.
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Carnegie Museum of Art announces the launch of its Hall of Architecture Centennial Initiative, a long-term strategy for both incorporating interpretive materials into the Hall of Architecture and caring for and preserving the cast collection for future generations.
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The Burj Dubai, designed by the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM), is now officially the world's tallest free-standing structure.
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Houston Museum will present designed by architects: metalwork from the Margo Grant Walsh Collection, on view March 15 - August 3, 2008 at the Caroline Wiess Law Building.
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California Museum of Photography presents architecture of resignation by artist Jay Wolke. The exhibition will run from October 13, 2007 to January 06, 2008.
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The Great Indoors - an international, biennial, interior design award and accompanying activities - will be held for the first time from 16 through 18 November 2007 in Maastricht, at Netherlands Architecture Institute.
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The first major survey of the work of the architect Pierre Cuypers will be on show at NAI Rotterdam and Maastricht from September 22 2007 to January 6 2008.
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Beatrice Garvan, former Curator of Decorative Arts at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and a member of the family that owned the camp, will present a slide-illustrated lecture entitled Creative Collaborations: the Architecture and Design of Kamp Kill Kare at the Adirondack Museum at Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y. on August 13, 2007.
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The 115-year old Cal-Stanford Football game has been apart of sports for at least the last 100 years. Now that is all going to change. Due to a radical new stadium design for the Stanford Stadium fans will no longer be able to go and watch the game.
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