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Firm Profile - Gary Strang Architect and Landscape Architect
GLS is a landscape architecture firm in San Francisco that designs places of simplicity and spatial clarity, typically with complex site planning issues, a connection to nature and often with an architectural component.
UK design firm Absolute worked with top surf magazine editors to capture an authentic look for the Cribbar pub in Cornwall Issue 17 We talk to Alberto Alessi about his family tradition of creating beautiful and functional objects—made, as always, in Italy German firm Biegert & Funk turn its innovative Qlocktwo into a watch Issue 17 Will the democratization of good design lead to its demise? Issue 17 “Design is a blood sport. It’s hard to do and it dies on the vine every day,” says industrial designer Yves Béhar.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Would Want a Revolution, Not a Memorial
THE Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial was to be dedicated on the National Mall on Sunday — exactly 56 years after the murder of Emmett Till in Mississippi and 48 years after the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. (Because of Hurricane Irene, the ceremony has been postponed.)From Metro to BART, California agencies are actively collaborating with developers. Sam Lubell investigates transit-oriented design. Yes, we admit it: the car is still king in California.
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Sumit Singhal Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Villa L – Paradox of Uniting Diversity in Utrecht, The Netherlands by Powerhouse Company
