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Universal Studios Singapore

  Universal Studios Singapore is a theme park located within Resorts World Sentosa on Sentosa Island, Singapore. It was a key component of Genting's bid for the right to build Singapore's second integrated resort. On 8 December 2006, the Singapore government announced that the consortium had won the bid, and the construction of the theme park and the rest of the resort started on 19 April 2007. It is the second Universal Studios Theme Parks to open in Asia, and the first in Southeast Read more [...]

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Populous

Populous, formerly known as HOK Sport, is an architectural firm specializing in the design of sports facilities and convention centers, as well as planning of major special events. The firm enjoys a dominant role in the design of sporting stadia and arenas, including such globally prominent facilities as the new Yankee Stadium, Wembley Stadium in London, ANZ Stadium in Sydney, Wimbledon Centre Court, San Francisco's AT&T Park, Chicago's United Center arena, Cleveland Browns Stadium, Read more [...]

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Gordon Bunshaft

Gordon Bunshaft (May 9, 1909 – August 6, 1990) was a 20th century architect educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Born in Buffalo, New York where he attended Lafayette High School, an architecturally significant building, Bunshaft was a modernist whose early influences included Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. His best-known design is the Lever House, built as a corporate headquarters for the soap company Lever Brothers. His design for the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Branch Read more [...]

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Home Delivery Walkthrough: Digitally Fabricated Housing for New Orleans

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82_6cH6JXHU] Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling is both a survey of the past, present and future of the prefabricated home and a building project on the Museum's vacant west lot. Not since the mid-century House in the Garden series has MoMA built occupiable model buildings to demonstrate contemporary issues to the public. The fives homes erected on the vacant west lot are designed by Kieran Timberlake Associates (Philadelphia); Jeremy Read more [...]

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Fabricating the Modern Dwelling, now on view at MoMA

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DApR17dyh50] Fabricating the Modern Dwelling is both a survey of the past, present and future of the prefabricated home and a building project on the Museum's vacant west lot. Not since the mid-century House in the Garden series has MoMA built occupiable model buildings to demonstrate contemporary issues to the public. The fives homes erected on the vacant west lot are designed by Kieran Timberlake Associates (Philadelphia); Jeremy Edmiston and Douglas Gauthier Read more [...]

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OMA has designs on the Big Apple

Rem Koolhaas today unveiled plans for OMA’s first residential high-rise in New York City. The 107m-tall building, on 23 East 22nd Street in the Flatiron District just off Madison Square, will include 18 residences within 24 residential floors, along with a screening room for the Creative Artists Agency (CAA), a main lobby, pool and gym, all of which have been designed by OMA. “Mirroring the traditional New York setback, the building’s form is at once familiar and distinctive,” Read more [...]

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