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"Meanwhile, in the rolling countryside of Bloomfield Hills, Mr Booth in 1904 bought a run-down farm ... and eventually hired architect Mr Saarinen. Though Mr Saarinen won second prize in a competition that selected the architect for the Chicago Tribune building, he had found it difficult to get regular architectural work." (Sandler L, wsj_98.05.06)
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  "As with some of Mr Wright's buildings, Kingswood's green copper roof 'has leaked from day one,' says Mark Coir, Cranbrook's historian and archivist." (wsj_98.05.06)
- natatorium
  "And Cranbrook isn't done building. ... construction is beginning on a natatorium ... the first phase of a $40 million athletic complex ..." (wsj_98.05.06)
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wedded
"Stuart Brand, author of 'How Buildings Learn,' forecasts a world in which the 'one-stop shop' dominates. Full-service corporations rule. Architectural schools and magazines will become more systems-driven. ...
Brand offers three strategies for an architect wedded to an art-based practice:
1. Quit. ... ...
3. Become hyphenated architects, i.e. architect-developer, architect-preservationist, architect-project manager, architect-interior designer or architect-client." (Curth DR, bfl_98.04.13)
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chintz-and-plaid
"Time to come home, Billy" (Hariri & Hariri in Iovine J, nyt_98.04.09)
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lovely
"... It would have a 'contemplative and sculptural feel ... not with overzealous lappers,' ... Cr Jahn said : 'It's extremely ugly from the outside now' ... the building was 'fairly unlovely' and the recreation area and concrete walls 'very unlovely'. ..." (Susskind A, "$4m new design keeps Domain baths floating" - smh_98.03.27)
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air-frou
"'We are heading toward a simpler, cleaner aesthetic,' says Gary Friedman, president of Pottery Barn ... 'Country rustic,' he says, 'is definitely trending down.' The new look will be 'very clean with not a lot of froufrou,' says Craig Barndt, vice president of design at Workbench Inc, Bayonne NJ." (Marton A, wsj_98.03.20)
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favourite fish
"Harry Wolf is remembered for two things: A dead fish and, 15 years after leaving town, two buildings that, when contemporary architects talk about personal favorites other than their own designs, invariably come to mind.
One of those, the Mecklenburg County Courthouse, inspired the fish story. Wolf wrapped a fish in newsprint and sent it to an editor who criticized his design to let him know what he thought of his newspaper." (Martin E, bjc_98.03.16)
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a little grand
'Maybe this is all a bit of grandstanding ... Maybe that's what we have to do on our part is grandstand a little.' ..." (Matthew Meier, chapter president and an architect with the Buffalo firm of Hamilton Houston Lownie, in Fink J, bfb_98.03.16)
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