The Glasgow School of Art has announced the names of the architects’ practices shortlisted to lead the restoration of the Mackintosh Building. , full_html
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Glasgow School of Art, before the fire. Image © Alan McAteer. Image cortesy via GSA

Five Architects’ Practices To Restore Mackintosh Building

If you don’t enjoy arriving in or departing from New York City through the squalid cavern known as Pennsylvania Station, you can blame — at least for a start — the desperate executives, short on public spirit, who tried to prop up the money-losing…
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The demolition of Penn Station in the early 1960s. In the background, the James A. Farley Post Office, also designed by McKim, Mead & White, is viewed as a successor, though plans have moved slowly. Photography © Norman McGrath

Ode to the Penn Station: A Place That Once Made Travelers Feel Important

The Cuban architect living in Paris, Ricardo Porro, a prolific creator, designer of National Art Schools in Cuba, has died at the age of 89 years, on December 25 in hospital Montsouris Paris, following a heart failure, according Le Monde newspaper…
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Ricardo Porro, en 2007 en La Habana, en la Escuela de Artes Plásticas, que diseñó en 1961. Imagen © "Unfinished Spaces", de Alysa Nahmias y Benjamin Murray

Ricardo Porro, Cuban National Art School Architect

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced a major retrospective of the work of celebrated Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, with an exhibition to be held at the RIBA’s Headquarters in London from February to May 2015…
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Daily Record. Ink and watercolour. The Hunterian. University of Glasgow

Charles Rennie Mackintosh Retrospective at RIBA, from Februay

French electro band KCPK has released its first music video and its first EP "Better Love", on 8th september 2014 / 12" & digital - [PIAS] France. , full_html
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KCPK, ''BetterKCPK, ''Better Love'' video screen shot, photo by Mathieu Cesar. Love'' video screen shot, photo by Mathieu Cesar

KCPK - Better Love

Eero Saarinen’s TWA Flight Center at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) may get a new life after all., full_html
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TWA Terminal Eero Saarinen, 1962; Renovation, Beyer Blinder Belle. Photoraph © Connie Zhou

A new life for TWA Terminal

Visiting Berlin, an essential city in universal and architectural History, among St. Matthäus Church (1846), Kulturforum and Potsdamer Platz, I discovered what I was looking for: the Neue Nationalgalerie (1962-1968) by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (…
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New National Gallery for Modern Art in Berlin, 1968. Photo by Bacardi

The last Mies’ legacy; Neue Nationalgalerie

World Monuments Fund (WMF) announced last Thursday, that the project to restore Alvar Aalto's seminal Viipuri Library in Vyborg, Russia, which took two challenging decades to complete, has been awarded the "2014 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism…
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The Central City Alvar Aalto Library, Vyborg. Image Courtesy of The Finnish Committee for the Restoration of Viipuri Library

Prize to the project to restore Alvar Aalto's Viipuri Library

Almost 600 years ago after it was built, Filippo Brunelleschi’s dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, Italy, remains the largest masonry dome ever built. Leaving no plans or sketches behind, some of the secrets of its construction that…
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Brunelleschi’s Dome. Photograph © Dave Yoder. Courtesy of National Greographic

Il Duomo. How Filippo Brunelleschi Built the World's Biggest Dome

The Alvar Aalto Foundation has begun a collaborative project with Google to make Aalto buildings even more accessible to the public. Using Google’s Street View navigation tool, along with its virtual Cultural Institute, the project offers a look…
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Inside view. Studio Aalto Helsinki, Helsinki (1954–56). Photography © Pepechibiryu

Alvar Aalto Foundation Launches Collaboration with Google