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John Hejduk considered the Wall House 2, an architectural meditation on
the passage of time, to be his most important work. Originally designed
in the early 1970s for a rural site in Connecticut, it now rises on a lakefront
in Groningen, the Netherlands.
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Farewell to the High-rise
From the 16th floor of 4525 South Federal Street, in what remains of
Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes, we can hear an ice-cream truck playing a
familiar tune. We can't see the truck or the street below--instead our view
opens across an empty field of grass bordered at its far edge by three
London plane trees.
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The Big Green Apple
At first glance, it was a toss-up which seemed less likely: that New
York City would become a national leader in environmentally sustainable
building, or that Mayor Rudolph Giuliani would champion the process. Nonetheless,
in June 1999 New York became the largest American city to publish comprehensive
green building guidelines for its public buildings and projects.
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Canned Heat
The beverage can hasn't had a real makeover since the advent of the stay
tab. (Remember the last summer you sliced your foot on a pull tab, probably
around 1979?) Two designs from Crown Cork & Seal (CCS)--one self-heating,
the other self-cooling--will change that.
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Learning from Steve Izenour
When I last spoke to architect Steve Izenour in 1999, it was inconceivable
that this robust figure--whose middle name was fun--would meet an untimely
death. Yet last August, while bicycling in Vermont, Izenour died of a heart
attack. He was only 61. He left behind his wife, three grown children, and
an adolescent resort town--Wildwood, New Jersey, which boasts more than
250 freeze-dried hotels from the 1950s and '60s.
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