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Economist, 18.12.08 18:03 UTC

Barilla's cookery library - Food for thought

A pasta-maker gets a taste for books

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Times Online World News, 12.12.08 22:03 UTC

Read all about it! US newspapers fall prey to the internet and recession

The American journalist was once a notoriously hard-boiled character with sharp elbows and a press pass tucked into the band of his fedora. In the era of the classic film The Front Page, set in the ...

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 04.12.08 05:33 UTC

Fort Worth's Kimbell museum doubling exhibit space with project

FORT WORTH, Texas -- The Kimbell Art Museum will double its exhibit space in a $70 million, two-year expansion project, officials announced. Renowned architect Renzo Piano unveiled his preliminary ...

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 13.11.08 05:31 UTC

A new crop of boutique hotels opens their doors in Atlanta, bringing cool designs and hot lounges

ATLANTA -- Midday has quietly slipped into the cocktail hour and the new boutique hotels in the city's center are buzzing. A crowd of suited dealmakers mingles in the vast, muted lobby of Twelve ...

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guardian.co.uk, 03.11.08 01:00 UTC

Jonathan Glancey on Renzo Piano's Academy of Sciences

. Renzo Piano's Academy of Sciences. Photograph: Shunji Ishida How invisible should a major public building be? How invisible can a major public building be? These thoughts must have crossed Renzo ...

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San Francisco Chronicle, 05.10.08 16:03 UTC

4 new buildings that enrich San Francisco

With last month's opening of the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco's crash course in 21st century architecture is now complete. The academy is the final member of a quartet of provocative ...

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San Francisco Chronicle, 28.09.08 16:32 UTC

Mile-long line for Academy of Sciences opening

The California Academy of Sciences finally opened its revolutionary, eco-friendly, glass-enclosed iconic building in Golden Gate Park on Saturday, and welcomed an enthusiastic invasion by tens of ...

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BBC Technology, 25.09.08 11:03 UTC

Future of history

Claude the albino alligator relaxes in a swamp complete with a heated rock while all around him workmen battle against the clock to put the finishing touches to the largest public green building in the world.

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San Francisco Chronicle, 21.09.08 19:32 UTC

Openness a virtue at new Academy of Sciences

When the California Academy of Sciences opens the doors of its new home Saturday on the Music Concourse at Golden Gate Park, visitors are sure to linger over such exotica as the albino alligator in ...

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San Francisco Chronicle, 21.09.08 16:35 UTC

Rebuilding Academy of Sciences no walk in park

It started with a bad idea. In a talk at a January 1997 Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Mayor Willie Brown proposed that the California Academy of Sciences and neighboring M.H. de Young Memorial Museum ...