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Architect John Kelsey dies at 86; designer of Pasadena museum
While designing what is now the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena in the late 1960s, architects John Kelsey and Thornton Ladd expressed a belief: Space that houses art "can be part of the event and experience." When it opened in 1969 as the Pasadena Art...
Tags: Arts, Amusement and Theme Parks, Museums, Colleges and Universities, Anheuser-Busch
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Pressed to find classic duck dish
Q: Many years ago I was dining in a restaurant in Chicago's Chinatown. I ordered pressed duck. It was served in a deep fried form about 6 inches in length, 4 inches wide and about an inch or so thick. The vegetables were pressed together with the duck and...
Tags: Michigan Avenue, Ginger, Lifestyle and Leisure, Onions, Chinese Restaurants
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Brad Pitt's New Orleans project unveils Frank Gehry house
Brad Pitt enlisted architect Frank Gehry as one of the designers for his Make It Right Foundation, an initiative to build new homes in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward following the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. This weekend, the...
Tags: Architecture, Hurricane Katrina (2005), Arts and Culture, Brad Pitt
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Whole Foods to open in Columbia
The longtime headquarters of the Rouse Co. will become home to the first Howard County branch of Whole Foods Market under a $20 million plan to renovate one of the community's most prominent landmarks and draw new residents downtown.
The Howard Hughes...Tags: Wegmans Food Markets, Inc., Howard Hughes, Financially Distressed Companies, General Growth Properties, Inc., Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Time can be an ally for preservationists
Time is the enemy of old buildings, breaking them down just as it breaks people down. But time can save them as well as provide the attractive patina of age. Time — or, more accurately, the passage of time — can upend the economic assumptions...
Tags: Joint Ventures, Chicago Hotels, Michigan Avenue, Elections, Hospitals and Clinics
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Columbia reborn
The Columbia of my childhood, then known as "The Next America," was a place of innovation and excitement. It was known across the country as the herald for the next generation of great American communities. My parents and many others moved here in...
Tags: James Rouse, Howard Hughes, New York City, Whole Foods Market
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Whole Foods Market seen as stimulus for more development in Columbia
Developer James W. Rousewas a pioneer at recycling other people's buildings for new uses, including Faneuil Hall in Boston and parts of the South Street Seaport historic district in Manhattan. Now one of the most prominent buildings he constructed from...
Tags: Architecture, Howard Hughes, Financially Distressed Companies, General Growth Properties, Inc., Whole Foods Market
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Southern California Close-Ups: Long Beach, San Pedro and Catalina Island
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFirst published on July 3, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. The harbor area of southwest Los Angeles County is the closest thing we have to a blue-collar coast. It’s where cruise ships call, where ton upon ton of maritime machinery hums...Tags: Amusement and Theme Parks, Highway Transportation, Natalie Wood, Golf, Casino and Gambling
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3 top-notch hotels that let Barcelona really show off
The 1992 Olympics transformed this into a world-class city with a bold mix of ancient and contemporary art, architecture and gastronomy. Throw in nine UNESCO World Heritage sites and eight sandy beaches on its Mediterranean coast, and it's not...Tags: Architecture, Spain, Europe, UNESCO, Barcelona (Spain)
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Miami's cultural transformation
It's Saturday night, and though a drizzle threatens, the lawn is jammed with children snoozing in strollers, couples sprawling on picnic blankets, teens taking a break from skateboarding. The star appears — not some retread boomer rocker but high-...Tags: Aventura (music group), Music, Entertainment, Miami City Ballet, Brazil
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Frank Gehry unveils changes to Eisenhower Memorial design
New changes to the contentious design for the Eisenhower Memorial were publicly unveiled on Tuesday at a session in Washington. Architect Frank Gehry made the adjustments following complaints by members of the Eisenhower family that the design put too...
Tags: Architecture, Arts, Human Interest, World War II (1939-1945), Sculpture
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Southern California Close-Ups: Downtown Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFirst published on Jan. 30, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. The tourists think big. Arriving in Southern California, they expect to conquer Disneyland and Hollywood, perhaps on the same day, in between the surfing and snowboarding. Then they...Tags: Chinatown (Manhattan, New York), Wurstkuche, Museum Dioramas, Johnny Weissmuller, Los Angeles Lakers
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