Monday, November 29, 2004

Monday, Monday

This week's update:





Primary School in Gando, Burkina Faso by Francis K�r�.



The updated book feature is Between Spaces, by Smith-Miller + Hawkinson.



Some unrelated links for your enjoyment:

Aga Khan Award for Architecture

Seven winners in the Ninth Award Cycle, recognizing "architectural excellence that encompass contemporary design, social housing, community improvement and development, restoration, re-use, and area conservation, as well as landscaping and environmental issues...that successfully address the needs and aspirations of societies in which Muslims have a significant presence." This week's dose is one winner, as is the Bibliotheca Alexandrina by SN�HETTA.



New York Changing

Douglas Levere's book, which revisits Berenice Abbott's famous photographs of New York, is released tomorrow, just in time for Xmas. Slide show.



The Great Chicago Fire Sale

The City of Chicago is selling a bunch of artifacts on eBay to benefit the Chicago Cultural Center, Cultural Grants and Gallery 37. Notable items include a Millennium Cow, a private CAF bus tour for 50 people (DMB refuse not included), City of Chicago manhole covers and de-commissioned parking meters, "For the Birds" dwellings, a facade ornament from Louis Sullivan's Stock Exchange Building, sketches by Frank Gehry for Millennium Park's Pritzker Pavilion and BP Bridge, a Chicago Theater sign, dinner with Bill Kurtis, and many, many more. Bidding starts December 2 on the items.

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