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2011 year in review: Best in architecture
Culture MonsterIt was a year American architects despaired that the economy might never really recover. It was also a year they produced a few small gems. And the profession as a whole continued to move past the flashy formalism of the last decade to seek new, genuine... -
Reading L.A.: Growth, mega-projects and Freud
Culture MonsterThe newest post in Christopher Hawthorne's Reading L.A. series tackles growth, mega-projects, Richard Neutra and Freud.... -
Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron to build Serpentine pavilion
Culture MonsterFour years after collaborating on the breathtaking Bird's Nest Olympic stadium in Beijing, the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron and the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei will reunite to build a temporary construction that will be connected with the end of... -
China: A domestic wine industry starts to take root
A few months before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, I read a blog post by an Atlantic Monthly correspondent about Chinese wine.
Chinese what?
I grew up outside New York City, where I ate hundreds of pounds of lo mein and pork-fried rice but didn't see, taste...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Beverage Industry, Peace Corps, Beijing Games, Restaurants
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Fall arts picks: Architecture
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Southern California Close-up: Westside of Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterYou're an outsider heading to the Westside of Los Angeles — not the beach cities, but Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Westwood and the nearby well-heeled neighborhoods south of the Santa Monica Mountains. This means you'll be well-fed, well-rested and...Tags: Italy, Religion and Belief, Warren Beatty, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Arts
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The Arts on TV: Renee Fleming in 'Capriccio'; 'Spider-Man'
Culture Monster“Great Performances at the Met” 12:30 p.m., Sunday KVCR: Capriccio: Renée Fleming performs Strauss' “Capriccio.” With Joseph Kaiser and Sarah Connolly.... -
Critic's notebook: Skyscrapers remain powerful symbols, post 9/11
Any skyscraper is a contradiction.
The tall tower is architecture's most famous building type and also the one most clearly at odds with the profession's roots. Fundamentally, architecture is shelter, a concession that we're afraid to face the elements...Tags: Santiago Calatrava, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Arts, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP
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Eli Broad says Grand Avenue will be site of new contemporary art museum
In a move that adds another contemporary art museum to the city's busy art scene, Eli Broad announced formally Monday that he would build his Broad Collection museum downtown and chose a blue-chip New York architecture firm to design it.
By choosing to...Tags: Edward Ruscha, Hobbies, Arts, Arata Isozaki, Gloria Molina
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Critic's Notebook: Eli Broad and the Diller Scofidio + Renfro museum design
The news that New York firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro has finally, officially been named architect of the new Broad Collection museum in downtown Los Angeles proves a couple of things quite clearly. One is that in a design competition as constrained and...Tags: Culture, Education, Politics, Museum of Modern Art, Lobbying
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FNO update: Beverly Hills sweetens the deal with gourmet food trucks
All The RageThe streets of Beverly Hills may not be paved in precious metals, but for at least one night they will be lined with a mother lode of gustatory gold, when the Los Angeles area's famed food trucks park along Rodeo...... -
Bicentennial tower monument delayed in Mexico
La PlazaBut on Friday, Education Secretary Alonso Lujambio said the "Estela de Luz" won't be ready in time for September 16, Independence Day, when this year Paseo de la Reforma will be transformed into a parade route with stages and massive screens extending all...
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