Empire State Building tops public architecture poll
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NEW YORK, Feb 7 (Reuters Life!) - King Kong climbed it, thousands have proposed at the top of it, and its lights change color to match special events.
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A model of the final design of the World Trade Center memorial will be unveiled next month, showing what visitors will experience when the tribute opens in 2009, Gov.
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NEW YORK -- A proposal for a $1.4 billion stadium for the New York Jets professional football team inched ahead on Thursday as the Empire State Development Corp.
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The Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, a winner of the Pritzker Prize for architecture, has been chosen to redesign the art displays in the State Hermitage Museum, right, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Bloomberg News reported. Mr. Koolhaas and the museum will begin the six-year project by establishing a master plan for a new way of displaying about three million treasures in the museumâs roughly 2,000 rooms. He will also alter the displays in the Islamic and Chinese rooms and transform a section of the imperial general staff building into a space for contemporary art.
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French architect Christian de Portzamparc has been named to design the world's largest and most ambitious museum dedicated to the history of film and the Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said on Thursday.
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The biggest addition to the Boston skyline in the past five years was One Lincoln Street, a gleaming, Art Deco-influenced office tower that dominates the skyline for commuters from the south and became the new home of State Street Corp. It added 1 million square feet of office space, the biggest single chunk since Two International Place opened a decade ...
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Daniel Libeskind became one of the world's best-known architects when his emotionally charged plan for the World Trade Center site was chosen. Then, according to most versions, he was shunted aside when the developer brought in his own architect to redesign Libeskind's signature Freedom Tower.
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French architect Christian de  Portzamparc has been named to design the world's largest and  most ambitious museum dedicated to the history of film and the  Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said on  Thursday.
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Steven Holl's buildings are more than beautiful -- they've got brains, too. For 31 years, the New York architect has taken advantage of his obsessive interest in science to build inventive structures with a geeky alter ego.
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London landmark the "Gherkin" wins a prestigious architecture award.
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Â· City planners approve world's largest building Â· UK architect triumphs despite stiff resistance
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A man jumped to his death Friday from the 86th-floor observation deck at the Empire State Building, one of Manhattan's busiest tourist destinations, police said. The apparent suicide forced police to briefly close the landmark on Fifth Avenue to tourists in New York for the holiday weekend.
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The State University of New York at Albany has the top spot on the list of party schools ranked by the Princeton Review, the Associated Press reported Aug. 16.
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New York's best asset in its bid to  host the 2012 Olympics is the city itself, campaign leader  Daniel Doctoroff said Wednesday.
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Respondents to a Gallup poll rated the two New Yorkers highest when it came to likeliness of being elected.
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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg lauded the importance of public art on the eve of the opening of "The Gates" installation in Central Park.
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Zaha Hadid, who won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004, has been chosen to design the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University in East Lansing.