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Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, has one of the few consistently picturesque New England campuses where brick-and-stone 19th-and-20th-century Federal, Classical Revival, and Gothic Revival structures are clustered around a large, tree-lined quad.

Media Production Center, Columbia College Chicago

Jeanne Gang turns to cinema to shape the spaces inside a new academic building.

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

November 15, 2010

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The southern reaches of Chicago’s South Loop might seem an odd place for a college academic building: The neighborhood is a gritty mix of warehouses, surface parking lots, loft conversions, and recently constructed residential towers.

The Diana Center

November 15, 2010

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A 98,000-square-foot, seven-level building that includes architecture and painting studios, exhibition galleries, a reading room, classrooms, faculty offices, a café, a dining room, a green roof, and, below ground, a 500-seat performance and event space as well as a 100-seat black-box theater.

General Studies Building, University of Puerto Rico

November 15, 2010

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A four-story, 55,000-square-foot addition to the university's Rio Piedras campus, housing undergraduate classrooms as well as faculty and administrative offices.

Val Notre-Dame Abbey by Atelier Pierre Thibault

Saint-Jean-de-Matha, Quebec, Canada

Josephine Minutillo

October 16, 2010

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Pierre Thibault's pared-down architecture for a new abbey outside Montreal connects relocated monks with nature.

Cambridge Public Library

Legible and Luminous: William Rawn’s pristine glass box for the Cambridge Public Library quadruples the size of the original historic building.

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

October 16, 2010

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Anyone who doubts the relevance of libraries in the age of e-readers, amazon.com, and the iPad should visit the new central branch of the Cambridge Public Library (CPL), in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

A Cluster of Hadid Projects Share a Particular Strain of Design DNA

Clifford A. Pearson

October 16, 2010

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Turn the clock back to 1999 and you find Zaha Hadid and her partner Patrik Schumacher working on a critical set of projects, four of which (including MAXXI) eventually got built and two that never moved off the page or computer screen.