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Laura Raskin

Laura Raskin

Laura Raskin, a former RECORD editor, writes about architecture. She recently moved with her family from Brooklyn, New York, to the Green Mountains of Vermont.
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Newsmaker: Roman Mars

Laura Raskin
Laura Raskin
October 2, 2012
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Roman Mars raised over $170,000 on Kickstarter for the third season of his "tiny" radio show about design, 99% Invisible. © Raymond Ahner Roman Mars, host of 99% Invisible. As host of the weekly radio show and podcast 99% Invisible, Roman Mars takes a democratic interest in the stories behind all kinds of design. With typically “tiny” 4- to 10-minute segments (a project of KALW in San Francisco), Mars has explored the past and future of the Purple Hotel outside of Chicago, designed by John Macsai, the sound of the World Trade Center towers “breathing,” and depression induced by airport
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SANAA Unveils Design for First U.S. Building Since Pritzker Win

Laura Raskin
Laura Raskin
September 26, 2012
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Located on 75 acres of preserved land in New Canaan, Connecticut, the 65,000-square-foot transparent volume will serve as a headquarters for the nonprofit Grace Farms Foundation.


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Art and Landscape Intersect in Pittsburgh Museum's New Exhibition

Laura Raskin
Laura Raskin
September 21, 2012
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The Carnegie Museum of Art's White Cube, Green Maze highlights a more democratic and dispersed model of museum-making. Children explore Convex/Concave, an outdoor sculpture by Dan Graham at the Jardín Botánico de Culiacán. An exhibition at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art highlights a new trend in museum design—away from Bilbao-esque icons and toward a more democratic model in which architects, often working in teams, create dispersed structures that defer to the surrounding landscape, as well as to the visitors’ journey. White Cube, Green Maze: New Art Landscapes opens tomorrow, September 22, and runs through January 13, 2013. It will then
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Studio Furillen

Studio Furillen by AQ Arkitekter

Sweden
Laura Raskin
Laura Raskin
September 16, 2012
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The remote northeastern peninsula of Furillen, on the island of Gotland, is about as far as one can go in Sweden before the Baltic gives way to Eastern Europe.
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Blantyr-House

Blantyre House

Laura Raskin
Laura Raskin
September 16, 2012
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According to architect Donald Chong, when his clients wanted to build a house in The Beaches, a popular Toronto neighborhood, “they were committed to the idea that they could live well in a compact square footage.


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Stacked Cabin

Johnsen Schmaling's Stacked Cabin in Muscoda, Wisconsin, adheres to the program of the traditional wooded retreat, with an emphasis on flexibility.
Laura Raskin
Laura Raskin
September 16, 2012
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Johnsen Schmaling's Stacked Cabin in Muscoda, Wisconsin, adheres to the program of the traditional wooded retreat, with an emphasis on flexibility.


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View Hill House

Denton Corker Marshall's sculptural View Hill House in Yarra Valley, Australia, overlooks 78 acres of vineyards.
Laura Raskin
Laura Raskin
August 16, 2012
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In 1996, architect John Denton purchased 150 acres of land—78 of them under vine—in the middle of the Yarra Valley, about an hour’s drive from Melbourne; think of it as Napa Valley’s Australian cousin.


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UCLA Outpatient Surgery and Medical Building

Light Touch: The Corbusian pavilions of the UCLA Outpatient Surgery and Medical Building, by Michael W. Folonis Architects, bring daylight to the patient experience.
Laura Raskin
Laura Raskin
August 16, 2012
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Michael Folonis reacted with baffled delight when he was chosen to design the 50,000-square-foot, three-story UCLA Outpatient Surgery and Medical Building in Santa Monica.


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Yin Yang House

Capitalizing on southern California's climate, Brooks + Scarpa's house for a growing family gives the phrase 'Go outside!' new meaning, with seamless indoor-outdoor spaces.
Laura Raskin
Laura Raskin
July 16, 2012
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Larry Scarpa grew up in Florida, where the heat and humidity kept him indoors.


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China Awards 2012: Guangzhou Opera House

Best Public Project: Honor Award
Laura Raskin
Laura Raskin
July 16, 2012
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The Guangzhou Municipal Government’s brief for a new opera house was ambitious: the building had to be able to host Chinese and Western operas of the highest caliber, as well as be a welcoming civic center, open and accessible to all.


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