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Editor's Picks #350

2014-01-14T13:15:00-05:00

The latest edition of ShowCase highlights CRAB Studio’s Abedian School of Architecture in Queensland, Australia.

Plus, the fourth installment in Screen/Print (Archinect’s experimentation in translation across media) features "fruity labors" from the quarterly journal MAS Context's 20th issue, Narrative.

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Architect Magazine reported the American Folk Art Museum will be razed for a Diller Scofidio + Renfro's designed MoMA expansion.

Amelia Taylor-Hochberg Editorial Manager for Archinect, went to the trouble of gathering "a slew of responses to the proposal, both indignant and accepting, from Archinect contributors and beyond".

HotelSphinx thought the excuses/reasons given for demolition were ironic "DS+R is a firm that made a building out of fog for the Expo in Yverdon-les-Bains in 2002. Yes, fog. But aligning floor plates is too difficult? They have got to be joking me".

Meanwhile, Mason White of Lateral Office was perplexed.

"Architects revolt about 2 high-society architecture firms in...

'Masterpiece' mural finally getting a face lift at Grosse Pointe library

2014-01-10T10:44:00-05:00

The mural project is part of a renewed attention to the Central Library in Grosse Pointe Farms, which received approval from the Grosse Pointe Library Board in October for more than $241,000 in outside masonry repairs, according to Library Director Vickey Bloom.

News from the Grosse Pointe library by Marcel Breuer, saved thanks to the efforts of MAPA, a group that came together through Archinect!

Grosse Pointe Central Library: Efforts Towards Conservation

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Grosse Pointe Public Library receives $50,000 grant to preserve historic Central branch library

2008-03-11T19:14:00-04:00

World Monuments Fund lends hand to help save endangered building...
Previously on Archinect:
SAVE ME! Grosse Pointe Central Library, designed by Marcel Breuer (1953) - slated for demolition
A year in the life of the Grosse Pointe Public Library

GROSSE POINTE, Mich. – The World Monuments Fund (WMF) has awarded the Grosse Pointe Public Library Central branch a $50,000 grant toward the preservation of the building.

Built in 1953, Central branch library is the only building in the Detroit area designed by renowned architect Marcel Breuer. Recently, the WMF placed the library on its 2008 watch list of the 100 Most Endangered Sites, which calls international attention to culturally significant sites that are threatened by neglect, vandalism, armed conflict, climate change or natural disaster. The Central branch library was selected as part of a group of buildings listed under “Main Street Modern.”

“We are grateful for the World Monuments Fund’s generous grant, which is critical to our...

A year in the life of the Grosse Pointe Public Library

2008-01-03T10:04:00-05:00

The Grosse Pointe Public Library had its focus on the future during 2007. Beth Quinn of the Grosse Pointe News provides a brief overview of the activity surrounding the library this past year. GPN | related feature 1 | 2