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Monday, October 13, 2014

Archive »Architecture

	Place for Protest Paris’s historic center for dissent, Place de la République, gets an expansion and an update. Veronique Vienne
	Paper-Thin Walls AECOM specially engineers fiberglass to achieve Smiljan Radić’s vision for the Serpentine Pavilion. Shannon Sharpe
	The Rockwell Way The seven ways Rockwell Group finds creative success. Shannon Sharpe
	"Doom"-Inspired Software Revolutionizes Modular Construction The classic nineties video game was the starting point for DIRTT's ICE software. Shannon Sharpe
	Reviving a Paris Hot Spot The design of the Molitor hotel pays homage to its rich legacy, after being an Art Deco icon, then a graffiti destination. Suzanne Wales
	Rem’s Kit of Parts Koolhaas’s 15-volume look into architectural elements is exhaustive and exhausting, mad and maddening. Samuel Medina
	Whose Modernity? Rem Koolhaas's provocation for the architecture biennale helps expose critical non-Eurocentric histories. Avinash Rajagopal
	Both House and Home: Why Architecture Is More Than Just Elements Two installations at the National Building Museum offer an interesting counterpoint to Rem Koolhaas's "Elements" ethos. Paul Clemence