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Barry Berkus dies at 77; architect of mass-market housing
Barry Alan Berkus, a California architect who left a deep imprint on mass-market housing, spurring trends toward homes with grand entrances, high ceilings, master suites, natural light and open spaces, has died. He was 77. Berkus, who had leukemia, died...
Tags: Woodbridge, Arts and Culture, Leukemia, Kenny Loggins, Architecture
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DIY futurism
Designers, celebrities or just plain folks -- everybody wants to tap into the zeitgeist. Or create it themselves. These days, nothing moves faster than a trend. The social-media-fed frenzy enables our access to the latest in fashion, interiors,...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Bars and Clubs, Entertainment Events, Tory Burch, Brad Pitt
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Never-used $22-million children's museum gets new lease on life
The Children’s Museum of Los Angeles, a never-used, $21.8-million white elephant next to Hansen Dam Recreation Center on the city’s northern edge, is back on track to become an attraction and an educational asset. After more than two years...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Museums, Arts and Culture, Finance, Science and Technology
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Southern California Close-Ups: Long Beach, San Pedro and Catalina Island
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFirst published on July 3, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. The harbor area of southwest Los Angeles County is the closest thing we have to a blue-collar coast. It’s where cruise ships call, where ton upon ton of maritime machinery hums...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Tourism and Leisure, Museums, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Frank Gehry pays a visit to old stomping grounds — Columbia
Forty years after Frank Gehry completed a series of buildings in the then-fledgling "new town" of Columbia, the current master developer wants him to come back and design more. The Dallas-based Howard Hughes Corp., which in 2010 took over as lead...
Tags: Lou Gehrig's Disease, Whole Foods Market, Arts and Culture, James Rouse, Manhattan (New York City)
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Frank Gehry reveals new look for Toronto entertainment district
Frank Gehry was in his hometown of Toronto on Monday to reveal his conceptual designs for a multiyear transformation of the city's downtown arts and entertainment district. The architect is teaming with Canadian theater producer David Mirvish, whose...
Tags: Entertainment, Canada, Toronto (Canada)
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Frank Gehry, Placido Domingo to help YoungArts Foundation
Frank Gehry and Placido Domingo will be lending a hand to the National YoungArts Foundation, a nonprofit group that provides financial assistance and other forms of support to aspiring artists. The organization announced this week that it has acquired the...
Tags: Arts, Placido Domingo, Arts and Culture, Carnival Cruise Lines, Micky Arison
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Frank Gehry endows new annual prize at SCI-Arc
Architect Frank Gehry has made a new donation to the Southern California Institute of Architecture, and as a result, the school is naming a new prize after him. SCI-Arc announced Wednesday that Gehry, a trustee of the school since 1990, and his wife,...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Human Interest, Architecture, Guggenheim Museum, Walt Disney
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Architect John Kelsey dies at 86; designer of Pasadena museum
While designing what is now the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena in the late 1960s, architects John Kelsey and Thornton Ladd expressed a belief: Space that houses art "can be part of the event and experience." When it opened in 1969 as the Pasadena Art...
Tags: Busch Gardens Orlando, Walt Disney, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, World War II (1939-1945), Dustin Hoffman
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Pressed to find classic duck dish
Q: Many years ago I was dining in a restaurant in Chicago's Chinatown. I ordered pressed duck. It was served in a deep fried form about 6 inches in length, 4 inches wide and about an inch or so thick. The vegetables were pressed together with the duck and...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Bob Hope, Almonds, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges
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Brad Pitt's New Orleans project unveils Frank Gehry house
Brad Pitt enlisted architect Frank Gehry as one of the designers for his Make It Right Foundation, an initiative to build new homes in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward following the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. This weekend, the...
Tags: Hurricane Katrina (2005), Arts and Culture, Brad Pitt, Architecture
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Whole Foods to open in Columbia
The longtime headquarters of the Rouse Co. will become home to the first Howard County branch of Whole Foods Market under a $20 million plan to renovate one of the community's most prominent landmarks and draw new residents downtown.
The Howard Hughes...Tags: Rental Service, Bankruptcy, Property, Ken Ulman, Whole Foods Market
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