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Music
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Inside the New Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music
Designed by CookFox Architects, the center is a grand achievement in material health, social equity, and sustainable design.
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Viewpoints
Lana Del Rey’s Music Has Always Taken Architecture Very Seriously
The singer-songwriter’s cultural universe includes keenly observed references to cities, neighborhoods, and buildings. And her fans are paying attention.
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Viewpoints
Morris Adjmi on Brian Eno’s Discreet Music
The architect and principal of Morris Adjmi Architects tells Metropolis about a piece of music that has inspired him since 1975.
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Aiming to Engage the Public, DS+R’s New Tianjin Juilliard School Pays Tribute to Its New York Counterpart
The conservatory's transparent and open design includes space for performance, practice, research, and interactive exhibitions.
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After Three Decades, Turkey’s Presidential Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall Finally Opens
The complex has recently been completed after Ankara-based architecture firm Uygur Mimarlık was selected to design the government-funded project in 1992.
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Viewpoints
Designing Dance: Electronic Traces the Origins and Legacy of Club Culture
With a focus on EDM's originators and the British context, the Design Museum's exhibition sets itself apart from others on electronic music and design.
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Architect Alessandro Mendini’s Famous LP Gets a Reissue
Mendini, a Milanese architect and designer, passed away at the age of 88 on February 18, a month shy of the reissue of his nine-track LP Architettura Sussurrante di Alessandro Mendini.
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Viewpoints
Hip-Hop Architecture’s Philip Johnson Moment
A new show at AIA New York’s Center for Architecture makes the case for a growing global design movement that is forging its own canon.
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Projects
The High Line Will Host 1,000 Vocalists for a “Mile-Long” Opera
Architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) and Pulitzer Prize–winning composer David Lang are collaborating on the project, which runs October 3–7.
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Frank Gehry Reveals Design for New L.A.-Area Youth Orchestra
"It's not about making money," the architect says of his pro bono design for the Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA Center, an extension of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
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Profiles
Brad Ascalon on How Philip Glass Influences His Work as a Designer and Musician
The Manhattan-based designer recalls a serendipitous moment in which his musical hero was immortalized by Chuck Close and the New York City subway.
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Projects
Bob Dylan’s Archives, No Longer a Rolling Stone, to Be Housed in Olson Kundig-Designed Center
The famed singer-songwriter's vast archives will be housed in a brand new building within Tulsa's industrial arts district.
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Profiles
Legendary Musicians Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto Reflect On Using Philip Johnson’s Glass House As An Instrument
The Oscar-winning composer and famed German electronic music producer released an album of the performance earlier this year.
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Profiles
Ole Scheeren on the Music That Inspires Him
Music for 18 Musicians by Steve Reich helped focus Scheeren during his early architectural career, he tells Metropolis,
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Programs
LMN Architects Creates Striking, Acoustically-Refined Spaces for the Voxman Music Building
Nearly a decade after severe flooding inundated the University of Iowa’s campus, its music department is reunited in a new building by LMN Architects that is both a technological and civic asset.
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Viewpoints
DS+R Beats Foster, Gehry, Piano, and Others, For New London Centre for Music
The City of London has tapped Diller Scofidio + Renfro for a new concert hall near the Barbican.
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Viewpoints
How to Make “Music Cities” in an Age of Rapid-Fire Gentrification
The takeaway from this year's Music Cities Convention was clear: if we want vibrant cities, we must start championing music to developers and policy makers.
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Products
Teenage Engineering’s New Synthesizer Is in a Class of One
When it comes to synthesizers, the OP-1 is in a class of one.