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Altadena Junction: Site readied for MonteCedro
MonteCedro — the long-planned retirement community on the site of the historic Scripps Home — plans to finally break ground late this summer. The property — which has turned into a field of wildflowers in the years since the Scripps...
Tags: David Blue, New York University, Celebrities, Mother's Day, Arts and Culture
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'Emotionally compelling' teardrop concept chosen for Armenian genocide memorial in Pasadena
The winning design for a public memorial in Pasadena commemorating the Armenian genocide was announced Tuesday. The design by Catherine Menard – a student at the Art Center College of Design, which submitted the concept to the Pasadena Armenian...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Turkey, Human Interest, Genocide, Hate Crimes
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Less is more at PMCA design exhibit
If you caught LACMA's great California design retrospective last year, “Living in a Modern Way,” you came away with the idea that Southern California was the tip of the post-World War II modernist spear. Along with the familiar names of...
Tags: Artists, Benny Goodman, World War II (1939-1945), IKEA, Museums
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Pasadena City College design program nets $3.9M federal grant
Pasadena City College has received $3,875,000 from the U.S. Department of Education to expand a program that provides job skills to engineering students and helps them work toward their bachelor’s degrees. The college’s Design Technology...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Students, Science and Technology, Financial Aid
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Cities cash in on film shoots
Pasadena has the attention of the world during the Rose Parade, but moviegoers often see the city without realizing it as film crews work year round to convert Pasadena into European capitals, the Midwest and Boston. Pasadena, South Pasadena and San...
Tags: Will Ferrell, Nick Nolte, Entertainment, Steve Carell, Kate Beckinsale
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Tyre House: Cool elegance and the art of A. Quincy Jones
The Tyre House, designed by A. Quincy Jones in the 1950s and recently restored by the Silver Lake architecture firm Escher GuneWardena, is a dreamy testament to Los Angeles' age of cool. Step inside the house's expansive, all-white living area and an 11-...Tags: Arts and Culture, Services and Shopping, Real Estate
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Case study conservation on the Eames' Case Study House
Surprisingly, little has changed at the Eames House since 1949, when Charles and Ray Eames designed their Pacific Palisades home and studio as a model of affordable modern living. Most of the objects they lived with remain in place at the two-part,...
Tags: Science and Technology, Research, The Getty, Conservation, Environmental Issues
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Funds for Mag Mile median gardens not blooming
Change of SubjectBy Jessica Reynolds The tulips on Michigan Avenue are a staple of spring in Chicago, but a decline in contributions to the project's sponsoring organization may force future plantings to be scaled back. John Chikow, president of the Greater North...... -
Plan aims to turn Navy Pier into more of a park
Navy Pier, the highly commercial tourist attraction jutting into Lake Michigan, will take on a more parklike feel under the first phase of redevelopment plans formally announced Friday. Due to cost constraints, the initial $176 million remake does not...
Tags: Chicago Hotels, DePaul Blue Demons , Navy Pier, Tour Operations Industry, Manhattan (New York City)
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A. Quincy Jones, overlooked genius? Hammer Museum makes the case
The Hammer Museum exhibition opening May 25, "A. Quincy Jones: Building for Better Living," redresses what curators consider a major omission in the history of Los Angeles Modernism. Jones, they argue, had as much, if not more, influence on Southern...
Tags: Museum of Modern Art, Religion and Belief, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Museums, Christianity
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Condo, apartment developers using design psychology
The eclectic collection of framed art hanging in a condo hallway was carefully chosen and included a mix of sketches, pictures of insects and a poster that simply said "cinema." "This is the couple that go to flea markets," said Lisa Simeone,...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Consumers, Condos, Psychology, Medical Specialization
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