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	'Art Goes Green at New San Jose Library' 2009-01-07 16:55:45 We all know green technology is good for the planet. What might come as a surprise is the fact that it can also be beautiful. As part of the surrounding Silicon Valley�s Green Vision project, promoting economic development through environmentally-conscious projects, San Jose, California�s new Pearl Avenue branch of the public library features an example of technology at work that is...

	'Britain to Host Le Corbusier Retrospective' 2008-11-26 17:02:08 Charles-Edouard Jeanneret Gris is a name that might not be familiar to even the most die-hard design expert. But say the name Le Corbusier, which Gris adopted as his moniker, and you're saying the name of a modernist legend. Le Corbusier was an architect, interior designer and furniture designer who dominated the modernist scene for four decades, beginning in the 1920s. ...

	'Deconstructing David' 2008-12-10 01:35:40 Year after year, visitors to Florence, Italy stand in a long, long line, patiently waiting for their chance to gaze upon the most perfect man ever to grace the earth. No, we're not talking about Brad Pitt � everyone knows he and Angelina are living in France these days. We're talking about Michelangelo's David, the seventeen foot tall, marble hunk or manhood who has represented...

	'Islam Comes to the Louvre' 2009-01-26 16:27:37 In the 1980's, I.M. Pei created an international controversy when he added his very modern glass pyramid to the Louvre, Paris's very old, very famous art museum. Now, more than two decades since Pei's pyramid made architecture history, work has begun on what will be only the second major modern addition in the Louvre's history � the Islam Gallery. As the first stone was...

	'Hadid�s Mobile Museum Heads for the USA' 2009-01-26 16:05:15 Legendary designer Karl Lagerfeld, current designer-in-residence at Chanel, told Vanity Fair he believes "architecture is the real art of today." So when it came time to plan a celebration for the 50th anniversary of the iconic Chanel bag � the black, quilted number that never seems to go out of style � he turned to an architect to help him mark the occasion. Lagerfeld's...