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  Million Dollar Blocks

  The United States currently has more than 2 million people locked up in jails and prisons. A disproportionate number of them come from a very few neighborhoods in the country’s biggest cities. In many places the concentration is so dense that states are spending in excess of a million dollars a ...

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  Damien Hirst is rewriting the rules of the market - The Art Newspaper

  The Art Newspaper publishes news affecting the visual arts and culture worldwide. It is part of a network with editorial offices in London, New York, Turin, Paris, Madrid and Athens and correspondents in more than 30 countries

  Luke A added 16 months ago

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  Packaging Utopian Sustainability

  Are carbon neutral cities, Eco-cities and sus tain able cities discursive cover ups for synthetic design in the desert of Abu Dhabi or something stemming from an honest utopian desire? Questioning Foster's scheme for Masdar, Matt Lewis reaches revealing conclusions on the marketing of design in ...

  Luke A added 16 months ago

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  The shape of things to come | Art & Architecture | guardian.co.uk Arts

  Beijing has rebuilt itself faster than any city on earth, turning from a warren of alleys into a capital fit for a superpower. No wonder the world's top architects - from Foster to Koolhaas - have flocked to make their mark on it.

  Luke A added 16 months ago

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  Box of plenty: design for Berkeley art museum

  He doesn't have the name recognition of a Frank Gehry or a Daniel Libeskind, but Toyo Ito is one of Japan's most acclaimed and adventurous architects. Looking at the design for a downtown Berkeley museum that would be his first building in the United States, it's easy to see why. The white steel ...

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