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John Portman’s General Motors Renaissance Center has cast shadows over Downtown Detroit for decades. Since 1976, the five towers, replete with quintessential Portmanian atria, stacked atop a gargantuan base have enticed praise, debate, and criticism in Michigan’s largest city. The full spectrum of public opinion about the complex, and Renaissance Center’s design merits more broadly, […]
(NewsNation) — Richard Allen, who was convicted of killing two Indiana girls in the 2017 Delphi murders, was sentenced to 130 in prison during a sentencing hearing held on Friday. The sentencing range for Allen was 45 years to 130 years in prison. He was given 65 years for counts three and four, to be […]
After a two-year closure for renovation, the 120-year old Albert Kahn–designed Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory, known locally as just the Belle Isle Conservatory, reopened its glass doors to the public, earlier this month. Visitors were again welcomed to view the notable collection of rare plants, and experience the grandeur of the glass dome. Its long glass […]
The lake-effect storm disrupted holiday travel across the region, trapping dozens of vehicles on highways. Some areas could get up to six feet of snow by Tuesday. Source link
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The first big snowfall of the season is blanketing towns in upstate New York along lakes Erie and Ontario in the middle of the hectic holiday travel and shopping weekend, while numbing cold and heavy snow could persist into next week and cause hazards in the Great Lakes, Plains and Midwest […]
TEN × TEN Landscape Architecture and Urbanism is based in Minneapolis, but it has projects all over that demonstrate a keen sensitivity to materiality, context, ecosystems, storytelling, and ethics. Whether negotiating dilapidated brownfields in Pittsburgh or contributing to the upcoming 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, TEN × TEN practices what it preaches. The office, founded in […]