Word: museume
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...people who follow architecture, SHoP first came seriously into view in 2000, when the firm won a competition to build an outdoor summer hangout in the courtyard of P.S. 1, in Queens, N.Y., an arts-space affiliate of the Museum of Modern Art. It was at a moment when free-form, computer-assisted "blob" architecture was just breaking out of classrooms and professional journals. With a scheme called Dunescape, SHoP proved that blobs could be the basis for a structure both delightful and usable, stable but almost erotic in its waving surfaces. An undulating fabric of wood slats, it formed...
...MISS: the China Design Now exhibit at London's Victoria & Albert Museum this month, which will highlight developments in Chinese design ranging from the 2008 Olympic stadium to digital media, fashion and youth culture in the rapidly expanding cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen...
...stream of expatriates returning to Iraq, but unlike many, he said he had little interest in what he called the “unseemly scramble” for political power. He wanted to reconstruct Iraqi identity after years of dictatorship, so he began planning a museum in Baghdad where people could search the records of Saddam’s atrocities for the names of family members and friends. He even secured a site for the museum around the crossed swords of Saddam’s Victory Arch...
Makiya is not sure if he will ever return to live in his home country. He cannot begin building his museum in Baghdad until the sectarian violence comes...
...colleagues are discussing whether they will have to expand the scope of the museum, the register of its horrors, to include these years of civil war. He said he’s not sure if they will, not sure if it’s a good idea...