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Column: Meet the real international style

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustration: Kandariya Mahadeva Temple (circa 1025-50), in Khajuraho, India (from World Architecture: The Masterworks, by Will Pryce) Note: Trying to get a higher-res version, plus one of temple in Java mentioned below. THE 1956 EPIC Around the World in......

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 Tags  architecture   Around the World in 80 Days   Vitruvius   Will Pryce   World Architecture: The Masterworks  

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2009 Carbuncle Prize: And the winner is . . .

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By David Brussat    Email

. . . The Liverpool Ferry Terminal. It seems the enchanting fire station sponsored by Prince Charles dodged a bullet. It was included as a spiteful sort of ideological repartee, but it appears that the sponsors of this contest -......

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 Tags  architecture   BDonline   Carbuncle Prize   Prince Charles  

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Coming up: What is the real International Style?

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By David Brussat    Email

The 1956 film Around the World in 80 Days took moviegoers on a voyage to the world's major cultures as its protagonists, David Niven, Shirley McLaine and Cantinflas (the famous Mexican acrobat who plays valet to Brit snit Phileas Fogg)......

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 Tags  architecture   Around the World in 80 Days   Will Pryce   World Architecture  

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