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Two people on foot, one with a walker, negotiate the dirt path on Pio Nono Avenue in Macon after it passes under Interstate 75. The spot is one of the most deadly for pedestrians in Macon with five people killed within about a quarter mile of it since 2006.

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  • Architecture

Free training in Macon teaches how to identify and document pedestrian safety hazards

The Macon-Bibb County Pedestrian Safety Review Board is set to offer a public training session to teach locals how to identify safety concerns in their own neighborhoods through group walking audits.

June 14, 2022
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By:
  • Laura Corley
Women were an integral part of the construction effort. Among their jobs: Carrying cement for a building project in Chandigarh, India in 1956.

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  • Architecture

PHOTOS: See the bold buildings that sprang up after South Asia regained independence

An exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art shows how Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka celebrated their freedom with a revolutionary vision for buildings and cities. Women played a vital role.

April 23, 2022
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By:
  • Diane Cole
Diébédo Francis Kéré, this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize winner.

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  • Architecture

For the first time in its history, architecture's top award goes to a Black architect

The 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize honors Diébédo Francis Kéré, who comes from a village with no school in Burkina Faso. He has designed primary schools for "many children to be happy and learn."

March 15, 2022
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby
Rubble and a damaged vehicle is seen across the street from the Kyiv TV Tower on Wednesday.

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  • Arts & Life

Ukrainian heritage is in peril. The Smithsonian hopes to rescue what it can

The Smithsonian Institution says it is in touch with contacts inside Ukraine who specialize in rescuing and preserving cultural heritage sites in times of crisis.

March 03, 2022
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  • Andrew Limbong
Dragon blood tree at Diksam Plateau, on Yemen's Socotra Island. It's one of the sites included on the 2022 Watch from the World Monuments Fund.

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  • Arts & Life

Sites in Beirut, Benghazi and Brownsville, Texas, make a most-endangered list

Beirut's historic city center and the traditional territory of the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas are among 25 places listed by World Monument Watch as in urgent need of preservation.

March 01, 2022
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  • Neda Ulaby
Friendship Hospital in Bangladesh, winner of the 2021 RIBA International Prize. The hospital's zig-zag canal collects rainwater and aids in cooling the site.

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  • Architecture

A rural hospital in Bangladesh is named the world's best new building

The prestigious architectural prize celebrates the 80-bed hospital's human-centered design, built in harmony with the waterlogged local environment with a modest budget and local low-cost materials.

February 05, 2022
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  • Nell Clark
The Villa Aurora in Rome housing the only mural by Caravaggio failed to find a bidder in an auction Tuesday.

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  • Art & Design

No one bid on this Italian villa with the world's only known Caravaggio ceiling mural

The Villa Aurora in Rome, a sprawling 16th-century palace, was listed on the market for a starting price of $534 million but will need an estimated $11 million in restorations.

January 20, 2022
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  • Nell Clark

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A visual feast: 5 favorite art books of 2021

Most readers spend a lot of time happily immersed in words. But for a change of pace, these gorgeous art books provide hours of blissful visual diversion.

December 09, 2021
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  • Heller McAlpin
The pandemic was a major blow to the museum's budget. But this historic gift will allow it to expand its collection of modern and contemporary art.

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  • Arts & Life

The Metropolitan Museum of Art scores its largest capital gift ever — $125 million

The money will be used to complete a long-delayed renovation the museum's Modern Wing and comes from philanthropist Oscar Tang, a museum trustee, and his wife Agnes Hsu-Tang.

November 30, 2021
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  • Andrew Limbong
Julie Bargmann, the 2021 Oberlander Prize laureate.

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  • Art & Design

She reclaims toxic waste dumps, and she just won a major landscape architecture award

Julie Bargmann, the first recipient of the Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize, redesigns waste dumps, landfills, Superfund sites — places she calls "the gnarliest."

October 15, 2021
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  • Neda Ulaby
The almost 40-foot 3D-printed pedestrian bridge designed by Joris Laarman and built by Dutch robotics company MX3D has been opened in Amsterdam six years after the project was launched. The bridge, which was fabricated from stainless steel rods by six-axis robotic arms equipped with welding gear, spans the Oudezijds Achterburgwal in Amsterdam's Red Light District.

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  • Architecture

Check Out The First 3D-Printed Steel Bridge Recently Unveiled In Europe

The almost 40-foot bridge, revealed last month, will now serve pedestrians and cyclists in Amsterdam's city center.

August 27, 2021
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  • Jonathan Franklin
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  • Art & Design

Matthew Mazzotta: How Can We Redesign Overlooked Spaces To Better Serve The Public?

Artist Matthew Mazzotta says every community needs public spaces to gather, discuss, and address issues. He works with towns to reimagine overlooked buildings and give them a new public purpose.

July 23, 2021
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  • Manoush Zomorodi,
  • HARRISON VIJAY TSUI,
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Shoppers browse at a Williams Sonoma in Chicago, Ill., on May 22, 2003.

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  • Obituaries

Richard Altuna, Who Redesigned What Retail Looks Like, Dies At 70

Altuna stealthily shaped the consumer landscape for decades, designing stores for The Gap, Pottery Barn, Patagonia, Restoration Hardware, Williams Sonoma and many more.

June 25, 2021
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby
Renovations to the Smithsonian Castle will be on the Fine Arts Commission's agenda.

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  • Art & Design

What's Ahead For The Group That Approves U.S. Arts Projects, From Monuments To Coins

The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts meets today to review designs for all kinds of American cultural symbols. It's the first such meeting for four new commissioners recently appointed by President Biden.

June 17, 2021
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
An aerial view of Washington, D.C., shows the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument as well as the U.S. Capitol.

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  • Architecture

Biden Just Purged 4 On The Arts Panel That Advises Congress On Public Architecture

On Tuesday afternoon, President Biden announced four new appointees to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, replacing four commissioners appointed by former President Donald Trump.

May 26, 2021
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
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