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The Iranian Embassy in Washington was designed by Francis Keally. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Diplomacy , Architecture

Simplified: The Iranian Embassy in Washington was designed by Francis Keally.

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1 week ago
The Iranian ambassador's residence on D.C.'s Massachusetts Avenue was a four-story, 46-room Georgian mansion adjacent to Iran’s embassy. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Diplomacy , Architecture

Simplified: The Iranian ambassador's residence on D.C.'s Massachusetts Avenue was a four-story, 46-room Georgian mansion adjacent to Iran’s embassy.

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1 week ago
The Crazy ’80s Car Museum is housed in an old furniture store off Route 66. 1.000

👤 Greg Migliore 📋 News Article 🏷️ Location , Architecture , Museums

Simplified: The Crazy '80s Car Museum is located in a former furniture store situated off Route 66.

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1 week ago
The largest gift to the Kennedy Center is marble from Carrara, Italy. 1.000

👤 Sandy Weisswasser 📋 News Article 🏷️ Art , Architecture , Kennedy Center

Simplified: The Kennedy Center's largest gift is marble sourced from Carrara, Italy.

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1 week ago
The foyer of the Kennedy Center is one of the largest. 1.000

👤 Sandy Weisswasser 📋 News Article 🏷️ Architecture , Kennedy Center

Simplified: The Kennedy Center's foyer is reportedly one of the largest.

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1 week ago
The Yale Golf Course was created a century ago by C.B. Macdonald and his protegé, Seth Raynor, who carved 18 holes into a 720-acre piece of land west of downtown New Haven. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Golf , Architecture

Simplified: The Yale Golf Course was created a century ago by C.B. Macdonald and Seth Raynor, who carved 18 holes into a 720-acre piece of land west of downtown N...

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2 weeks ago
The building, a yellow, pink and white architectural landmark, was originally designed in the 1850s to be a countess’s boarding school for girls. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Architecture , Kyiv

Simplified: The National Academy of Sciences building in Kyiv, a yellow, pink, and white architectural landmark, was originally designed in the 1850s to be a coun...

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2 weeks ago
The museum’s central plaza: a four-story-high, 185-foot-wide arching gateway and oculus linking the neighborhood with Exposition Park. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Architecture , Museums

Simplified: The Lucas Museum's central plaza is a four-story-high, 185-foot-wide arching gateway and oculus.

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3 weeks ago
A curator told me he has heard people compare the building to a sneaker. 0.950

👤 A curator 📋 News Article 🏷️ Public Opinion , Architecture , Museums

Simplified: A curator told the author that they have heard people compare the Lucas Museum building to a sneaker.

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3 weeks ago
They’ll whoosh up and down the tubular glass elevators, run under the hanging gardens and across lawns devised by Mia Lehrer’s landscape team at Studio-MLA. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Design , Architecture , Museums

Simplified: The lawns at the Lucas Museum were designed by Mia Lehrer’s landscape team at Studio-MLA.

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3 weeks ago
The exterior is clad in 1,271 school-bus-size, hand-finished, fiberglass-reinforced polymer panels, combined like puzzle pieces, manufactured by a shipbuilding company in the Bay Area. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Construction , Architecture , Museums

Simplified: The Lucas Museum's exterior is clad with 1,271 fiberglass-reinforced polymer panels manufactured by a shipbuilding company in the Bay Area.

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3 weeks ago
A separate pavilion contains a library with Arts and Crafts furnishings, of all things, and a student center. 1.000

👤 Michael Kimmelman 📋 News Article 🏷️ Architecture , Museums

Simplified: A separate pavilion at the Lucas Museum contains a library with Arts and Crafts furnishings and a student center.

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3 weeks ago
The Lucas Museum is his [Ma Yansong's] first major American cultural commission. 0.900

👤 Michael Kimmelman 📋 News Article 🏷️ Biography , Architecture

Simplified: The Lucas Museum is architect Ma Yansong's first major American cultural commission.

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3 weeks ago
That whopping sum has paid for more than 80,000 square feet of black-box exhibition space on the building’s fourth floor, where Luke Skywalker’s X-34 Landspeeder from Tatooine now idles in a “Star War... 1.000

👤 Michael Kimmelman 📋 News Article 🏷️ Art , Architecture , Museums

Simplified: The Lucas Museum has over 80,000 square feet of exhibition space on its fourth floor, which includes a 'Star Wars' display with Luke Skywalker’s X-34...

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3 weeks ago
The 300,000-square-foot goliath was designed by the prominent Chinese architect Ma Yansong and built to house the art collection of the “Star Wars” filmmaker George Lucas and his wife, the businesswom... 1.000

👤 Michael Kimmelman 📋 News Article 🏷️ Art , Architecture , Museums

Simplified: The 300,000-square-foot Lucas Museum was designed by architect Ma Yansong to house the art collection of George Lucas and Mellody Hobson.

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3 weeks ago
There are two state-of-the-art movie theaters, along with a shop and a cafe tucked into the building’s cinched podium. 1.000

👤 Michael Kimmelman 📋 News Article 🏷️ Architecture , Museums

Simplified: The Lucas Museum contains two movie theaters, a shop, and a cafe.

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3 weeks ago
We visited the restaurant, the state-of-the-art black-box theater, the auto-body-work training area, the “think tanks” — small, soundproof rooms — that supported the development of clubs and organizat... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , Architecture

Simplified: Joplin High School has facilities including a restaurant, a black-box theater, an auto-body-work training area, and 'think tanks'.

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3 weeks ago
When the plant was converted, the developers got rid of the equipment but didn’t change the architecture, so the floors slant in odd ways, a relic from when the builders wanted the blood of slaughtere... 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Architecture

Simplified: The floors of the former chicken-processing plant where C.J. Huff works are slanted, a feature from its original construction to allow chicken blood t...

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3 weeks ago
The two men also conferred about invitations to the ceremony for the Pritzker Prizes — a major international architecture award — in Beijing. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ People , Awards , Architecture

Simplified: The two men also conferred about invitations to ceremony for Pritzker Prizes in Beijing

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7 months ago
They beautified their spaces; many outfitted them with basic plumbing and lighting. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Art , Architecture

Simplified: Artists beautified their spaces and outfitted them with plumbing and lighting

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7 months ago