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Canada's Lorne Michaels, Frank Gehry receive Presidential Medal of Freedom WASHINGTON — The Canadian Press Published Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016 4:05PM EST Last updated Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016 5:16PM EST 0 Comments 5 5 0 AA Barack Obama expressed praise for the individual work of Frank Gehry and Lorne Michaels on Tuesday as he presented the Canadians with America’s highest civilian honour: the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Toronto natives were among 21 new honourees recognized by the…

Tony Fadell- The first secret of design is …noticing • The intro to this talk was an explanation of a snippet from the movies “Blue Brothers’ how a character bought a new apartment and it was a couple blocks away from the train station so his apartment would shake every time the train would go by, his friend asks “how many times does that happen?” And he replies too often to notice. Starting with this story really shows the clear goal in his mind which is humans get use to stuff quickly. • Tony…

based on the value of the product produced by them. Fig 1 : Guggenheim museum, Bilbao Fig 2 : Disneyland A built environment intended to seduce consumers is more likely to offer instant gratification. Considering the Guggenheim museum designed by Frank.O.Gehry leaving behind the analysis of the quality of built form and architectural style, had been intended as an economic revitalization for the city of Bilbao. The buildings of Walt Disney are also has an economic motive behind the…

Museums as powerful institutions in the construction of identities in the public domain have long attracted the scholarly attention. Scholars, such as Carol Duncan, have abandoned the idea of the art museum being a neutral container for the disposal of art and recognized the verbal and visual methods employed in representation that leads to canonization through its establishment as a secular temple . The museum became the facilitator of modern ideological fiction . The ancient rhetoric, that…

The Impact of Gentrification on Urbanism __________________________________________________________________________________ Introduction Today, most urban development results in or is an influence of gentrification. As is claimed by Vicario and Martinez Monje, “Since the late 1970s, it has become increasingly apparent that the gentrification phenomenon should not be seen as an individual, isolated outcome of residential rehabilitation, but as an integral part of a much broader, deeper process…

Midterm Assignment Facts Ms Jones was an English consultant, who worked for a multinational firm in Madrid, signed a notarial act with the Bank Z in May 20th, 2007 for the loan of 200, 000 EUR. She secured it by mortgage on her apartment. Ms Jones had to reimburse the whole payment with 300 monthly payments due November 31st, 2036. She would have to pay an interest of 7% instead of 4% if she failed to pay any of the installments. Ms Jones fulfilled all requirements of the agreement from 2007 to…

from time to time.Moreover, these changesare brought by the demands of the society. The curriculums should be improved not only to cater the needs of students but primarily to provide means to cope with the kind of society we are in. In 2008, Lucido Bilbao and company as cited by Alvior (2014) said that curriculum is known to be as the “heart” of any learning institution which means that educational institutions cannot operate if there is no curriculum. Therefore, in its deepest sense,…

Introduction For a well structured and well functioning Basque society during the 20th century, the roles in which the two genders (male and female) contributed within the Basque culture were an important aspect of their everyday life, it insured balance and equal levels of respect within their society. This essay will briefly look at the Basque culture in general and will then focus specifically on housework and childcare, and also work, land and income. This essay will explore the gender roles…

Born in 1955 in Pennsylvania, Jeff Koons is a renowned American contemporary artist known for his practice of placing every day, ordinary objects in unique installations. Although he got his expertise in Baltimore at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he obtained his M.F.A., he ended up transferring to the School of the Art Institution of Chicago after visiting and becoming inspired by an exhibit of Jim Nutt, who also attended the Art Institution on Chicago. He stated in an…

architecture and omits the custard apples of residential architecture completely (with the exception of the Simpson-Lee House by Glenn Murcutt). Did Frank Gehry equate a fish to the landscape to sell the abstracted design of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain? Does the residential architect use landscape to sell to a client, or is the sell focused on the client requirements and budget? Heymann’s red apples do show that landscape sells architecture, however, through omission he concedes that…