Rockwell’s four freedoms

Most Americans associate Norman Rockwell’s iconic painting of the formal family meal, shown above, top, with today’s holiday of Thanksgiving, and its traditional signature main course of roast turkey.

The painting, however, was painted with a different intention (even though the model for the turkey was actually the turkey from (…)

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Strada Tudor Arghezi

Superba locatia din postul anterior,insa trebuie sa revenim cu picioarele pe pamant. Spre exemplu, in Bucuresti. Undeva pe strada TudorArghezi, in centru, detaliile arhitecturale sunt extraordinare… A doua imagine subliniaza lipsa de interes, lipsa de bun simt, lipsa de respect pentru valori, realitatea…
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Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec by OMA

Dutch architects Office for Metropolitan Architecture have won a competition to design an extension to the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec in Canada. The winning design, announced today, is described as a “cascade of three overlapping boxes”. See all our stories about Rem Koolhaas/OMA in our special category. Here’s some info from OMA: – (…)

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