Sentences with phrase «major civic building»

Already this fall, Paris has unveiled a Frank Gehry design for an arts center, the Bronx Museum has a sleeker skin, Daniel Libeskind has housed the Denver Art Museum in what resembles a model airplane, and the Ara Pacis Museum under Richard Meier has become, The New York Times reports, the «first major civic building completed in the historic center of Rome in more than a half - century.»

The naming convention being employed for the upcoming library is entirely unique and is the first major civic building in Vancouver to have an official aboriginal name.

The North Carolina State Capitol, completed in 1840, is one of the finest and best - preserved examples of a major civic building in the Greek Revival style of architecture.

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The purpose of this grant is to build a community of scholars, based at Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) but reaching out across the broader Harvard community, that will support the development of a highly select group of Early Career Scholars, stimulate significant work in the field of civic learning and action, and establish a major site for developing and disseminating empirical and theoretical work in these areas to the worldwide research community.

A group of civic leaders from some of the Edge Cities — a term coined a decade ago to denote cities built at the far fringes of development around major cities — met in Schaumburg, Ill., to discuss possible solutions to the problems these cities face.