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From: "Architexturez." <admin-in@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 02:38:06 +0530
Architexturez. wrote:
Currently, the business owned by Reid Adamson and her husband, Chris
Adamson, is working on Vedic architecture projects in North Carolina,
where their business is based. There has also been interest from
California, South Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia, Iowa and the United Kingdom.
Mining the Bilbao Effect
Celebrity designers bring attention to U.S. cities
Staff and wire reports
The movement has been dubbed the Bilbao Effect, named for the city in
Spain where architect Frank O. Gehry designed a Guggenheim Museum of
swirling metal and where, since the museum opened in 1997, the building
has become a mecca for people interested in architecture and art.
Cincinnati pursued the same effect two years ago, when world-renowned
architect Zaha Hadid's unique design for the Contemporary Arts Center
created what a New York Times critic called "the most important American
building to be completed since the end of the Cold War."
Now it's Covington's and Louisville's turn.
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"There is a movement away from faceless, nameless generic-looking things
and toward uniqueness,'' Lovely said. "The jobs and people you want to
attract are concerned with quality of life.''
This "phenomenon of economic development as quality of life'' is
particularly active in mid-sized cities, also called second-tier cities,
she said.
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http://news.kypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050817/NEWS02/508170375/1014