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  • Blogs

    May 11, 2012

    Buildings=Energy Architecture Exhibit Highlights Sustainable Construction

    It's only fitting that what was once the ground floor of St. Louis Centre -- and is today being transformed into the sleek and hip MX (that's short for Mercantile Exchange, btw) -- would be the site for an architecture display on the future of urban design. Kicking off tonight (5-8 p.m. at 635 Locus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2011

    Kay Ottinger: St. Louis Interior Decorator Indicted for Overbilling Clients $1 Million

    Above: A fashion faux pas nearly as criminal as Ms. Ottinger's. ​With the exception of my extremely ethical mother, I thought it was the somewhat accepted that interior designers overbill their clients. (Hey, if you really need professional advice on which throw pillow best matches the sofa, frank ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2011

    Big Week for Print Nerds in St. Louis

    Melissa MeinzerEvil prints of original artwork -- the perfect thing to go under your beer.​If you're into printmaking, your schedule next week is going to be packed. On Wednesday, the Southern Graphics International Conference comes to town, which is sponsored by Washington University and includes ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 13, 2011

    Prints of the Plates

    Melissa MeinzerEvil prints of original artwork -- the perfect thing to go under your beer.​If you're into printmaking, your schedule next week is going to be packed. On Wednesday, the Southern Graphics International Conference comes to town, which is sponsored by Washington University and includes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    Printmaking Punks and Professors to Converge on STL this Spring

    Image viaScreenprinted tortillas are coming to Cherokee Street​Whip out your [bound and boutique-crafted] day planners, all you printmaking junkies:1) The Cherokee Print League is doing their 3rd Annual Holiday sale on Dec. 4, don't forget. 2) The nation's premier printmaking conference -- that of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2010

    Wash. U. Building Among World's Greenest

    image viaIt's alive!!! Sorry, it's just a Living Building.​The Living Learning Center at Washington University's Tyson Research Center has just been designated one of the first the first two Living Buildings by the International Living Building Institute (ILBI), the most rigorous green buildi ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 18, 2010

    VISION/RE-VISION

    image viaIt's alive!!! Sorry, it's just a Living Building.​The Living Learning Center at Washington University's Tyson Research Center has just been designated one of the first the first two Living Buildings by the International Living Building Institute (ILBI), the most rigorous green buildi ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 3, 2010

    Go Greene

    image viaIt's alive!!! Sorry, it's just a Living Building.​The Living Learning Center at Washington University's Tyson Research Center has just been designated one of the first the first two Living Buildings by the International Living Building Institute (ILBI), the most rigorous green buildi ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 24, 2010

    Two Heads, One Show

    image viaIt's alive!!! Sorry, it's just a Living Building.​The Living Learning Center at Washington University's Tyson Research Center has just been designated one of the first the first two Living Buildings by the International Living Building Institute (ILBI), the most rigorous green buildi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2010

    Crossroads Becomes Sixth School in Nation to Earn Highest LEED Certification

    Crossroads' new science and library building.​Good news St. Louis: Now you can send your children to a school that's as environmentally friendly as the one where Barack and Michelle Obama send their daughters. That's right. Crossroads College Preparatory School was recently awarded a platinum LEED ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    Post-Dispatch Readers Grumble Over Jury for New Arch Grounds Design

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/elasticsoul/ / CC BY-SA 2.0​Here are the folks who'll get to decide how the Arch grounds will look in 2015 (the year the monument turns 50). Commenters at stltoday.com are grumbling about one of them. Can you guess which one?Robert Campbell, architecture critic at The ... More >>

  • News

    November 25, 2009

    The Cover of the November 26 Print Edition

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/elasticsoul/ / CC BY-SA 2.0​Here are the folks who'll get to decide how the Arch grounds will look in 2015 (the year the monument turns 50). Commenters at stltoday.com are grumbling about one of them. Can you guess which one?Robert Campbell, architecture critic at The ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 30, 2009

    Turning (to the) Japanese

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/elasticsoul/ / CC BY-SA 2.0​Here are the folks who'll get to decide how the Arch grounds will look in 2015 (the year the monument turns 50). Commenters at stltoday.com are grumbling about one of them. Can you guess which one?Robert Campbell, architecture critic at The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2009

    Post-Dispatch Will Not Hire a New Art Critic

    Update on David Bonetti's retirement tomorrow from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Executive editor Arnie Robbins tells Daily RFT that he will not replace Bonetti, who reviewed all visual arts and architecture for the Post. "We will cover art well, however, because art is so important to a community a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2009

    Citygarden To Open July 1; Downtown Park Will Provide City a Permanent Facelift

    Aerial rendering of Citygarden. The much anticipated Citygarden, which hopes to further propel downtown St. Louis' revitalization efforts, opens to the public at 6 a.m. on July 1. Situated on a two-block stretch between 8th and 10th streets -- bounded by Chestnut Street on the north and M ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 17, 2009

    Who Built This City?

    Aerial rendering of Citygarden. The much anticipated Citygarden, which hopes to further propel downtown St. Louis' revitalization efforts, opens to the public at 6 a.m. on July 1. Situated on a two-block stretch between 8th and 10th streets -- bounded by Chestnut Street on the north and M ... More >>

  • News

    June 17, 2009

    Cover of the June 18 Print Edition

    Aerial rendering of Citygarden. The much anticipated Citygarden, which hopes to further propel downtown St. Louis' revitalization efforts, opens to the public at 6 a.m. on July 1. Situated on a two-block stretch between 8th and 10th streets -- bounded by Chestnut Street on the north and M ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2009

    Clay Wins POLITICO's Uncoveted Lead Mouse Award

    It must be said that POLITICO is nowhere near the most cutting-edge and beautiful website on the Internet, even in the political realm. But there are plenty that are uglier, some of which belong to various members of the Congress of our great and glorious nation, which POLITICO has felt moved to hon ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 1, 2009

    All Wright Turns

    It must be said that POLITICO is nowhere near the most cutting-edge and beautiful website on the Internet, even in the political realm. But there are plenty that are uglier, some of which belong to various members of the Congress of our great and glorious nation, which POLITICO has felt moved to hon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2009

    Re-Making of the Arch Grounds - Time to Weigh-In is Now

    Got a heads up late yesterday from Tom Bradley, superintendent of the Arch grounds here in St. Louis, that there are only six more days for the public to weigh-in on the National Park Service's proposed changes to the land surrounding the Arch.To view the four potential master plans for the site, cl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2009

    '90s Hip-Hop Jam of the Week: Silk, "Freak Me"

    Very illuminating for any kid in the '90s. Also, a direct descendant of the Slow Jam. Silk |MTV Music

  • Culture

    January 21, 2009

    Featured Review: Ideal (Dis-) Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer

    Very illuminating for any kid in the '90s. Also, a direct descendant of the Slow Jam. Silk |MTV Music

  • Blogs

    January 2, 2009

    New Year's Resolutions for the Blog: Help A Sister Out

    I'll have a couple of year-end mixes for A to Z readers on Monday (my crushing hangover and then the raging cold I subsequently developed meant I wasn't much up to, um, anything yesterday), but until then, I'd like to throw out a question. We talked about music community new year's resolutions over ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 3, 2008

    Font of Knowledge

    Helvetica runs rampant in neutral

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2008
  • News

    August 27, 2008

    The Cover of the August 28 Print Edition

    Helvetica runs rampant in neutral

  • Calendar

    April 2, 2008

    Home Sweet Home

    Helvetica runs rampant in neutral

  • Calendar

    January 16, 2008
  • Music

    August 15, 2007

    The Poster Service

    Concert posters the old-fashioned way.

  • News

    June 20, 2007

    Rebuilt to Suit

    SLU won't say what it has in store for the Locust Business District.

  • Calendar

    March 28, 2007

    A Very Strong Current

    SLU won't say what it has in store for the Locust Business District.

  • Calendar

    December 13, 2006

    Tower Power

    SLU won't say what it has in store for the Locust Business District.

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2006

    Sexless in St. Louis

    SLU won't say what it has in store for the Locust Business District.

  • News

    October 18, 2006

    A Whole New Ballgame

    Riverfront Times uncovers secret plan for Ballpark Village cultural landmark.

  • News

    January 12, 2005

    King's English

    Boxing promoter and great orator Don King pontificates on the Lou, and we stumble across a photo-enhanced Local Blog o' the Week. Plus: the super-snazzy logo that's going to save our public schools.

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 29, 2004
  • Film

    February 18, 2004

    The Family Guy

    A son goes looking for his late father and finds some buildings

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 24, 2003

    Best Museum Exhibition

    Sculpture and Drawings by Richard Serra

  • Calendar

    May 21, 2003

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Sculpture and Drawings by Richard Serra

  • Culture

    March 26, 2003

    The Shape of Things

    Spend time with Serra and learn how to see

  • Culture

    January 1, 2003

    The Scarlet Letter

    In St. Louis, the "A" is for "ambition"

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 25, 2002

    Best New Building

    Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts

  • Calendar

    January 9, 2002

    Trash Collector

    Revered graphic designer Art Chantry now calls St. Louis home

  • Culture

    October 31, 2001

    Rubber Cement

    Three exhibits honoring architect Tadao Ando shine a light on the man who designed the new Pulitzer museum

  • News

    January 3, 2001
  • Culture

    October 11, 2000

    Architect of Form and Spirit: Eric Mendelsohn

    Center of Contemporary Arts, through March 10

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 27, 2000
  • Best of St. Louis

    September 27, 2000

    Best New-Building Blueprint

    Forum for Contemporary Art

  • Calendar

    February 9, 2000

    Modern History

    The new Emerson Electric Center addition to the Missouri History Museum makes its debut

  • Calendar

    December 15, 1999

    WRIGHT-MINDED

    St. Louis architect William Adair Bernoudy learned his trade as a protégé of Frank Lloyd Wright but came away with a style all his own

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