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Stonehenge is in big trouble. Unbeknown to most of us, a global contest is currently under way to select seven "new" wonders of the world. Next month, 20 monuments, including the Great Wall of China, the Eiffel Tower and the Taj Mahal, will be whittled down to create a new magnificent seven. But it's all looking a bit Eurovision for Stonehenge, the only UK candidate. Although 50 million people worldwide have so far voted by text or online at new7wonders.com, latest results reveal the famous landmark languishing in the bottom 10 - alongside the Sydney Opera House and the Statue of Liberty.
Pieces of architectural history sit on Milwaukee's south side -- a row of four duplexes and two cottages designed by Frank Lloyd Wright more than 90 years ago for low-to-moderate-income families.
But years of makeovers -- aluminum siding was added to one house -- rendered some of them shells of their former designs. Now a non-profit group wants to restore the Frank Lloyd Wright charm to one of the single-family homes -- right down to the crushed quartz stone-infused stucco on the exterior.
FOUR years ago Henry Scott, a media consultant living in Manhattan, hired Sergio Guardia to design a weekend house on a wooded site in Kerhonkson, N.Y. Mr. Guardia, an architect who was born in Bolivia and trained at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, came up with plans for a futuristic house set on thick steel beams cantilevered over a hillside.
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