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Despite having failed to learn the piano as a child, Zaha Hadid explains why she and her firm couldn't resist the idea of creating the perfect 'liquid space' to listen to JS Bach


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Last month the foundation that owns Frank Lloyd Wright’s famed Ennis House in LA’s Los Feliz neighborhood announced that it was putting it on the market for $15 million, potentially taking it out of the public realm. According to the Ennis House Foundation, a study it commissioned evaluating potential preservation approaches showed it didn’t have the resources to maintain the house on its own.

According to the foundation, the study confirmed that it “would need to generate significant philanthropy to operate at a sustainable level for future years, given the house’s ongoing repair and restoration needs,” with the foundation concluding that, “despite many conversations with potential funders, we haven’t found the resources required.”

Since the announcement the preservation community has struggled over the strategy, and some have even speculated that the significant work that went into saving it (The Ennis House Foundation, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the LA Conservancy helped fund a $6.5 million restoration of the house beginning in 2005 after it had suffered earthquake and water damage) would go to waste.

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The Times Agrees to Sell WQXR Radio


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paolo soleri wind chimes and bells via reference library


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Donald V "Duck" Dunn (born November 24, 1941) is an American bass guitarist, record producer, and songwriter. Dunn is notable for the "feel" and groove of his 1960s recordings with Booker T. & the M.G.'s and as a session bassist for Stax Records, which specialized in Blues and Gospel-infused southern soul and Memphis soul music styles. Dunn also performed on recordings with Muddy Waters, Freddie King, Jerry Lee Lewis, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Wilson Pickett, Guy Sebastian, Rod Stewart, & Roy Buchanan and many, many, many more.
michael shellly at wfmu devoted a whole show to the music of and interview w/ DD. archived here. next saturday he will interview howard kaylan of the turtles (and flo and eddie).


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barns foundation mystery plans for new home


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