Temple of Steps named Best New Public Building: Wallpaper Design Awards 2021
The shortlist for the Wallpaper Design Award for Best New Public Building 2021 includes world-leading culture, community and infrastructure spaces
Photography: Edmund Sumner
Temple of Steps, Andhra Pradesh, India
Pictured top, Mumbai-based architect Sameep Padora was commissioned to create this temple for the residents of a number of villages around Nandyal in India’s Andhra Pradesh. The architect’s aim was to try to connect ‘the socio-cultural expectations of a temple with the ecological framework and dynamics of and around the site’. A nearby canal, previously used to irrigate the surrounding cotton and chilli fields, was dried up, so the architect went to work bringing water back into the landscape, flowing from the ground through neighbouring limestone quarries to form a pond. The temple’s volumes were imagined as a traditional ghat; a flight of steps leading down to a waterbody. This i
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
We can all agree that 2020 was the worst of times â a year of such challenge and devastating loss. Throughout our city and our Downtown, our independent small businesses continue to confront an existential crisis, exacerbated now by the bleak of winter.
As we welcome 2021, with vaccines on the horizon, we know better times are ahead. But even in the midst of a pandemic, Downtown reached historic achievements last year.
⢠The U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum and Hall of Fame opened to national and international acclaim.
⢠Construction continued on Weidner Field and Ed Robson Arena, slated to open this year.
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Lt. Col. ML Cavanaugh, PhD, is a nonresident fellow with the Modern War Institute at West Point. This essay is an unofficial expression of opinion; the views expressed are those of the author and not necessarily those of West Point, the Department of the Army, the Department of Defense, or any agency of the U.S. government.
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US Olympic & Paralympic Museum named country s Best New Attraction in USA Today
By: Brenda Argueta
and last updated 2021-01-01 13:16:15-05
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. â Right in Colorado Springs, the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum announced Thursday it had been named the country s Best New Attraction in 2020 in USA Today s 10Best Readersâ Choice Awards.
The museum officially opened in downtown Colorado Springs in late July 2020 after its opening was delayed due to COVID-19.
The museum features high-tech exhibits honoring the history of the United States Olympic and Paralympic movement while celebrating the achievements of its athletes. There will be 12 galleries featured in the museum that will go through an Olympic or Paralympic athlete s journey.