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Venice Biennale: Frank Gehry to receive Gold Lion

Venice Biennale (09/14 – 11/23/08) has granted Gold Lion for lifetime achievement award to Frank Gehry, for being “the living architect that more than others has clearly shown how much wonderful and productive can be experimentation” [el universal / labiennale.org]....

New York: Olafur Eliasson’s ‘City waterfalls’

‘The New York City Waterfalls‘ are four huge, almost 40-meters high metal frameworks, designed by Olafur Eliasson. Powered by electricity from renewable sources, an hydraulic system is in charge of pumping the water from the river to the top of the four structures, letting about 160000 litres fall down per minute… [ELPAIS.com / NYT]. Images […]...