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15 Job Interview Horror Stories

Posted on 26. Jan, 2009 by ResumeBear in Re-Entering the Workforce, Resume & Cover Letter Tips, Why ResumeBear?, work humor We’ve all been there: the dreaded job interview. As unnerving and stressful as they are it’s to be expected that mishaps are bound to take place. Here is a list of the 15 worst job

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The Freelancers Union Will Endorse Candidates

The Freelancers Union: Platform for an Independent Workforce As someone who has fought for 24-years to bolster the right of architects and designers to work as independent professionals in the eyes of state and local government for income tax purposes, I endorse the goals of the Freelancers Union.   CFA is an advocate for freelancers rights and

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Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, filmed in 1986

This is from the final episode of State of the Art, a series of documentaries about the visual arts in the 1980s. To buy the DVD, please go to www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk Filmed in Europe, the United States and Australia in 1985-6, the six programmes feature many key artists including — in addition to Basquiat and Warhol

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Toronto Architect Proposes Greenwrapping Elevated Highway

In Seoul or San Francisco, they took down their expressways. In New York, they built the High Line on top of an abandoned elevated rail line. In Toronto, they don’t have the guts to tear down the Gardiner expressway, so architect Les Klein has come up with the typical compromise solution: Put a High Line

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Big Dig House: Recycled Residence Reaches Completion

The Big Dig was a carbon footprint disaster, but it’s salvaged materials helped seed a few green sprouts. If the walls of the Big Dig House could talk, they’d tell you that it’s comprised of 600,000 lbs of recycled materials that were rescued from the Big Dig highway project in Boston. Inhabitat last reported on the

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Aspen Ideas Fest 2009: Frank Gehry, as interviewed by Thomas Pritzker

It was clear that Frank Gehry is self-aware from the introductory biographic notes that Pritzker read: “Frank Gehry has been the subject of a Simpsons episode…” was how it began. Gehry is often dismissed as the worst offender among “starchitects” seeking iconic memorials to their own talents, ala Howard Roark. And maybe it’s that his

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Dancing Living House, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Designed as a single-family residence combined with a dance studio, this three-story reinforced concrete building is private and open to the sky, and best of all it has plenty of parking, which comes at a premium in Japan. Dancing Living House, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, by Junichi Sampei, for A.L.X. (Architect Label Xain) via: What we do

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The Bizarre World of Michael Graves

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Skyscraper of the day

The Federation Tower (Russian: Башня «Федерация») is a skyscraper currently under construction as part of the Moscow International Business Center in Moscow, Russia. When completed in 2009, it will become the tallest building in Europe. The complex will be two towers connected to one another via a high-rise bridge.  The East Tower is designed to

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Work-on-the-Boards: Business Conditions at Architecture Firms Largely Unchanged in May

Architects see stimulus program projects generally promoting emerging design trends by Kermit Baker, PhD, Hon. AIA AIA Chief Economist Summary: The path toward recovery in design activity has stalled recently. After a significant moderation in the downturn in design billings in March, the AIA’s Architecture Billings Index (ABI) has failed to show any further hopeful

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