Arts & Architecture
Best architecture of 2008
It was a year of spectacular highs and lows for architecture—the dazzle of Olympic icons versus the disappointment of an iconic skyscraper, the Chicago Spire, which remains a hole in the ground. New landmarks took shape in the hands of rising stars while old landmarks, from the recent past as well as the far past, were expertly restored.
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