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Recent Examples of alamedaOr are Allende’s grandes alamedas still beckoning all these years later?—
Ariel Dorfman,
The New York Review of Books,
31 Aug. 2023
The screen itself can register several touches at once and supports 8-bit color depth, which gives it a kind of a shimmering visual profile somewhat reminiscent of late 1980s and early 1990s arcade video games.
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Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
28 Oct. 2026
In January, the brand opened its largest flagship to date in Shanghai, followed by a third Parisian store in the Galerie de Montpensier arcade that border the Palais-Royal garden.
Both are early examples of the colonnade apartment style and saw reinvestment in the 1980s while providing affordable housing for decades.
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Chris Higgins,
Kansas City Star,
20 Oct. 2026
Set the scene Right away, there's a sense of arrival reminiscent of a city chic hotel with a grand lobby entry distinguished by a long, arched colonnade comprised of iron ceiling panels with a grapevine-like pattern.
The result, in both its grace notes and its gestalt, freakishly summons the placeless, timeless, sunless anti-aesthetics of a turn-of-the-millennium strip-mall buffet.
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Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2026
Mishkin owes some of the success of her label, Naomi Nomi, to a growing backlash against companies – from the luxury tier on down to mall brands and fast fashion – that have tried to pull the synthetic poly-blend wool over our eyes.
The aqueduct, the discovery of which was made public on Sunday, will be preserved as a promenade/archaeological park at the entrance to the future neighborhood by the IAA and Israel Land Authority.
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Michele Chabin,
Sun Sentinel,
27 Oct. 2026
People walk on the Bund promenade along the Huangpu River in Shanghai on January 19, 2026.