Chicago's National Public Housing Museum Has a Message for Congress
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This week the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, announced that Weiss/Manfredi/Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism will design a $160–170 million museum expansion. Sign up to keep up: Subscribe to get the Design Edition newsletter every Sunday.
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