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    Design and Architecture

    Tesla Patents, Miracle Mile Makeover, Coolhaus

    Elon Musk continues to disrupt industry with his latest patent move, and changes are headed to Miracle Mile with three museum makeovers; plus, we talk about Coolhaus’s architectural ice cream.

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    By Frances Anderton • Jun 17, 2014 • 28m Listen

    Elon Musk continues to disrupt industry with his latest patent move, and changes are headed to Miracle Mile with three museum makeovers; plus, we talk about Coolhaus’s architectural ice cream.

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    3 stories
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      Architectural Ice Cream

      Last week UCLA’s architecture and urban design grads graduated with a day of presentations of projects that were the fruit of years of study. But will they all go on to build buildings? Not necessarily. Just as law grads sometimes take their costly degrees and apply them elsewhere, so do tomorrow’s builders.

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      Miracle Mile Makeover

      Changes are afoot in LA museum world. The co-lead architect of the Oscars museum, to occupy the former May Company, has been mysteriously dropped. But the Oscars museum is not the only change coming to the Wilshire-Fairfax intersection.

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      5 min
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      Tesla Patents

      Elon Musk continues to disrupt industry in his latest decision to not file patent lawsuit against those who want to use Tesla’s technology. Is this another brilliant marketing move on Musk’s part and is this a good thing or a bad thing for the auto industry?

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      Frances Anderton

      architecture critic and author

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    In this episode

    3 stories
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      Architectural Ice Cream

    2. 0:005 min

      Miracle Mile Makeover

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      Tesla Patents

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