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8NW8 IN PORTLAND'S PEARL The ideals are familiar to any architect working in a big city: a project should be well designed, well built, and well integrated into its urban environment. And yet we have too few U.S. examples to follow when it comes to applying these principles to housing for the poor.
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AIA HONOR AWARDS 2007 The AIA announced 29 recipients of the organization's annual honor awards for architecture, interior, and urban design in January 2007. Richard A. Logan, AIA, chair of the jury for the architecture awards, cited "the exterior aspects, the quality of the interior spaces, site considerations, environmental issues, and social relevance" as factors in making the final selections.
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CHALLENGING URBANISM How should the rapid changes in 21st-century society influence the methods of urban planners? How can planners promote sustainable development in light of population shifts from traditional city centers? To answer such questions, the French research organization Sustainable Urban Development (PIDUD) started the new year with a binational event. The French-German colloquium "Cities and the Various Time Scales of Sustainable Development" took place in January 2007.
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More Architecture News Daily Architecture Headlines — Updated every day at ArchitectureWeek
Louvre Accused of 'Selling' Its Soul — Scotsman Online, 2007.0307
France to Open New Louvre in Abu Dhabi — Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0306
Architecture: Walls Go Up in the Search for Security — International Herald Tribune, 2007.0306
Best New Skyscraper of 2006 — AIArchitect, 2007.0302
Tornado Death Toll Rises to 17 — CNN, 2007.0302
Disney Sues Anaheim over Plan — Los Angeles Times, 2007.0227
NAIOP Honors Chapters with Annual Chapter Merit Awards — National Association of Industrial and Office Properties press release, 2007.0226
Convention Center Beam Slipped in 2005 — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2007.0222
A £414m Bill for Holyrood Building — BBC News, 2007.0221
Stephen Gardiner, Humane Architect and Writer, Dies — Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0221
Herzog and de Meuron Win Gold for Architecture — NZZ Online, 2007.0221
Louisiana Levee Plan Leaves Some Helpless — USA Today, 2007.0220
New York's Spitzer Approves Building of Freedom Tower — Bloomberg, 2007.0220
A Tower That Sends a Message of Anxiety, Not Ambition — New York Times, 2007.0219
Steven Holl Architects Wins Three Awards from AIA NY — Canadian Architect, 2007.0219
Worker Crushed by Collapsing Wall — News & Observer, 2007.0214
Architects Fund $2 Million Nationwide Community Service Project — American Institute of Architects press release, 2007.0213
Louisiana Katrina Insurance Suit Begins — Forbes, 2007.0212
AIA Potomac Valley Awards Great Architecture — AIArchitect, 2007.0209
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