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RTKL Associates Inc. in Baltimore, Maryland — Gary Lee Partners in Chicago, Illinois — Carmody Groarke in London, England, United Kingdom — VOA Associates Incorporated in Rancho Mirage, California — RED Design Group in Karawaci, Indonesia — Environment Associates, Architects and Consultants in Austin, Texas — Rudolph and Sletten, Inc. in San Francisco, California — SmithGroup in Lansing, Michigan — Glenn Howells Architects in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom — Perkins + Will in New York, New York — Meltzer/ Mandl Architects in Brooklyn, New York — gkkworks in Granada Hills, California...
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The iconic Michigan Avenue Streetwall in Chicago, Illinois, features the work of many of the city's best architects, and boasts an array of styles and building technologies dating from 1880 to 1930. Buildings by Louis Sullivan and Daniel Burnham are among the structures that compose this 12-block stretch of historic buildings that face Lake Michigan across parkland.
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With 40 different awards given by the San Francisco chapter of the AIA, and only a few repeat winners among them, there were plenty of happy architects by the Bay this year. Pritzker Prize-winner Thom Mayne and his Santa Monica firm, Morphosis, received one of four honor awards for excellence in architecture. Morphosis shared the award for the San Francisco Federal Building with the local office of SmithGroup.
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AIA GREEN BUILDING AWARDS 2008 Each project in the 2008 "Top Ten Green Projects" awards by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on the Environment (COTE) was evaluated on ten measures, documented extensively on the COTE web site. These include design innovation, community context and land use, longevity, bioclimatic design, water and energy conservation, materials, and indoor environment. The ten winners — plus one honorable mention — approach sustainable design through an exemplary integration of architecture, technology, and natural systems.
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More Architecture News Daily Architecture Headlines — Updated every day at ArchitectureWeek
People and Places 2008.0618 — ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0618
Walter Netsch, Architect, Dies at 88 — New York Times, 2008.0617
Des Moines Levee Breach Threatens Neighborhood, High School — Chicago Tribune, 2008.0614
Earthquake Shakes Japan, Killing at Least 6 — Washington Post, 2008.0614
Wisconsin Award-Winning Architecture Honored — AIArchitect, 2008.0613
Kansas Tornadoes Kill 2, Devastate Town of Chapman — AP, 2008.0612
Waters in Flooded City in Iowa Likely to Crest Soon — New York Times, 2008.0612
Flooding Risk Remains after Tornado Danger Eases — Kansas City Star, 2008.0612
Abu Dhabi Fund Looking to Buy New York's Iconic Chrysler Building for $800 Million — Domain B, 2008.0612
Historic U.S. Places at Risk — ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0611
People and Places 2008.0611 — ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0611
Floods' Damage May Be $126M — Indianapolis Star, 2008.0610
Burj Dubai Completion Delayed by Another Eight to Nine Months — Gulf News, 2008.0609
People and Places 2008.0604 — ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0604
Jean Nouvel Receives 2008 Pritzker Prize at the Library of Congress in Washington — ArtDaily, 2008.0603
Living Steel Shortlist Announced — BD, 2008.0602
At Least One Killed by Crane Collapse in Manhattan — New York Times, 2008.0531
People and Places 2008.0528 — ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0528
San Francisco AIA Awards 2008 — ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0528
Governor General's Medal Winner — Canadian Architect, 2008.0527
Ontario Projects Dominate National Urban Design Awards — Daily Commercial News and Constrution Record, 2008.0527
Report Bares Construction-Site Crisis — New York Post, 2008.0525
Fire under Control at Home of Berlin Philharmonic — New York Times, 2008.0521
Fire Breaks Out at Berlin Philharmonic Building — Seattle Times, 2008.0520
2008 Canadian National Urban Design Awards — Canadian Architect, 2008.0519
Fire Devastates Delft Architecture Faculty — BD, 2008.0516
Architects Gather in Boston for the 140th AIA National Convention — AIArchitect, 2008.0516
Polar Bear Added to Endangered Species List — Los Angeles Times, 2008.0515
Japan's Earthquake Warning System Fails Again — Nature, 2008.0514
'Hundreds Buried' by China Quake — BBC News, 2008.0512
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