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IA Interior Architects in Boston, Massachusetts — RTKL in Johannesburg, South Africa — IPD in El Cajon, California — SMWM in San Francisco, California — Hurricane Gustav in Cocodrie, Louisiana — Moshe Safdie and Associates in Washington, D.C., USA...
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Housing for art lovers, homeless people, flood-zone dwellers, and hobbits. Chandeliers, bus stops, and a synagogue entrance. An expandable bathroom. These are not massive landmarks, but rather the AIA's annual exemplars of design executed with limited financial and programmatic means: the American Institute of Architects 2008 Small Project Awards recipients.
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In creating the Lurie Garden in downtown Chicago, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol Ltd transformed a parking garage rooftop into a public botanical garden. Located on three acres (1.2 hectares) in Millennium Park, a part of Grant Park, the garden combines engineered elements with native perennials of the Midwestern prairie.
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Where a failed urban housing project once stood, enclosed and separated from its surrounding neighborhood in San Francisco's Mission District, the mixed-use Valencia Gardens development now supports an integrated neighborhood designed to promote safety through activity. Architect Van Meter Williams Pollack LLP, with associate architect Martinez Architects, Inc., lined the sidewalk with building entries and reintroduced vehicular streets into the site, connecting it with the urban fabric.
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For its third annual steel housing competition, Living Steel challenged architects to design affordable, energy-efficient housing prototypes for Cherepovets, Russia, where temperatures can climb to 34 degrees Celsius (93 degrees Fahrenheit) in the summer and dive as low as
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More Architecture News Daily Architecture Headlines — Updated every day at ArchitectureWeek
Crash! Grande Bibliotheque Loses 3 More Windows — Montreal Gazette, 2008.0904
RIBA Unveils Special Awards Shortlist — World Architecture News, 2008.0904
Venice Looks at New Architecture — ANSA, 2008.0904
People and Places 2008.0903 — ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0903
Manser Medal 2008 Shortlist Announced — World Architecture News, 2008.0903
The Place Prize 2008 — Metro, 2008.0901
Hurricane Gustav Barrels Ashore — Nature, 2008.0901
Spared a Direct Hit, New Orleans Exhales — New York Times, 2008.0901
Sixty Six Distinguished Projects Unveiled at the American Architecture Awards — WAN, 2008.0831
New Orleans Prepares for a Potential Hurricane Gustav — Los Angeles Times, 2008.0829
AIA Small Projects 2008 — ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0827
People and Places 2008.0827 — ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0827
Gehry Out as Architect of Theater in Brooklyn — New York Times, 2008.0822
California Academy of Sciences Opens Wednesday, September 27th — San Francisco Sentinel, 2008.0822
Fire, Not Explosives, Felled 3rd Tower on 9/11, Report Says — New York Times, 2008.0821
NSW Architecture Awards Announced: Gorgeous Oz-Chitecture — Inhabitat (blog), 2008.0821
NYC Mayor Spins Back His Turbine Idea for City — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2008.0821
People and Places 2008.0820 — ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0820
Devon Plans 925-Foot Skyscraper in Oklahoma City — BusinessWeek, 2008.0820
Prize Piece of Roman Architecture Unearthed on Isle of Wight — Building (UK), 2008.0819
Robert A.M. Stern Wins of Vincent Scully Prize — Yale University Press Release, 2008.0819
PCA Downgrades 2008 Cement Consumption Forecast — PCA Press Release at ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0813
Code Approval of Modular Housing Systems (MHS Prefab) — US Systems LLC Press Release at ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0813
People and Places 2008.0813 — ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0813
ASLA Landscape Awards 2008 — ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0813
Church Sues over Landmark Status — New York Times, 2008.0807
Beijing Skyline Rises Faster, Higher, Stronger — Associated Foreign Press, 2008.0806
First Look at the New US Embassy in Beijing — China Daily, 2008.0806
People and Places 2008.0806 — ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0806
Lunarstudio Architectural Renderings — Lunarstudio Press Release at ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0806
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