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RTKL in West Chester, Ohio — NBWW in Miami, Florida — Otak, Inc. in Lake Oswego, Oregon — kadawittfeldarchitektur in Sighartstein, Austria...
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BUILDINGS AND THE CLIMATE BILL It's important to "get things right" when a new building is constructed. More so than perhaps anything else we create, new buildings will be with us for a very long time. The greenhouse gas cap-and-trade section of the Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill gets most of the attention, as it should, but the bill has many other provisions, some of which are directly important to the building industry.
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To the street, the concrete-block home near Bellevue, Idaho, presents minimally incised walls. From inside, the boxy masonry of Outpost opens up to surprisingly expansive views of the rural Idaho landscape.
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AMERICAN LANDSCAPE AWARDS 2009 Buffalo Bayou flows through downtown Houston, Texas, under a tangle of freeways and bridges on its way to Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. Landscape architects SWA Group reenvisioned a neglected 1.2-mile- (1.9-kilometer-) length of bayou front, transforming it into pedestrian-friendly parkland with improved floodwater conveyance.
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"Ours is a hopeful future," said American Institute of Architects President Marvin Malecha, FAIA, as he opened the 2009 AIA Convention in San Francisco. "We need to let the public know that they can count on our profession to lead them through these tough times."
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More Architecture News Daily Architecture Headlines — Updated every day at ArchitectureWeek
David Woodhouse Architects Win Burnham Memorial Competition — Bustler, 2009.0709
Shanghai Authorities Hold 9 People after Apartment Building Tips over, Order Safety Checks — Los Angeles Times, 2009.0629
House Passes Bill to Address Threat of Climate Change — New York Times, 2009.0626
People and Places 2009.0624 — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0624
Architecture Billings Index Shows No Significant Improvement in Business Conditions — AIA Press Release at ArchWeek, 2009.0624
Award-Winning Homes — Washingtonian.com, 2009.0622
Building Collapse in Ft. Greene, Brooklyn, Injures 4 — New York Daily News, 2009.0621
Impasse Continues at WTC — GlobeSt, 2009.0618
Royal Institute of British Architects' Lubetkin Prize Shortlist Announced — Art Daily, 2009.0617
American Landscape Awards 2009 — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0617
Architect Accuses Prince Charles of Interference with Building Project — New York Times, 2009.0616
Rogers Loses Chelsea Barracks Job — BD, 2009.0612
Shortlist for Britain's Top Public Architecture Prize Announced — Guardian Unlimited, 2009.0611
People and Places 2009.0610 — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0610
AIA Housing Awards 2009 — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0610
Partial Roof Collapse at ConAgra Plant in NC — CNN, 2009.0609
Glenn Murcutt Honoured at Museum of Sydney — Art Daily, 2009.0604
Eric Parry Wins RA's Architecture Prize — Architects' Journal, 2009.0604
Developer Drops Gehry’S Design for Brooklyn Arena — New York Times, 2009.0604
People and Places 2009.0603 — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0603
A New Architecture Prize from China, by Way of USC — Los Angeles Times, 2009.0528
People and Places 2009.0527 — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0527
AIA Convention 2009 — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0527
Green Prefab Firm Michelle Kaufmann Designs Is Closing — Los Angeles Times, 2009.0526
Arthur Erickson, Canadian Architect Who Mirrored Landscapes, Dies at 84 — New York Times, 2009.0522
Renowned Architect Arthur Erickson Dead at 84 — Vancouver Sun, 2009.0521
People and Places 209.0520 — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0520
Hadid's Guangzhou Opera Structure Intact after Fire — Bloomberg, 2009.0513
Endangered Historic U.S. Places 2009 — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0513
Zaha Hadid's Guangzhou Opera House Goes Up in Flames — Architects' Journal, 2009.0512
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