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Perkins + Will in Chicago, Illinois — KTGY Group in Irvine, California — RTKL in Baltimore, Maryland — Shelley Poticha in Washington, D.C., USA — SHW Group in Wichita Falls, Texas — Rafael Viñoly Architects in Cleveland, Ohio...
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For its new northeastern branch, the Ann Arbor District Library asked inFORM studio to design a sustainable building that would promote observation of and respect for its natural surroundings. The resulting Traverwood Branch Library traces a narrow L shape on the corner of a triangular lot, treading lightly on its wooded site while also engaging the street edge.
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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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More Architecture News Daily Architecture Headlines — Updated every day at ArchitectureWeek
People and Places 2009.0729 — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0729
Bodega Proto Winery Shortlisted for Stirling Prize — Olive Press, 2009.0729
With British Museum Plans Canceled, Richard Rogers Loses Second Big Project — UnBeige (blog), 2009.0728
Finalists Named in Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom — Interior Design, 2009.0727
Open Architecture Challenge Finalists Announced — Metropolis, 2009.0724
Adjaye Brought to Brink of Insolvency — BD, 2009.0723
Health Centres Battle for Title of Best New British Building — This is London, 2009.0723
Beijing Stadium Wins RIBA Lubetkin Prize — Art Daily, 2009.0723
Stirling Prize for Architecture Shortlist Announced — Guardian Unlimited, 2009.0723
People and Places 2009.0722 — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0722
8 Dead, 9 Missing in Floods in Southern Japan — Associated Press, 2009.0722
Julius Shulman Dies at 98 — Los Angeles Times, 2009.0716
Tongan Architecture Postgrad Wins Residency Award — Scoop, 2009.0716
Michigan AIA Awards 2009 — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0715
Bejing "Bird's Nest" Stadium Wins Top RIBA Prize — Click Liverpool, 2009.0714
49ers Detail Santa Clara Stadium Plan — San Francisco Business Times, 2009.0713
David Woodhouse Architects Win Burnham Memorial Competition — Bustler, 2009.0709
People and Places 2009.0708 — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0708
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
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