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NEW ARCHITECTURE IN NEW ORLEANS Located on one of the busiest thoroughfares in the Central Business District of New Orleans, the apartment building at 930 Poydras was designed to translate the dense, communal atmosphere of the French Quarter into a tower. To achieve that effect, architecture firm Eskew+Dumez+Ripple incorporated generous, well designed common spaces into the 250-unit, 21-story building.
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Fletcher Priest Architects and Sauerbruch Hutton in London, England, United Kingdom — Holzman Moss Bottino Architecture in Wylie, Texas — hanrahanMeyers architects in Claverack, New York — Kasian in Surrey, Canada — K/R Architects in Murcia, Spain... |
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Hurricanes were a primary concern for Michael G. Imber Architects when the firm designed a traditionally styled home for the new Beachtown development in Galveston, Texas. Located on the Gulf of Mexico, the vacation-home development combines New Urbanist architecture and planning with systematic fortification against the fierce storms.
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In an urban district of Little Rock along the Arkansas River, the Arkansas Studies Institute occupies a facility befitting the study of state history. Two neglected buildings from the 1880s and 1910s were repaired and combined with a new addition to form one consolidated facility that houses over ten million historic documents.
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To become one of the first two buildings to receive full recognition under the Living Building Challenge, the Omega Center for Sustainable Living in Rhinebeck, New York, had to meet a stringent set of criteria, including generating all its energy from renewable resources, and capturing and treating all water used onsite.
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More Architecture News Daily Architecture Headlines — Updated every day at ArchitectureWeek
Rensselaer Professor Awarded "Rome Prize" — RPI Press Release, 2011.0616
New Architecture in New Orleans — ArchitectureWeek, 2011.0615
People and Places 2011.0615 — ArchitectureWeek, 2011.0615
Ambitious Building Designs Invite Debate — Toledo Blade, 2011.0615
Eli Broad Is Selling $150 Million in Bonds for New L. A. Art Museum — Business Insider, 2011.0614
Building Collapse in Kenya's Capital Leaves 2 Dead, 14 Missing — Digital Journal, 2011.0614
St. Paul Unveiling Great River Park Master Plan — Pioneer Press, 2011.0613
Architect Falls to His Death — Architect's Newspaper, 2011.0610
Palladio Awards 2011 — ArchitectureWeek, 2011.0608
People and Places 2011.0608 — ArchitectureWeek, 2011.0608
Iconic Design for New Apple Headquarters by Norman Foster — San Jose Mercury News, 2011.0608
Sustainable.To Takes Top Prize in Passive House Design Competition — Canadian Architect, 2011.0604
Australian War Memorial Cleans Up in ACT Architecture Awards 2011 — Architecture & Design (Australia), 2011.0604
9 Days after Tornado, Rebuilding Begins in Joplin — New York Times, 2011.0531
Joplin Victims Offered Existing Homes — New York Times, 2011.0530
Southwark Council under Fire in "Cash-for-Planning" Row — BD (Registration required), 2011.0527
First Look at SFMOMA's New Wing — Los Angeles Times, 2011.0526
RIBA Issues Challenge to Design a Pretty Pylon — Country Life, 2011.0526
Milwaukee Mayor's Design Awards Announced — Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 2011.0526
Prentice Reprieve — Architect's Newspaper, 2011.0526
Old Prentice Is on Life Support; Where Is the Landmarks Commission? — Chicago Tribune, 2011.0525
People and Places 2011.0525 — ArchitectureWeek, 2011.0525
Trump Soho Developers Sue Project's Architect — Real Deal, 2011.0524
N.Y.U. Moves Forward with Citywide Expansion — Real Estate Weekly, 2011.0524
Ten Winners of the 2011 Cooper Hewitt Design Awards — Fast Company, 2011.0524
Brazilian Forest Advocate and Wife Slain — New York Times, 2011.0524
Canadian Institute of Steel Construction Awards Honour Steel Design Innovation — Daily Commercial News and Construction Record, 2011.0520
Feilden & Mawson's Prague Office Wins Czech Grand Prix — BD (Registration required), 2011.0520
First Death from Overflowing Mississippi River Is Reported in Vicksburg — Associated Press, 2011.0519
Hadid, Foster Designs Earn Architecture Honours — CBC News, 2011.0519
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