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NBBJ in Beijing, China — SmithGroup in Blacksburg, Virginia — Shift architecture urbanism in Tilburg, Netherlands — Bird Houk in Dublin, Ohio — Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates with SRA Architectes in Paris, France...
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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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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
Chinese Dissident Ai Weiwei Free, but Silenced — CBS News, 2011.0624
Architect Awarded $50m Carnarvon Courthouse Project — Architecture & Design (Australia), 2011.0624
George M. White, Architect of Capitol, Dies at 90 — New York Times, 2011.0623
People and Places 2011.0622 — ArchitectureWeek, 2011.0622
Ai Weiwei Released from Detention — Guardian Unlimited, 2011.0622
British Architect Wins Award for Berlin Museum — Irish Times, 2011.0621
Spanish Underdog Triumphs in Lausanne — BD (Registration required), 2011.0620
Perth's One40william Building Wins WA Awards — Architecture & Design (Australia), 2011.0620
6 Injured as Building Collapses in Nairobi — Daily Nation, 2011.0619
Zaha Hadid's Serpentine Sackler Gallery Approved — BD (Registration required), 2011.0617
Chinese Secretly Copy Austrian UNESCO Town — Der Spiegel, 2011.0616
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
Obama Salutes Winner of Top Architecture Prize — Boston Globe, 2011.0612
Architect Falls to His Death — Architect's Newspaper, 2011.0610
Iconic Design for New Apple Headquarters by Norman Foster — San Jose Mercury News, 2011.0608
People and Places 2011.0608 — ArchitectureWeek, 2011.0608
Palladio Awards 2011 — ArchitectureWeek, 2011.0608
Australian War Memorial Cleans Up in ACT Architecture Awards 2011 — Architecture & Design (Australia), 2011.0604
Sustainable.To Takes Top Prize in Passive House Design Competition — Canadian Architect, 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
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