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When it originally opened in 1978, the Portland Transit Mall created a transit-focused corridor in downtown Portland, Oregon. For a distance of 11 blocks through the commercial core, a pair of one-way streets combined dedicated bus lanes and limited car traffic with wide brick sidewalks and an abundance of trees, benches, and shelters. But despite being an icon for progressive urban planning, the mall suffered deferred maintenance and deterioration over time.
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There were fears that the great earthquake that struck eastern Japan in March 2011 would in some way lessen the UIA World Congress recently held in Tokyo by the International Union of Architects (UIA).
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In the U.S. Department of Energy's recent Solar Decathlon, architecture and engineering students competed to build the most efficient, innovative, economical, and attractive home powered by the sun.
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More Architecture News Daily Architecture Headlines — Updated every day at ArchitectureWeek
The Week in Architecture — Guardian Unlimited, 2011.1104
Honours for Memorial Design — ABC News, 2011.1104
Ontario Wood Design Projects Recognized — Daily Commercial News and Construction Record, 2011.1104
American Landscape Awards — ArchitectureWeek, 2011.1102
Stern to Design American Revolution Museum in Philadelphia — New York Times, 2011.1101
School Design Heavily Awarded by Orange County Architects — PRWeb, 2011.1031
Bangkok Braces for Flooding from High Tides — CNN, 2011.1028
Wintec House Wins Architecture Awards — Voxy, 2011.1028
Wintec House Wins Two Architecture Awards — Scoop (New Zealand), 2011.1028
Jeanne Gang No Longer Involved with CentrePointe, Developer Says — Herald Leader, 2011.1027
Pritzker Architecture Prize Ceremonies Head to China — Chicago Tribune, 2011.1027
UIA World Congress 2011 — ArchitectureWeek, 2011.1026
LA-Las Vegas Bullet Train Scores Major OK — Central Valley Business Times, 2011.1026
Riverwalk Project Picks Integral, HOK Architects — Denver Business Journal, 2011.1026
Shanghai Casts Stone at Glass Houses over Safety — China Daily, 2011.1024
People and Places 2011.1012 — ArchitectureWeek, 2011.1019
Gehry Answers Critics on Eisenhower Memorial Idea — Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2011.1018
Eastie Angst as Officials Fear More Row House Collapses — Boston Herald, 2011.1017
Heavy Rains Kill Dozens in Central America — Christian Science Monitor, 2011.1017
Farshid Moussavi Wins Major Paris Housing Project — BD (Registration required), 2011.1015
China's CNOOC Hit by Fresh Oil Spill in Northern Waters — Reuters, 2011.1015
As Thailand Floods Spread, Experts Blame Officials, Not Rains — New York Times, 2011.1014
MediaCityUK Wins Building of the Year Award — Manchester Confidential, 2011.1014
Maine House Captures Heat - and LEED Project of Year Award — Smart Planet, 2011.1014
Pylon Design Competition Winner Revealed — BBC News, 2011.1014
Frank Gehry Reveals New Details for Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial — Art Daily, 2011.1014
Fukushima 'Hot Spots' Raise Radiation Fears — Nature (registration required), 2011.1014
Olympics Velodrome Wins Better Public Building Award — Mirror, 2011.1013
Monterey Bay Aquarium Receives 25 Year Award from AIACC — American Institute of Architects, California Council Press Release, 2011.1013
Solar Decathlon 2011 — ArchitectureWeek, 2011.1012
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