In an exclusive interview with The Construction Specifier, Luis Vidal, president and founding partner of international architecture practice luis vidal + architects, spoke about how airport design will change following the pandemic.
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As the year comes to an end, The Construction Specifier is revealing the website’s most popular features and articles from 2020. Reread a favorite or check out a piece you missed online the first time around.
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Edward Mazria, FAIA, has won the 2021 Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects (AIA). The award honors an individual whose significant body of work has had a lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture.
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The American Concrete Institute has released the new ACI 301-20, Specifications for Concrete Construction, along with the companion ACI Field Reference Manual.
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Zurn Industries has entered into an agreement to acquire Hadrian Inc., a provider of washroom partitions and lockers. With this acquisition, Zurn seeks to offer building owners a complete washroom solution and accelerate its strategy of being the leading provider of smart building solutions.
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Universal Studios Japan will hold the grand opening of Super Nintendo World on February 4, 2021, in Osaka, Japan. It will bring to life a highly themed and immersive land featuring Nintendo’s legendary worlds, characters, and adventures where guests will be able to play inside their favorite Nintendo games.
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For the Apollo 11 roadshow, formTL Ingenieure and architect Teresa Hoskyns have developed a mobile theater tent in large format. The ‘Lunar Dome’ was designed as a flying structure.
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Foster + Partners and Zaha Hadid Architects have both withdrawn from Architects Declare, an organization seeking to raise awareness of the climate and biodiversity emergency.
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Ford Motor Company has revealed site plans for Michigan Central, a mobility innovation district in Detroit. Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU) is doing the masterplan for the project and Gensler will be reimagining the Book Depository, a key building in the development.
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International engineering firm Walter P Moore has released a stewardship report entitled Embodied Carbon, A Clearer View of Carbon Emissions. The report focuses on an issue of relevance for all material specifiers, which is the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
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