Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has been selected as designer of the new student center for Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, after a months-long international design competition led by a special advisory committee.
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Congratulations to Steven D. Marino for winning The Construction Specifier 2020 Article of the Year Award for the article “Breaking it Down: Keys to Diagnosing Glass Breakage in Buildings,” published in the July 2019 issue. The Construction Specifier Article of the Year Award is presented to the author(s) of an original...
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The winner of the 2020 International Highrise Award (IHP) for the world’s most innovative high-rise is the ‘Norra Tornen’ twin towers project in Stockholm, Sweden, designed by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam.
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The Pritzker Architecture Prize has appointed Alejandro Aravena as chair of the Pritzker Architecture Prize jury and Manuela Lucá-Dazio as an advisor to the Prize and the next executive director, beginning in March 2021. The Pritzker Prize is known internationally as architecture’s highest honor, and this coming year will mark...
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At a time when many higher-education capital projects are on hold, Missouri’s Drury University offers a glimpse of a more hopeful future. The university broke ground on the institution’s first new academic building in two decades, designed by Cooper Robertson in collaboration with the firm Trivers.
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The American Institute of Architects’ (AIA’s) Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE) has recognized 11 projects for state-of-the-art designs of schools and learning centers. The Education Facility Design Award jury selected six facilities for its Awards of Excellence and five projects for its Awards of Merit.
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The CONSTRUCT 2020 virtual show sessions are now available on CSI’s Learning Library to watch on-demand through December 31. Over 30 units of CSI and AIA learning units from this year’s virtual show are available for free for all CSI members.
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Snøhetta, alongside collaborators R8 Property, Skanska, and Asplan Viak, has completed its fourth energy-positive building in its powerhouse portfolio. As part of the Powerhouse series, Powerhouse Telemark, Norway, sets a new standard for the construction of environmentally sustainable buildings by reducing its yearly net energy consumption by 70 percent...
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The Howard Hughes Corporation has announced plans for an affordable housing development at 250 Water Street in Lower Manhattan and a revived South Street Seaport Museum as part of the broader Seaport vision. The plans were designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM).
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Voting season can be stressful for everyone, but in Kansas City, Hufft, a locally based fabrication and design firm, is helping create a fun, innovative way to welcome new voters to the political process.
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