Many top United Kingdom-based architecture firms, such as Zaha Hadid Architects, Grimshaw Architects, and Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, have written an open letter to American software company Autodesk citing their concerns related to the “increasing cost of ownership and the operation of Autodesk’s Revit software and fundamentally its...
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The historic White House Rose Garden is going to be restored. The final design plan is a collaboration by landscape architecture firms Perry Guillot, Inc., and Oehme, van Sweden & Associates/OvS. The plan will renew the design first implemented by Rachel Lambert “Bunny” Mellon during the Kennedy Administration, which...
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Demand for design services from architecture firms began to stabilize in June, following their peak declines in April, according to a new report from the American Institute of Architects (AIA). AIA’s Architecture Billings Index (ABI) score for June was 40 compared to 32 in May.
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Researchers at Purdue University, Indiana, have developed a treatment to infuse a hardened metal surface with naturally occurring antimicrobial peptides. The technology is expected to create a hard metal surface that kills bacteria trying to attach to the surface.
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) has completed the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Set to open on July 30, the museum will be a tribute to the Olympic and Paralympic movements with Team USA athletes at the center of the experience.
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Indie Studios, a cultural development project designed by Revive Architecture, converts a 3252-m2 (35,000-sf) former warehouse space in Atlanta, Georgia, into a creative, open-share studio environment. Designed by Laura Daniel, principal architect at Revive, the project incorporates healthy design trends and fresh-air elements. Daniel and her team wanted the indoor/outdoor experience...
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The American Concrete Institute (ACI) and the Post-Tensioning Institute (PTI) are partnering to increase design efficiency of structural post-tensioned concrete structures. While the two organizations and their members have worked collaboratively for decades, this partnership formalizes efforts through the new joint ACI-PTI Committee 320, Post-Tensioned Structural Concrete Code, ACI...
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Global architecture and preservation firm Page & Turnbull has completed its reimagining of Hotel Tioga, a landmark structure in Merced, California, now converted to market-rate lifestyle housing. The adaptive reuse of the 1928 transitional Renaissance-style structure opened recently as The Tioga, an apartment building with retail space on ground...
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After years in the federal review process, the Obama Presidential Center project is in the final stages of approval. Located at Jackson Park in Chicago’s South Side, the Obama Presidential Center, proposed by the Obama foundation, will build a museum and a public gathering space that celebrates the nation’s...
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Spending on nonresidential facilities will decline just over eight percent this year, and another five percent next year, according to the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA’s) mid-year update to its Consensus Construction Forecast.
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