Pelli Clarke Pelli’s architectural design of the Salesforce Transit Center illustrates how a dense, urban, transit-based development can provide a sustainable and livable city.
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The 25th anniversary of the Ceramics of Italy Tile Competition, sponsored by Confindustria Ceramica and the Italian Trade Agency, attracted innovative projects from designers and architects throughout North America. Four winners and three honorable mentions were selected across four categories: residential, commercial, institutional, and student.
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A project developed through a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) class has come up with an energy efficient design for a large wood building. For this structure, called “the Longhouse,” massive timbers made of conventional lumber would be laminated together like a kind of supersized plywood.
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The Ohio Building Code (OBC) now references the American Concrete Institute (ACI) 562, Code Requirements for Assessment, Repair, and Rehabilitation of Existing Concrete Structures.
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Oregon has become the first state to approve the use of science-based building code requirements for tall mass timber buildings under its Statewide Alternate Method (SAM). The new document, SAM No. 18-01, Tall Wood Buildings, provides prescriptive technical requirements for tall wood buildings ranging from eight to 18 stories,...
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Architecture and urban design firm Cooper Robertson has announced promotions for several top designers and emerging leaders as it expands with major museum, academic, and urban design projects globally.
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The intersection of the exterior wall and the floor assembly provides a number of different paths for vertical fire spread in buildings, says Tony Crimi in “The Leap-frog Effect,” one of four articles in the “Fire Safety Strategies” e-book.
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Work is underway on what might be Colorado’s tallest indoor rock-realistic climbing wall, running directly up the front of the new Limelight Hotel in Snowmass, Colorado.
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Seven new categories have been added to this year’s CTBUH Awards Program to recognize specific engineering achievements across projects, as well as the value of interior spaces and building renovation.
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Construction has begun on the first of many buildings planned for a new 122-acre (49-ha) research complex at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) campus.
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