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October 27, 2020
 
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Missouri design firm creates innovative polling booths
 
Missouri design firm creates innovative polling booths
 
Voting season can be stressful for everyone, but in Kansas City, Hufft, a locally based design firm, is helping create a fun, innovative way to welcome new voters to the political process.
 
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New Pennsylvania building looks like a ‘kite in the trees’
 
New Pennsylvania building looks like a ‘kite in the trees’
 
The architecture of the new Winter Visual Arts building on the historic Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster is deeply connected to its verdant, park-like campus setting.
 
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Selldorf Architects designs new Manhattan gallery
 
Selldorf Architects designs new Manhattan gallery
 
Hauser & Wirth’s new art gallery in Manhattan, New York, is now open. The 3345‑m2 (36,000 sf), five-story gallery is Hauser & Wirth’s first purpose‑built, ground‑up building.
 
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Federal court rules NYC discriminates against blind pedestrians
 
Federal court rules NYC discriminates against blind pedestrians
 
A Federal court has ruled New York City’s failure to provide accessible pedestrian signals at 96.6 percent of its signalized intersections violates the civil rights of people with disabilities.
 
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Registrations on for CSI 2020 Honors and Awards virtual show
 
Registrations on for CSI 2020 Honors and Awards virtual show
 
First building at Texas’ International Business Park is now complete
 
First building at Texas’ International Business Park is now complete
 
AIA releases strategies for reducing COVID-19 risk at polling places
 
AIA releases strategies for reducing COVID‑19 risk at polling places
 
Condensation covered in latest e-book
 
Condensation covered in latest e‑book
 
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High-performance roofing strategies
 
High-performance roofing strategies
 
A high-performance roof system is durable, resilient, and allows a building to be occupied after a disaster event and continues performing during a loss of power.
 
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From our archives: Artistry meets practicality on a wet slab of concrete
 
Creating an enduring structure requires careful planning for physical and aesthetic integrity. While this symbiosis of artistry and structural stability is not assured until the project is fully complete, getting there requires laying the right groundwork at the very beginning—during the planning phase.
 
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Project News
North Carolina facility adds aesthetics and acoustics with undulating ceiling system
 
North Carolina facility adds aesthetics and acoustics with undulating ceiling system
 
By packaging both aesthetics and acoustics in an undulating ceiling, Atlantic Packaging, Charlotte, North Carolina, has added visual impact and sound absorption to its newly remodeled Packaging Solution Center and Customer Experience Center while maintaining the look of the existing exposed structure.
 
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ARCHITECTS ASKED TO PRODUCE AND CERTIFY AS-BUILT DRAWINGS
What is the proper procedure for handling the following requests as they pertain to as-built drawings:
1. Architect is required by the owner to certify that per their periodic observations, the as-builts drawings reasonably represent the project as built.
2. Contractor is required to provide CAD files and has requested architect to produce them (since they already have them). Since the architect is technically producing them for the contractor, would title blocks need to be included? Would it be ok to transfer the files with the AIA C106 Digital Data Licensing Agreement to seek indemnification for liability of their use?
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ERROR IN SHOP DRAWINGS
We have a project that went through shop drawing review. The fabricator listed the wrong finish designation (L-2 instead of L-3). The project architect did not notice the discrepancy during shop drawing review. The fabricator constructed the cabinetry with the wrong laminate finish. The fabricator now wants more money to reconstruct the cabinetry. I told the project architect shop drawings are not contract documents and the fabricator, in effect, made an illegal substitution and needs to correct the error at their cost. Where in the specifications is this responsibility covered: A201-3.12.6, Submittals Procedures, Product Requirements, etc.?
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BIG to design Virgin Hyperloop certification center
 
 
New SOM-designed building opens at the U.S. Naval Academy
 
 
New UPenn initiative to preserve civil rights heritage sites
 
 
Mellon Foundation commits $250M to reimagine monuments
 
 
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