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New Mayors' Institute on City Design director named
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
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Trinity Simons has been named director of the Mayors' Institute on City Design, a National Endowment for the Arts leadership initiative in partnership with the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the American Architectural Foundation. Since 1986, the Mayors' Institute has helped transform communities through design by preparing more than 900 mayors to be the chief urban designers of their cities.
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Improving housing market leading to larger home sizes and increased property enhancements
The American Institute of Architects
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As the struggling housing market shows signs of improvement, there has been a reversal in the six-year trend in smaller home sizes. This is the case for custom and luxury homes, as well as for additions to existing homes. A preference for outdoor living, especially blended indoor/outdoor living, continues to increase, along with strong demand for accessible and flexible home layout.
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Architect Gerhard Kallmann dead at 97
The New York Times
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Gerhard Kallmann, the architect who, with Michael McKinnell, designed Boston City Hall, a hulking, asymmetrical, Modernist building that has been widely acclaimed by architects for half a century though disparaged by many Bostonians, died recently in Boston. He was 97.
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Philadelphia to require energy benchmarking
Architect Magazine
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Philadelphia's commercial buildings may become more competitive in their energy and water consumption, or so city council members hope after passing legislation to establish energy benchmarking.
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Architecture firm websites: The good, the bad, the ugly
Architectural Record
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Websites are a vital marketing tool. Unless you're a superstar design firm, steer clear of archi-speak and tricky graphics. Users want a site that is clean and simple.
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Architecture with an edge
The Wall Street Journal
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In the early 1900s, the competition to build the tallest skyscraper was intense. Today, with innovative new materials and design tools on hand, architects are going beyond mere size and focusing on sculptural forms.
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Wave Pier by Mesh Architects swirls from the Florida shoreline like a roller coaster
Inhabitat
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An all-star team of architects has designed Wave Pier, a swirling new culture center for St. Petersburg, Fla., that spirals from the shore like a roller coaster. The designers behind the imaginative structure, Mesh Architects, are a collaborative team made up of Bjarke Ingles Group, Martha Schwarz Partners, Thornton Thomasetti, Parsons Brinchkerhoff HR&A and CC&A. The incredible design sweeps into Tampa Bay from the water's edge, and curves dramatically to create a beautiful and unique cultural center.
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New Nordic: Architecture & Identity
Dexigner
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New Nordic: Architecture & Identity, a new exhibition at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, will explore the relationship of architecture to culture and identity. The exhibition attempts to reveal whether certain special "Nordic" features recur in architecture, and whether this involves a fundamental formal idiom that is regularly reinterpreted.
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Better buildings can battle climate change
The Montreal Gazette
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Most buildings were designed and constructed when energy costs were lower than they are now, and the link between GHGs and the climate was not fully known. The result was that buildings were not constructed to be energy efficient.
Today, it is a huge challenge to ease the toll that buildings take on our environment.
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Abu Dhabi's Stunning Al Behar Towers are shaded by a transforming geometric facade
Inhabitat
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Abu Dhabi's 25-story-tall Al Bahar Towers stand at the eastern gateway to the city, where the serve as the headquarters for the Abu Dhabi Investment Council. The mercury can hit 120 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer in the UAE's largest city and capital, but Aedas Architects, working with Arup Engineers, created an incredible mashrabiya facade that pays homage to traditional Arabian architecture and design. The geometric patterns that comprise this gigantic screen include over 1,000 moving elements that contract and expand during the day depending on the sun's position — similar to Jean Nouvel's Institut du Monde Arabe.
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Green building's 'new normal'
Sustainable Industries
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What should then be the green marketing strategy for leading firms? This is a question that's been discussed with a number of design firm CEOs in the past several months. It comes down to a few basic modes of differentiation. Here are a few examples.
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