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  • Architecture Billings Index News and Historical Graphs

    The latest information from the American Institute of Architects on the Architecture Billings Index, plus a look at historical data.

  • WWCOT to Become Part of DLR Group

    The California architecture firm WWCOT is merging with the Omaha, Neb.–based DLR Group. WWCOT's four domestic offices as well as its Shanghai outpost will be known as DLR Group WWCOT.

  • Baltimore's Green Building Law Still in Limbo

    Feb. 3--Baltimore's green building law, considered one of the most sweeping in the nation, lingers in a legal limbo of sorts more than seven months after it supposedly took effect.

  • Silicon Valley Makes Push Into Solar and Smart-Grid Technologies

    Feb. 1--Cleantech's vast ecosystem includes a dizzying array of emerging technologies, from green building materials to electric vehicles, lighting and wind power.

  • Chicago's Brininstool + Lynch Adds SOM Partner, Creates New Firm

    David Brininstool and Brad Lynch have closed their 20-year-old firm and added Skidmore, Owings & Merrill managing partner Tom Kerwin to form Brininstool, Kerwin and Lynch.

  • Perkins+Will Acquires Shore Tilbe Irwin & Partners

    Perkins+Will announces a merger with Toronto-based Shore Tilbe Irwin & Partners, helping P+W to expand its work in sports and recreation facilities.

  • Ottawa and Provinces Failing on Green Buildings

    Report Card highlights major gaps in provincial and federal building codes and programs

  • Group Wants to Restore 1920s Building by M. Leo Elliott

    Dec. 11--TEMPLE TERRACE -- The quirky domed building was one of the first things prospective home buyers would see when touring this country club community in 1922.

  • New Funding Campaign for Fallingwater Offers Naming Opportunity for Windows

    The Fallingwater Window Legacy Fund is looking for individuals to permanently endow the house's laminate-glass windows—which, after 74 years, are beginning to fail and in need of replacement.

  • Houston's Burwell, Ziegler Cooper Merge Practices

    Nov. 11--Burwell Architects has merged into Ziegler Cooper Architects, the local firm that's designed several of Houston's luxury condominium towers and downtown's new Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart.