Table of Contents August 2008
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What began as an exercise in designing a new recycling kiosk for downtown Denver became a larger meditation on the solid waste collection systems of modern cities, resulting in the design of a large-scale system for moving waste.
The problem of corrosion in precast concrete is often attributed to the steel rebar reinforcement; steel being a corrodible material, it is especially vulnerable during the curing and drying process, when it is locked into an environment that is very wet.
One of Columbia University's newest facilities has a very specialized purpose: the storage and conservation of projection slides, a staple of art history and archaeology instruction. In this project, architects Marble Fairbanks created an enclosure for th
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is revisiting one of its seminal projects of the 1950s, the Inland Steel Building. The firm has been asked to renovate the Chicago landmark into an office hotel, a building type that offers potential tenants a sustainable and fu
Designed as a temporary canopy for the DesCours festival, an annual weeklong celebration of design sponsored by AIA New Orleans, Hover is a luminous canopy featuring both LEDs and photovoltaic cells that power them. Höweler + Yoon designed Hover—an entire
Living City explores the notion that building façades and access to fresh air are the frontiers of public space in urban areas—that in the future, façades will belong to and serve residents as streets and parks do today. To that end, architects David Benj
Set to be deployed as a nontraditional façade for the planned Hotel Forest in Barcelona, the Artificial Leaf is a draping system of light-emitting modules suspended on steel mesh. The scheme is based on the analogy that if a city is a forest, each buildin
Architect Eric Owen Moss uses glass rods not just for their formal properties, but as structural components. The result is A Surface of Points, a system of deep cable trusses that incorporate glass tubes as compression members.
Two discrete wall systems based on the same concept of modularity, Drape Wall and Cloak Wall both provide alternatives to stick construction for single-family homes.
Architecture has evolved, judging from the winners of our second annual R+D Awards. Witness a façade that breathes, a recycling network based on the human intestinal tract, an exterior lighting system inspired by photosynthesis, and other such wonders. If
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Twice each year, the American Institute of Architects' Consensus Forecast Panel projects what the next couple of years might hold for the U.S. building industry.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit overturned a lower court's ruling that had dismissed a Boston architecture firm's copyright infringement suit on the basis of timeliness. The lower court said Warren Freedenfeld Associates should have known it
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The ADA is about to be recodified, the result of a four-year effort that will extend the law's reach and offer clearer, more-comprehensive regulations.
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Prominent Chicago architect Wendell Campbell, a founder of the National Organization of Minority Architects and a mentor to many, died at his home on July 9.
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At a time when construction market economics have some worried that sustainable development will decline as developers and builders look to control costs, industry heavyweight Jones Lang LaSalle has made its position on the environment clear with its July
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Technology
Products
Ratio Bench from Forms + Sufaces is made of a castaluminum frame without corrosion resistant stainless steel seat
A porous, latticelike mat lets vegetation grow without compromising a solid, drivable surface.
The Q-Set Luminaire Power Supply Center transformer has three UL listings: landscape lighting, pool and spa lighting, and low-voltage luminaire power supply
LP Hint Post Top from Louis Poulse mounts to alluminum poles
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University of Miami students designed a new campus for a plantation site in Charleston, but preservation politics will teach restraint.
A new book unlocks the complexities of medieval Indian architecture.
A banker explains how to obtain and manage a line of credit for your firm.