Table of Contents March 2008
Dialogue
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Stanley Tigerman's new homeless shelter, the Pacific Garden Mission, probably won't win any awards for aesthetics. To be perfectly candid, it's rather spare, if not down right ugly. I think Tigerman would agree. "This
Features
They look dull and, in fact, if you've seen one concrete masonry unit—or concrete block or CMU—you may think you've seen the lot of them: Usually they're rough, gray oblong blocks formed from water, sand, crushed stone, and cement, with two big holes in them.
Famous architects are no longer just in the business of designing signature buildings. They are also increasingly functioning as megascale planners, hand in glove with the biggest developers in the world and with local municipalities, usually with both.
Local Market
Numbers
Thanks to its mix of easily accessible employment, culture, retail, housing, and other amenities, the Washington, D.C., metro area has been hailed as the standard-bearer of pedestrian convenience in a recent Brookings Institution study on “urban walkabili
Screen Grab
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Sites, blog posts, and other web items of interest.
Time-lapse collages of graffiti act as a living archive, capturing occasional looks at an ephermeral art form.
Report
Other Articles
Cambridge, Mass.-based Chan Krieger Sieniewicz (CKS) has won a two-stage international competition to redevelop a 1.8-kilometer-long section of Shanghai, China's Bund waterfront along the Huangpu River. This section of shoreline is opposite the Pudong dis
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With the built environment's ecological effects becoming more severe and better understood, an interdisciplinary group of design professionals and academics has proposed a National Academy of Environmental Design.
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News briefs from around the world of architecture.
The AIANC building will be the first time an AIA component has built its own headquarters from the ground up.
WORK Architecture offers functional farmer's market in annual competition
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Scogin and Elam's Buckhead Library Could be Razed
Developer offers county $24 million for award-winning Atlanta building, built in 1989
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Former GSA chief architect departs SOM for the Sands Corp.
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Technology
Products
A modular green roofing system offered in three capacities.
A waterproofing membrane with a non-permeable, closed-cell foam backing layer coated with pressure-sensitive adhesive
The RUZ Retrofit U hanger is designed specifically for use on nailers on steel trusses
EcoVent ridge vent by EcoStar removes hot, moist are from the attic space of a building
CopperPlus roofing offers the look of copper with the durability and the lower cost of stainless steel
Composed of rapidly renewable resources rather than petroleum-based ingredients
Culture
Crit
Given the degree to which Le Corbusier's Vers une architecture has inspired and, one might say, haunted the theory and practice of architecture worldwide over the past 85 years, it is fitting for this to be ostensibly the last of the 18 canonical architec
Other Articles
Q&A
Other Articles
In 2005, Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo celebrated a milestone that few architecture firms ever reach: Its 60th year in business.
Boston has undergone a radical transformation since it last hosted the AIA convention 16 years ago: The Big Dig has turned the site of the elevated Central Artery into a mile-long necklace of parks, which are giving once-landlocked neighborhoods like Chin
How cities will adapt to the emergent threats of climate change—extreme storms, flooding, and rising sea levels.
The 515-foot-tall atrium of the Atlanta Marriot Marquis is a dramatic space in a city known for its dramatic interiors.
When traveling for projects is the norm, keeping costs under control can be a challenge.
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