Table of Contents June 2009
Dialogue
Features
If you want to fit in at the El Dorado Architects, you'll need to learn their lingo.
The Salone Satellite is where the cool young designers show off their coolest wares. We highlight four of them.
Despite having had a MoMA curatorship at 25 and a host of acclaimed buildings and products designs, architect Emilio Ambasz remains a mystery.
This year's stimulus bill has a lot of money dedicated to the built environment. How much of that will benefit architects, and how do you get it?
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We try to answer some of the most frequently asked questions that an architect may have about this year's stimulus bill.
Buildings
A new wayfinding and signage system cools heads at a city government parking garage.
El Dorado injects a sense of whimsy into a sober program: a drug-testing center for athletes.
A greeen roof and a reimagined façade restore a historic building to prominence.
Public art lines highway overpasses in Kansas City
A green commercial mixed-use building takes the place of a lost Kansas City icon.
We travel to Kansas City to profile the funny, smart, and practical architecture firm El Dorado.
Business
Best Practices
Local Market
Specialist
For Joe Church and Joe Miller, the founders of Denver-based firm Joe Architect, designing for a specific typology hasn't just kept the firm afloat, it's led to growth.
Technology
Detail
“THE GRASS IS SACRED,” says Populous principal Dale Jennins of the courts at London's All England Lawn Tennis Club. So when Jennins' team was designing a retractable roof for the Centre Court, the main stage of the Wimbledon tennis championship, the most important thing to determine was how not to...
Ecology
Products
New Nesso line of access flooring from Steelcase.
New Wool collection of flooring from Shaw.
New Insatiable and Euphoric carpeting from Karastan Contract.
New modular LED task lamp from Haworth
New simple and ergonomic chair from Humanscale
New Denizen line of reconfigurable office furniture.
New LED task lamp from Herman Miller
Onset releases a suite of five plug-in AC current sensors.
New, more compact HVAC units from Mitsubishi Electric.
New Element system for commercial spaces.
The new Stride line of modular office furniture from Allsteel
Other Articles
Culture
Crit
Screen Grab
Books
Exhibits
After showings in France and Spain, Jordi Colomer’s solo exhibition makes its final stop at the Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Alameda, Mexico.
The Brittany Museum presents a major exhibition on the French mosaic tile company Odorico.
During the '60s and 70's in Montreal, artists, architects, and intellectuals saw IT as man's liberation and celebrated it with multimedia experiences.
One hundred period photographs in “Framing Modernism: Architecture and Photography in Italy,” at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art.
A lifetime's worth of the architect's travel sketches, figure drawings, and building renderings.
Past P/A
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