February 1, 2016
Iwan Baan
DS+R BAM/PFA Opens Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s new UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive building opened yesterday. [ARCHITECT]
Studio Gang Architects
Fire Rescue 2 Studio Gang’s new firehouse for Fire Company 2, an elite NYFD firefighting squad based in Brownsville, Brooklyn. [ARCHITECT]
Happy Iowa Caucus Day We get it. You’re tired of hearing about Iowa. Who isn’t? But the presidential election is a big deal, so we put together a nonpartisan election guide geared around issues that are important to architects. [ARCHITECT]
Trello
Trello organizes information on virtual cards, which can be sorted and edited.
Big Tools / Small Budgets Michael Kilkelly breaks down seven programs garnered repeat praise during AIA TAP’s 2016 Building Connections Congress. And most of them are free. [ARCHITECT]
The Week in Tech Electrified concrete that melts snow so that you don’t have to shovel after the next big snow storm. That story and more in our look back at the coolest tech stories in the week that was. [ARCHITECT]
Managing Uncertainty A recent industry study supported by the AIA shows how architects can provide greater leadership in their client relationships and projects. Two experts from the AIA explain how. [ARCHITECT]
Awards and Competitions
The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is now accepting submissions to its fourth Wheelwright Prize, an open, international competition for early-career architects that supports travel-based research. The deadline for submissions is Feb. 15, 2016. Read more about the Wheelwright Prize.
The Architectural League has announced a call for entries for its Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers, focused this year around the theme of (im)permanence and time as a defining characteristic of architecture. Entries are due Feb. 17, 2016.
The Buckminster Fuller Challenge recognizes initiatives that take a comprehensive and anticipatory design approach to advance human well-being and the health of the planet’s ecosystem. The Buckminster Fuller Institute awards one $100,000 prize to support the development and implementation of a design solution that addresses complex global problems. The application window will open on Jan. 15 and entries are due by March 1.
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