Design Award Upset: Small Chilean Studio Beats the Starchitects With Affordable Housing Project (Fast Company Magazine)
2010's Brit Insurance Design Award for Architecture went to Elemental's affordable, and adaptable, housing project in Mexico, skipping over big shots like Zaha Hadid and James Corner. Architecture had its own Oscars on Monday, and just as cinephiles everywhere sighed with relief when The Hurt Locker beat out "FernGully: Part 2 ," those following the Brit Insurance Design Awards cheered the ...
SmithGroup to Design POW/MIA Accounting Command (Contract Magazine)
The Phoenix division of SmithGroup, an architecture, engineering, interiors and planning firm, has been chosen to design a new facility for the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) at the Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu.
A Practical Guide To Information Architecture Changes (Search Engine Land)
A change in information architecture (IA) can make or break your in-house SEO program .
Bruce J. Graham, Chicago Architect Who Designed Sears Tower, Dies at - New York Times
Bruce J. Graham, whose integration of modernist design and sophisticated engineering in buildings like the John Hancock Center and the Sears Tower transformed the skyline of Chicago and reasserted the city’s pre-eminence as a world architectural ...
MIT opens new Media Lab Complex - MIT News
On Friday, March 5, MIT officially opens the Media Lab Complex, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Fumihiko Maki and Associates in association with Leers Weinzapfel Associates. The building marks a new era of innovation for the world ...
Rapture Architecture: Designers Tackle the Coming Apocalypse (Fast Company Magazine)
We live in terrifying times: Pandemics ranging from bird flu to swine flu regularly threatening to kill millions. Can architecture deal with those problems?
ISU students design memorial (The Ames Tribune)
After a coincidental meeting last fall in New Orleans, landscape architecture students at Iowa State University are doing their part to make a Hurricane Katrina survivor’s dreams a reality.
Adam Lau / Special to The Chronicle - San Francisco Chronicle
To compensate for the lack of alcoves, Jones called upon David Pierce of Ohio Design in San Francisco to fabricate custom pieces throughout the house (Pierce designed eco-furnishings for Good Hotel in SoMa). Interior designer Nicole Socia's gift for ...
New York Helmsley Showcases J/Brice Design to Market Grand Reopening (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Though top hotel designers rarely figure into a hotel's marketing scheme, the New York Helmsley has decided to credit J/Brice Design International in its grand reopening promotion.
Student wins furniture design contest (Vietnam Net)
VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Van Truong of HCM City-based AA Corporation has won the first prize in the furniture design competition "Apricot Blossom 2009", organisers announced yesterday, March 9.
Front Range firm secures Burlingame design contract (Aspen Daily News)
Aspen City Council signed off Monday on a $1.7 million deal with OZ Architecture, a Front Range firm that now has the design and architecture contract for the remaining phases at the Burlingame Ranch affordable housing project. read more
FileMaker Pro goes to 11, admits people like spreadsheets - Ars Technica
FileMaker Pro Advanced 11 offers developers easier customer menu design, improved handling of custom functions ... Backup File Clone creates an empty copy of your database with all the schema and architecture for use while troubleshooting a problem ...
The Skyscraper Water Factory [Architecture] (Gizmodo)
# architecture I can imagine a future dry Earth in which nature only exists inside huge buildings like this Freshwater Factory Skyscraper , designed by Design Crew for Architecture to produce freshwater from sea water on the south coast of the Spain. More »
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