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Alice Tully Hall, Diller Scofidio + Renfro FXFOWLE Architects

2010 AIA Institute Honor Awards for Architecture, Interiors, and Urban Design

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has selected the 2010 recipients of the Institute Honor Awards... more

The redesign of Alice Tully Hall trans- forms the venue from a good multi-purpose hall into a premiere chamber music venue with street... more

Serta Intl. Center, Epstein | Metter Studio

 

The Serta International Center is a beautifully crafted example of a plea- sant work environment that seam- lessly slips into its landscape creating a harmony between the natural and the manmade. This building takes ad- vantage of the landscape to construct beautiful views while maintaining in- viting workspaces within. A corporate headquarters that goes beyond trying to project a “powerful?corporate i- mage. Not only is the building.. more

Outpost, Olson Kundig Architects

A severely simple building evokes a-ges-old images of oases and para- disiacal gardens transported to the American west. Industrial materials, while rough, are thoughtfully detailed and crafted, and are handled with great skill to make a sublime place. The composition of the facades as solid and void is artfully done... more

2010 AIA Architecture Firm Award Goes to Pugh + Scarpa

Colorado Court, Santa Monica, Calif.

The American Institute of Architects’ Board of Directors awarded Pugh + Scarpa the 2010 AIA Architecture Firm Award on December 3, based on the firm’s 18 years of consistently excellent and innovative work, in- cluding... more Pugh + Scarpa

Jigsaw, Los Angeles, Calif.

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How Green Are the 2010 Winter Olympics? Building Priorities

The 2010 Games are being dubbed the "Sustainable Olympics," but is Vancouver BC setting any world rec- ords? In this month's Brief- ing we examine some les- sons from the global spec- tacle. First we look at the venues that Canada cons- tructed... more Planetizen

Interior Design Awards: Best Designs of The Year

Best of Year: Product De- sign honorees were selec- ted by interior designers and architects via... more

Clive Wilkinson Architects: FIDM San Diego Campus, CA

With a dozen-plus projects for the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising un- der his belt, Interior Design Hall.. more Interior Design

Rapsel: One Collection by Matteo Thun for Rapsel

Interior Design:               Best New Products of The Year Awards

Architecture school can be alot of fun. It's radically dif- ferent from anything else in the academy, and does not simply consist of... more

Freezing in here: Detroit home encased in ice

The two-story house and its boarded up, broken win- dows have been covered with sheets of ice... more


Artists hope coating aband- oned house draws attention to housing crisis

The steps, porch & shrubs that glisten with ice in the rundown neighborhood are part of the Ice... more