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Designers of architectural lighting are redefining buildings’ necessary connective tissue with moments of poetry and delight. While their makers’ motivations differ, these three featured projects, in China, France, and California, underscore infrastructure’s artistic potential. Online Extra: Rate and comment on all three projects.
Pictured: Wu Jiao Plaza in Shanghai. Photo © Tim Griffith.
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| Practice Matters: Nonprofit Work Experience Is Beneficial for All, but Far Too Rare |
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Public and nonprofit practices are playing an increasing role in the development of young architects. And the entrepreneurialism, close client contact, and quality design work achieved by these emerging architects make them desirable for traditional firms that want experienced interns.
Pictured: An affordable housing project in New Mexico. Photo © Jamie Blosser.
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| On the Boards: Unbuilt Projects |
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We explore three projects in the Arabian Peninsula: Zaha Hadid's Opus, a speculative office/retail complex in Dubai with a free-form void in its center; Nadel Architects' Al Faisaliah Tower, which must accomodate the Saudi custom of separating the sexes; and a giant, underwater hotel complex.
Pictured: Opus. Image courtesy Zaha Hadid Architects.
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| Call for Entries: Product Reports |
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In our annual Product Reports feature, a jury of architects, editors, and design experts will select the year's most interesting and useful new building products to include in the December issue. The deadline to submit is Sept. 7.
Pictured: The 2006 Product Reports jurors.
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| Essay: The Engineer's Moment |
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A shift in the architecture profession, already entrenched with issues of control and authorship, affords the engineer an expanded role during initial project design discussions, not just as consultants after the fact. Structural engineers are now literally drawing at the table.
Pictured: Dorton (Raleigh) Arena. Photo courtesy North Carolina State Fair Division.
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| AR Events: The Innovation Conference |
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The Innovation Conference: Architecture in an Age of Transformation. This case study-based conference will show how digital tools and new materials are being used to create extraordinary buildings. Hear keynoters William J. Mitchell, director of the MIT Design Lab, and Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, chairman of Grimshaw Architects.
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| Your Photos: Small-City Showcase |
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Architects who have designed an exceptional project in a city or town with fewer than 250,000 inhabitants have been asked to submit examples of their work, and we have chosen some for display in this showcase gallery. Also check out our Student Showcase, Residential Showcase, Green Projects Showcase, and The Architect's Hand Showcase.
Pictured: Church of the Saint Spirit in Poggibonsi, Siena, Italy, designed by Carlo Fantacci e Associati.
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| Your Photos: Conceptual Showcase |
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Architects who have created an exceptional computer-aided rendering have been asked to submit examples of their work, and we have selected some of these for display in this showcase gallery, sponsored by Autodesk. The best image submitted to this gallery will win a free subscription to Architectural Record and an iPod.
Pictured: Public Library José Vasconcelos, a project proposed by Pascal Arquitectos.
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