| 02/07/2010 | Barbie, the Doll, Could Become an Architect
The Buffalo News
Feb. 7--Over the years, Barbie has been an astronaut, a nurse, the president of the United States and a police officer, among more than 120 careers. |
| 02/07/2010 | Lights, Camera, Architecture
Chicago Tribune
Chicago architect Jeanne Gang's lively new building for Columbia College Chicago looks nothing like her Aqua tower, the spectacular, 82-story mixed-use skyscraper with the wavy balconies. |
| 02/01/2010 | Sound Advice: How to Make the Most of the Recession
Principal's Report
In a series of podcasts by Capelin Communications, Joan Capelin, Hon. AIA, PRSA, talks with some very astute people about howthe design and building industry can - no, will - get through today's tough times. |
| 02/07/2010 | Florida Campus Restores Wright's Vision
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Like any other sunbather, Frank Lloyd Wright's "Child of the Sun" withered in Florida's heat, humidity and harsh sunlight. |
| 01/29/2010 | V&A Museum Invites 10 Firms to Conceive Subterranean Expansion
Building Design
Six years after Libeskind Spiral demise, museum changes tack with subterranean galleries |
| 02/03/2010 | US, British Architects Win Israel's Wolf Prize
Associated Press/AP Online
JERUSALEM - British and American architects were named winners of Israel's prestigious Wolf Prize. |
| 02/06/2010 | Are architecture hires a sign?
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
Feb. 6--A few architecture firms are starting to add employees, a sign that frosty economic conditions could be starting to thaw. |
| 01/24/2010 | Re-imagining Vancouver
Los Angeles Times
As the location scouts for Syfy's new series "Caprica," Anand Kanna and Scott Firth are charged with an unusual task: to imagine Vancouver, Canada, as the Earth-like planet attacked in the 2003 pilot miniseries of "Battlestar Galactica." |
| 02/04/2010 | Green Design Competition Offers $25,000 Awards
PRNewswire
EL PASO, Texas, Feb. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Gerald W. Cichon, Chief Executive Officer of the Housing Authority of the City of El Paso (HACEP), announces a National Green Design Competition for a $10+ million LEED Green Affordable Housing Project supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. |
| 02/02/2010 | Exhibition: Architecture Inspired by Poetry
Canada Newswire
MONTREAL, Feb. 2 /CNW Telbec/ - From May 18 to October 31, 2010, in the foyer of the Grande Bibliothque, Bibliothque et Archives nationales du Qubec (BAnQ) will be hosting the exhibition, Architecture en vers, which consists of five architectural installations inspired by poetry. |
| 02/04/2010 | Emergency Architects of Canada Get Boost to Help Haiti
Canada Newswire
BOUCHERVILLE, QC, Feb. 4 /CNW Telbec/ - If the people of Haiti are drawing strength from unity, for BMR, "the Group" shows strength in numbers. |
| 02/03/2010 | Baltimore's Green Building Law Still in Limbo
The Baltimore Sun
Baltimore's green building law, considered one of the most sweeping in the nation, lingers in a legal limbo of sorts more than seven months after it supposedly took effect. |
| 02/04/2010 | Eduardo Catalano, Architect and Professor, Dies at 92
The News & Observer
Feb. 4--Eduardo Catalano, an Argentina-born architect who taught at N.C. State University during its modernist heyday in the early 1950s, died last week in Massachusetts. |
| 02/01/2010 | Promoting Diversity in the A/E/C Industry: Benjamin Vargas
Design Firm Management & Administration Report
Benjamin Vargas, who heads his own architecture firm in San Juan, Puerto Rico, was recently named the 2010 recipient of the Whitney M. Young Jr. Award. |
| 02/02/2010 | Obituary: John Stanich designed notable Sacramento-area buildings
The Sacramento Bee
Feb. 2--John Robert Stanich, a Francophile and architect who designed more than 100 buildings in the Sacramento area, has died at age 77. |
| 01/29/2010 | British Council Opens Ethiopian Headquarters
Building Design
The British Council's new pounds 1.18 million Ethiopian headquarters, developed in partnership with local practice RAAS Architects, has opened in the country's capital, Addis Ababa. |
| 01/29/2010 | Industry refutes slur on 60s and 70s design
Building Design
Chief construction adviser Morrell maligns generation of buildings |
| 01/29/2010 | SandRidge Energy Plans $100M Makeover of Downtown Okla. City Campus
The Daily Oklahoman
Jan. 29--SandRidge Energy Corp. intends to spend up to $100 million on a makeover of its downtown campus. |
| 01/31/2010 | Downtown Pittsburgh redevelopment starts to bear fruit
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Jan. 31--Lubin & Smalley Florists sat along Fifth Avenue 40 years ago, when customers dressed up to shop Downtown. |
| 02/04/2010 | Wolf Foundation Names Winning Architects ...
Belfast Telegraph
WOLF FOUNDATION NAMES WINNING ARCHITECTS |
| 02/01/2010 | Making the Case for Diversity as a Good Business Practice-and Then Fostering It
Design Firm Management & Administration Report
There are many reasons to hire women and people of color, who have traditionally been underrepresented in the A/E/C industry, as in many professions, until the recent past. |
| 01/29/2010 | Berkeley Announces New Plan for Art Museum
Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, Calif.)
Jan. 29--UC Berkeley has announced a plan B for its new art museum and film center. |
| 02/02/2010 | Marion, Strawberry Point design firms merge
The Gazette - Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Feb. 2--MARION -- The seeds were sewn over the last three decades for last month's merger of two Eastern Iowa architectural firms. |
| 12/21/2009 | Architecture firms merge.(BUSINESS SERVICES)
Arkansas Business
Polk Stanley Rowland Curzon Porter Architects Ltd. and Wilcox Group Architects, both award-winning firms of Little Rock, merged in August, creating Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects. |
| 02/02/2010 | 2010 MIPIM Awards Nominees Unveiled
PRNewswire
PARIS, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- MIPIM today announces the list of the 15 finalists selected by the MIPIM Awards Jury that comprises well-known personalities from the international real estate sector. |
