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02/10/2012Remembering Norma Merrick Sklarek: Pioneering African American Architect

Norma Merrick Sklarek, the first African American woman in the country to become a licensed architect, who helped produce Terminal 1 at Los Angeles International Airport and the American Embassy in Tokyo, died Monday at her home in Pacific Palisades.
02/07/2012'Luminous Field' Will Show Millennium Park in a New Light

Feb. 07--Normally the light in Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero's spare Humboldt Park apartment is plain, not funky at all.
02/12/2012When Architects Build a Marriage and Design a Home

Architects live and breathe design, blissfully losing themselves in details most people would never notice ?
02/07/2012Atlanta's Tallest Skyscraper to Be Sold at Auction

ATLANTA - The tallest skyscraper in the southern United States is going up for public auction after its owners missed mortgage payments.
02/09/2012Report: Building Toppled by NZ Quake Substandard

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A six-story building that collapsed and killed 115 people during last year's New Zealand earthquake did not meet construction standards, according to a government report released Thursday.
02/07/2012Eisenhower Family Fighting Gehry Monument Design

The family of former President Dwight Eisenhower says objections to the proposed Eisenhower memorial on the Washington Mall are being ignored.
02/07/2012Partial Collapse of Building Kills 1 in Brazil

SAO PAULO - A 13-story building partially collapsed in an industrial suburb outside Sao Paulo, Brazil killing a 3-year-old girl, firefighters said Tuesday.
02/04/2012Memphis Architecture Firm Unveils Plans for Zero-Energy Building

archimania has completed plans for a rare type of building designed only to save the world and save money for Tennessee.
02/03/2012Fewer Architecture Students Means More Elitism

A drop in architectural student numbers cannot ever be "a good thing" (Debate January 13).
02/07/2012Revitalization Plans Unveiled for Downtown Columbus, Ohio

Feb. 07--COLUMBUS -- More than 100 survey responses showed people aren't happy with the downtown area.
02/06/2012Calatrava To Design Buildings For Taiwanese University

NEW YORK, Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Yuan Ze University in Taiwan, affiliated with Far Eastern Group, one of Taiwan's largest industrial conglomerates, has commissioned world-renowned architect, engineer and artist, Santiago Calatrava to design an ambitious new building complex for its campus.
02/03/2012Richard Rogers Calls for Broader Architectural Education

Initial three-year course should also cover planning and landscape
02/03/2012UK's Royal College of Art Appoints New Head of Architecture

Charles Walker, the Canadian-born architect and structural engineer who has worked for both Zaha Hadid and Arup, has been made head of architecture at the Royal College of Art.
02/05/2012San Francisco's Dogpatch Pier District Braces for Renewal

SAN FRANCISCO - There's a hidden corner of the City by the Bay where rusted cranes used to build WWII battleships loom over dilapidated artist studios, where working-class fishermen bob up against first-class ocean liners docked for repair.
02/05/2012Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Are Inspiration for Maya Lin's 'Pin River'

Feb. 05--Maya Lin entered the national consciousness in 1982 when she won a competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., while an undergraduate at Yale University.
02/03/2012Specs and the City

Amsterdam-based Next Architects has launched the first English edition of its Modern Architecture Game, a trivia board game that involves wearing Le Corbusier-style round glasses while matching buildings and quotes to the appropriate architects.
02/02/2012Steven Holl Architects to Design Expansion for Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Feb. 02--The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has selected Steven Holl Architects to partner with its board and staff in developing a long-awaited expansion, including a new building at the corner of Bissonnet and Main streets.
01/18/2012CO Architects, FXFOWLE Form Bicoastal Partnership

Los Angeles-based CO Architects and New York City-based FXFOWLE formed a joint venture -CO/ FXFOWLE- late last month.
02/03/2012Chicago's Wrigley Building Backed for Landmark Status

Feb. 03--The city landmarks commission on Wednesday unanimously approved a recommendation to give landmark status to the Wrigley Building on Michigan Avenue, a move preservation advocates say is long overdue.
02/02/2012Tigerman Retains Bite in Chicago Retrospective

Some architects swear by Stanley Tigerman.
02/01/2012Missouri Firm to Design Temporary Pavilion for Nelson-Atkins Museum's World's Fair Exhibition

Feb. 01--In the run-up to its major new exhibit on the products and legacy of world's fairs, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art put out a challenge: Design and build a temporary pavilion that would stand impressively on museum grounds and reflect the spirit of innovation and modernity those global expositions have long represented.
01/27/2012Olympic Projects Set to Dominate RIBA Awards

Main stadium among schemes to be entered for London accolade
02/02/2012Academy of Experts to Chime in on Bethlehem Steel Redevelopment Plans

Feb. 02--As developers eye some of the still-vacant Bethlehem Steel buildings between the Sands casino and the SteelStacks cultural campus, a national group of architects and urban planners will offer ideas on the best way to redevelop what remains of the old plant.
02/01/2012Exhibition Review: Breaking Ground - Chinese American Architects in Los Angeles (1945-1980)

In 1949, Eugene Kinn Choy built his family a home in Silver Lake.
01/31/2012Mies van der Rohe's Tugendhat to Reopen Again

BRNO, Czech Republic - It was completed in 1930, a Modernist masterpiece by legendary German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

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