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The 2022 Role Models Contest Marries Innovative Material Design with Practical Application
Designed to disrupt, the global student competition yields its most viable material solutions yet.
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Principals at Six Top Firms Predict Where American Design Is Headed
The future, they say, depends on how the A&D industry responds to a rapidly shifting cultural landscape.
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Three Museums Bring Art Outdoors
In the age of social distancing and social media, outdoor art centers are experiencing a boon.
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The Metropolis Sustainability Lab Returns to NeoCon
Offering resources to help the interiors industry make a positive impact on people and the planet, Metropolis and theMART’s hub returns to NeoCon.
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Present Practice Takes a Sensory Approach to Landscape Design
The Columbus, Ohio, studio works to restore landsc…
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A Mississippi School Models Collaborative Reuse
The Office of Jonathan Tate applies its formula fo…
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BDG Redesigns a Detroit Power Plant for the World’s Largest Ad Agency
For a new headquarters in Motor City, WPP commissi…
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Craig Steely’s Musabi House is a Force of Nature
On the Big Island of Hawai’i, the local architect …
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In Detroit, Architecture that Stands Out While Also Listening
LOHA’s four buildings at a major new Detroit devel…
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Luxury Quonset Huts and Airstream Trailers Encapsulate Joshua Tree’s Off-Grid Essence
At AutoCamp, a high-end “glamping” venture in the …
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Viewpoints
Is Comfort Killing Us?
Amsterdam’s Marc Koehler Architects and health mentor Enitor Joiner explore the role of physical and mental health in how we live at home.
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Contemporary Quilters Are Piecing Together a New Era of the American Craft
These six textile artists are building on the narrative potential of quilts for a new era that centers identity, circularity, and communities of care.
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The 2022 Role Models Contest Marries Innovative Material Design with Practical Application
Designed to disrupt, the global student competition yields its most viable material solutions…
Profiles
Present Practice Takes a Sensory Approach to Landscape Design
The Columbus, Ohio, studio works to restore landscapes degraded by industrial agriculture while restoring our relationship to the…
Projects
Craig Steely’s Musabi House is a Force of Nature
On the Big Island of Hawai’i, the local architect designed a 2,200-square-foot residence that is completely off-grid….
Projects
1 Hotel is an Unexpected Oasis in Downtown Nashville
Behind a curtain of ivy, the new 1 Hotel in Nashville celebrates the natural beauty of local and sustainable resources….
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Profiles
Present Practice Takes a Sensory Approach to Landscape Design
The Columbus, Ohio, studio works to restore landscapes degraded by industrial agriculture while restoring our relationship to the land.
Profiles
Working Remotely, Ukrainian Designers Get a Lifeline From U.S. Firms
Two new programs—Support by Design and Hireukrainiandesigners.org—join forces to help provide remote jobs for designers in war-torn Ukraine.
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Bridging the Divide Between the Possible and the Impossible
Michael Maltzan and Deborah Weintraub, leaders of the effort to construct L.A.’s newly-opened Sixth Street Viaduct, talk about its lofty goals, significant challenges, and myriad lessons.
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Mya Adds Housing and a Sense of Place to Salt Lake City
The live-work-play building with an iconic flamingo graphic was designed by Eskew Dumez Ripple for Salt Lake City’s burgeoning creative class.
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In L.A., a Shopping Center Is Reborn as a Workplace
The May Company department store and Westside Pavilion have been transformed into the Westside’s newest workplace hub.
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A Landscape for Clean Water on the Chesapeake Bay
Clients, architects, and landscape architects collaborate to restore a crumbling shoreline.
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A Behavioral Health Hospital Takes Cues from Nature
CannonDesign incorporated the ideas of 19th century reformer Moses Sheppard to design a new psychiatric hospital.
