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Why Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, Is the New Face of Suburbia After a period of rapid diversification, the town outside the Twin Cities faces rising poverty and housing challenges. CityLab, Feb. 11, 2016 Brooklyn Park, which sits about 10 miles up the Mississippi River from downtown Minneapolis, used to be known for a few things—classically small-town,…

Will U.S. Cities Design Their Way Out of the Affordable Housing Crisis? “Missing middle” architecture could ease rents—and allow more Americans to build real estate wealth.  Next City, Jan. 18, 2016 The house I’ve lived in for almost 10 years isn’t a single-family home or an apartment in a tall building. It’s something in between,…

Design Awards 2016: Best Cultural Draw – National Museum of African-American History and Culture Wallpaper, February 2016 With its exterior walls now in place and glinting above the National Mall – the green swathe at the heart of Washington, DC – the National Museum of African-American History and Culture (NMAAHC), our Design Awards 2016 Best…

Enabling the Environment Washingtonian, January 2016 Walking into the Sorenson Language and Communication Center at Gallaudet University in Northeast DC can feel, at first, like walking into any new academic building on any American college campus. Students chat away as the doors slide open. They carry their laptops and backpacks into an atrium. They catch…

Why Architect Bjarke Ingels Risks Reputation With Pigskins Deal Washington City Paper, Jan. 7, 2016 For the past couple of years, Washington has been getting to know architect Bjarke Ingels. The photogenic, 41-year-old Dane who leads the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) is now a global design star, supervising two huge projects in New York: W57, a…