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Portfolio > Unbuilt Washington The Architect’s Newspaper, Dec. 20, 2011 More and more, the National Mall is living up to its moniker “America’s front yard”: patchy turf, puddles, and cracked sidewalks give it an air of foreclosure. The National Mall Design Competition, now under way, will surely produce ambitious proposals to mend the Mall, but…

This year’s Solar Decathlon is off the beaten path in D.C. The Architect’s Newspaper, Sept. 23, 2011 For the fifth time since its launch in 2002, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon kicked off on September 23 in Washington, D.C. But following complaints that the collegiate design-build contest was damaging the Mall’s lawn, it…

Navigating the complexities of a big urban project? New York’s HR&A can help. Architect, April 2011 In the 1990s, Cincinnati was vexed by a common urban problem: what to do about its downtown core. Fountain Square, the symbolic heart of the city since the 1870s, had lost its luster as a civic space. It was…

Trust Me, I’m an (Unlicensed) Architect Architect, September 2009 If you don’t have an architectural license, it’s illegal to call yourself an architect or perform architectural services—but people still do. Who are they, who’s policing them, and can they be stopped? Michael Angelo Gideo owns a small business in Plano, Texas, that specializes in custom-designed…