Tag: architecture
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Energy-Efficient Design
Why Aren’t There More Energy-Efficient Buildings? CityLab, Oct. 22, 2015 For the fifth year running, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has crunched the numbers on its national sustainability challenge, the AIA 2030 Commitment. Architects who sign up pledge to strive to meet an ambitious energy-efficiency target in their designs—a 60 percent reduction in predicted energy-use…
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Un/Fair Use Review
The Unexpected History Behind “Un/Fair Use” An exhibit at the Center for Architecture in New York explores the tricky question of copyright in architecture. Architect, October 2015 Is the design of a finished building protected under copyright law? Before 1990, the answer was no. If you were an architect and someone copied your drawings, you…
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La Casa Review
Concrete Details: La Casa in Columbia Heights Is a Rare Aesthetic and Policy Success Washington City Paper, Oct. 15, 2015 The best building that’s gone up in the District in recent months isn’t a swish law office or a deluxe condo tower—although you might easily mistake it for either of those things, with its double-height lobby…
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Reimagining Suburbia
What if the world’s greatest architects began looking beyond the city limits? The American Scholar, Autumn 2015 Renzo Piano may be the most urban, and urbane, of great architects working today. He made his name in Paris in the 1970s, when he and Richard Rogers designed the Pompidou Center, a machine of a museum bristling…
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Silver Spring Library Review
Silver Spring’s Ho-Hum Library The Washington Post, Aug. 2, 2015 The new Silver Spring branch of the Montgomery County library opened to much fanfare. The building is big — five stories, three of which are for the library — and sits on one of the busiest corners downtown. Designed by the Lukmire Partnership, an Arlington…
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