Tag: architecture
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The Emerging Cuban Market
Is Cuba the Next Emerging Market for American Architects? Architect, July 2015 When Abby Gordon, a designer at Shepley Bulfinch in Boston, entered the competition to win her firm’s travel fellowship, she had only one destination in mind: Cuba. “I knew I had to go,” says Gordon, who has traveled extensively in Latin America and […]
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Ballers
Balls to the Walls: Snarkitecture Creates Gigantic Ball Pit in National Building Museum Architectural Record, July 7, 2015 New Yorkers can take the subway to Coney Island and Angelenos can cool off in Venice or Santa Monica, but Washingtonians are out of luck if they want to hit the beach—the shore is a three-hour drive […]
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Don’t Ruin Waffle House
The Underappreciated Architecture of Waffle House CityLab, May 26, 2015 “Why would you eat your grits anyplace else?” That’s the title of a song on the Waffle House jukebox, and it’s what I think to myself every time I dig into breakfast at the greasy-spoon chain, a personal favorite, which has some 1,500 locations from Delaware […]
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RA Design Awards
Residential Architect, May 2015 I wrote about four projects that won 2015 Residential Architect Design Awards, including Johnsen Schmaling Architects’ Pleated House (shown). Photograph by John J. Macaulay
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Broadgate Exchange House
AIA Twenty-Five Year Award: Broadgate Exchange House Architect, May 2015 The Big Bang, at least the British version of it, took place on Oct. 27, 1986, when Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher deregulated the London stock market. Very swiftly after that, the City of London morphed from an insular old-boys club into a modern, global financial center. […]
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