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Luminaries: 8 of the World’s Top Lighting Design Firms

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L’Observatoire’s holistic design approach is evident throughout the entire process, starting with rigorous Schematic Design analysis and continuing until project delivery, always with the goal of creating stunning and efficient designs that showcase their talent for innovation.

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ACLA Redesigns Buhl Community Park and Emphasizes the Importance of Community Connection

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All of these contextual elements played an important role in our design process. As I mentioned earlier the natural environment of Pittsburgh’s rivers were an important foundational concept for the design. The essence of the design remained essentially enact through construction.

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You should say 'Yes' more often | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

I have two projects under construction, a third about to start, two projects entering into schematic design – neither of which are in town, and a large project entering into design development … also out of town. I am going on vacation to Seaside, and I’ll be taking my nieces and nephews with me.

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Back to the Garden

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Gerry, who did not respond to requests to be interviewed for this article, set up a foundation to create Bethel Woods and has been intimately involved at every turn, down to the selection and placement of plants (hence all the blue spruce). “He Today, rows of trees and a building devoted to grounds maintenance impede historic views.

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How to Teach Equity in Architecture?

Community Architect

P hotograph by author This installation, like other physical manifestations of human intolerance, provides an important reflection on racism and exclusion while calling designers to contribute creatively and intellectually. Fig 18: Resident of the the Red Shed Village in Baltimore: working and designing with and for the unhoused.