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Longtime Air Force planner Paula Loomis is given the 2024 AIA Award for Excellence in Public Architecture

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The honor follows a long career in service to the United States military and other federal agencies that has advanced strategies imperative to improving resilient design, sustainability, and design for mental health approaches today. Air Force installations is credited with authoring over 50 facility standards guidelines.

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Designing With Users: 7 Projects Where Architects Collaborated With Communities

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There are moments when architects take the design process beyond their practice and engage with potential users as design participants. This expands the design framework and makes the input of future users key to project development.

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Rafael Viñoly passes away aged 78

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The architect of many noteworthy international designs — including London’s 20 Fenchurch Street (aka the “Walkie Talkie Tower”) and the controversial 432 Park Avenue in Manhattan — reportedly succumbed to a brain aneurysm.

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Paris 2024 Olympic Village features street lamps made from salvaged building materials

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Ahead of this summer's Olympic Games in Paris , design offices Concepto and Studio 5.5 The lighting project is part of a scheme overseen by the Olympic Games delivery authority Solideo with the aim to reduce carbon emissions by 47 per cent compared to a conventional project. Concepto and Studio 5.5

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Watch the third session of DesignMarch’s talks focusing on designing for the human senses

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Dezeen has teamed up with DesignMarch to livestream a day of talks on the role of architecture and design in addressing global imbalances. DesignTalks is a programme of panel discussions that take place at the Henning Larsen Architects -designed Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre in Reykjavík, Iceland.

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AIA announces energy-efficient redesign scheme for its Brutalist D.C. headquarters

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In an effort to bring the organization closer to its own self-stated goals on sustainability, equity, and collaboration, the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has today unveiled plans for a comprehensive new upgrade to its aging Washington, D.C. National headquarters.

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Steelcase reinterprets Frank Lloyd Wright’s Johnson Wax Headquarters furniture with their new Racine Collection

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Michigan-based manufacturing company Steelcase has announced the creation of the Frank Lloyd Wright Racine Collection , a range of furniture that pays homage to the products designed by the famous architect in 1939 for the SC Johnson Administration Building in Racine, Wisconsin. ” Frank Lloyd Wright Racine Signature Collection.