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Construction Site Tour

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If anything, given how much there is to learn from each tour, we fail to conduct as many of them as we should. Visiting construction sites provides our team members with not only an education, but also a sense of accomplishment as they see their designs come to life.

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Tomorrow's classrooms: Designing schools for the digital age

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Tomorrow's classrooms: Designing schools for the digital age 0 qpurcell Mon, 04/29/2024 - 10:53 K-12 Schools In a world where technology’s rapid pace has reshaped how we live, work, and communicate, it should be no surprise that it’s also changing the PreK-12 education landscape.

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Wallmakers founder defends "rigorous" learning process of unpaid internships

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Indian architect and Wallmakers founder Vinu Daniel has defended the use of unpaid internships , which he claims have an important educational benefit, following criticism on social media. After learning, they become salaried members of the firm." The learning process is rigorous," he said. "In Some stay and learn!

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Riken Yamamoto wins 2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize

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Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto has been named the winner of this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize for his buildings that are a "background and foreground to everyday life". He is a reassuring architect who brings dignity to everyday life. Future University of Hakodate has a large, central learning space.

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Architects part of historic "social cleansing" of cities, says David Chipperfield at Design Doha 

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For the first time in my life, I would say there's a certain loss of confidence in the absolute notion of progress," he said. For the first time in my life, I would say there's a certain loss of confidence in the absolute notion of progress," he said. I think we've changed our idea of what progress is itself.

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The Designers Using the "The Sims" as Architectural Software

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Welcome to The Trend Times , a column that explores design fads in the age of doomscrolling. When Kayla Sims, 24, embarked on renovating her first home she was, of course , going to use the life simulation game The Sims to do it—and not just because of her last name. You see your life almost as a project in process.

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Innocence Lost

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(Photo credit: VOA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) The terrifying familiarity this past week of yet another mass shooting at a school—this time at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on May 24—shocked the nation. Unabated, the adverse societal costs will continue to grow incalculably.

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