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AECOM to provide ‘environmental restoration and compliance services’ for NASA

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Architecture and infrastructure consulting firm AECOM is to provide environmental restoration and compliance services to NASA facilities across the U.S. The five-year contract will see AECOM deliver environmental sampling, contaminants investigations, and human, health, and ecological risk assessments to NASA’s U.S. facilities.

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Quinn Evans is the 2024 AIA Architecture Firm Award winner

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The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced their selection of Quinn Evans Architects as the AIA Architecture Firm Award winner for 2024. Citing a track record of “redefining preservation as it has restored hundreds of the country’s cherished buildings and sites,” the AIA said the 39-year-old Washington, D.C.

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Fentress' Norwegian Embassy restoration is a testament to the country's unique design heritage

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Fentress Architects ’ AIA chapter award-winning Chancery restoration project for the Embassy of Norway has officially opened to the public, representing a first for the 42-year-old Denver-based firm. Situated between the official Vice Presidential Residence and National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.’s

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New York City’s busiest architecture firms of 2023 ranked by The Real Deal

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Real estate website The Real Deal has compiled a list of the busiest architecture firms in New York City across 2023. “Despite the office market’s bleak outlook , some of the city’s busiest architecture firms were those that specialize in workplace design,” The Real Deal noted.

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Brazil has turned a corner in its yearslong National Museum restoration project

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According to The Art Newspaper , local firms Velatura Restaurações and Construtora Biapó have now completed the restoration of the historic facade and expect the building to be completely reopened sometime in 2027.

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Job openings at 11 female-led architecture firms in California

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Women have made tremendous moves in the field, and several firms have pushed beyond the "boys club" of architecture, not only with an increase in female architects but with visible female leadership. Silvertop House, originally designed by John Lautner and restored by Bestor Architects. Photo: Iwan Baan.

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Herzog & de Meuron’s Powerhouse Arts restoration opens in Brooklyn

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Nicknamed “The Batcave” by many of the city’s graffiti taggers after its decommissioning in the 1950s, the site was decontaminated as part of the New York State Brownfield Cleanup program prior to the firm winning the project's commission and then beginning its planning phase at the end of 2016.

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