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New Research Reveals the Safety Hazards of Green Building
During the past several years, the green building trend has soared, with an increase in government incentives and availability of affordable supplies driving a huge growth of U.S. Green Building Council LEED-certified buildings.
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New York City Mayor Says Green Building Codes Will Help City Meet PlaNYC Goals
New York City’s adoption of new green building codes are expected to result in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 5% and saving $400 million by 2030, says a recently released report from the Urban Green Council, the U.S. Green Building Council’s New York chapter.
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Favrholm
Keeping 'em Down On The Farm: Transforming a national monument into a state-of-the-art conference center for a global health-care company.
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Seismic Training Efforts Help Haitians Help Themselves
An old Chinese proverb sums up several projects that mark the dawn of seismic-resistant design and construction in earthquake-devastated Haiti: "If you give a person a fish, you feed that person for a day. If you teach a person to fish, you feed that person for a lifetime."
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Newsmaker: Henry Urbach
Henry Urbach Named Director of Philip Johnson's Glass House.
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A’maree’s
Haute Couture: A restaurant with a Modernist pedigree is rescued from the vintage bin, reborn a high-end clothier.
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AIA Chooses Sustainable Projects for Volunteer Program
The AIA's Sustainable Design Assessment Team (SDAT) has selected seven communities to receive pro bono design and planning services.
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Design Selected for AIDS Memorial Park in New York City
The AIDS Memorial Park organization, Architectural Record, and Architizer have announced the winner of a competition to design a memorial for victims of AIDS and an education center in Manhattan’s West Village, across from the now-closed St. Vincent’s hospital.
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How Do I Love You, Mr. Foster? Let Me Count the Buildings
Norberto López Amado and Carlos Carcas' documentary How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?, currently playing in New York City, is a starry-eyed, unabashed love letter to one of the world's leading starchitects. It's also soulless hagiography.
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Revival on the Horizon for Historic Miami Marine Stadium
Today, the Miami City Commission is expected to give a nonprofit group the green light to rehabilitate Miami Marine Stadium, an abandoned Modernist landmark designed in 1963 by then 27-year-old Cuban-American architect Hilario Candela.
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Ellsworth Kelly and Peter Zellner Turn an L.A. Gallery Into Public Art
Ellsworth Kelly has been collaborating with architects since the 1950s. His latest project with Peter Zellner turns an L.A. gallery into public art.
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Imploding the Pruitt-Igoe Myth
A new documentary attempts to alter how we look at St. Louis's infamous public housing project.
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Havana: Bracing for a Boom
For decades, Havana has charmed foreigners who visited the Caribbean city well-known for its sultry music, world-class cigars, and cacharros, the vintage American automobiles imported to the country prior to the 1959 revolution.
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New Film Celebrates an Unsung Icon of Modern Cuban Architecture
If architecture embodies a culture’s history and values, perhaps no project better represents Cuba since the 1960s than the National Art Schools in Havana.
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Marysville Getchell High School Campus
Divide and Conquer: In a district plagued by years of bond failures and overcrowding, a high school initiates a fresh start with collegiate learning tracks and a complementary campus.
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At Drexel University, a Green Rebirth Planned for a Former Frat House
Situated on a tree-lined street on the Drexel University campus in West Philadelphia, a stone-clad dwelling circa 1872 served as the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity house for three-plus decades.
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Haiti, Two Years After the Quake
Architects report some gains, but slow progress in the rebuilding effort.
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Newsmaker: Michael Graves
The architect discusses winning this year’s Driehaus Prize, which honors classical architecture and traditional urbanism, and how he plans to spend the $200k award.
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Ambitious Energy Goals in SOM Plan for NYC Campus
Cornell University topped the competition to build a new tech campus with an SOM design that aims to generate more energy than it uses.
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Haiti: Two Years Later
In 2010, just after Haiti was devastated by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake, RECORD's Jenna M. McKnight visited the country to find out how architects were responding to the disaster. This week, she returned to see how their efforts have progressed.
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