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Norma Merrick Sklarek, pioneering African American architect, dies at 85
Kansas City Star
She was the first black woman to earn a license in California, in 1962, and the first to be elected a fellow of the American Institute of Architects, the highest designation bestowed by the professional group, in 1966. She spent two decades at Gruen ...

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Ward-Young Architecture & Planning Associates receive LEED accreditation
Sierra Sun
Ron Larkins and David Bourke, associates at Ward-Young Architecture & Planning, recently received their LEED AP (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) credential. The LEED AP Building Design + Construction credential provides a standard for ...
Sanford Children's Clinic in Duncan, Oklahoma Awarded LEED Certified StatusPR Web (press release)

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Where Art and Architecture Collide
Wall Street Journal
There's a Noguchi coffee table and a collection of chairs with modern lines designed by architects, including Frank Gehry's Power Play chair, which looks like it's made out of wood shavings. The modern Arne Jacobsen chairs around the kitchen table are ...

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The Untold Story: The Continuing Demise of the Construction Industry
Triple Pundit
Like generations of aspiring architects and civil engineers before them, students at the Georgia Institute of Technology look out the windows of their dorm rooms to the dramatic skyline of downtown Atlanta. However, unlike all students before them, ...

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Sundance Square names landscape architect on plaza project
Dallas Business Journal
Sundance Square Management has awarded the landscape architecture for a three-building plaza development at the center of its 35-block district in Fort Worth to Virgina-based Michael Vergason Landscape Architects Ltd. The landscape architect will be ...

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In Toronto, a modest Modernism wins out over faux Victorian
Globe and Mail
Of all the posh houses by Toronto architects I have reviewed in this column and elsewhere, the ones I have been meanest about are by Richard Wengle. I don't like the stuffy pastiches of defunct historical languages he has set down in Forest Hill.

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Metroplex architects share experience and information with students
UTA The Shorthorn
“The professional world blossoms the [students] into full-fledged architects,” architecture professor Madan Mehta said. The School of Architecture enjoyed a busy but successful day that connected the Metroplex architecture community with UTA students.

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From the home front: Moby's blog, architecture in crisis, carchitecture, car ...
OregonLive.com (blog)
At Architizer.com, Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan agrees with the thrust of the piece but objects to a quote from a "seemingly oblivious" architect who compares architects to immigrant workers. And, most interestingly, at MetropolisMag.com, Thomas Fisher, ...

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Debate in Newburyport over proposed historic district
Boston.com
(Kayana Szymczak for the Boston Globe) By Brenda J. Buote The Newburyport City Council this spring is expected to weigh a proposal that would create a local historic district commission charged with protecting the architectural fabric of the seaport's ...
Debate over proposed local historic districtBoston Globe

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Architects' Works Find a Niche in the Digital Age
New York Times
Given how detailed these apps are, I'm curious if you have a background in architecture. I'ma licensed architect in California. I discovered early on that working for one architect limits you in learning about other types of architecture being created.

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