Fentress Architects and Soma Creates release Clover app to promote interest in architecture among early readers Denver, CO (PRWEB) October 12, 2012 Fentress Architects and renowned children’s app developer Soma Creates are thrilled to announce the launch of their unlikely collaboration, Clover. An interactive children’s book designed exclusively for Apple’s iPad, Clover is the...
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Maori architecture creates a sense of place: designer
Maori architecture creates a sense of place: designer Updated 24 minutes ago Wellington building consultant Hugh Tennant says stories and culture will become a prominent face in architecture as Maori become more influential in the design of new structures. Tennant-Brown recently won the inaugural Nga Aho award at the 2012 Best Design Awards, which...
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Custom designs for Habitat homes in Hickory
HICKORY N.C. — Future Habitat for Humanity homebuyers in Hickory will have custom-designed houses thanks to a partnership between Habitat and N.C. State University. A group of graduate and senior students from N.C. State visited Hickory last week to look at a small subdivision purchased by Habitat of Catawba Valley about a year ago....
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AACC Students Win State Architecture Awards
Anne Arundel Community College architecture students won both top community college awards presented by the Maryland State American Institute of Architects for a second consecutive year. Aida Penafiel of Crofton won first place for Excellence in Hand Delineation for her project, “The Sydney Opera House,” a project in Assistant Professor Robert Lowe III’s Architectural...
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Ulrich Franzen, Alley Theatre architect, dies at 91
Architect Ulrich Franzen, outside the Alley Theatre, November 1968. Ulrich Franzen, whose fortress-like Alley Theatre design dramatically shaped Houston’s architectural landscape, died Oct. 6 in Santa Fe, N.M., the New York Times reported Saturday. He was 91. In 1964, the German-born, New York-based Franzen was unanimously selected by the Alley’s board of directors to...
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Science Lab Wins UK’s Top Architecture Prize
The Olympic Stadium failed to gain its final gold medal of a momentous year after it was pipped to the UK’s most coveted architecture prize. The 80,000-capacity stadium, by Populous, was one of six new buildings to be shortlisted for the Royal Institute of British Architects’ (Riba) Stirling Prize. But the £20,000 award went...
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Seeking design services for FV Fire Station #2 – Fuquay
slideshow The Town of Fuquay-Varina Board of Commissioners has authorized funding for the design of renovations and additions to Fire Station #2 located at 5617 Hilltop Rd. Fuquay-Varina. The Town is seeking Request for Qualifications (RFQ) which will be used to select a qualified architectural/engineering firm to provide the architectural and engineering services required...
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Six architects honored for Gateway T station design
A team of six local architects has received a silver medal for the design of the new Gateway T station Downtown. This is first time in four years that a silver medal has been awarded in the competition for members of the Pittsburgh chapter of the American Institute of Architects. A jury of Detroit...
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RENOWNED ARCHITECT CREATED ICONIC RESIDENCES – U
It’s impossible to go too far into North County without spotting a house designed by Steve Adams. The renowned architect and landscape artist created some of the area’s most iconic residences — homes that blur the line between outdoors and indoors, properties that use nature as a design element. Mr. Adams died Sept. 23...
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