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edited by Sheila Kim -- Interior Design, 11/1/2003 12:00:00 AM

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A Digital Dedication

The Maryland Institute College of Art has dedicated its new Brown Center for Digital Art & Design to donors Eddie and Sylvia Brown. Designed by Ziger/ Snead and Charles Brickbauer of Baltimore, the 60,000-square-foot glass-and-steel structure is scheduled to open fully this winter…

Road Trip

Want to walk on a section of the original Route 66 or board a 1950's Chicago Transit Authority car? "America on the Move" at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., assembles some 300 transportation artifacts, including a 1949 Buick Super Sedan. Opens November 22…

In-House Talent

Interior Design books editor Stanley Abercrombie has published A Century of Interior Design, 1900–2000: The Design, the Designers, the Products, and the Profession. The 240 illustrated pages take readers back to art nouveau and Arts and Crafts, then move through art deco, Bauhaus, and modernism…

Semper Fi

Fentress Bradburn Architects has broken ground for the National Museum of the Marine Corps, on a 135-acre site next to the U.S. Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Virginia. Dedicated to exploring the Marines' culture, the museum features a 210-foot-tall tilted steel mast atop a 160-foot-high glass atrium…

Donghia Does RISD

The Rhode Island School of Design has named its year-old state-of-the-art loft studio the Angelo Donghia Studio for Interior Architecture. The designer's foundation helped finance the space, which has exhibited work by both Donghia and RISD students…