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Clive Wilkinson Architects

Meghan Edwards, December 1, 2008

Successful design marries the past with the present. Perhaps the same can be said for a successful ad campaign. Regardless, it's what Interior Design Hall of Fame member Clive Wilkinson did at this advertising and communications graduate school. More
Building a "High Performance School of the Future, Today"

From Building Design + Construction, November 24, 2008

From Building Design + Construction: Designed by the design firm Project FROG™, the high-performance green building system is a fully functional classroom that showcases advanced technologies and sustainable systems now available for the educational sector in North America. More
Rensselaer and SOM launch the Center for Architecture Science and Ecology

Laurel Petriello, November 24, 2008

CASE aims to tap into a new generation of building design industry students and professionals to evolve current building practices and generate solutions for today’s environmental challenges.
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Richard Meier's Cornell Research Center Lands LEED Gold

Nicholas Tamarin, October 22, 2008

Weill Hall, the new Cornell University interdisciplinary research facility designed by Richard Meier & Partners, has earned LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. More
Gwathmey Siegel Completes Yale Arts Complex

Nicholas Tamarin, October 20, 2008

Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects's Charles Gwathmey renovated the Ivy League university's architecture building, designed a new art history department facility, and created an expanded library for art, drama and architecture. More
Gehry's Princeton Library Opens September 11

Nicholas Tamarin, September 8, 2008
Princeton University's Lewis Library, designed by legendary architect Frank Gehry, will open its doors at the start of the academic year. More
AIA Honors College and University Designs

Nicholas Tamarin, August 11, 2008

The American Institute of Architects Committee on Architecture for Education and the Society for College and University Planning recently announced the winners of their annual Excellence in Planning, Excellence in Landscape Architecture, and Excellence in Architecture awards. More
The Art Of Play

Raul Barreneche, August 1, 2008
You could be forgiven for thinking that this cutting-edge building in São Paulo, Brazil, was an art gallery or even a fashion boutique. In fact, though, the building's clientele has barely learned how to walk—some are still in diapers. Welcome to Primetime Child Development, a bilingual learning center that serves up to 75 tiny students, from infants to preschoolers. More
Nation's First Green Dorm Renamed

Nicholas Tamarin, June 20, 2008
Carnegie Mellon University's green residence hall -- the first dormitory in the United States to achieve LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council -- is now a tribute to the university's fifth president. More
Reading Is Fun-Damental

Raul Barreneche, June 1, 2008
A recent spate of cookbooks tries to get children to eat their fruit and vegetables by disguising them in well loved foods. Take The Sneaky Chef, with its recipes for Covert Quesadillas, hiding sweet potatoes and carrots; Barbell Burgers, surreptitiously containing spinach and oat bran; and other deceptively healthy meals. More
Ghetto Fabulous

Maria Shollenbarger, March 1, 2008
Denmark has long, proud traditions of promoting civic-mindedness and fostering young architects. When these two traditions dovetail, unexpected and wonderful things appear, quite literally, on the horizon. Case in point: the nonprofit Sjakket organization's Ghetto Heroes Academy youth center in Copenhagen's immigrant-heavy northwest quarter. More
Learning Curves

Raul Barreneche, January 1, 2008
Imagine children being able to call Central Park their schoolyard. The fortunate graduates of the Escola Artur Martorell in Badalona, Spain—the town immediately north of Barcelona—can claim a setting just as idyllic. Founded in 1969, the public elementary school originally made its home in a pair of repurposed colonial-style manses surrounded by date palms, cedars, and bougainvillea... More
A Heavenly Light

Peter O'Brien, December 1, 2007
Stained glass carries the weight of a 1,000-year history. Think back toChartres Cathedral, then up to Louis Comfort Tiffany, Frank Lloyd Wright, even Gerhard Richter. Still, glass artist Sarah Hall has managed to make her unique mark with True North/Lux Nova, installed in a triangular ventilationtower for the underground theology library that Clive Grout Architect and Walter Francl Architect ... More
Elliott + Associates Architects

Deborah Wilk, December 1, 2007
Sure, education is part of the mission of most museums—along with conservation, appreciation, and the flaunting of civic pride. But Interior Design Hall of Fame member Rand Elliott scores an A+ for conceiving an entire museum as an educational tool. Inside a 1927 neoclassical mansion, Elliott developed what he calls his Bookends concept, juxtaposing old and new to tell his native state's ... More
Libraries Unbound

Laura Fisher Kaiser, May 1, 2007
When the American Library Association convenes for its annual conference in Washington, D.C., in June, thousands of librarians will spend several days considering such questions as "Why Does My Building Project Need an Interior Designer?" A panel discussion on that topic is intended to help attendees comprehend what is by all measures a full-blown sea change. More
Meal Plan

Gisela Williams-Kramer, May 1, 2007
In Karlsruhe, Germany, all roads lead to the palace, a grand neoclassical structure built by the city's founder, Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach, in the early 18th century—and rebuilt after the air raids of World War II. (Karlsruhe translates as Karl's peace.) Now the city has a second architectural focus, a Universität Karlsruhe cafeteria by J. More
Cooking 101

Craig Kellogg, April 1, 2007
Kris Lin managed BDDW's New York furniture showroom for nearly five years. Yet she never met her neighbor Philipp Mainzer, an architect and furniture designer who cofounded E15 Design und Distributions. Ironically, it was Lin's industrialist father and stepmother who tracked Mainzer down to the outskirts of Frankfurt, where he now lives, to ask him to handle the interior of their continuing-edu... More
Never Forget pix

Joseph Giovannini, March 1, 2007
It was like a gentleman's club out of central casting. Founded in 1817, the New York Academy of Sciences later moved uptown to the Woolworth mansion, a 1911 building graced with carved mahogany paneling, leaded glass windows, and a marble facade worthy of Georgian London. The furnishings, shabby-genteel in a professorial way, conjured up visions of science discussed fireside, over brandy snifte... More
Beyond Hans Christian Andersen

Henrik Most, January 1, 2007
It's fun to be a kid at the innovative Day Care Center Skanderborggade. Because there's areal lack of outdoor space in this crowded part of Copenhagen, Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter transformed what would have been 8,600 square feet of unused roof space into a preschool playland. The multipurpose space features colorful rubber hills, a barbecue area, sandboxes, small cottages, and roadwa... More
Gensler

Jen DeRose, December 1, 2006
Gone are the dorm days of bed frames raised on cinder blocks and duct-taped easy chairs—well, at least for 580 students lucky enough to be boarded at Loft-Right, a DePaul University off-campus residence hall. Chairs by no lesser talents than Eero Saarinen, Verner Panton, and Piero Lissoni furnish the lobby lounge; custom platform beds and full kitchens with granite counters ... More

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