In a ranking of the top 10 downtowns in the country, the site placed Detroit at No. 9, largely on the strength of its pre-World War II buildings.
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Architect Frank Arvan wears a lot of hats. He is the newly elected president of the AIA (American Institute of Architecture) Detroit for 2012 as well as the Detroit Institute of Arts exhibit designer for temporary installations, including the blockbuster Rembrandt show on view until the middle of February. And speaking of masterpieces, Arvan's own house in Royal Oak, designed and built nine ...
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The architecture, the ballparks, the sights and sounds-- Detroit is finally making a top 10 list we can be proud of.
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DETROIT, Feb. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Detroit's electrical utility infrastructure faces daunting challenges and opportunities. In our city, the demographics, economy, and technology surrounding energy are vastly changing and we are constantly looking to find new ways of delivering electricity that is efficient, effective, environmentally responsible, and ethical.
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DETROIT, MI-- - SmithGroupJJR , one of the nation's leading architecture, engineering and planning firms, has promoted Andrew Dunlap and David Frassrand to Principal.Andrew Dunlap, AIA, CDT, LEED AP A ...
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The design for the Denver International Airport’s new south terminal was released last week, and it bears startling resemblance to that of Santiago Calatrava, who resigned over fears that cost-cutting measures would compromise his design. World Architecture News ’s Sharon McHugh writes, “While the materials are different and some of the program elements have been cut or scaled back, and the ...
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Private nonresidential construction may pick up this year, as demand grows for new U.S. projects.
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With a new, fire-engine red children’s psychiatric hospital in Zaragoza, Spanish architect José Javier Gallardo Ortega, of the firm g.bang, is hoping to “rob us of prejudice” against people with emotional and behavioural impairments. The bold, steeply gabled structure is certainly a welcome departure from the forlorn, ivy-covered asylums of 19th-century America, writes Fast Company ’s Suzanne ...
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Over the past semester, Clemson University architecture students inventoried empty lots, buildings and roofs around downtown Asheville and developed proposals to repurpose them. The Asheville Citizen-Times ’s Mark Barret reports that the students’ designs will be on display through Feb. 2 at 5 Walnut Wine Bar, in downtown Asheville.
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In what professors have described as an unprecedented project, over the next 10 days the entire U.Va. School of Architecture will take part in a project to redesign the city’s Belmont Bridge. The “Belmont Vortex” design workshops will be led by a visiting professor from Spain, Eduardo Arroyo. According to Charlottesville Tomorrow ’s Brian Wheeler, the idea for a design competition came from ...
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