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| ENERGY CONCERNS MAINSTREAM In March 2006, architect and planner Bob Berkebile, FAIA addressed an overflow audience at the Building Energy '06 conference in Boston. He gave a stirring call to arms, saying that this was a powerful moment in human history. http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0419/news_1-1.html |
| PAULO MENDES DA ROCHA PRITZKER PRIZE Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha has been chosen as the 2006 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. In announcing the jury's choice, Thomas J. Pritzker, president of The Hyatt Foundation, said, "Mendes da Rocha has shown a deep understandin http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0419/news_2-1.html |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE AIA AWARDS 2006 In the "Granite State" of New Hampshire, the annual AIA awards program has recognized a series of projects that reflect the character of New England: muscular architecture to withstand a harsh climate and to protect the warm and inviting environments with http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0419/news_3-1.html |
| HOUSE FOR MIDNIGHT SUN In the river delta of Oulu, Finland, the natural environment is likely the toughest factor an architect has to consider. In the upper reaches of cold country, the price one pays for summer's midnight sun is long, cold winters which usually make large gla http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0419/design_1-1.html |
| PATAGONIAN LUXURIES An exotic location like Chilean Patagonia demands an exotic hotel. Hotel Remota's design draws from the dazzling explosion of islands, glaciers, icebergs, and mountains on this southern tip of South America.
Inspired by Patagonian sheep farm buildings, H http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0419/design_2-1.html |
| CHILEAN LAKESIDE Nestled in the foliage of Lake Colico near Santiago, in Chile's Region IX, Lakeside House looks at first like a diminutive medieval castle with a stone facade. But this appearance is only the prelude to an expansive glass structure that inserts its inhabi http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0419/design_3-1.html |
| SERENITY ON A BUDGET A "notsobig" house is not necessarily an inexpensive house. But if you keep the size of the house small and stick with common materials, basic construction methods, and simple details, you can indeed build or remodel on a limited budget. http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0419/building_1-1.html |
| SACRAMENTAL RESTORATION The Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament has been an impressive landmark of California's capital city of Sacramento ever since its 1889 completion. But by the turn of the 21st century, it had deteriorated and been found incapable of withstanding the next bi http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0419/building_2-1.html |
| DIGITAL PHYSICAL MASHUP In my thirdyear architectural design studio at the California Polytechnic State University, assignments are crafted to encourage students to refine skills in both digital and analog media physical modeling and traditional drawings to allow them to see t http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0419/tools_1-1.html |
| LIBRARY TECHNICS Over the last few years, a significant change has occurred in the design of libraries, the result of changing needs, newly available services, and rapidly developing technologies.
For instance, radio frequency identification RFID technology is used for http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0419/tools_2-1.html |
| BOISE LEED-NC In a state better known for its green forests than its "green" building practices, a newly renovated warehouse sets a precedent for sustainability. Front 5 Building in downtown Boise, Idaho has just been received the state's first LEEDNC New Construction http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0419/environment_1-1.html |
| DEEP AND MERELY TINTED GREENS As the concept of "green design" enters the mainstream of our building culture, designers are being given a glut of information and misinformation on what constitutes environmentally sound practices. The term "greenwashing" has entered the lexicon to me http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0419/environment_2-1.html |
| ASIAN LEGACIES Southeast Asian cities embody many contradictions. They possess, for instance, an indelible amalgam of traditional and contemporary architecture. It is not unusual in cities such as Hong Kong and Taipei to see bamboo scaffolding swaying as workers climb t http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0419/culture_1-1.html |
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