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Sustainability
AWARDSThe Next Level in Green: 2014 AIA COTE Top TenThe AIA’s premiere sustainability award selects a new crop of projects that lead the way forward. |
RENOVATION AND REUSEAdapting Visions of Sustainability Call for Existing Buildings to Adapt as WellNearly half of this year’s AIA COTE Top Ten Award recipients are renovated and adaptively reused projects. |
GOVERNMENT ARCHITECTUREBNIM’s COTE Top Ten Plus Winner Sets the Pace for Utility EfficiencyA state agency that protects consumers by regulating utility companies has cut their own utility expenses to a minimum. |
Business
WORK ON THE BOARDSThe Winter Doldrums Drag On Through March at Architecture FirmsA return to subpar scores after a few months of modestly positive billings means that this decline likely indicates more than a severe weather-related blip. |
ECONOMIC FORECASTINGNew AIA Economic Indicator Measures Value of Design ContractsMeasuring changes in the value of design contracts can extend the predictive ability of the ABI back by six months, as design contracts become architecture firm billings, and eventually construction spending. |
Design
COMPONENT AWARDSAIA Minnesota Honor Awards: The Look (and Feel) of ArchitectureAIA Minnesota’s Honor Awards recognize architecture for your hands; projects that use tactile, richly textured materials to evoke shared memories of place. |
WEB EXTRAWEISS/MANFREDI, Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center2014 Institute Honor Award for Architecture. |
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AIA Convention 2014: Circling Back to Chicago’s LoopChicago’s urban epicenter has transformed into a vibrant 24/7, live-work neighborhood in the years since the last AIA convention there. |
KEYNOTE SPEAKERSSustainability, Resiliency, SecurityHow sustainability, resiliency, and security will shape architecture will be the topic of Friday’s panel with urban revitalization consultant Majora Carter, sustainable suburban redevelopment expert Ellen Dunham-Jones, AIA, Perkins+Will healthcare architect Robin Guenther, FAIA, and disaster resiliency activist Rachel Minnery, AIA. |
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The AIA’s official e-newsletter was honored for its 2013 AIA Convention dailies by the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE). |
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