Site, Materials, and Form Flow Together in Studio Gang’s Aqua Tower

Street Dixon Rick Gets Re-Inspired by the Campus that Inspired America
Their Commons residential college project at Vanderbilt looks back to the University of Virginia
Street Dixon Rick’s new and renovated Commons dormitories add classically detailed and sustainable housing for freshman students. These designs were based on the Neo-Classical buildings of the school’s Peabody campus, which was modeled after the University of Virginia campus.The Peabody campus (then a separate college) was planned by McKim Mead and White in 1905 and built between 1915 and 1930 with grand Federalist detailing and broad axial quad spaces in reference to the University of Virginia’s Rotunda and the Great Lawn that radiates
from it.

U.S. Embassy in Panama Achieves Security and Sustainability
EYP ties it all in a neat little package with a local flair
Balancing the twin rigors of security and sustainability, the new U.S. Embassy in Panama City, Panama, has earned LEED® certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. Designed by Einhorn Yaffee Prescott, Architecture & Engineering PC, the Panamanian facility is only the second American embassy to achieve LEED certification. Located on a 43-acre sloping site, the $69 million embassy was designed to consolidate and replace aging facilities that were disbursed throughout Panama City.