May 1, 2009
  17 Residences Take Home the 2009 AIA Housing Award
Recognizing projects in four award categories—One/Two Family Custom Housing, One/Two Family Production Housing, Special Housing, and Multifamily Housing—the AIA Housing Awards jury announces 17 recipients for 2009. The AIA Housing Awards Program, now in its ninth year, was established to recognize the best in housing design and promote the importance of good housing as a necessity of life, a sanctuary for the human spirit, and a valuable national resource.

David Adjaye’s Smithsonian Crowns African-American Culture as a Global Culture
“What’s left to be done?,” asks David Adjaye, Hon. FAIA, with a laugh, about his conceptual design for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African-American History and Culture. A Smithsonian jury just selected his design from a short list of six design teams on April 14. “Everything. It’s got a lot more to go before we can say it’s a building.”

NBBJ’s Korean Museum of Animation Draws Together Public and Private Programs with a Fluid Hand
A public plaza brings the national animation museum and office complex to life
How do you design a museum and office complex for a representational art form that is not representational in its own form? For the new headquarters of the South Korean animation industry in Bucheon, its architects at the Los Angeles office of NBBJ have created an abstract plan that creates form with fluid, organic lines.

 

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