The Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) is pushing ahead with its drive to make efficient use of materials and reduce waste on construction projects.
Demand for construction materials with high recycled content in new building projects is increasingly being driven by some of the industry’s largest clients with many in the process of setting minimum [...]

The current skirmish in Westport over the future of a house at 16 Minute Man Hill designed by the late architect Paul Rudolph isn’t a first by any means for a design of the former dean of the Yale School of Architecture.
This time angry Westporters are not alone, as Rudolph mania flourishes at times in [...]

Any good technician can build a functionally perfect house. But a serious architect will do more, infusing space with beauty, soul and wisdom, creating places that interact with time and the seasons and honor their surroundings.
The late Marcel Breuer was such an architect and the man who envisioned the vistas, the nooks, the textures and [...]

The year 2007 looks as if it’s going to be more about circuses than bread.
While Lord Foster’s over-budget and unfashionably late Wembley Stadium reaches completion and Londoners begin to worry about paying for the 2012 Olympics, the costs of which are rising as fast as the city’s absurd property prices, Beijing will be completing its [...]

Graphic designers from across Tennessee will gather in Chattanooga in January to compare their efforts.
The second Ten Show event, founded by the state’s chapters of design trade group AIGA, is a chance for designers to examine their peers’ work and to highlight local art in a growing industry, organizers said.
“We want to communicate to not [...]

The Architectural League of New York is seeking applicants, due February 12, for the 2007 Young Architects Competition, celebrating design. The competition is part of the annual Young Architects Forum, which also includes exhibitions and a series of lectures. Winners, to be announced in late February, will receive a $1000 cash prize.
Applicants must be [...]

Carl Levin Architecture + Design (CLA+D) of Coconut Grove has been commissioned to design an apartment building in Normandy Village by New York’s Osmani Enterprises.
Bonita Lofts will be a 12-unit, five-story building along a public canal at 7143 Bonita Dr.
Information: 305-442-4865.

Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects (KPMB) is the recipient of the 2006 Canadian Architect Award of Excellence for the Manitoba Hydro Head Office project. This is the most prestigious Canadian award in architecture for projects in the design phase. As one of the two
major national design award programs, the Awards of Excellence have recognized significant [...]

Interior Design magazine tapped Louisville’s 21C Museum Hotel for its Best of Year 2006 award last week with its annual event at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
The hotel, which is based on the concept of Louisvillians Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson for an in-hotel museum of contemporary art, is featured in this [...]

Peter Blake, an architect, critic and former editor of Architectural Forum who was known for his lively critiques of Modernism and his friendships with artists, died yesterday at a hospice near his home in Branford, Conn. He was 86.
The cause was complications from a respiratory infection, said his son, Casey Nelson Blake.
One of Mr. Blake’s [...]

“The Architect” interweaves the stories of two families, one headed by a community activist and the other a well-heeled architect who designed the low-income housing project that the activist seeks to have torn down.
But while Matt Tauber’s directing debut (adapted from a play by David Greig) provides a sometimes thoughtful examination of modern sociological issues, [...]

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