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3 weeks ago | 
archinect.com | Niall Patrick Walsh |MacKenzie Goldberg |Mackenzie Goldberg |Julia Ingalls
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House may be closed to the public due to pending city budget cuts. As reported by the Los Angeles Times, cuts proposed by Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass could result in both the closure of the landmark and the loss of its UNESCO World Heritage Site designation, if...
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1 month ago | 
archinect.com | Josh Niland |Julia Ingalls
Alexandra Lange, the popular CityLab contributor and widely read critic of design for The New Yorker and other outlets, has won this year's Pulitzer Prize in the Criticism category. Lange, a Yale and NYU alumna whose career began as a staffer for New York magazine in 1994, has been an...
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1 month ago | 
archinect.com | Niall Patrick Walsh |Sean Joyner |Julia Ingalls
As artificial intelligence systems continue to grow in capability and accessibility, successive studies have signaled interest among architects in integrating AI systems into their workflows. Across the economy, one of the most prevalent integrations of AI in business is in recruitment. According...
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1 month ago | 
archinect.com | Josh Niland |Julia Ingalls |Alexander Walter
Steven Holl's 2002 Simmons Hall design for MIT has become the first-ever winner of the Aesthetic Atrocity Award, the Swedish group behind the new awards program–Architectural Uprising—announced ahead of the two-day Beauty and Ugliness in Architecture symposium in Oslo in May. The...
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2 months ago | 
archinect.com | Josh Niland |MacKenzie Goldberg |Mackenzie Goldberg |Justine Testado |Julia Ingalls
As the important task of debris removals continues in the devastated areas of Altadena, the LA Times has picked up on the mission to recover historic tiles from the surviving mantelpieces of burned homes. There, a patchwork battalion of masons, homeowners, and other volunteers are working...
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
archinect.com | Josh Niland |Julia Ingalls
The dangerous fire situation unfolding on the ground across Los Angeles has captured the attention of Archinect as we try to keep on top of potential damage to homes, businesses, and historic structures in the Pacific Palisades, Altadena, and Pasadena, which is also our home. What...
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
archinect.com | Josh Niland |Julia Ingalls
As the imposition of a threatened 25% blanket tariff on Canadian goods including softwood lumber products looms for the end of January, many practices are concerned about how cost increases might impact procurements and the cost of building as the country’s production currently equals an almost...
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
archinect.com | Alexander Walter |Julia Ingalls |Amelia Taylor-Hochberg
Today, December 4th, would have been the 100th birthday of architect and developer John Portman. For fans of the hotel atrium grandmaster who died in 2017 at 93, Chicago-based MAS Context has arranged a digital screening of John Portman: A Life of Building, a film directed by Ben...
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
archinect.com | Josh Niland |Antonio Pacheco |Nicholas Korody |Julia Ingalls
Dutch architect Sim Van der Ryn, a pioneer of green architecture and a longtime professor at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, has died at age 89 according to the San Francisco Chronicle. He will be remembered for his experimental teaching methods and approach to designing...
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
archinect.com | Josh Niland |Julia Ingalls
A new survey from Bluebeam has documented the widespread use of AI technology in every facet of the AEC industry. According to their survey of management employees in seven countries, around three-quarters (74%) of all businesses have implemented AI into their workflows. This is especially...
