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Is xeriscaping "historically inappropriate" in water-challenged Dallas?
Mon, 03/25/2013 - 13:27 — AnonymousThe local Landmarks Commission thinks so, and demands that Burton Knight tear out his front yard and plant grass.
...Inspired TreeHugger reader builds stair out of milk crates
Wed, 04/03/2013 - 17:17 — AnonymousA reader looks at the design of a stair we showed last year and builds his own.
...In Los Angeles, Grimshaw and Gruen on Track to Win $4 Million Union Station Contract
Wed, 06/20/2012 - 12:18 — AnonymousLos Angeles’ major transit hub, the historic Union Station, is one step closer to a massive expansion.
...In Memory of Karen Elizabeth Lewand, Hon. AIA
Fri, 12/28/2012 - 16:49 — AnonymousIn Memory of Karen Elizabeth Lewand, Hon. AIA
Karen Lewand, the recently retired Executive Director of the Baltimore Chapter of the AIA, succumbed to cancer on December 20th, 2012.
In the Field
Wed, 08/08/2012 - 17:11 — AnonymousA Young Designer Lays Out His Ambitious Building Plan for Rural Africa
...Irène Urban Housing in Montreal, Canada / by KANVA
Mon, 02/18/2013 - 04:55 — AnonymousItalian Architect Gae Aulenti Dies at 84
Fri, 11/02/2012 - 16:17 — AnonymousAulenti was arguably the only internationally-recognized female practitioner in the first wave of starchitects, winning commissions in the 1980s alongside Aldo Rossi and I.M. Pei.
...In Sandy's Wake, Revisiting MoMA's Prescient “Rising Currents” Exhibition
Fri, 11/02/2012 - 19:52 — AnonymousThe exhibition "Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront", which ran at the Museum of Modern Art in New York two years ago, provided a look into the future—and this past week, that future arrived, in the form of the catastrophic storm surge from Hurricane Sandy. We asked several of the MoMA show’s participants what the Federal government and New York City should do next.
...It Happened Here: Hurricane Sandy's Impact
Mon, 11/19/2012 - 13:34 — AnonymousWhen Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, New Yorkers watched in horror as residents climbed onto rooftops, stranded, or fled to shelters that provided precious little shelter. For all kinds of reasons New Yorkers believed that "it could never happen here." But for a few days this fall, it very nearly did.
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