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AIA Diversity Survey Yields Bleak Results

March 25, 2016

Last month, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) released the results of its 2015 Diversity in the Profession of Architecture survey and the numbers tell a grim—and unsurprising—story: the profession doesn’t look at all like the society it serves.

Rockwell's Nouveau Broadway Turn

Linda C. Lentz

March 24, 2016

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The Roundabout Theatre’s revival of the 1963 musical She Loves Me, which opened at New York City’s Studio 54 on March 17, scored glowing reviews for its terrific cast, director Scott Ellis—and set designer Rockwell Group.

Groups Petition Putin to Save Shukhov Tower

World Monuments Fund will host a two-day celebration in Moscow this weekend to raise awareness of Constructivist icon.

Anna Fixsen

March 18, 2016

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Preservationists are imploring Russian president Vladimir Putin to take decisive measures to restore Shabolovka Tower, a deteriorating Constructivist masterwork in Moscow.

DDC Releases New Handbook of Municipal Design Principles

A new initiative from New York City’s primary design and construction agency aims to inspire rather than instruct.

Rebecca Seidel

March 17, 2016

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The New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC) unveiled a revamped set of priorities March 9 for architects working on public facilities and infrastructure. These four new guiding principles—equity, sustainability, resiliency, and healthy living—align with Mayor Bill de Blasio’s environmental and economic policies.

U.S. Pavilion Milan Expo Designers Unpaid

Designers of U.S. Pavilion at 2015 Milan Expo Shortchanged

Fred A. Bernstein

March 17, 2016

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Since the 1990s, the U.S. State Department has been barred from spending public funds on world expo pavilions. The result has been a series of disasters: the U.S. was a no-show at the expo in Hanover, Germany, in 2000; it then built lackluster, overly commercialized pavilions for the 2005 and 2010 expos in Aichi, Japan, and Shanghai, China.

Hauser Wirth & Schimmel Gallery, Los Angeles

Gigantic Hauser Wirth & Schimmel Gallery Opens in Former Los Angeles Warehouse

The art gallery, designed by Creative Space and Selldorf Architects, reveals a broader shift in Downtown L.A.’s urban fabric.

Janelle Zara

March 15, 2016

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The newly opened Hauser Wirth & Schimmel gallery, the latest addition to the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District commercial boom, is a behemoth, occupying all 116,000 square feet of a former Pillsbury flour mill complex.

AIA Releases Results of Diversity Survey

Women and people of color report more career obstacles and lower job satisfaction levels.

Rebecca Seidel

March 9, 2016

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It’s not news that the architectural profession is demographically skewed. Despite moderate progress over the last decade, women and people of color continue to be underrepresented. However, a report released by the AIA yesterday puts these disparities into numbers.

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Bjarke Ingels Group to Design 2016 Serpentine Pavilion

Four other architects will design summer houses to accompany BIG's structure on the gallery's lawn.

Miriam Sitz

February 24, 2016

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Fresh off a string of high-profile commissions, Danish architect Bjarke Ingels and his firm, BIG, have been selected to design the 2016 Serpentine Pavilion in London this summer. And, for the first time, four other architects—Kunlé Adeyemi/NLÉ, Barkow Leibinger, Yona Friedman, and Asif Khan—will each create a summer house to accompany it.

A Tale of Two Cities: Architecture and Urbanism Biennale Wraps up in Shenzhen and Hong Kong

Aric Chen

February 22, 2016

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Behind the somewhat awkward name of the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB) in Shenzhen and Hong Kong—now in its sixth and fifth editions, respectively—lies a correspondingly awkward reality.e