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Musashino Art University Museum & Library

March 16, 2011

Built in 1962, Musashino Art University’s combined gallery-library is one of the school’s treasured original buildings.

Plainsboro Public Library

March 16, 2011

A three-level, 46,500-square-foot library including an Internet café, a children's science center, a local arts gallery, offices, terraces, a reading room, and a community room.

A renovation of Portland's International Style public library, with a new café, an expanded computer center, a larger children's area, a new space for teens, meeting rooms, and an auditorium, spread over the main and lower levels.

Ahmed Baba Institute Library

Caroline James

March 16, 2011

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Just a few miles from the Niger River Delta in Mali, Timbuktu appears as a labyrinth of single-story mud buildings.

300 New Jersey Avenue

RSHP teams with lighting consultant MCLA to illuminate three generations of office buildings.

David Sokol

February 15, 2011

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Maureen Moran, whose studio, MCLA, counts among the four largest lighting consultancies in the nation’s capital, can design an office for a Washington attorney in her sleep.

The Juilliard School in New York City

A project of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, FXFOWLE, and L'Observatoire

Linda C. Lentz

February 15, 2011

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Diller Scofidio + Renfro, FXFOWLE, and L'Observatoire turn the Brutalist 1960s Juilliard building into a glittering staging ground for young performers.

The Morgan Library & Museum

A stunning restoration casts new light on the interiors of the historic Charles McKim building.

James Murdock

February 15, 2011

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Admirers of the 1906 Morgan Library & Museum who felt that Renzo Piano’s 2006 expansion overshadowed the historic rooms of J. Pierpont Morgan’s former study and library — housed in an Italianate marble building designed by McKim, Mead & White principal Charles McKim — can banish pangs of resentment.

The Tannery

February 15, 2011

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Program: A 480,000-square-foot mixed-use office and commercial complex spanning a city block in downtown Kitchener. The project transforms a defunct tannery into a hub for the area's growing technology sector, with office tenants including Communitech and Google, public courtyards and event space, a health clinic, and workspace for local artisans, among them a photographer and a cabinet maker. Design concept and solution: Seeking to bridge Kitchener's industrial heritage and its recent tech-sector activity, the RAWdesign team wanted to streamline the site's maze of buildings and add-ons without uprooting the existing artisan-tenants. RAW preserved the masonry shell and divided the site

Facilities Logistics & Support Hub (FLASH) Building

February 15, 2011

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A two-story, 55,000-square foot office and support complex for the City of Hope cancer center.

Hermès Rive Gauche

Erich Theophile Steven Yee

February 15, 2011

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Hermès’s newest emporium has an unassuming facade and a pair of store windows with displays of furniture and flowers that fit neatly into the bourgeois row of shop fronts on the rue de Sèvres in Paris’s 6th arrondissement.

Credits: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 ICC CEU; 1 IIBEC CEH

Evaluate advanced PVC solutions that improve fire resistance, support WUI compliance, and enhance resilience in residential and commercial building design.

Credits: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 ICC CEU

Upon course completion, participants will possess a deeper understanding of glass railings to help ensure that safety, aesthetic, and performance objectives are achieved.