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The Imperative of Ending Coerced Student Labor

A reckoning with faculty misconduct at SCI-Arc shows the need for deeper change in the industry
Russell Fortmeyer
May 13, 2022
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A SCI-Arc faculty member on how the school's reckoning with misconduct should prompt architects everywhere to end longstanding abusive practices.


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Rainier Square.

Rainier Square by NBBJ

Seattle
Russell Fortmeyer
May 1, 2021
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In Seattle, NBBJ designs a mixed-use skyscraper that bows to its midcentury neighbors.
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Modern Architecture and Climate

Review of 'Modern Architecture and Climate: Design Before Air Conditioning'

By Daniel A. Barber
Russell Fortmeyer
October 8, 2020
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Architecture’s past could be a key to a more climate-friendly future, which is the case the architectural historian Daniel A. Barber makes in his new book.
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Climate Summit Highlights Commitment to Global Warming

Climate Summit Highlights States’ Commitment to Combating Global Warming

Russell Fortmeyer
September 20, 2018
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Washington may be silent, but the country remains committed to climate action: A recap of last week’s Global Climate Action Summit.


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Pushing Prefabrication

Continuing Education: Pushing Prefabrication

Russell Fortmeyer
September 1, 2016
One Comment
From entire buildings to discrete components, the use of off-site construction is expanding across multiple building types.
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One Santa Fe, Los Angeles

One Santa Fe

Trainspotting: An enormous mixed-use building energizes a site along a major rail artery, contributing to an urban transformation.
Russell Fortmeyer
October 16, 2015
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The revitalization of Downtown Los Angeles remains a work in progress, with the area still a patchwork of commercial and residential towers, government and cultural facilities, light manufacturing, and parking lots. Lately, its momentum has turned to its eastern fringe, a once-industrial area now dubbed the Arts District. 


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Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center

Transportation Bubble: HOK's Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC) launches the automobile-centric Southern California city into a new age of public transportation.
Russell Fortmeyer
March 16, 2015
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HOK's Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC) launches the automobile-centric Southern California city into a new age of public transporation. When the City of Anaheim launched a design competition in 2009 for a new transit hub, city leaders wanted an iconic structure.


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Digital water tools

Thirst for Knowledge

Data on water conditions are feeding digital tools to solve myriad planning problems.
Russell Fortmeyer
January 16, 2015
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Divining rods—really, just forked sticks—supposedly tremble when you hold them over any ground that conceals water below. Whether or not you subscribe to their seemingly magical, analog effectiveness, you might be thinking, isn't there an app for that? 


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Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago

Up Periscope and Down Building in Chicago

Russell Fortmeyer
January 1, 2015
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Nearly 100 yards lie between Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry and Lake Michigan. So when Goettsch Partners began the design of a subterranean hall to exhibit the museum’s German-made U-505 submarine, the architects found themselves in the unlikely—and ironic—position of fighting to keep the lake’s water from submerging the vessel. 


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Dynamic Facades: Buildings Show Off New Moves

To enhance environmental performance and create dramatic visual effects, architects devise facades that adapt to changing conditions.
Russell Fortmeyer
May 16, 2013
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The outer layer of the double-skin facade for the Design Hub at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) consists of more than 16,000 individually mounted translucent glass discs repeated on all four elevations of the eight-story main building.


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