Taking storytelling to a new level in building design, with Gensler's Bob Weis and Andy Cohen
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JUNE 6, 2023
He joins the firm's co-CEO Andy Cohen to discuss how Gensler will focus on storytelling to connect people to its projects.
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The National Museum of the United States Army opens
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NOVEMBER 12, 2020
The National Museum of the United States Army (NMUSA), a cultural institution that is the first to tell the story of the oldest branch of the United States military, recently completed and opened on Veterans Day. the facility is designed to serve as a center of education, and the symbolic front door of the Army.
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First look: 9/11 Memorial Museum opens to first-responders, survivors, 9/11 families [slideshow]
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MAY 15, 2014
The National September 11 Memorial and Museum yesterday recognized the completion of the 9/11 Memorial Museum , upholding a commitment to honor the heroes, remember the victims, and preserve the history of the 9/11 attacks, their precursors, and aftermath for generations to come. Body Image: read more.
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6 U.S. cities at the forefront of Innovation Districts
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JUNE 16, 2014
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12 award-winning structural steel buildings
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APRIL 15, 2014
Architects Building Owner Contractors Designers Cultural Facilities Engineers Education Facility Facility Managers Government Buildings Museums Office Building' Body Image: read more.
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Museum of Mayan Culture draws inspiration from temple design [slideshow]
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AUGUST 14, 2014
The Museo Maya de América in Guatemala City will be the world’s largest museum of Mayan history and culture, at 60,000 sf. Architects Building Owner On the Drawing Board Contractors Designers Cultural Facilities Engineers Facility Managers Museums' Body Image: read more.
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Frank Lloyd Wright's posthumous gas station opens in Buffalo
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JULY 8, 2014
But that is exactly what legendary American architect Frank Lloyd Wright thought up for a gas station he designed more than half a century ago, and that was exactly what was built in the Buffalo Transportation Pierce-Arrow Museum in Buffalo, New York, for public viewing. Body Image: read more.
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IKEA to convert original store into company museum
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MAY 22, 2014
Global retail giant IKEA has announced that it will transform its original store, in Älmhult, Sweden, into a museum celebrating the history of the company and its hugely popular products. Given its cult following, especially in Europe, the retailer expects the IKEA Museum to draw some 200,000 visitors to the rural town in southern Sweden.
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Gehry unveils plan for renovation, expansion of Philadelphia Museum of Art [slideshow]
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MAY 21, 2014
In a special exhibit to open this summer, the Philadelphia Museum of Art will display the comprehensive plan that Frank Gehry has created for the renovation and expansion of its home on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Body Image: read more.
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Spring House, Cincinnati’s Union Terminal among 11 Most Endangered Historic Places for 2014
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JUNE 25, 2014
For 26 years, the Trust for Historic Preservation has compiled a list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places as an effort to raise awareness about the threats facing the nation’s greatest treasures of architectural, cultural and natural significance. Body Image: read more.
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Cultural centers: Community-based venues can be catalysts for downtown renewal
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JUNE 11, 2018
is a microcosm of what’s happening in cities across America, where cultural facilities—performing arts venues, libraries, museums, and other public spaces of congregation—are being positioned as integral to downtown renewal. Columbia, Md.,
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85 First look: Renzo Piano's addition to Louis Kahn's Kimbell Art Museum [slideshow]
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NOVEMBER 13, 2013
Designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop of Genoa/Paris/New York and Kendall/Heaton Associates of Houston, the highly anticipated expansion of the Kimbell Art Museum opens on Wednesday, November 27, 2013. Architects Building Owner Contractors Designers Cultural Facilities Engineers Facility Managers Events Facilities Museums'
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94 Want to design a Guggenheim? Foundation launches open competition for proposed Helsinki museum
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JUNE 4, 2014
Guggenheim Foundation launched an open, international competition for the design of a proposed Guggenheim museum in Helsinki. Architects Building Owner Contractors Designers Cultural Facilities Engineers Facility Managers Museums Designers / Specifiers / Landscape Architects Interior Architecture' The Solomon R.
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Chesapeake Bay Foundation completes uber-green Brock Environmental Center, targets Living Building certification
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NOVEMBER 12, 2014
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Colossal aquarium in China sets five Guinness World Records
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APRIL 9, 2014
Architects Building Owner Contractors Designers Cultural Facilities Engineers Facility Managers Events Facilities Museums Sports and Recreational Facility'
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Unbuilt and Famous: LEGO releases box set of Bjarke Ingels' LEGO museum
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APRIL 24, 2014
LEGO Architecture is one step ahead of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG): the company has released a replica of the not-yet built LEGO museum designed by Ingels'' firm. The museum is set to go up in LEGO''s hometown of Billund, Denmark, but not until 2016. Architects Cultural Facilities Museums' Body Image: read more.
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98 Bjarke Ingels unveils master plan for Smithsonian's south mall campus
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NOVEMBER 14, 2014
Architects Building Owner Contractors Designers Cultural Facilities Engineers Facility Managers Building Team Museums' “The centerpiece of the proposed South Mall Master Plan is the revitalization of the iconic Smithsonian castle,” the firm said in a statement. Body Image: read more.
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First look: Renzo Piano's glass-domed motion pictures museum
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APRIL 17, 2013
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences last week released preliminary plans for its $300 million Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences museum in Los Angeles, designed by Renzo Piano and Zoltan Pali. Architects Building Owner Contractors Designers Cultural Facilities Engineers Facility Managers Events Facilities Museums'
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Frank Gehry's first building in Latin America will host grand opening on Oct. 2
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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014
Panama''s Biomuseo (Museum of Biodiversity) will host its grand opening on October 2, 2014, Forbes reports. The new museum is teeming with architect Frank Gehry''s signature style of free flowing shapes, but departs from the metallic and curvy look of a classic Gehry building. Body Image: read more.
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Zaha Hadid's flowing Heydar Aliyev Center named Design of the Year for 2014
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JULY 1, 2014
The Design Museum''s Design of the Year Award for 2014 has been awarded to Zaha Hadid''s Heydar Aliyev Center. Architects Building Owner Contractors Designers Cultural Facilities Engineers Facility Managers Government Buildings Museums' Body Image: read more.
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Steven Holl wins Mumbai City Museum competition with 'solar water' scheme
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DECEMBER 9, 2014
A jury representing the Mumbai City Museum has selected Steven Holl Architects as the winner of an international competition to design the museum''s new wing. Architects Building Owner Contractors Designers Cultural Facilities Engineers Facility Managers Museums' Body Image: read more.
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BIG's 'oil and vinegar' design wins competition for the Museum of the Human Body [slideshow]
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NOVEMBER 27, 2013
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and A+ Architecture have been announced winner of the international design competition for the new Cité du Corps Humain (Museum of the Human Body) in Montpellier, France. Architects Building Owner Contractors Designers Cultural Facilities Engineers Facility Managers Museums'
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A new memorial by Zaha Hadid in Cambodia departs from the expected
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OCTOBER 10, 2014
Architects Building Owner Contractors Designers Cultural Facilities Engineers Facility Managers Building Team Higher Education Museums' Instead, the primary material will be timber made curved and symmetrical like the Angkor Wat and other Cambodian landmarks. Body Image: read more.
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Calatrava facing legal action from his home town over crumbling cultural complex
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DECEMBER 30, 2013
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86 Gehry's 'glass sail' cultural center for Foundation Louis Vuitton set to open in October
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JUNE 23, 2014
Architects Building Owner Contractors Designers Cultural Facilities Engineers Education Facility Facility Managers Building Team Museums' Body Image: read more.
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96 Harvard launches ‘design-centric’ center for green buildings and cities
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OCTOBER 15, 2014
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90 American Folk Art Museum, opened in 2001, to be demolished
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APRIL 11, 2013
The American Folk Art Museum by architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien opened in 2001 to wide acclaim, thanks, in part, to its distinctive faceted, bronze façade. Architects Building Owner Designers Cultural Facilities Engineers Museums'
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Building owners cite BIM/VDC as 'most exciting trend' in facilities management, says Mortenson report
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JUNE 28, 2013
Mortenson Construction today released the results of a survey of more than 60 facilities professionals at the Construction Owners Association of America (COAA) 2013 Spring Seminar. Body Image: read more.
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Documentary shows 'starchitects' competing for museum project
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APRIL 26, 2013
"The Competition," a new documentary produced by Angel Borrego Cuberto of Madrid, focuses on the efforts of five ''starchitects'' to capture the design contract for the new National Museum of Art of Andorra: a small country in the Pyrenees between Spain and France. Architects Cultural Facilities Museums'
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85 Steven Holl selected for Culture and Art Center in Qingdao, besting Zaha Hadid, OMA
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OCTOBER 30, 2013
Steven Holl Architects has been selected by near unanimous jury decision as the winner of the new Culture and Art Center of Qingdao City competition, besting OMA and Zaha Hadid Architects. The 2 million-sf project for four museums is the heart of the new extension of Qingdao, China, planned for a population of 700,000.
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10 green building trends for 2014
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DECEMBER 26, 2013
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111 BIG opens subterranean Danish National Maritime Museum [slideshow]
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OCTOBER 29, 2013
BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) with Kossmann.dejong+Rambøll+Freddy Madsen+KiBiSi have completed the Danish National Maritime Museum in Helsingør. Body Image: read more.
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Studio Gang Architects, MAD to design George Lucas' museum in Chicago
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JULY 29, 2014
Star Wars director George Lucas selected Chicago-based Studio Gang Architects and Beijing firm MAD to design his proposed art museum on Chicago’s lakefront, DeZeen reports. The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art (LMNA) will house the director’s collections, ranging from illustrations to film to digital media.
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86 Perkins+Will white paper examines alternatives to flame retardant building materials
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OCTOBER 16, 2014
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92 Jean Nouvel unveils plans for new National Art Museum
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SEPTEMBER 25, 2014
Architect Jean Nouvel has unveiled the official design for the new National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) during a press conference in Beijing on Sept. Architects Building Owner Contractors Designers Cultural Facilities Engineers Facility Managers Museums' 18, 2014, Archdaily reports. Body Image: read more.
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Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects' design selected for new UCSC facility
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JUNE 12, 2014
This week the University of California Santa Cruz selected Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects to design its new Institute of the Arts and Sciences building, a 30,000 square foot facility that will function for academic and museum purposes. Body Image: read more.
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59 Arup uses 3D printing to fabricate one-of-a-kind structural steel components
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JUNE 18, 2014
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102 Top 10 green building products for 2014
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NOVEMBER 19, 2013
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Peter Zumthor's LA art museum plan modified with bridge-like section across main thoroughfare
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JULY 1, 2014
After his design drew concerns about potential damage to LA''s La Brea Tar Pits, Peter Zumthor has dramatically revised his concept for the Los Angeles Museum of Art. Architects Designers Cultural Facilities Museums' In the new plans, a bridge-like section spans Wilshire Boulevard, Architecture Lab reports.
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63 First look: Callebaut's eye-popping Möbius building for Taichung arts center
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JUNE 14, 2013
French design firm Vincent Callebaut Architectures has released renderings of "Swallow''s Nest," an entry in a design competition for a new cultural center, fine arts museum, and public library in Taichung City, Taiwan. Body Image: read more.
LEED v4 gets green light, will launch this fall
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JULY 2, 2013
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Architecture billings see continued strength, led by institutional sector
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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014
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Green Building Initiative launches Green Globes for Sustainable Interiors program
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JUNE 9, 2014
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72 Gehry edits Canadian skyscraper plan to be “more Toronto”
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JULY 3, 2014
Architects Building Owner Contractors Designers Cultural Facilities Engineers Facility Managers Building Team Multifamily Housing Construction Museums Office Building Retail Centers' Body Image: read more.
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