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At 50, Louis Kahn’s Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth remains a paragon of architectural achievement

The Kimbell Art Museum opened to the public 50 years ago on October 4,1972. It has now existed for almost eight times longer than it it took its architect, Louis I. Kahn, to conceive and construct the ...
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Perkins&Will applies a frit with vertical cadence to the FIU Innovation Building

In Miami, Florida International University’s (FIU) Innovation Building sits perched on a berm. Frits on the outer layer of the transparent glazing serve a dual purpose: to efficiently shade the ...
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Senate passes 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, the most substantial affordable housing legislation in decades

The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act was passed yesterday in the Senate by a vote of 89-10. The AIA supports the bill and has lobbied for it since it was introduced in 2025. Next, the bill will be ...
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Washington Commanders share updated stadium renderings by HKS

The Washington Commanders NFL franchise has shared updated renderings of a forthcoming stadium designed by HKS. The new renderings give a sense of what the fan experience will look like on the ground.
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COPA uses prefabrication to develop a below-market-rate row house that still makes a profit

The Swift Street Residences, designed by COPA, isn’t just aesthetically unique; it’s also the product of novel prefabricated construction techniques and a vertically integrated development process.
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Grupo Habita’s Carlos Couturier reflects on 25 years of developing Mexico’s premiere boutique hotels

For 25 years, Grupo Habita has shaped the evolution of design hotels and global hospitality trends. Carlos Couturier reflects on this legacy.
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The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts approves plan for President Trump’s White House ballroom

Yesterday, the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) approved the plan for President Trump’s White House ballroom with a unanimous vote of 6-0. This was no surprise, as Trump had removed all six members ...
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A hospice campus in Wisconsin, designed by Community Living Solutions, for people living with dementia breaks ground this spring

When it comes to hospice care design for seniors living with Alzheimer’s and other cognitive disabilities, Hogeweyk Dementia Village designed by Molenaar&Bol&VanDillen Architects in Weesp, Netherlands ...
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Into the Wild

Chicago-based Goettsch Partners, working with exhibition designer Stantec, completed the James & Elizabeth Bramsen Tropical Forests, a $66 million, three-acre primate habitat at Brookfield Zoo Chicago ...
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Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show stages “an ode to the lived reality of Puerto Rico”

Designers have described the performance as a spatial narrative with references to the built environment and landscape of Puerto Rico. (Kindell Buchanan/Sipa USA/Alamy Live News) “As a Puerto Rican ...
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Nightmare before Christmas: The threat of demolition escalates at the Cohen Building in Washington, D.C.

While some of the properties listed on the “accelerated disposals” list had been in the pipeline for disposal for years, the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building (originally the Social Security Building) ...
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National Trust for Historic Preservation files lawsuit against Donald Trump, the GSA, and others over White House ballroom construction

The proposed ballroom would be larger than the White House mansion and East Wing combined. (The White House/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain) The Trump administration fired back yesterday, December 15, ...