Butler Rogers Baskett designed the new Johnson Chapel at the nexus of the Trinity School to support a variety of activities.
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Through a creative use of animated color and lighting, as well as advanced technology inclusions, Page & Turnbull and the Rockwell Group restore three, historic military buildings in San Francisco into an engaging Disney masterpiece.
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Increasing demands for enrollment and a continued need for meaningful learning at San Francisco’s Pacific Primary Yellow Sun pre-school lead Tom Eliot Fisch to design a connected yet independent sister school right across the street.
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As the pace of change in modern life accelerates, library design is changing too.
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Salt and Tong High Schools, designed by Anshen+Allen, provide both a front and back door to learning for a marginalized student population in impoverished Bradford, England
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National Council for Interior Design Qualification lives its mission of design excellence in a new office space designed by the Washington, D.C. office of Perkins+Will.
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Taylor Place, an Arizona State University student housing complex, designed by SmithGroup, puts a sexy pulse back into Arizona’s urban heart
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Yazdani Studio brings “extroverted” design to the University of California, San Diego, breathing new life into the student union with the entirely transformed, all-inclusive Price Center
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The Branson School’s new buildings tread lightly on their rolling campus in Ross, Calif., thanks to a design by Turnbull Griffin Haesloop
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Starkweather Bondy Architecture helps an Oakland charter school realize its full potential
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The University of Chicago Law School entrusts OWP/P/Cannon Design with the task of modernizing its original Saarinen structure while respecting the building's heritage.
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The new, vibrant Tustin Library, designed by Field Paoli, in Tustin, Calif. provides a comfortable space for the community to gather, study, and socialize.
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Some of today’s mixed-use projects are using public libraries as anchors—with good results.
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The 2010 award recognizes socially responsible commercial design at SPUR-hosted event.
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Five projects are recognized for their innovation and inspiration to socially responsible commercial design by Contract magazine.
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What colors will be popular this year, and what will be driving their
popularity?
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A visual montage of our 2010 winning projects
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Clive Wilkinson Architects designed the Orange County campus of the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM) in 2001, and ever since, the West Hollywood-based architecture firm has enjoyed an uninterrupted association with the preeminent West Coast school for fashion and related design disciplines.
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Exeter Schools Multipurpose Space in Exeter, Mo., designed by Dake Wells Architecture
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Agave Library, a regional branch of the Phoenix Public Library system, is located in a historically underserved area north of the city, neighboring a gas station, a fast food restaurant, a supermarket, and a car wash.
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In our 50th year of publication, Contract proudly presents the winners of the 31st Annual Interiors Awards Competition.
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Lighting designer Leni Schwendinger recently spoke with Contract magazine to
discuss the importance of light in design and how it can be utilized to
influence and enhance any commercial project.
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Colleges
are now adapting the integrated design approach to their own campus dining
facilities.
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After 40 years of the same old, same old you can get a little stiff. Mind you,
the University of Washington School of Medicine (UW SoM) was doing fine in its
confined space for the last four decades.
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In the case of LEED for Schools (with LEED Healthcare
on the horizon), there are no LEED credits for acoustics.
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By the year 2000, the 29,000-sq.-ft. Crandall Public Library in Glens Falls,
N.Y.—designed by renowned architect Charles A. Platt in 1931 as his last civic
building—was literally busting at the seams.
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When words like "extraordinary," "miraculous," and "mind-blowing" are used to describe an interior, people tend to take note. That is exactly what Yolanda Garcia, assistant vice chancellor for student academic support services at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), says is happening on campus with regard to the new Student Resource Building (SRB).
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For the sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students at Pioneer Middle School in
DuPont, Wash., lessons aren't just presented in the classroom. Thanks to a
design from DLR Group, the classrooms themselves are lessons in
sustainability.
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