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William Rawn composes a symphony of wood for a music hall at Sonoma State University
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A student lounge offers spaces for study and play with vibrant pops of pink, patterns,
and a panda
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Innovative design thinking is instilled in the business school at the University of Toronto
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Updating a community college interior into a progressive learning environment
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Play Lab, proposed for San Francisco, by Nicole Germano
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Cranbrook Art Museum Renovation and Collections Wing in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan by SmithGroupJJR
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Education planner Carrie Perrone shares insight into the year’s best products for learning environments
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Lady Bird Johnson Middle School in Irving produces and supports its energy on-site
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A library and academic facility defines a new gateway for a Toronto college and its diverse student body
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Hawkins\Brown address the changing face of learning environments with the Hub at Coventry University
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A Swedish school draws from Scandinavian traditions and presents a new paradigm for architectural education
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LMN Architects transforms the Michael G. Foster School of Business into a collaborative space supported by the latest technology
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Durant Hall at the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California designed by Mark Cavagnero Associates
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Koning Eizenberg Architecture's design for The Children's Institute in Los Angeles earned the Interiors Awards Education distinction
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The Learning Spaces Research Program challenges the traditional classroom design
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HGA works on its next performing arts project, Clausen Hall
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The project proposes a New York City Tech Campus on a 10-acre site on Roosevelt Island, with a 150-000-square-foot net-zero energy building at its core
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The Cuisinart Center for Culinary Excellence at Johnson & Wales University teaches groundbreaking cuisine in a daylight-filled, LEED® Gold–certified environment designed by Tsoi/Kobus & Associates
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A California water district educates the public on green living with a demonstration building
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H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture designs a sustainable building for the Botanical Research Institute of Texas that is emblematic of its mission
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A young Gensler designer creates spaces to inspire financial responsibility for the next generation of the workforce
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ELS Architecture and Urban Design restores a historic firehouse in Pleasanton, California and transforms it into a vibrant venue for the presentation of visual and performing arts
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The new university bookstore features a store-within-a-store design
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The design for a new, multi-purpose building—housing health, leisure, culture and education facilities—will take center stage in the City of Frederiksberg, Denmark
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Contract magazine's 2011 Inspiration Awards winners, announced at a gala ceremony at WGBH public broadcasting headquarters in Boston on April 6, set an example in socially responsible design
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WASA/Studio A designs an eco-friendly building as a new home for the Digital Arts department at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Driven by Bon Appetit Management’s progressive approach to food service, EDG Interior Architecture + Design revolutionizes the design of the dining spaces of several university campuses across the country
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How should planners and designers determine size, configuration, shape and capacity of educational spaces to support student success?
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Leeser Architecture produces a digitally inspired, dramatic statement at Astoria’s new Museum of the Moving Image
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Noll + Tam Architects share the light with an efficient design for Valley Hi-North Laguna Library in Sacramento, Calif.
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Ennead Architects designs the nation's first museum dedicated solely to the Jewish American experience
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RUFproject, with Nike Global Football, brings Soweto, South Africa, a central hub for its professional football athletes
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State budget woes mean that the 2011 construction outlook for the K-12 market continues to decline
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With a sleek, sustainable design by Eskew+Dumez+Ripple, the newly constructed L.B. Landry High School sets the tone for a revitalized school system in New Orleans
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The Angel Island Immigration Station restoration uncovers voices from the past to tell the story of a dark chapter in American history
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University of Oregon John E. Jaqua Academic Center for Student Athletes in Eugene, Ore., designed by ZGF Architects
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In an artful expression, HOK realizes a design for the new Dalí Museum that is as visually intriguing as the masterful artwork it houses
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Submissions for The 32nd annual award from Contract magazine now due October 1.
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An appetizing renovation by Kearns Mancini Architects, with Gow Hastings Architects, presents the Toronto-based school with a solution to deliver enhanced culinary education to an increasing student population.
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Renovating existing buildings might just be the new “new” for colleges and universities.
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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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