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Nicole Hollis on NICOLEHOLLIS: 'One Thing I Have Learned Is That Nothing Replaces a Site Visit'

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Established in 2002 and run in partnership with her husband, CEO Lewis Heathcote, the San Francisco-based practice has grown into a household name in the world of luxury residential, hospitality, and product design.

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BMW vision root coupe concept channels 2002 turbo heritage in electric sport design

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the headlamp of the classic 2002 BMW race car, known for its distinctive x-shaped tape, becomes the main daytime running lamp graphic. The post BMW vision root coupe concept channels 2002 turbo heritage in electric sport design appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Philadelphia’s Center for Architecture and Design rebrands as DesignPhiladelphia

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The name change heralds an expansion of services as an organization, which has been open to the public since 2002. Philadelphia ’s Center for Architecture and Design has revealed its rebranding as DesignPhiladelphia, according to an announcement the educational nonprofit made public recently.

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WilkinsonEyre founder Chris Wilkinson dies at age 76

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Wilkinson’s firm became the first practice to win the RIBA Stirling Prize in two consecutive years, with their Magna Centre in 2001 and the Gateshead Millennium Bridge in 2002.

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Between Modular and Vernacular: How Combining Construction Techniques Can Bring Agility and Identity to Social Housing in the Global South

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© Guy Wenborne The opening scenes of the award-winning Brazilian film " City of God " (2002) portray a newly constructed housing complex situated on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Ruca Dwellings / Undurraga Devés Arquitectos. Subsequently, this complex evolves into a hub of poverty and violence.

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Lisa Iwamoto has been appointed as the new Chair of Architecture at UC Berkeley's CED

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Iwamoto has been on the faculty at Berkeley for the past two decades and is also a founding partner of the San Francisco-based practice IwamotoScott Architecture , which has won multiple national awards since its founding in 2002. “I am pleased to appoint Lisa as the next chair of the department.

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Architecture-inspired ship concept could become the world's first 3D printed superyacht

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Forakis says the inspiration behind the yacht is Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Blur Building , a pavilion that sat above Lake Neuchâtelin in the Swiss municipality of Yverdon-les-Bains during Swiss Expo 2002.

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