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Architect and educator Meejin Yoon is named the 2022 Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts winner

Archinect

She is one of two architects to receive the award (along with Mexican architect Enrique Norten in 2005) and was commended for her recent involvement in memorial projects at the University of Virginia (Memorial to Enslaved Laborers) and MIT (Collier Memorial). "In

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IM Pei's Museum of Islamic Art was the most significant building of 2008

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It features a double staircase and a circular chandelier The austere forms of the Ibn Tulun Mosque informed the spartan stack of volumes that comprise the MIA, clad in cream-coloured limestone to emphasise the movement of sunlight across the building that Pei was so adamant be unobstructed by its surroundings.

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Ten notable projects by 2025 Royal Gold Medal-winner SANAA

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Interspersed by courtyards informed by Milanese palazzi, the project was designed to accommodate the Bocconi School of Management as well as a sports centre for the university.

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Robertson/Sherwood/Architects' Newest Principals

SW Oregon Architect

Evolution isn’t just about survival on the competitive landscape—it’s about seizing the occasion to redefine and excel, to embrace new technologies and ways of working, and to shape the future of a firm with informed foresight. I expect great things from Lana and Becky. They’ve waited patiently for this opportunity.

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Super BIM: 7 award-winning BIM/VDC-driven projects

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Launched in 2005, the program honors projects that best harness building information modeling and virtual design and construction tools and processes, and related innovations. The AIA''s Technology in Architectural Practice (TAP) Knowledge Community recently announced the winners of the 2014 AIA TAP BIM Awards. Body Image: read more.

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2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize winner, Liu Jiakun

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Visit pritzkerprize.com for more information. Its purpose is to honor annually a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.

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EcoLogicStudio opens Design Apothecary as "experiment in living in the fourth industrial revolution"

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Rooms are built using EcoLogicStudio's custom modular fir wood system Pasquero added that they thought about the project in terms of building solutions for the fourth industrial revolution a term used to describe the current period of rapid technological advancement following the 20th-century information age. "We