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BD+C's 2018 Reconstruction Award Winners

BD+C

For the 2018 Reconstruction Awards, BD+C awarded two Platinum awards, five Gold awards, four Silver awards, five bronze awards, and five honorable mentions. The projects ranged in use from music halls and libraries to union headquarters and mixed-use developments. Each award-winning project is listed below.

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HUD Finds Discrimination in Chicago’s Public Housing Development

Dwell

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) detailed the findings of a recent probe into the city’s affordable housing development practices. According to the Sun-Times, HUD found that the city has wrongly denied the development of new affordable housing through the tool of "aldermanic prerogative."

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Eight retro electric cars that are informed by motoring heritage

Deezen

Electric vehicles have entered the mainstream, but while some manufacturers are developing futuristic concepts, others are looking to the past for their designs. In 2018, BMW also built a one-off all-electric version of the classic MINI first produced in 1959, to promote its stated switch to zero-emissions production.

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Kengo Kuma encases whisky bottle in 48-piece sculpture informed by kintsugi

Deezen

The sculpture was created as part of The Dalmore's Luminary series , a collection of limited edition single malt whiskies developed by the Scottish distillery and curated by the V&A Dundee. The post Kengo Kuma encases whisky bottle in 48-piece sculpture informed by kintsugi appeared first on Dezeen.

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What to Get an Architect for Christmas [2018]

Life of an Architect

As I was reviewing my list with my wife, she informed me that slow cookers are old school and these days, the smart buy is on the “Instant Pot” I clearly took this as a challenge because I then spent the next hour reading articles comparing instant pot versus slow cookers. I use this on a regular basis in my office.

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Ethics in Architecture

SW Oregon Architect

Typical of everything on her YouTube channel , the video is informative and entertaining, with impressively high production values. Jamal Khashoggi , a Saudi dissident and journalist, was assassinated in Istanbul, Turkey by agents of the Saudi government in October 2018 at the behest of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

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Mother’s House

SW Oregon Architect

Robert Venturi (1925-2018) was one of the architects who greatly influenced my understanding of architecture. As I wrote back in 2018 , he was most noteworthy for challenging the orthodoxy of Modernism and reawaking our perception of what architecture was, is, and can be.

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