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Santa Clara Stadium

Giving 'Team Building' New Meaning: Designers and contractors rely on collaboration to complete a stadium a year earlier than originally planned.

Nadine M. Post

December 16, 2012

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For five uneasy years, the building team responsible for delivering the San Francisco 49ers' $1 billion new home had hung together through three work hiatuses, a recession, and a regrouping caused by a site relocation 45 miles to the south—from San Francisco's Candlestick Point to Silicon Valley's Santa Clara.

BBVA Compass Stadium

Muscular Mesh: Populous’s new BBVA Compass Stadium for Houston’s soccer team vividly conveys energy and dash.

Ingrid Spencer

December 16, 2012

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In a country fueled by a love for sports, it seems strange that only 23 years ago there were no soccer-specific stadiums in the U.S.

Golkin Hall, Penn Law School

Legal Threshold: Kennedy & Violich lighten up traditional materials in a new building for the University of Pennsylvania's law school.

William Hanley

November 15, 2012

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Golkin Hall, the latest addition to the University of Pennsylvania's law school, announces itself with a contradiction.

The Linde Center for Global Environmental Science by Architectural Resources Group

Pasadena, California

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

November 15, 2012

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Architectural Resources Group renovates a historic laboratory building in California, combining respect for the past with technical innovation and energy conservation.

Wolfe Center for the Collaborative Arts

Rising Star: Snøhetta's first completed U.S. project emerges from the earth like a high-tech outcropping, enlivening Bowling Green University's campus.

Steven Litt

November 15, 2012

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Snøhetta's first completed U.S. project emerges from the earth like a high-tech outcropping, enlivening Bowling Green University's campus.

William O. Lockridge/Bellevue Library by Adjaye Associates

Washington, DC

Suzanne Stephens

October 16, 2012

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Adjaye Associates tucks another library into a sloping site in D.C.'s Bellevue neighborhood.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park

Set in Stone: Commemorating the legacy of FDR, Louis I. Kahn's last monument rises, 38 years after he designed it, on a watery urban site.

Beth Broome

October 16, 2012

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Like a man stumbling out of his cryogenic pod, a project revived after cooling on ice for decades enters a world that is oddly familiar, but largely unknown.

Francis Gregory Library by Adjaye Associates

Washington, DC

Suzanne Stephens

October 16, 2012

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A library by David Adjaye fits into a D.C. park with serenity and dynamism.

Clifford A. Pearson

October 16, 2012

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One of the fastest-growing places in North America, Vaughan, 14 miles north of Toronto, has morphed from a rural township of 16,000 people in 1960 to a sprawling suburb of 288,000 today.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Brooklyn Infusion Center

Healing Close to Home: A treatment center by ZGF Architects brings patient-focused cancer care to New York's most populous borough.

Asad Syrkett

August 16, 2012

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Along Brooklyn's Atlantic Avenue, buses and cyclists whiz by to the sounds of car horns, laughing children, and the occasional jazz quartet.

Credits: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 ICC CEU; 0.1 IACET CEU

This course highlights the benefits, applications, and design potential of expanded mesh and perforated metal in creating sustainable, inspiring architectural projects.

Credits: 1 AIA LU/Elective; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 ICC CEU; 0.1 IACET CEU

This webinar offers strategies to develop next-gen leaders, enhancing value, retention, and resilience for architecture firms.