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announcing the 2008 remodeling design awards the 2008 Remodeling Design Awards honor excellence in the design and construction of residential and light commercial remodeling projects. Remodeling contractors, architects, builders, developers, planners, kitchen & bath specialists, and other remodeling professionals may enter remodeling projects completed after June 1, 2006. registration deadline is May 1. Visit www.remodelingdesignawards.com for eligibility, entry guidelines, and other details. or click here to download a PDF of the call for entries. S. Claire Conroy Editor

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AIA Hands Out 2008 Housing Awards
Nineteen architectural firms have received 2008 Housing Awards from the American Institute of Architects.
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Prefab Houses Showcased at MoMA
Five architects will display full-scale prefabricated houses for museum exhibition.
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Designing Around Courtyards
Architects explore possibilities of courtyard housing in City of Portland design competition.
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Guidelines for Green Remodeling Launched
The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) recently launched the first green residential remodeling guidelines, called REGREEN.
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water woes
supplies are running low, but conservation of this precious resource has never been easier.
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melrose place
lawrence Scarpa, AIA, usually wrestles with developers to ensure sustainable features aren't value-engineered out of a project. Not so for Cherokee Lofts.
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new heights
To satisfy the world's growing housing needs in a sustainable way, many experts are recommending building up, not out.
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vertical landscape
Zoltan E. Pali, FAIA, makes no bones about the steamy climate in Nausori, Fiji, where his firm, Studio Pali Fekete architects (SPF:a), is designing a pair of residential towers. Within this extreme environment, Culver City, Calif.-based Pali and his team created an evocative design that turns natural conditions to its advantage.
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food for thought
toronto-based Teeple Architects is interested in architecture that not only occupies its environment, but is a full-fledged extension of it.
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spin control
rising above the sun-drenched skyline of Miami's Design District, COR aspires to green heights for renewable energy use, water conservation, and indoor air quality.
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texas chill
arthur Andersson, AIA, looked to Southwestern cliff dwellings when designing Block 21 in Austin, Texas. Those high-rise caves inspired him to design shaded balconies carved into the east and west façades, for longer hours of daylight without heat gain.
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elbe pirouette
Sensitive urban revitalization often goes hand in hand with sustainability. Hamburg, Germany, provides a timely example of how a city becomes denser and more resource-efficient when an underpopulated neighborhood blossoms.
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fractal simile
john Holmes, AIA, and Mack Selberg, AIA, have been talking for years about designing a building based upon fractal geometry. So, when some forward-thinking developers approached Holmes to do a multifamily high-rise in Portland, Ore.'s Pearl District, he called upon his old friend for help.
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