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the big plume: does this blockbuster awards year signal the last blast of the housing boom?
Our residential architect Design Awards program has grown stronger in quality and quantity every year. We started out nine years ago with a respectable 300 entries, and the number has climbed steadily ever since—until this year, when it made a big leap up. We shot from 886 last year to 1,346 this go-round. I had to extend deliberations by another day for our jury to get through them all. We were swamped by the response.
What happened? I think we just saw the big plume of smoke wafting up from the housing boom. If you consider that most of the entered projects had to be under way at least two years ago—at the very top of the home buying and building frenzy—this explanation makes the most sense. I'm curious to see what our entry total will amount to in the future. How many projects from the flush years are still making it through the pipeline?
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2008 residential architect Design Awards
“The global spread of good design starts to show itself first in the house,” said a juror for our ninth annual residential architect Design Awards. Judging by our collection of winners this year, our future buildings will not disappoint.
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Remembering D.C. Modernist and Preservationist Donald Lethbridge
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Post-Disaster Design Services for Myanmar
The nonprofit Architecture for Humanity has activated fundraising efforts to support volunteer architects, engineers, and other building professionals in-country when rebuilding begins.
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Cooper-Hewitt Museum Bestows Design Awards
The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum has announced the winners of its ninth annual National Design Awards program.
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AIA Announces 2008 Fellows
During the annual convention in Boston, The American Institute of Architects (AIA) inducted 116 members into its College of Fellows.
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Students Design Accessible Housing
Architecture students from three universities have taken the top awards in the Ethel Percy Andrus House of Freedom Design Competition, sponsored by AARP and the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS).
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Cooper Union Citation for Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto
The partners will receive the citation for their outstanding practical and theoretical contributions to the field of architecture.
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Learn the Ins and Outs of Building Information Modeling
The Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) has launched bimWITS, a podcast series that will draw on the knowledge of experts to address BIM best practices.
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Enter eco-structure's Evergreen Awards Competition
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R+D Awards Competition Deadline Approaching
ARCHITECT magazine is accepting entries for its second annual R+D Awards competition until May 29, 2008.
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