The American Institute of Architects yesterday announced The Grand Louvre – Phase I in Paris has been selected for the 2017 AIA Twenty-five Year Award. Designed by I.M. Pei, FAIA, and his firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, the 71-foot-high glass and stainless steel pyramid now rivals the Eiffel Tower as one of France’s most recognizable architectural icons.
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Located near Houston’s River Oak neighborhood and designed by RTKL Associates, Dallas, 2929 Weslayan is one of the first major buildings glazed with Solarban® 67 solar control low-emissivity (low-e) glass by Vitro Architectural Glass.
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USGBC announced the Top 10 Countries for LEED, a list that highlights countries outside the United States that are making significant strides in sustainable building design, construction and market transformation. These countries represent the ever-growing international demand for LEED-certified green buildings. This year, China moved from second to first on the list as the largest user of LEED, with 34.62 million gross square meters (GSM) of certified LEED space. Canada, India, Brazil and the Republic of Korea rounded out the top five countries on the list, respectively.
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Ankrom Moisan Architects (AMA), an award-winning firm specializing in integrated architectural, interior design, urban design and branding services, has moved into its new founding office at 38 Davis in Portland’s Old Town Chinatown District. Encompassing 58,000 square feet and three floors of the six-story 38 Davis, AMA is the largest tenant of the district’s first ground up new construction project in a decade.
Read MoreJohns Manville (JM), a global building and specialty products manufacturer and a Berkshire Hathaway company, announced the availability of a new highly reflective granulated cap sheet called GlasKap® CR G. GlasKap CR G may be used as a cap or flashing sheet in built-up roofing (BUR) systems. Our CR G membranes are surfaced with white reflective minerals and can be installed using standard granulated cap sheet installation methods.
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ideos are now available showing a series of live blast tests on three cross-laminated timber (CLT) structures at Tyndall Air Force Base, conducted by WoodWorks in cooperation with the US Forest Service and Softwood Lumber Board. Post-test observations were exciting. All structures remained intact and matched modeling predictions with acceptable levels of damage under significant explosive loading.
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Milestone AAMA 80th Annual Conference registration opens, event structured; 2017-18 event dates set.
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Wright Heerema Architects, the award-winning Chicago-based architectural and interior design firm, announced that is has been selected to renovate Alliant Credit Union’s expanding Rolling Meadows office. The announcement comes on the heels of completing two successful interiors projects for Alliant, one of the largest credit unions in the United States.
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Read MoreTim Thiel, an industrial marketing manager, Polyurethanes, Covestro LLC, is one of 13 individuals selected to serve on the inaugural Board of Governors of the 2030 Districts Network.
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