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With its recognition of innovation and design excellence, the Healthcare Environment Awards Competition acknowledges the tremendous impact of the built environment on the quality of healthcare delivery. The annual event [...]

Despite the A&D community's mixed reviews regarding the usefulness of client representatives, some projects are ideally suited to having this additional point person. For example, NBBJ's commission for the 300,000-sq.-ft. [...]

There's no question the Puck Building is one of New York's most celebrated addresses. Listed on the National Historic Register, this grand Romanesque Revival structure was designed by Albert Wagner [...]

Good things come to those who wait. More than a decade after its 1993 founding by Joan and Robert Rechnitz, Two River Theater Company has moved into a permanent home [...]

College students might put on a few pounds while attending the University of California, Santa Barbara, but they can't blame it on mass-produced cafeteria food. A meal at the expanded [...]

High Moon's newly released video game isn't a bestseller quite yet, but the creators of Darkwatch--rated R for mature players--are confident it will make a splash. After all, they spent [...]

For more than 15 years, the creative and technical teams at Pixar Animation Studios have produced short films and television commercials using three-dimensional computer animation. The company's visibility soared, however, [...]

When all was said and done, no one design direction emerged from this year's Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan. Trendwatchers looking to find 'the next big thing' were reportedly [...]

Global companies face tremendous pressure to improve operational performance and profitability while also improving customer satisfaction. 'Manufacturers turn to QAD because we deliver software and services that help them implement [...]

The news doesn't wait. No one understands this better than the staff of the Associated Press (AP), the world's oldest and largest news organization. AP's around-the-clock mission is to provide [...]

Delta Air Lines' Terminal A, designed by HOK, is the first new terminal built at Boston's Logan International Airport since 1975. The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) and Delta are playing [...]

'Everybody loves to eat in bed,' says Sabina Belkin, restaurateur and nightlife impresario. This realization, along with the desire to do something unique in the city that's seen it all, [...]

'Most campus planning has to do with sticking another object building in the composition of object buildings,' observes Peter Pfau, principal of Pfau Architecture in Sail Francisco. But sometimes a [...]

project Genzyme Center clients Lyme Properties, Genzyme Corporation location Cambridge, Mass. designer Behnisch, Behnisch & Partner Improving quality of life is the mission of Genzyme, the Cambridge, Mass.-based biomedical researcher [...]

project/client M-E Engineers Offices & Studio location Culver City, Calif. designer HKS Architects Sometimes you have to twist some arms to get what you want. This approach combined with sound [...]

project/client Human Rights Campaign location Washington, D.C. designer SOM Home ownership is an important part of the American Dream. After years of careful planning the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) moved [...]

The unusual shapes and angles in Zaha Hadid's conceptual work were greatly admired during the 1980s, but it wasn't until 1994--thanks to a commission from Vitra--that the world got to [...]

When Contract invited A&D firms to participate in a series of Sustainability Dialogues in Atlanta and Washington, D.C. (with plans to take it to the West Coast and Midwest in [...]

The before and after pictures of the Hotel Nikko in Dusseldorf, Germany, don't lie. They demonstrate the power of design--and also validate that the team at New York-based Alexandra Champalimaud [...]

Forty years ago, the German living room was undergoing an identity crisis. Previously reserved for special occasions--with an almost museum-like quality--the living room or 'parlour' was becoming the room of [...]

Healthcare design is a demanding specialty where form and function are occasionally at odds. But in pediatric facilities, one of the greatest challenges of all is purely aesthetic--how to create [...]

Enrollment numbers are telling, but the ultimate test of the Western Culinary Institute in Portland, Oreg., is the dishes prepared by its students and faculty. Restaurant Bleu, located on the [...]

Getting lost on the way to class is not an option for the busy students and faculty at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. So simplifying a confusing circular layout was [...]

From our side of the pond, there's no question Stockholm is an exotic destination. Conversely, Swedes are attracted to Florida's tropical climate and mega shopping centers, proving, once again, that [...]

The most memorable design projects are often the ones with the most involved clients and/or the largest committees. So the potential rewards were many for Gensler's Washington, D.C. team, charged [...]

There's a fine line between 'old school' and 'stodgy;' but it's a line that San Francisco-based Thelen Reid & Priest knew it didn't want to cross. When the venerable law [...]

It takes guts to move from an established location like downtown Boston to an emerging part of town. And Foley Hoag wanted this aspect of its personality--as well its energy--to [...]

Even when glimpsed on a down jacket on a grimy Manhattan subway platform, The North Face logo conjures up images of snow-capped peaks and perhaps a husky or two. The [...]

Improving quality of life is the mission of Genzyme, the Cambridge, Mass.-based biomedical research company dedicated to discovering and developing products and services for patients with debilitating diseases. Genzyme's new [...]

Storybooks have the power to educate, entertain, and make children feel at ease. At Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York Presbyterian, sick children and their anxious families are greeted [...]

Not so long ago the library wasn't a scheduled stop for parents and high school seniors touring Arcadia University in Glenside, Pa. Perhaps administrators feared it might be more of [...]

project: Judy and Arthur Zankell Hall client: Carnergie Hall Corporation location: New York, NY designer: Polshek Partnership Architects Like other bits of local trivia, the fact that Andrew Carnegie's original [...]

project: The Carl Icahn Laboratory/Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics client: Princeton University location: Princeton, NJ designer: Rafael Vinoly Architects Genomics is heady stuff, but sometimes the most important work done [...]

To know Santorini is to love it. Great poets have sung the Greek island's praises for centuries, and now the 4,000-year-old setting has inspired a contemporary restaurant in Washington D.C.'s [...]

Unless they're able to build some leisure time into the itinerary, business travelers often go from hotel to convention center and back again without ever seeing the sights of the [...]

Chemotherapy is an unpleasant reality for many cancer patients, lint treatments might be more palatable if received in a beautiful private garden. That was the thinking of the administrators of [...]

Employee productivity is paramount at the New York City offices of NetAid, a humanitarian, nonprofit organization battling world poverty and hunger. So good design--the kind that attracts the best people [...]

Mike Bloomberg, New York City's businessman-turned-mayor, made headlines when he broke tradition, installing himself in a cubicle rather than City Hall's corner office. Other businessmen around the country are doing [...]

Flipping through a magazine one day, Janice Van Dyke Walden came across a profile of architect Lauren Rottet, principal of DMJM Rottet in Los Angeles. 'I thought to myself, 'Not [...]

An impressive entry sequence can be a powerful marketing tool, especially for companies wooing high-stature clients. The labbies of the two new Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) buildings in downtown Austin, [...]

Engineers don't rely on the slide rule the way they did before the days of computerized drawing, but one aspect of their professional lives has remained much the same. Despite [...]

As Malcolm in the Middle viewers will attest, junior high is no picnic. But a new philosophy in the planning and design of educational facilities for sixth, seventh, and eighth [...]

The stakes were high for Hirsch Bedner Associates (HBA) when it was commissioned by the Far East Organization, Singapore's largest property developer, to transform the interior of the historic Fullerton [...]

Even the most media-hungry stars tire of the spotlight occasionally. At these times they crave anonymity, rest, and relaxation. San Francisco's Huntington Hotel is a favorite home away from home [...]

The days when everyone knew someone who was considering trading in an unfulfilling day job to play the stock market are behind us. But despite the gloomy economic climate, day [...]

What destination this side of the Rio Grande receives more visitors than Disneyland? Disney's competitor isn't a theme park; it's the sprawling Texas Medical Center in Houston. Home to 41 [...]

Mrs. O'Leary's cow has been blamed, but no one really knows for sure how The Great Fire of 1871 was started on Chicago's West Side. What is evident, however, is [...]

Even at its seediest, Times Square looked classy when seen from the top floor of a Manhattan skyscraper. Now that it's cleaned up its act, the revitalized neighborhood attracts top [...]

In an industry dominated by smallish firms, IA Interior Architects Inc. (IA) is defiantly large. Why is it continually adding new offices (18 and counting)? And how can the firm's [...]

Americans loathe telemarketers because of their flagrant disregard for the boundaries of the 9-to-5 workday. But we also love the convenience of being able to reach a helpful voice after [...]