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Quinn Evans renews Pope’s Constitution Hall for another century of concerts

Quinn Evans worked with DAR for more than 10 years to restore and refresh elements of Memorial Continental Hall and Administration Building and, starting in 2014, Constitution Hall.

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How viable is sustainability for downtowns and design budgets?  

“We’re getting closer,” says Lee Shadbolt, AIA, “and the threshold is lower to get over now to send a message that sustainability is viable.”

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Design Dialogue: New calculator compares carbon savings for existing and new building

Architecture 2030’s CARE Tool estimates the operational and embodied carbon emissions of a project in two scenarios: reusing it and upgrading it or replacing it with new construction.

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FBI’s New HQ Presents Opportunities for Equity, Architects

The FBI hopes to build a more sustainable HQ that will encourage racial equity in its next community—architects take note.

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Perspectives on Justice: Jenine Kotob on Inclusion and Belonging

“Everyone benefits when you include all of the voices that are underrepresented and that are at-risk for not being heard,” says Kotob.

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Bankable Transformation: Liberty Trust Hotel

The interiors of the Liberty Trust Building have been transformed into Roanoke’s newest boutique hotel.

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Heirloom Farm Studio, designed by Bushman Dreyfus Architects, is a poplar-clad studio outside Charlottesville that lives in the popular imagination, as well as at the center one of architecture’s most fundamental theories about shelter. Virginia Hamrick Photography
03/23/23

Architecture, Residential Design

Contexts Collide at Heirloom Farm Studio to Create a Familiar Form

Heirloom Farm Studio, designed by Bushman Dreyfus Architects is a poplar-clad studio and an expression of colliding contexts.

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Arguably the most memorable part of Constitution Hall is the main hall, itself, which was part of a $18 million restoration by Quinn Evans, earning it a 2022 Award of Honor for Historic Preservation by AIA Virginia. Ron Blunt Photography, courtesy Quinn Evans
05/16/23

Featured, Historic Preservation

Quinn Evans renews Pope’s Constitution Hall for another century of concerts

Quinn Evans worked with DAR for more than 10 years to restore and refresh elements of Memorial Continental Hall and Administration Building and, starting in 2014, Constitution Hall.

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A multi-story building downtown.
Originally built in 1904 as the Hotel Richmond, the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Barbara Johns Office Building was rehabilitated and adapted by Commonwealth Architects to LEED-NC Gold standards. Photo: Glenn Suttenfield
05/03/23

Featured, Historic Preservation

How viable is sustainability for downtowns and design budgets?  

“We’re getting closer,” says Lee Shadbolt, AIA, “and the threshold is lower to get over now to send a message that sustainability is viable.”

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Mogantarat plate calculation of Astrolabe by Jacopo188 CC BY-SA 3.0.
04/26/23

Design, Featured, Member Voice

Design Dialogue: New calculator compares carbon savings for existing and new building

Architecture 2030’s CARE Tool estimates the operational and embodied carbon emissions of a project in two scenarios: reusing it and upgrading it or replacing it with new construction.

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At Hanbury, we believe that the greatest creative evolution is born from unrelenting experimentation. Orange Juice is an internal collective formed to let its designers explore their passions and interests that extend beyond architecture’s conventions.
03/09/23

Design, Member Voice, People

Freshly Squeezed: Hanbury Serves Up Its New Creative Collective, Orange Juice

At Hanbury, we believe that the greatest creative evolution is born from unrelenting experimentation.

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Erica Cochran Hameen in an impromptu session with undergraduate and graduate students at Carnegie Mellon talk about some of the design challenges facing architects
Erica Cochran Hameen in an impromptu session with undergraduate and graduate students at Carnegie Mellon talking about some of the design challenges facing architects on both the technical side and what she calls the “holistic” side of sustainability. Photo courtesy Erica Cochran Hameen.
03/07/23

Opinion, People

Perspectives on Justice: Erica Cochran Hameen on today’s students becoming tomorrow’s architects

“I see a generation of students who are thinking that way—about regions outside their own and regions beyond their experience,” says Hameen.

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An oblique view of the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, DC.
The FBI’s current headquarters in the J. Edgar Hoover Building has been deemed unusable by GSA (and called far worse by others), owing to tens of millions of dollars in deferred maintenance and what many say is a poor design for workers. Image: Public Domain
02/28/23

Featured, News

FBI’s New HQ Presents Opportunities for Equity, Architects

The FBI hopes to build a more sustainable HQ that will encourage racial equity in its next community—architects take note.

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