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Celebrating Two Decades of Innovation at Virginia Tech’s Center for Design Research 

For over two decades, the Center for Design Research (CDR) has been a beacon of innovation, creativity, and excellence.

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What’s so radical about transparency? 

It’s not a new way of pursuing equity in a firm—it’s a proven one, says WPA’s Mel Price, FAIA

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Page + Miller Hull’s gambit for Niger

The U.S. Embassy Campus in Niamey, Niger, was completed in 2022, and designed by Miller Hull and Page Southerland Page. It is a 2023 AIA Virginia Award of Honor recipient.

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Q+A: Alex Shifflett on her first decade of practice

Architect Alex Shifflett, AIA, is an associate principal at KGD Architecture who says good design is not just good for communities, but great as a teaching tool for young designers hoping to make a difference. “I’m lucky enough to work on projects that matter because it suits the way I work and think,” she says.

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Ted Flato: Exploring smarter, better, easier, cheaper at Design Forum XVI

What is the future of practical technologies that make design easier, as well as the future of how architecture is made? Can large language models (LLMs) transform materials specification for the better? For the greener? Does empathy differentiate humans from machines? Does it matter? How will future technologies change the studio culture of firms? What does craft mean these days, anyway? These and other questions are up for debate this year at Design Forum XVI (Apr. 5-6, in Richmond) under the banner of “[Un]Certainty: Reflections on Craft at the Cyber Frontier.” 

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Op-Ed: CODE Charlottesville improves an unloved corner of Halprin’s masterpiece

The LEED Platinum Center of Developing Entrepreneurs, known as the CODE Building, opened in Charlottesville in 2022 to acclaim, both as a work of interdisciplinary design and as a sensitive intervention in the downtown pedestrian mall

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Architect Jenine Kotob standing in front of a building
02/22/23

Featured

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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01/25/23

Architecture, Design

Trible Library Becomes Hub for Student Life

CNU’s Trible Library needed to remove portions of the building, renovate 15,612 square-feet of the earliest building, and add 66,753 square-feet of new construction, all within state guidelines and funding.

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Liberty Trust Hotel View to Lobby
01/25/23

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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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01/25/23

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Rehabilitation Case Study: Norfolk Botanical Garden’s Administration Building

Hanbury’s sensitive rehabilitation respects the simplicity of the original design, and the result is an exercise in restraint and respect for the character of this structure, which is truly representative of its time.

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ABI graphic
01/25/23

Research

Architecture Billings Continue to Decline

Demand for design services from U.S. architecture firms continued to contract in December, according to a report released by the AIA on Jan. 25.

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First floor "living room" space of Assembly
01/24/23

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WPA Designs for Workplace Futures at Assembly

Designed by Work Program Architects, Assembly’s new skin honors its amalgamated past to create an innovation space for the 21st century.

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Tom Kerns Watercolor - Bilbao
01/23/23

Sketches

Sketches: Bilbao

Tom Kerns watercolor. Bilbao.

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