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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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Connecting the past with the present, the Billie Jean King Main Library in downtown Long Beach, California, welcomes nearly 1,000 patrons each day who engage in learning opportunities that forge new bonds among the community. Adjacent to the city’s new civic center and historic Lincoln Park, the 93,500-square-foot library continues the Long Beach Public Library’s 100-year commitment to equitable access to information and collaboration in a truly innovative space.
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* Billie Jean King Main Library
* Architect: @skidmoreowingsmerrill
* Long Beach,
* : @benny_chan_photographer
* 2020 AIA/ALA Library Building Awards
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum was the first purpose-built art in the country, built in 1859 to the design of James Renwick, Jr. and was last renovated between 1967 and 1972. The 21st century renovation replaced and improved major infrastructure, enhanced features, and improved flexibility for exhibits. The project included restoration of two long-concealed vaulted ceilings; re-creation of the original 19th-century window configuration; replacement of all building systems; and improvements for accessibility. The project achieved a 50 percent reduction in annual energy use, while welcoming more than 500,000 visitors. The Grand Stair Hall features a custom LED sculpture by Leo Villareal, which shows the integrated approach used for linking 19th century with 21st century .
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* The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
* Architect: @dlr_group and Westlake Reed Leskosky
* Washington, D.C.
* : @kgrphotographer
* 2018 COTE® Top Ten
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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📚 Books downstairs; affordable living for seniors upstairs: this new library represents a new hybrid technology. This project couples a 16,000-square-foot with 44 units of affordable for seniors above. The project sits in Chicago’s diverse, mixed-income neighborhood, which had been without a library since 2015 after a fire shuttered the previous Independence Branch.
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* Independence Library and Apartments
* : @johnronanarch
* , Illinois
* : @jamesfloriophotography
* 2020 AIA/ALA Library Building Awards
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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Initiated in 1986 on the Hayden Tract, a former industrial site bounding Central Los Angeles and Culver City, Conjunctive Points--The New City began as simple additions and subtractions to an existing collection of warehouses. With architect Eric Owen Moss designing or renovating one eclectic building at a time, the project set contemporary standards for adaptive re-use, launched the concept of creative office space, and positioned architecture as a method to uncover new social and civic opportunities.
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* Conjunctive Points-The New City
* : @ericowenmoss
* Los Angeles,
* : Tom Bonner
* 2020 Twenty-five Year Award
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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In order to provide convenient access to their fleet of corporate aircraft, The Connor Group, a national real estate investment firm, chose the grounds of the Dayton-Wright Brothers Airport for the home of their new . Located at the busy intersection of Austin Boulevard and Springboro Pike, the is ideally situated in a high growth area of suburban Dayton, Ohio and serves as an iconic statement for the firm’s brand. Moody Nolan, the largest African American-owned and managed design firm in the United States, was selected to lead the 39,000 project, for which the firm was celebrated with an Honor Award from the National Organization of Minority Architects (@nomanational).
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* Project: The Connor Group HQ
* : @moodynolandesign
* Location: Miamisburg, Ohio
* : @feinknopf
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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Discovery Elementary School is the largest zero-energy in the United States. 📚
The challenge was to integrate a 98,000 sq ft into a residential while keeping the entire PV array on the roof. By terracing the mass into a south facing hill, the project met local goals for scale, community goals for preservation of flat, open space for recreation, and global goals for ideal orientation for solar generation. Discovery offers a positive example of a solution to the global crisis of , and along the way emboldens with the expectation that they are participants in those solutions.
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* Project: Discovery Elementary School
* : @vmdoarchitects
* Location: , Virginia
* Photo: @alan_karchmer
* Award: 2017 COTE® Top Ten
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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The Oregon Zoo Education Center provides a home base for thousands of children who participate in and classes annually and serves as a regional hub, expanding the zoo's youth programs through collaborations with @usfws and other partners. The center includes , meeting spaces, , and a Nature Exploration Station (NESt), inspiring visitors to get outside, learn about , and take action on behalf of nature. Illustrating that “Small Things Matter,” the provides its 1.7 million annual visitors with interactive exhibits that demonstrate how actions can help maintain a healthy .
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* Project: Oregon Zoo Education Center
* Architect: @opsis.architecture
* Location: Portland, Oregon
* : @chriscolumbres
* Award: 2019 COTE® Top Ten
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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This place is the bee’s knees! 🐝
The Tashjian Bee and Pollinator Discovery Center is a multi-functional public facility in Chaska, . It provides learning opportunities for children and adults about the lives of and other pollinators, their and ecological importance, and the essential, fascinating, and delicious ways our human lives intersect with theirs.
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* Project: Tashjian Bee and Pollinator Discovery Center
* : @design.msrltd
* Location: Chaska, Minnesota
* : @richard.brine
* Award: 2019 COTE® Top Ten
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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In 2008, the firm designed the 8,535-square-foot Environmental Nature Center (ENC), which focuses on providing quality education through hands-on experience with nature. Through simple and cost-effective design strategies, the center was certified as the first LEED Platinum building in Orange County, California, and has operated at net zero since it opened, serving the community as an educational tool for sustainability.
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* Project: Environmental Nature Center and Preschool
* : @lpainc
* Location: Newport Beach,
* : @costeaphoto
* Award: 2020 COTE® Top Ten
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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Bringing together the previously dispersed Departments of Architecture, Building Construction Technology, and Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning, the John W. Olver Design Building fosters multidisciplinary collaboration and expressively integrates construction, landscape architecture, and building technology. It exemplifies the University of Massachusetts’ commitment to sustainable and innovative design with its LEED Gold certification and demonstration of emerging wood construction technologies.
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* Project: John W. Olver Design Building
* : @leers_weinzapfel
* Location: Amherst, Massachusetts
* : @albertvecerka
* Award: 2020 COTE® Top Ten
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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LIBRARIES ROCK!—and the Austin Central Library in Texas is no exception.
Located in downtown Austin, Texas, and overlooking Shoal Creek and Lady Bird Lake, the new Austin Central Library is a building shaped by light and designed to respond to the context of its place. Before began, the project team set aspirational and design metrics for the project. Two primary sustainability goals for the library were determined: It would be the most daylit in the country, and it would serve as a water conservation model for in the region.
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* Project: Austin Central Library
* : @lakeflato and @shepleybulfinch
* Location:
* : @nic.lehoux
* Award: 2020 COTE® Top Ten
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@austinpubliclibrary
Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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The historic Ford Foundation headquarters, completed by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates in 1968, was hailed as a modernist architectural icon. The new overhaul, a landmark in preservation, transforms a 50-year-old building into a 21st century workplace and public amenity.
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* Project: Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice
* : @gensler_design
* Location:
* : @garowland
* Award: 2020 COTE® Top Ten
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Sep 02 2020 GMT17:10
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This place is the bee’s knees! 🐝
The Tashjian Bee and Pollinator Discovery Center is a multi-functional public facility in Chaska, . It provides learning opportunities for children and adults about the lives of and other pollinators, their and ecological importance, and the essential, fascinating, and delicious ways our human lives intersect with theirs.
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* Project: Tashjian Bee and Pollinator Discovery Center
* : @design.msrltd
* Location: Chaska, Minnesota
* : @richard.brine
* Award: 2019 COTE® Top Ten
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Aug 27 2020 GMT19:41
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Bringing together the previously dispersed Departments of Architecture, Building Construction Technology, and Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning, the John W. Olver Design Building fosters multidisciplinary collaboration and expressively integrates construction, landscape architecture, and building technology. It exemplifies the University of Massachusetts’ commitment to sustainable and innovative design with its LEED Gold certification and demonstration of emerging wood construction technologies.
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* Project: John W. Olver Design Building
* : @leers_weinzapfel
* Location: Amherst, Massachusetts
* : @albertvecerka
* Award: 2020 COTE® Top Ten
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This post got 50% more likes
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Aug 21 2020 GMT17:11
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The historic Ford Foundation headquarters, completed by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates in 1968, was hailed as a modernist architectural icon. The new overhaul, a landmark in preservation, transforms a 50-year-old building into a 21st century workplace and public amenity.
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* Project: Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice
* : @gensler_design
* Location:
* : @garowland
* Award: 2020 COTE® Top Ten
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This post got 41% more likes
compared to @aianational's average. It uses 4% more hashtags
and its caption is 35% shorter
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Aug 27 2020 GMT19:41
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Bringing together the previously dispersed Departments of Architecture, Building Construction Technology, and Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning, the John W. Olver Design Building fosters multidisciplinary collaboration and expressively integrates construction, landscape architecture, and building technology. It exemplifies the University of Massachusetts’ commitment to sustainable and innovative design with its LEED Gold certification and demonstration of emerging wood construction technologies.
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* Project: John W. Olver Design Building
* : @leers_weinzapfel
* Location: Amherst, Massachusetts
* : @albertvecerka
* Award: 2020 COTE® Top Ten
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analysis
This post got 425% more likes
compared to @aianational's average. It uses 7% less hashtags
and its caption is 3% shorter
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Sep 02 2020 GMT17:10
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This place is the bee’s knees! 🐝
The Tashjian Bee and Pollinator Discovery Center is a multi-functional public facility in Chaska, . It provides learning opportunities for children and adults about the lives of and other pollinators, their and ecological importance, and the essential, fascinating, and delicious ways our human lives intersect with theirs.
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* Project: Tashjian Bee and Pollinator Discovery Center
* : @design.msrltd
* Location: Chaska, Minnesota
* : @richard.brine
* Award: 2019 COTE® Top Ten
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This post got 150% more likes
compared to @aianational's average. It uses 11% less hashtags
and its caption is 22% shorter
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Aug 21 2020 GMT17:11
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The historic Ford Foundation headquarters, completed by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates in 1968, was hailed as a modernist architectural icon. The new overhaul, a landmark in preservation, transforms a 50-year-old building into a 21st century workplace and public amenity.
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* Project: Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice
* : @gensler_design
* Location:
* : @garowland
* Award: 2020 COTE® Top Ten
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analysis
This post got 0% less likes
compared to @aianational's average. It uses 4% more hashtags
and its caption is 35% shorter