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Reasons to reinvent the Midcentury academic library

DLR Group's Interior Design Leader Gretchen Holy, Assoc. IIDA, shares the idea that a designer's responsibility to embrace a library’s history, respect its past, and create an environment that will serve student populations for the next 100 years.



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| Sep 30, 2021

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Over the last year, the pandemic has spotlighted the importance of promoting student well-being through a holistic system of environments and resources.

VIATechnik | Sep 28, 2021

Getting diversity, equity, and inclusion going in AEC firms

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HDR | Sep 28, 2021

Designing for health sciences education: Specialty instruction and human anatomy labs

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| Sep 23, 2021

20 years later: A first responder reflects on 9/11

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sponsored | John Timmerman | Sep 17, 2021

The Benefits of Investing in ESG Sustainable Business Practices

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Stantec | Sep 3, 2021

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Perkins and Will | Aug 30, 2021

The great re-shuffle & re-think

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sponsored | Bill O'Keeffe | Aug 26, 2021

The Future is Bright

Stantec | Aug 25, 2021

The mall of the future: Less retail, more content

For the mall to survive, it will need to embrace nontraditional uses and “messy vitality.” Here’s how to do it.

HOK | Aug 25, 2021

Lab design strategies for renovations and adaptive reuse

Lab design experts in HOK’s Science + Technology group outline the challenges organizations must understand before renovating a lab or converting an existing building into research space.

sponsored | | Aug 24, 2021

What’s in a color trend?

Trend forecasting is both science and art. As an organization that releases annual color trend forecasts, global trend manager, Kiki Redhead, shares an inside look at predicting colors of the future. 

HDR | Aug 20, 2021

Prioritizing children’s perspectives with play-based design charrettes

Every effort is made to assure that captured insights and observations are authentically from the children.