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New York Times Building           Renzo Piano

Renzo Piano FAIA, Named 2008 AIA Gold Medal Recipient

The AIA Board of Directors awarded the 2008 AIA Gold Medal to Renzo Piano, Hon. FAIA, internationally laud- ed architect of a wide array of singu- larly beautiful grand scale projects in Europe and the United States. The AIA Gold Medal, voted on annually, is the highest honor the AIA confers on an individual. more Architecture Week Renzo Piano Building Workshop

2008 Professional Landscape Architecture Award Winners

General Design Award of Honor
Walden Studios, Alexander Valley, CA

Andrea Cochran      (Photo: Marion Brenner)

"American Society of Landscape Ar- chitects ASLA has announced the recipients of its 2008 Professional Awards. The jury considered over 500 entries and selected 30 projects to receive awards. The awards will be presented on October 6 at the ASLA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania. Each year, the ASLA Pro- fessional Awards honor the best in landscape architecture from around the globe, while the ASLA Student Awards give us a glimpse into the future of the profession. more

General Design Award of Excellence
The Lurie Garden, Millennium Park

G. G. Nichol      (Photo: Linda Oyama Bryan)

The Lurie Garden is a 3-acre, rooftop garden in downtown Chicago’s Mill- ennium Park. It expresses Chicago’s distinct, urban landscape history as a bold, contemporary landmark that also offers quiet respite for people and urban wildlife. more

An aerial view of the Light Plate, the Seam, and the Dark Plate. (Photo: Mark Tomaras)

Featured Members

Of Interest

Richard Meier

Richard Meier Lands Arts Gold Medal

Richard Meier has captured one of the most exclusive prizes for the arts. Honor society the American Aca- demy of Arts and Letters has named the Pritzker Prize-winning architect the recipient of its 2008 Gold Medal. more Richard Meier American Academy of Arts and Letters

176 Perry Street  New York, NY

Designer and Interior Trends from the Milan Furniture Fair 2008

Rho Pero exhibition complex

Dark clouds hovered above Milan in mid-April, and not just the ones that drenched the city in rain. Recession. Credit crunch. Real estate slump. None of them boding well for the world’s furniture industry, depending on per- suading the rest of us to splurge on things ... more Times Gispen I Saloni 2008

Bernini Day Bed     Armani Casa

The 10 Pieces of
U.S. Infrastructure
We Must Fix Now

After years of being ranked the worst traffic bottlenecks in the country by groups like the American Highway Users Alliance, the U.S. 101 at the I-405 Interchange in Los Angeles and the I-610 and I-10 Interchange in Houston are being re- vamped, but the third-worst spot for highway conges- tion, Chicago’s Circle Inter- change, is going nowhere. Some problems are widely known, and work is long overdue. Here are 10 great places to start. more

Circle Interchange        Chicago

Kaufmann House, Palm Springs 1947 Richard Neutra-Architect

These Portraits Raise the Bar for Home Photos

There has always been a certain status attached to owning a home featured in a magazine. And a certain pleasure, for a homeowner, in leaving the evidence ly- ing casually on the coffee table. But there’s another way to flaunt the impor- tance of your house... more CityBeat Julius Shulman

Julius Shulman