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February 2011
Features
The Fifth-Annual Smart Environments Awards - Port of Portland Headquarters

The agency’s new offices—a model of sustainable design—are also
something else: a tool to remake its formally hidebound culture.
Features
The Fifth-Annual Smart Environments Awards - Roseville Branch Library

MS&R combines smart, commonsense approaches to green design with an attention to user experience to create a neighborhood beacon.
Features: The Fifth-Annual Smart Environments Awards: Macquarie Bank
Features: The Fifth-Annual Smart Environments Awards - Roseville Branch Library
Features: The Fifth-Annual Smart Environments Awards - Port of Portland Headquarters
Features: Hope in a Bag
Features: A House for Repose
Features: Pastoral Perfect
Features: Biblical Proportions
Features: Aging By Design
Features: Fresh Observation
Features: Quick-Fix Urbanism
Features: Sole Purpose
Features: Hopeful Signs
Features: A Revisionist History?
Features: Bookshelf
Features: Winka Dubbeldam
Observed
A House for Repose
Pastoral Perfect
Biblical Proportions
Aging By Design
Fresh Observation

America
Quick-Fix Urbanism

Are airports really the key to 21st-century economic development?

In Production
Sole Purpose

Nicola Stattmann designs a line of comfy, stylish footwear that protects diabetic feet.

Notes from Metropolis
Hopeful Signs

On a historic campus in Virginia, the future of architecture is being built on a solid foundation.

Dîa-logue(s)
A Revisionist History?



In Review
Bookshelf

New and notable books on architecture, culture, and design

Text Message
Winka Dubbeldam
The architect talks about her love of details, her favorite pro-bono project, and the office mascot.

Reference Page
Reference Page: February 2011


Higher Dining

Perspective
A Leg Up

The world’s largest cities are failing in their historic role of providing opportunities for upward mobility.

Productsphere
Japanese Efficiency

The country’s designers continue to craft products with emotional and physical appeal.
The Fifth-Annual Smart Environments Awards

This year’s winners expand the definition of sustainable design to include human health and well-being.

The Fifth-Annual Smart Environments Awards: Macquarie Bank

The creator of the Googleplex in Silicon Valley and the infamous ChiatDay offices continues his radical reinvention of the global workplace.

Hope in a Bag

A new portable HIV diagnostic device promises to save thousands of lives
in AIDS-stricken Africa.


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