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Sketches
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Sketches / Architects sketch. It's what we do. These are sketches from the #ilookup March Sketch-Up. Learn more on ilookup.org.
#ilookup
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#ilookup / The AIA has launched a three-year campaign to elevate the architecture profession in the public's eye. These photos from around the web, tagged #ilookup, showcase what people notice when they look up.
Small Projects, Big Impacts
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Small Projects, Big Impacts / Architects bring value and design excellence to all types of projects, no matter the limits of size and budget.
Culture and Arts
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Culture and Arts / Cultural arts facilities are among the most complicated and costly of building types. Yet architects create cultural arts venues that creatively allow fantasy and reality to mix when and where desired.
Hooked on Housing
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Hooked on Housing / From classical estates to cozy rural cottages to cutting-edge contemporary structures, architects create a range of spaces that define the true meaning of home.
Lofty Lodgings
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Lofty Lodgings / Hotel design isn’t about designing a place anymore. Innovative architects know it’s about designing an experience—from check in to sleeping, bathing to dining, business to playing.
Learning Environments
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Learning Environments / Whether a new school or renovated one, architects are using design to transform teaching and learning and to foster a sense of community among educators and students.
Workplaces
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Workplaces / In this electronic/information age, architects are creating a new generation of "flexible" buildings and workplace environments within buildings that are supporting not only the changing nature of work but sustaining new technologies and multicapable individuals and teams.
Sacred Spaces
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Sacred Spaces / Many religious traditions and a spectrum of architectural styles . . . sacred spaces architects designed as places where people come together to pray, build community, and find peace and strength for the challenges of their daily lives.
Sustainable Structures
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Sustainable Structures / As society becomes more aware of our collective carbon footprint, we are moving to more sustainable living practices. Architects are creatively using new technology as well as thoughtful decision making to create a healthier built environment for us all.
Adaptive Reuse
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Adaptive Reuse / Making what was once old new again. Architects are taking buildings that are no longer needed for their intended programs and re-imagining them in new ways, giving them new life.
Transportation Hubs
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Transportation Hubs / In our evermore connected world, architects recognize that we are spending more and more of our lives in transitional spaces such as airports and railway stations. Architects are responding by designing state-of-the-art facilities. Take a look at some them – these beauties are no longer seen as purely functional nodes.
Civic Construction
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Civic Construction / From recreation centers to police stations, civic architecture is the heart of most places. Form meets function allowing places to be more than just towns and cities, but communities.
Healing Architecture
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Healing Architecture / Hospitals are the most complex building type. Yet innovative, forward-thinking architects are making every effort to make hospital design create an unthreatening, comfortable, and stress-free environment as possible.
Mixing It Up
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Mixing It Up / Architects are bringing a new vibrancy and sense of community to neighborhoods via mixed-use projects . . . spaces where people live, work, and play; places where residents and visitors mingle in a lively 24/7 environment.
Cool Spaces!
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Cool Spaces! / Cool Spaces! The Best New Architecture is a TV series developed for public television, with support from the AIA, that takes you on an up-close and informative tour — not just of the building, but of the design process itself, from idea to reality.
AIA Housing Awards
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AIA Housing Awards / The AIA Housing and Custom Residential Knowledge Community established this awards program to emphasize the importance of good housing as a necessity of life, a sanctuary for the human spirit, and a valuable national resource.
AIA/HUD Secretary Awards Recognize
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AIA/HUD Secretary Awards Recognize / The American Institute of Architects National, in conjunction with HUD, recognizes excellence in affordable housing architecture, neighborhood design, participatory design, and accessibility. Good design is a cornerstone of thriving homes and communities of all incomes and backgrounds. These awards demonstrate that design matters, and provide examples of important benchmarks in the housing industry.
Twenty-five Year Award Recipients
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Twenty-five Year Award Recipients / This award, recognizing architectural design of enduring significance, is conferred on a project that has stood the test of time for 25 to 35 years. The project must have been designed by an architect licensed in the United States at the time of the project's completion.
Design for community
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Design for community
Design at work
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Design at work
Design at home
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Design at home
Your Favourite Room
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Your Favourite Room / Pin your favourite rooms here, great for a bit of inspiration from vintage to modern, art deco to futuristic, let's put it all in here!
Public Programs
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Public Programs / Upcoming architecture, design, art, performance, and other cultural events happening in collaboration with the Chicago Architecture Biennial
The Future of Chicago
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The Future of Chicago / A look at what's being planned and built in the city of Chicago
Eat, Sleep, Play Chicago
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Eat, Sleep, Play Chicago / Places to eat, stay, and see while you're in town for the Biennial
Unbuilt Chicago
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Unbuilt Chicago / Architectural plans for Chicago that never quite became a reality
Chicago Architecture
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Chicago Architecture / Architecture of Chicago, both big and small, iconic and under-the-radar
FALL ENTERTAINING
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FALL ENTERTAINING / #Fall is such a great season and so graphically beautiful. Pin FALL RELATED recipes, table settings, picnics - anything entertaining! Any Non-fall related RECIPES, Halloween costumes, Clothing or non-Fall entertaining related pins will be removed. Join our a #Halloween Decorating #Christmas Decorating Idea #Life's A Beach and #Patriotic & Fourth of July Boards Pin along with us here: for an invite: folks@artisanslist.com #autumn