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The first episode of Rebel Architects: From Venice to the World Stage, a 12-part documentary series by FORT: LA (Friends Of Residential Treasures: LA) “about seven architects who defined the freewheeling West Coast aesthetic,” is now free to watch online.
The General Services Administration (GSA), which overseas the design and construction of federal buildings in the United States, has approved Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s (SOM) design concept for a new $191 million federal courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Drift, a timber-and-steel pedestrian bridge by designer Volkan Alkanoglu, has been completed and installed in Fort Worth, Texas. Fabricated off-site and installed in just a few hours, Drift is an innovative example of plug-and-play urbanism, an emerging sustainable and affordable design...
Six months after news leaked of a draft executive order by the Trump administration to mandate classical architecture for federal buildings, a contract opportunity for a new courthouse in Florida embeds that same mandate, drawing the ire of the AIA.