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Reflecting on Atlanta Architecture
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MyMODA launches, offering digital space for design events, programs, exhibits
A new digital community has hit Atlanta’s art scene.
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Reporter’s Notebook: MLK Day in Atlanta
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will visit Atlanta next Tuesday, Jan. 11. The pair will focus on the “urgent need” to pass voting rights legislation to protect “the integrity of our elections from corrupt attempts to strip law-abiding citizens of their fundamental freedoms and allow partisan state officials to undermine vote counting […]
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Three women named to lead schools in Georgia Tech’s College of Design
The three women who this summer take office as chairs of three schools at Georgia Tech’s College of Design continue both a tradition of academic excellence and the growing role of women in fields that once had been the domains of men, according to the dean of the college.
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Emory’s new pedestrian bridge in Midtown seeks to merge aesthetics, purpose
The two-story pedestrian bridge that’s to link Emory University Hospital Midtown and the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University contains flourishes that add visual texture to a bridge with the main purpose of easing access for cancer patients.
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Future of placemaking: Engaging places need affordable homes, mobility, authenticity
By Guest Columnists BILL TUNNELL, JERRY SPANGLER and TOM WALSH, leaders of TSW, a planning, architecture and landscape architecture firm
Recently we had the pleasure of celebrating our firm’s 30th anniversary. It was both gratifying and humbling to look back on three decades of designing buildings, communities and green spaces, and reflect on how fortunate we have been to participate in what has arguably been a revolutionary time period in building design and placemaking.
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Atlanta at the I-85 Crossroads: A 3,850-square-foot flat screen TV in your face – or not?
By Guest Columnist MIKE DOBBINS, professor of the practice of planning at Georgia Tech’s College of Architecture and former Atlanta planning commissioner
Motorists coming into the city on I-85 southbound toward the Downtown Connector, about 150,000 of them every day, pass on their left a giant wall sign, surmounted by a large sphere. The signs advertise big corporate products, like Comcast, at great profit for the advertising company that owns them. For the 25 years of their existence, with ordinary lighting, most drivers have been able to overcome their distractions and keep their eyes on the road.
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Local governments shouldn’t weigh in on the appearance of houses, according to some Georgia lawmakers
“The reason our cities are the places you want to live is because of design standards,” Lilburn Mayor Johnny Crist said opposing the bill. He said aesthetics are part of what make a city interesting and attractive to new residents.
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Let’s build Atlanta as a city, not a suburb
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It’s 2018, and the massive amounts of large-scale developments in Atlanta astound both long-time residents as well as newcomers.
The current pace of development rivals any of the other construction booms that Atlanta has had at any time in the modern era.
The danger is that we are replicating the suburban aesthetic and cultural environment of decades past by focusing on parking, car-oriented retail and a suburban design ethos with little regard for how these design choices work within the city.
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Planned hotel in Midtown implements aesthetics espoused in ‘Atlanta City Design’
Atlanta has never been bashful about allowing old buildings to be razed and replaced by new ones, sometimes with little consideration of the aesthetics of the new structure. That era is over, at least for the moment, and the outcome of Atlanta’s new emphasis on beauty is to be built along Peachtree Street in Midtown.
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Atlanta’s pop-up design studio moving from Ponce City Market to Cascade Road
In a significant recognition of Southwest Atlanta, the city is moving the office of the Atlanta City Design Studio, headed by Ryan Gravel, to a prominent new development along Cascade Road.
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Return of 101 Marietta: Rebranding, renovating an iconic Downtown skyscraper
As Downtown Atlanta continues its gradual expansion westward, beyond the new Falcons stadium, an iconic skyscraper near the CNN Center is being renamed and is to undergo its first renovation in 18 years.
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Designing an inclusive, growing Atlanta while protecting neighborhoods and tree canopy
The concept of the City of Atlanta doubling or tripling its population in the next 30 years may sound overwhelming.
Where are we going to put all these people? And will we need to sacrifice our beautiful tree canopy, our treasured neighborhoods and our quality of life?
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Perkins+Will Scores with Interior Design at IMG
The elevator lobby has basketball texture on the floor, turf on the walls along with a scoreboard. Employees and clients congregate to meet and relax in the Half Time area. Larger meetings are held on bleachers that rise above a grass turf. The open office area with custom workstations is the gridiron with yard markers […]
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Sprout Space Becomes a Reality
Every aspect of the Sprout Space classroom was designed with the goal of enhancing student learning. The design incorporates green building strategies that eliminate energy costs, create a healthier learning environment, and reduce construction costs. Sprout Space has a threefold mission: to provide healthy, sustainable, and flexible spaces for students to learn. Currently, more than […]
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Pro Bono Work Can Bring Out Best Efforts in Consulting Partners
In this last of a four-part series on social responsibility and pro bono work, Chris Sciarrone, an associate in the Atlanta office of Perkins+Will, discusses the relationship the firm has with other consultants on its pro bono projects. Extraordinary projects of any kind rarely result from solitary authorship. Design in particular requires thoughtful collaboration among a team of professionals […]
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Guidelines for a Positive Pro Bono Experience
In part three of the series on social responsibility and pro bono work, Chris Sciarrone, an associate in the Atlanta office of Perkins+Will, offers guidelines for a positive pro bono experience that could be used for any industry. Providing pro bono design services to community organizations has been part of the culture of Perkins +Will informally for several generations, […]
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Why Do Pro Bono Work in a Down Economy?
This is the second in a four-part series by Chris Sciarrone, an associate in the Atlanta office of Perkins+Will, on pro bono work and social responsibility in the architecture industry. Design, of course, is also a business, and one that often suffers disproportionately when the economy lags because of its ties to real estate and construction. An obvious question then, […]
