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Simple Language, Big Effect

Architects call on the Facility Guidelines Institute and AIA to recognize standardized healthcare design recommendations for abortion procedures

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DEMOGO Takes on the Gare

A young firm will soon have an enfilade of civic projects after successful institutional critique of an Italian competition process

The Palmetto State

Foster + Partners completes the Greenville County Administration Building in South Carolina

Chatter Patterns

Artist and designer Jason Gandy has created an Edward Snowden–themed installation for the documentarian Laura Poitras that reminds us privacy is illusory

Bidenomics

Cass Gilbert’s Alexander Hamilton U.S. Customs House is going green thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act

(Don’t) Light My Fire

New research about gas stoves ignited intense online debate last week about the politics of regulating American homes

“Respectfully, I Dissent.”

Supreme Court ruling jeopardizes the future of carbon emission regulations

Rendering of the new National Assembly of Benin, showing a square volume atop columns
Planting The Seed

Kéré Architecture reveals a swooping new parliament hall for the Republic of Benin

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No Reservations

Renovation of Federal Reserve Board headquarters portends a battle over civic architecture

A plate engraving of the White House, realized in the neoclassical style
Building America Trump’s Way

What to make of the draft executive order to classicize federal architecture?

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Order, Order!

Critics speak out over the draft federal architecture mandate

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One People

Jamaica unveils winning design for its new Houses of Parliament in Kingston

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Oops

Trump declares national emergency to force border wall construction

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Safety First

AIA speaks on safe school design at the White House

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Toxic Shock

EPA is now allowing asbestos back into manufacturing

Pleasant River Lumber Mill
Framing the Issues

Trump’s timber tariffs divide the construction industry

Stopgap

Temporary congressional spending plan does not fund border wall

HUD Secretary Julian Castro touts new planning rules for affordable housing

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