Issue Archives IN THIS ISSUE 08_12.15.2010_MW
In This Issue:
  • Feature> Smart Grid City
    Chicago invented the skyscraper. Can it pioneer the best urban sustainable-energy strategies as well?
  • Halsted Street Arches Over the Chicago River
    Tied-arch span by Muller + Muller expected to add aesthetics as well as efficiency
  • Prefab Lab for Teaching in Gary
    CDM's low-budget school design on Lake Michigan still manages to find room for sustainability.
  • Shipping a Vernacular Village Out to Africa
    Philippe Barriere and William Zahner fabricate a new village in Kenya's Rift Valley
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  • Carpet Recycling Offers a Second Life for Rugs
    More than one billion pounds of post-consumer carpet diverted from landfills since 2002
  • Rough Ride
    Billings drift downward after sharp September gains
  • Editorial> Bounce Back
  • Eavesdrop> Ryan LaFollette
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  • Open> Hotel
    JW Marriott Chicago by DiLeonardo and Lucien Lagrange Architects
  • Indiana Town Bets Big on Classicist Concert Hall
    David M. Schwarz looks to Palladio's Villa Rotunda to create Carmel's Center for the Performing Arts
  • Nickel Collection Gets New Home
    Richard Nickel's iconic photography of noted American architecture headed to the Art Institute of Chicago
  • Civil Rights Makeover in Memphis
    Howard+Revis undertake $20 million renovation at the National Civil Rights Museum
  • Unveiled> National Museum of Health and Medicine
  • At Deadline
    Ahoy, Northerly Island Park!, Cleveland's Conventional Health Plan, Expansive Nucleus
  • Review> Triumphs and Failures in Retrospect
    Esteemed critic Blair Kamin journeys through architecture and planning of the early 21st century
  • Comment> Mega-Church Meltdown
    Financial problems may force Crystal Cathedral Ministries to sell architectural icons