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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)Latest Stories

Aerial rendering of the FloatLab in Philadelphia
Bob Away

Höweler + Yoon’s FloatLab will offer a new perspective of Philadelphia’s Schuylkill River

metro tunnel
Getting Back To Work, But How?

Pandemic budget woes put $51.5 billion MTA capital plan on life support

An interior shot of honeycomb-like interlocking stairs on the Vessel
Stairway to Nowhere

Department of Justice and Related reach agreement to make the Vessel more accessible

A gray building with glass cut-aways in Hunters Point
Stacks on Stacks on Stacks

Hunters Point Library is being sued over ADA violations

Service Denied

New York City is full of “ADA transit deserts” according to report

acropolis
Inclusion in Architecture

Why are there so few disabled architects and architecture students?

LOHA, SOM, and Kevin Daly Architects collaborate on new student housing at UCSB (Bruce Damonte)
Finishing School

LOHA, SOM, and Kevin Daly Architects collaborate on new student housing at UCSB

Pictured: Protestors in San Francisco demonstrating outside the 50 UN Plaza Building in April, 1977. (Anthony Tusler)
Filibustered

Proposed rollback of Americans with Disabilities Act is permanently stalled

A rendering of a new subway platform under the Enhanced Station Initiative. (Courtesy the MTA)
Plastic Surgery

NYC subways get $250 million cosmetic upgrades package

Lowering the Bar

House votes to roll back Americans with Disabilities Act protections

(Courtesy Urban Mobility Lab)
Not On My Block

Residents fight subway elevators, citing terrorism concerns

Misstep

$243 million later, NYC’s Department of Transportation still fails to meet ADA regulations for street curbs

Universal Design

Mayor de Blasio announces the Second Edition of the Inclusive Design Guidelines

Chicago’s Wilson CTA Station gets a $203 million makeover

Frank Lloyd Wright’s only handicap-accessible home opens for public tours

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