2020

Perkins and Will’s design, Tubes ‘n’ Tunnels was selected as a winning entry to be built as an immersive experience at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center’s 16-acre Arboretum. The design competition, named “Fortlandia,” seeks to inspire adults and children to explore outdoors with an appreciation of art and nature in a series of temporary installations along the one-mile walking path. To amplify the beauty of the natural environment, Perkins and Will’s Tubes ‘n’ Tunnels installation bridges a connection between nature and the built environment to highlight how humans view the world, framing a series of landscape vistas in a playful interactive installation.

This is the second in a series of panel sessions launching the fourth volume of Bracket, titled Takes Action. Bracket [Takes Action] collects essays and projects that question how actions can be designed, accommodated for, and encouraged through both creative practice and design citizenship.

We spend more time indoors due to COVID-19—limiting social contact to reduce disease transmission. Even before this era of quarantine, 80% or more of our time as a society was spent indoors. This has significant impacts on health and wellbeing. Now more than ever, attention to indoor environmental quality and how it affects people is critical to architectural design and building operation.

Architects are inherent problem solvers and research is baked into their design process. Matter & Opinion: Practice-Based Research is a one-day virtual conference featuring firms and individuals who will share successful business models, discuss barriers to adoption, and help define real value for research within the profession.

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The founding principles of civilizations are done through urban cultures nourished by symbols, utopias to engrave identity references and generate memory of places. Thus the fundamental values of our environment such as architecture, the nature city are a vector of social relationships and unification.

Central Atlanta Progress, in partnership with the City of Atlanta, has issued a call for architecture and design firms, artists and urbanists, to submit proposals for a landmark project on the north plaza of Atlanta’s Woodruff Park.

The Brick Industry Association (BIA) has opened entries for the 2020 Brick in Architecture Awards—launching a new overall Craftsmanship Award honoring exceptionally artful installation.

Kreatura.zine is not a typical zine, but rather an initiative launched by the students and recent graduates, aiming to gather young creatives from around the world to give them space to speak out.

Building projects are getting bigger and complex, while design budgets and timelines are shrinking, at the same time building regulatory compliance demands are increasing. Fortunately, digital tools are there to support every discipline of design practice. Most global design firms are already leveraging the usage of BIM, but in India, although there is a lot of awareness and will to utilize BIM, most firms are struggling to adopt BIM in efficient way and are not able to relate initial investments to the success of firms. So what does it take to grow your practice and reach great Heights?