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Gehry unveils plan for renovation, expansion of Philadelphia Museum of Art [slideshow]

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In a special exhibit to open this summer, the Philadelphia Museum of Art will display the comprehensive plan that Frank Gehry has created for the renovation and expansion of its home on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Body Image: read more.

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Addition of ceiling treatments improves acoustics at Temple University School of Architecture

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Architecture students at Temple University in Philadelphia recently experienced the difference the addition of acoustical ceiling treatments can make in exposed structure spaces.

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Architecture firms NELSON and H2L2 announce merger

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Architecture firms NELSON and H2L2 have combined operations, adding H2L2’s higher education and infrastructure practices to NELSON’s account management and service delivery platform, the Philadelphia-based companies announced. read more.

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Pennsylvania Secures $1.2 Billion Comcast Innovation and Technology Center In Philadelphia

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Comcast Corporation and Liberty Property Trust announced they will develop the ‘Comcast Innovation and Technology Center’ in Center City Philadelphia. This expansion of Comcast’s vertical campus in Philadelphia will create tens of thousands of jobs and drive billions of dollars in economic development in the Commonwealth and the City.

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We Started From The Bottom Now We’re Here, But Not Quite There

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In honor of my move in to the City of Philadelphia from the suburbs in 2013, I decided to select a rap song as the theme song for 2014. Well, we go to the AIA architecture billing index. The AIA architecture billing index grew in every month except for one over the past 12 months. Where else?

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Gotcha: FTC Enforcement of "VOC Free" Claims for Paint

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Earlier this year, the Commission issued orders resolving allegations that The Sherwin-Williams Company and PPG Architectural Finishes, Inc. c) and adapted specifically to address VOC-free claims for architectural coatings such as paint. had deceptively advertised their paint products as “zero VOC.” § 260.9(c)

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NELSON joins forces with Cope Linder and KA

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NELSON , the Philadelphia-based interior design firm celebrating its 40 th anniversary this year, has merged with two other firms, Cope Linder Architects and KA Architecture , to position itself as a full-service architectural and design outfit across multiple nonresidential building types.