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Green, and then some: Architecture firms are helping cities raise the stakes in green design

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Cities and counties around the country are taking sustainability to new heights—and architecture firms are helping them raise the stakes in green design. San Diego and New York are among a growing number of local jurisdictions that are expanding the scope of their energy- and water-use requirements for new construction.

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HED expands leadership in San Diego

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Effective May 8, 2014, Harley Ellis Devereaux ’s San Diego Office has added new team members to the leadership group. The new Office Leader for San Diego is Neville Willsmore. Originally from Australia, where he earned his degree in Architecture and spent his early career, Neville moved to San Diego in 1999.

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High court, big impact: San Diego Central Courthouse

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Rising 24 stories in the center of downtown San Diego, the San Diego Central Courthouse, with its subtractive massing and slender form, topped with a dramatic aluminum-panel crown structure, makes a bold architectural statement about the future of civic buildings in America’s Finest City.

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Architectural Reuse Council will step up efforts to reuse construction waste

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The Architectural Reuse Council (ARC) was recently formed to maximize building material diversion and reuse. The San Diego-based group aims to foster more salvage and reuse of material through education and outreach.

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Best Universities for Masters in Architecture in the USA | Masters in Architecture in USA 2022

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Best Universities for Masters in Architecture in the USA. Why Study Masters in Architecture in the USA? 5-year B Arch and the M Arch are the superior two examinations specified by the USA’s National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) for giving an architect license. Harvard University. Cornell University.

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Central utility power plant takes center stage at UC San Diego Jacobs Medical Center

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Central plants are the hot trend in commercial architecture. Traditionally an afterthought design-wise on healthcare, university, corporate, and city campus developments, power plants are being designed as showcase buildings with fanciful façades, daring forms, and prominent locations—anything but the 100% utilitarian structures of the past.

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Harley Ellis Devereaux, BFHL Architects announce merger

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA— Effective January 1, 2014, Ralph Lotito and Brett Paloutzian have merged BFHL, comprising 15 healthcare architects, with Harley Ellis Devereaux. A national architecture and engineering firm in practice since 1908, Harley Ellis Devereaux has offices in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco, CA.