http://uacdc.uark.edu/news University of Arkansas Community Design Center Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:02:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Porchscapes: A LEED Neighborhood Development, a joint project by the University of Arkansas Community Design Center, the Ecological Engineering Group and McClelland Consulting Engineers Inc., is a winner of a 2009 American Architecture Award. Award winning design The Community Design Center is an outreach program of the Fay Jones ... http://uacdc.uark.edu/news/?p=157 Frank, a senior analyst for Proctor and Gamble, is late for the second time this week thanks to a fender bender that brought morning rush hour traffic to a crawl on Interstate 540. He'll have to work late again to get his report ready for the meeting ... http://uacdc.uark.edu/news/?p=147 Washington, DC, (September 17, 2009) – The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has awarded the 2009 Excellence in Green Building Curriculum Recognition Awards and Incentive Grants to organizations and institutions spurring existing green building education projects, activities or programs, and developingnew green building curricula. The initiative is a central component ... http://uacdc.uark.edu/news/?p=138 The University of Arkansas Community Design Center has received four prestigious awards for its design work.  The center, which is an outreach program of the Fay Jones School of Architecture, is one of five university programs nationwide to receive an Excellence in Green Building Education Recognition Award ... http://uacdc.uark.edu/news/?p=134 The Boston Society of Architects has awarded a Citation of Urban Design for the MacArthur Park District Master Plan. The plan was designed by the University of Arkansas Community Design Center, working with architect William Conway of Conway and Schulte Architects in Minneapolis and landscape architect ... http://uacdc.uark.edu/news/?p=132 The National Endowment for the Arts is awarding a $50,000 grant to the University of Arkansas Community Design Center, an outreach program of the Fay Jones School of Architecture. The funding comes as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, commonly referred to as the federal ... http://uacdc.uark.edu/news/?p=128 Faculty, staff and students at the Fay Jones School of Architecture’s award-winning Community Design Center visualize a greener, more urban future for the Northwest Arkansas region in the new book NWA Rail: Visioning Rail Transit in Northwest Arkansas. Steve Luoni, director of the University of Arkansas ... http://uacdc.uark.edu/news/?p=126 The University of Arkansas Community Design Center, an outreach program of the School of Architecture, has won three national awards for a sustainable neighborhood that they designed for the Washington Co. chapter of Habitat for Humanity. Porchscapes has won a 2009 American Institute of Architects Honor ... http://uacdc.uark.edu/news/?p=116 The University of Arkansas Community Design Center, an outreach program of the School of Architecture, makes the case for light rail – primarily in pictures – in a book to be published this spring, Visioning Rail Transit in Northwest Arkansas: Lifestyles and Ecologies. Thanks in part to ... http://uacdc.uark.edu/news/?p=113 by Tracy Ostroff and Heather Livingston Contributing Editors Summary: Six projects were selected for the 2009 Institute Honor Awards for Regional and Urban Design. Two plans are located in China; two in California; and one each in Illinois and Arkansas. The projects focus on mixed-use density and sustainable ... http://uacdc.uark.edu/news/?p=108 Two visiting scholars, Eman Abdel-Sabour and Hamoda Youssef, have come from Cairo via graduate studies in Italy to the University of Arkansas Community Design Center, where they have jumped right into a master planning study for Little Rock’s historic McArthur Park. Their goal? Absorb – and bring home ... http://uacdc.uark.edu/news/?p=56 A low-cost, low-impact neighborhood designed by university planners, engineers and architecture students for the Washington County chapter of Habitat for Humanity is raking in awards and serving as a model for sustainable development well before ground is broken on the first home. Designed by the University ... http://uacdc.uark.edu/news/?p=52 The University of Arkansas Community Design Center shows cities how to plan for the future in a project for Monticello, Ark., that has won a 2008 Unbuilt Architecture Design Award sponsored by the Boston Society of Architects. Instead of dictating the usual laundry list of zoning ... http://uacdc.uark.edu/news/?p=66 The University of Arkansas Community Design Center has developed a radical new vision of neighborhood for the Washington Co. chapter of Habitat for Humanity: no sidewalks, no curbs, no gutters and no flooding, even after torrential rain. Instead, residents will benefit from a "shared street" - on ... http://uacdc.uark.edu/news/?p=71 Here's one list with Arkansas at the top: the American Institute of Architects has selected three projects by the University of Arkansas Community Design Center to receive 2008 national honor awards for regional and urban design. A release by the American Institute of Architects noted that the ... http://uacdc.uark.edu/news/?p=77 The University of Arkansas School of Architecture has won national recognition in awards programs co-sponsored by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, the American Institute of Architects and the American Institute of Architecture Students. The school's Community Design Center has won two awards for design education, bringing the center's ... http://uacdc.uark.edu/news/?p=27 Developing sustainable parks, neighborhoods and cities for a planet fundamentally altered by humans is a challenge that Stephen Luoni faces every day. "The earth's atmosphere is a human construction, no longer determined by nature itself. Watersheds reflect our wastes and output - we've changed their character a ... http://uacdc.uark.edu/news/?p=83 The University of Arkansas Community Design Center, an outreach program of the School of Architecture, has won a 2007 Unbuilt Design Award from the Boston Society of Architects. The award recognizes an ambitious slate of proposals for the "Athletic Valley" on the southwest edge of the University of Arkansas campus. ... http://uacdc.uark.edu/news/?p=14 Five new programs focus on the environment, family literacy, health care, day camps and empowering women. The University of Arkansas Women's Giving Circle voted to award $69,575 in grants to support five new initiatives that will focus on important issues on and off campus. The awards were presented ... http://uacdc.uark.edu/news/?p=12 EPA grant of $464,000 to UA Community Design Center, Division of Agriculture to fund sustainable housing in Fayetteville. A neighborhood planned for south Fayetteville will set new standards for "green" development in the state - and funding is in place to make it happen. The UA School of Architecture's Community ... http://uacdc.uark.edu/news/?p=36