Archives for July 2009
Community Design Center Shares National Urban Design Citation for Little Rock Plan
20 July 2009 | Uncategorized | No Responses
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 Tom Oslund of Oslund and Associates, also in Minneapolis. Conway and Oslund are both former visiting professors at the (more…)
University of Arkansas Community Design Center Receives Federal Stimulus Grant
16 July 2009 | Uncategorized | No Responses
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 “economic stimulus” program. (more…)
New Book Explores History and Future of Rail in Northwest Arkansas
7 July 2009 | Uncategorized | No Responses
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 Community Design Center, has met with various civic groups to discuss the possibility of light rail in northwest Arkansas and will lead a public presentation and discussion at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 30, in the Walker Community Room of the Fayetteville Public Library. A companion exhibition will be on display in the library’s reading room from mid-July through August.