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In Praise of Plants

HILLWORKS encapsulates the holistic shift in the design world toward environmental stewardship

Small But Mighty

David Baker Architects realizes a shared office in Birmingham that prioritizes togetherness

Rendering of Africatown Museum Exterior View
Cultural Infrastructure

The Africatown International Design Idea Competition rewrites the playbook for architects engaging with descendant communities in Mobile, Alabama

Brookley by the Bay

A master plan envisioned by SCAPE, Volkert, Moffatt & Nichol, and Thompson Engineering will transform Mobile Bay in Alabama

building with curtain wall stripped off
Blast Off

NASA demolishes a 1960s-era office building at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama

a row of houses in disrepair
Save the Ship, Save the Town

A design idea competition seeks to turn the troubled history of Africatown through heritage tourism

two young architecture graduates
Lighting Speed

A pair of very recent Auburn University grads become youngest licensed architects in the U.S.

a sign for africatown, usa
Going the Extra Mile

Design idea competition aims to elevate Alabama’s Africatown as a major cultural heritage tourism destination

Tuskegee students working on window frame
These Walls Can Talk

At Tuskegee University, an architecture professor leverages historic preservation goals to meet community ones

A photoshopped image of the Jefferson Davis Memorial Chair with a hole cut into it
The Stone Throne

Anti-racism activists kidnapped a Confederate monument and used it as a toilet… or did they?

Rendering of a fence shielding an abortion clinic, designed by lori brown
Emerging Voices

Lori Brown wants to use architecture to further the greater good

a dorm building at Tuskegee University
Macon Moves

Tuskegee University receives $100,000 gift to advance young Black architects

Building Ghosts

Absence is made tangible at the new national memorial to lynching victims

(Human Pictures/Equal Justice Initiative)
In Remembrance

America’s first memorial to victims of lynching opens in Montgomery

MASS Design Group

Design for Memorial to Peace and Justice unveiled

National Endowment for the Arts awards nearly $75 million in grants across all 50 states

The next generation of bike share programs is taking shape in Birmingham, Alabama

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