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Studio 804 hatches new ‘EcoHawks’ building on west campus

June 11, 2013 – 11:09 am

Studio 804’s latest addition to our built environment, the ‘EcoHawks’ research facility, was opened to the public this past weekend. Like its older brother across campus, the Center for Design Research, the EcoHawks building is a test bed of energy sustainability, designed to be net zero, which means it will produce more energy than it […]

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June 3, 2013 – 2:32 pm
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Pure-blood architecture June 2nd

May 7, 2013 – 11:19 pm

Regulars on the Lawrence Modern house tour scene, architect Dick Peters and his wife, Carol, have for years endured our pleas that they open their own mid-century home for viewing. We are pleased to announce that they have finally relented. Designed by Dick himself in 1968, the Peters Residence is the quintessential suburban rancher, or […]

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100 years of architecture at KU

April 30, 2013 – 12:11 am

KU’s School of Architecture celebrated a century of architectural education April 26-27, 2013, filling the corridors of Marvin Hall with former students who reconnected with classmates and reminisced with faculty about their experiences attending one of the oldest and most prestigious architecture schools in the country. More than 350 alumni, faculty and friends attended the […]

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Where KU faculty retire

February 2, 2013 – 6:09 pm

Lawrence possesses a large number of modern university apartments and dormitories built large and small across the campus of the University of Kansas during the 1950s and early 1960s. One of the smallest but, in some ways, most ambitious of this housing type is Sprague Apartments, designed by Kansas architect Charles L. Marshall (1905-1992) and […]

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