Learning from the Rudy Bruner Award View this email in your browser 2017 Silver Medalist Iberville Offsite Rehabs I & II, before and after, preserves New Orleans’ unique cultural and socio-economic diversity by restoring historic homes for low-income residents. (Photo: Jeff Johnston) How do we create excellent urban places? While there is no single recipe...
We’re gearing up for the first selection committee meeting for the 2019 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence. To sift through the scores of submissions and whittle them down to five finalists, we assembled a multidisciplinary group of people who understand urban development, including the challenges cities face and strategies that make great urban places. Source...
In Memphis, Community Leadership Drives the Transformation of an Abandoned Sears Warehouse into a Vertical Urban Village Once again, the RBA teams up with Metropolis to showcase the five finalists for 2019 Rudy Bruner Award Gold and Silver Medals. Non-profit arts organization Crosstown Arts led the redevelopment of a historic Sears, Roebuck & Company Distribution...
Celebrating Crosstown Concourse Simeon Bruner and Anne-Marie Lubenau were in Memphis earlier this month to present the 2019 RBA Gold Medal to Crosstown Concourse. Before the ceremony they toured the building with Tom Bailey from the Daily Memphian who describes the visit in Lively Concourse wins Bruner Gold for its open doors, array of users. The ceremony kicked off...
RBA Winners Host Panel Discussions on Houston and New Orleans
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Season’s Greetings from the RBA
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Each cycle of the RBA involves substantial discussion and reflection, not only about the current medalists, but also about the ongoing evolution of urban development in America. The 2019 medalists offer examples of approaches that address challenges facing cities across America, and prompted a conversation about the “unintended consequences of success,”...
Five Projects that Change the Narrative of Urban DevelopmentPresented as part of ABX 2020 (AIA LU available)Cities across America are wrestling with critical challenges: economic and social changes, climate change, obsolete and underutilized infrastructure, increased demand for outdoor amenities, and growing socioeconomic disparity. In this webinar learn how the five...
Navigating ChangeDecember 3rd, 2020 | 4:15pm-5:00pm (EST) Presented as a part of the Association of Architectural Organizations’ 2020 Design Matters Conference: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION. This year’s Association of Architecture Organizations (AAO) Design Matters conference explores how people and organizations dedicated to engaging the public in architecture and...
RBA Reflecting and Looking Ahead
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