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The 2018 South Dakota AIA convention began this morning with an insightful mayoral panel discussion on the challenges facing our growing cities and how architects will play a crucial role in the planning and design effort. A comment that struck me came from Spearfish Mayor Dana Boke: a great project can be derailed by a …
Architecture firms submitted 21 projects from across the state for consideration for the 2018 AIA South Dakota Design Awards. Winners will be announced on Friday, Sept. 14, 2018, at the AIA South Dakota Design Awards Ceremony and Dinner. (You can buy a ticket for the event here.) Our previously announced service awards will also be …
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If you have looked at this year’s AIA South Dakota Convention schedule, you may have wondered, “Why is there a panel discussion featuring four South Dakota mayors?” Here’s why: The 2018 American Institute of Architects convention theme explores the profession’s most valuable asset — our Voice. As architects, we solve problems through design. We use …
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AIA South Dakota’s Annual Convention 2018 kicks off Sept. 13-14 at the Best Western Plus Ramkota Hotel in Sioux Falls.
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) South Dakota is recognizing a former city planning director, a South Dakota concrete company and two architects with annual awards to be presented as part of AIA South Dakota’s annual convention on Friday, Sept. 14.
Tamara Eagle Bull, FAIA, AICAE, NCARB, the first Native American woman in the U.S. to become a licensed architect, will present a public keynote titled Sovereignty Through Design at the AIA South Dakota Annual Convention, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018, 7:30 p.m., at the Ramkota Convention Center Annex. Eagle Bull, a member of the Oglala Lakota …
Architects do more than imagine spaces, buildings and forms. We continually strengthen the communication link between the mind and the hand that draws or clicks to form creations on napkin, paper or computer screen. In more simple terms, my job as an architect is to dream with my clients and then make those dreams a reality. Pretty impressive, for sure, but is that all an architect does? Does an architect …
In case you haven’t caught the news (see KELO’s story here), Sioux Falls is trying out a new form of crosswalk known as the “pedestrian scramble.” In a region like ours where a predominance of three-stall garages seem to be the average street frontage, it is nice to see a bit of pushback in the other …
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Talking about building a stadium is cheap, so let’s talk. In the past, deals to build ballparks have been pretty straightforward. The city and team owners worked out a deal to build a stand-alone facility structured with subsidized city dollars along with ticket sales, sponsorships and other stadium revenue. That model is on a losing …
There was a recent Tweet from the man with a reputation as America’s Dad, Tom Hanks, in which Hanks made a brief mention of wanting to move to or at least visit Sioux Falls and Rapid City after reading “Our Towns” by James and Deborah Fallows. Pandemonium ensued. A big, lovable celebrity coming to our …