The elevation of two highly experienced and dedicated women to director-level positions with Boston and Atlanta-based Dyer Brown signifies a redoubled commitment to client service and the firm’s three lenses – the core principles that inform all decision-making, both in practice and project work: design, sustainability and DEI.

A major Midwestern design festival, now in its 14th year, kicks into high gear next week with talks and events on the creative process, sustainability, branding, urbanism and design, the allied arts and much more.

Nichiha USA plans to unveil innovative building materials at the 2024 International Builders’ Show in Las Vegas on Feb. 27-29, offering countless design options.

The American Iron and Steel Institute has published AISI D102-23, “Illustrative Examples for Provisions in AISI S100-16 (2020) w/S3-22.” The document provides a set of 22 design examples that illustrate updated provisions included in AISI S100-16(2020) w/S3-22, North American Specification for the Design of Cold-Formed Steel Structural Members, 2016 Edition (Reaffirmed 2020) with Supplement Three, 2022 Edition.

Not every architect has the opportunity to build skyscrapers. In Pennsylvania, architect and industrial designer Anna Wagner Keichline used her talents to improve the lives of her neighbors by designing their houses and gathering places.

A historic Alabama settlement of formerly enslaved Africans has been reimagined with a new urban realm and public garden, training school, housing and a historic ancestral gateway.

For national workplace strategy experts Dyer Brown, the design of new office space – like the recently completed Boston headquarters of Nimbus Therapeutics, an emerging leader in the development of breakthrough medicine – must support a company’s culture and workflow, represent their brand, combine budget sensitivity with sustainability and align goals for growth, productivity and on-the-job satisfaction.

An event brought together leading figures in California’s design industry and marked the presentation of the newly revamped Paola Lenti Los Angeles flagship store, which originally opened in July 2020 in collaboration with Robina Benson Design House.

Among 2023’s new collection, Paola Lenti introduced the Concreto table and bench: sculptural pieces designed by Francesco Rota and brought to life by the manual dexterity of mosaicist Simona Sporchia.