The Leonard Kagan Design Fellowship honors the legacy of RTKL’s Leonard Kagan and the huge contributions he made to the firm in the area of design. The Kagan Fellowship was conceived to celebrate the spirit of exploration as an integral part the creative process. This year’s Kagan focuses on measurable improvement—the audacious idea that anything […]
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The Leonard Kagan Design Fellowship honors the legacy of RTKL’s Leonard Kagan and the huge contributions he made to the firm in the area of design. The Kagan Fellowship was conceived to celebrate the spirit of exploration as an integral part the creative process. This year’s Kagan focuses on measurable improvement—the audacious idea that anything […]
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The Leonard Kagan Design Fellowship honors the legacy of RTKL’s Leonard Kagan and the huge contributions he made to the firm in the area of design. The Kagan Fellowship was conceived to celebrate the spirit of exploration as an integral part the creative process. This year’s Kagan focuses on measurable improvement—the audacious idea that anything […]
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“Hollywood for ugly people.” Washington’s unofficial tagline has morphed into an image upgrade, partly driven by popular shows like House of Cards, Scandal, Homeland and Veep that offer an appealing counterpoint to the realities of bureaucracy and politics. Despite being generally associated with old men in suits and C-span, Washington has always been a very […]
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When I moved across the pond from Europe to America, I packed my bike with me. And why not? It was working fine and had served me faithfully through my aggressive commuting days in London. But more importantly, I wanted to be able to hop onto my bike and start exploring the city once I […]
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As the saying goes, the only thing that remains constant is change. The world around us is moving, shifting, changing at a pace unlike anything in our planet’s long history. Power is changing hands; Economies are rising and falling; Second World is mixing with First World and BRICs are giving way to MINTs. But one […]
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Can biking lead to a healthier lifestyle and a more resilient city?
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It’s not a rhetorical question. I live in a building that is rated with walkscore of 98, a transit score of 100. It’s a block away from the office, so even if I wanted to, it would take me longer to get the car out of the building, drive to the office, and park it […]
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Lance Hosey, our Chief Sustainability Officer, has an article in GreenBiz.com called “Why architects must lead on sustainable design.” I encourage everyone to read it. And take it to heart. It accurately reflects RTKL’s evolving view on sustainability, and it confirms in my mind why we think our performance-driven design initiative is the right strategy. […]
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With the Kagan Fellowship around the corner, I’ve started thinking a lot about a subject I have always wanted to explore – the architecture of the dead. For as long as humans have inhabited the earth, there has been a ceremonial facet to death. In fact, archeologists have discovered 70,000 year old fossilized human remains […]
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