Architecture

A new $150,000 gift has been earmarked for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at the University of Arkansas’ Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design. U of A alumni Lanny and Becki McInoth have made the planned gift to the…

North Little Rock’s downtown Argenta district is thriving, pandemic be darned, and hometown Taggart Architects is a big part of its recent renaissance.  A building boom of roughly $65 million in construction projects tied to the new Argenta Plaza, though…

Since 1999, nonprofit organization Preserve Arkansas has been releasing Arkansas’s Most Endangered Historic Places List in an effort to draw attention to historically and architecturally significant properties throughout the state that are at risk of being lost due to neglect.The…

by Cromwell Architects Engineers When it comes to government organizations choosing a firm to provide professional services, a lot of factors beyond price should be taken into consideration. Overall, work is becoming more complex, which necessitates the need for qualified…

by Cromwell Architects Engineers Internships are important to both emerging professionals and to the companies that offer them.  In the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) market internships are critical to the continued growth and advancement of the industry. Internships may…

The University of Arkansas has tapped John Folan to head the Department of Architecture at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design. Folan will assume his position on July 1. Currently the T. David Fitz-Gibbon Professor of Architecture at…

Tommy Ray Polk, a founder of the design firm Polk Shannon Stanley (now Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects), has passed away. Polk was born Feb. 24, 1940 in Hope, and he died April 28 at his home. A memorial service will…

The Walton Family Foundation is opening applications for the Northwest Arkansas Design Excellence Program. Through March 15, the foundation is inviting design professionals to submit their work for review at waltonfamilyfoundation.org/design. Professionals focused on landscape architecture and urban design in…

Jeremy Smith will present a lecture at 4 p.m. Monday, Feb. 11, in Ken and Linda Sue Shollmier Hall, Room 250 of Vol Walker Hall, on the University of Arkansas campus, as part of the Fay Jones School of Architecture…

A University of Texas at Texas landscape architecture professor will be presenting a lecture in Little Rock on February 5, as part of the Architecture and Design Network’s 2018-19 June Freeman Lecture Series. Gabriel Diaz Montemayor, an assistant professor of…