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Pantone’s Color of the Year 2021: Yellow and Grey in Architecture

December 21, 2020

On December 9, Pantone announced its color(s) of the year for 2021: PANTONE 17-5104 Ultimate Gray and PANTONE 13-0647 Illuminating. Selecting two colors for only the second time in 22 years, Pantone described the chosen yellow and gray as independent but complementary, representing a theme of unity and mutual support. Whereas PANTONE 13-0647 Illuminating is bright and vivacious, PANTONE 17-5104 Ultimate Gray is firm and dependable, the marriage of which represents strength, optimism, and fortitude following a markedly challenging year. In architecture, this palette combining playfulness and solemnity has been used in social spaces, domestic spaces, care spaces, and more to communicate similar themes of resilience and positivity.

Below are 14 examples of projects using Pantone’s 2021 colors of the year.

John J. Bowen Center for Science and Innovation at Johnson & Wales University / Architectural Resources Cambridge

October 03, 2019

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Architects: Architectural Resources Cambridge
Area: 71000 ft²
Year: 2016
Manufacturers: ALPOLIC, AutoDesk, EQUITONE, Forbo Flooring Systems, 3form, +9Adobe, Carpet, Consolidated Brick, Kawneer 1600, McNeel, Microsoft, Newforma, PPG IdeaScapes, Trimble-9
Professionals: Travers Landscape Architects, Lam Partners Inc, R.W. Sullivan Engineering, Vermeulens Cost Consultants, Thornton Tomasetti, +3

Grow Box / Merge Architects

March 01, 2018

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Architects: Merge Architects
Area: 1975 ft²
Year: 2016
Manufacturers: Lutron, Carlisle SynTec, SONOS, Schüco, corten steel

Marginal Street Lofts / Merge Architects Inc

June 23, 2016

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Architects: Merge Architects Inc
Area: 12110 ft²
Year: 2015
Professionals: GPR Inc., BLW Engineers, Delvecchio Construction, Boston Forging & Welding Corp.

Boston Society of Architects Announce 2015 Design Award Winners

February 09, 2016

The Boston Society of Architects/AIA (BSA) has announced the winners of the 2015 BSA Design Awards. Awards were presented in eight categories for accomplishments in interior design, campus and urban panning, and unbuilt projects, among others.

The winners of the 2015 BSA Design Awards are:

MIT Beaver Works / Merge Architects

October 01, 2014

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Architects: Merge Architects
Area: 4875 ft²
Year: 2013
Professionals: BLW Engineers, J. Calnan and Associates Inc.

AIA Announces Winners of National Healthcare Design Awards

August 04, 2014

The AIA has announced 8 projects as winners of their annual National Healthcare Design Awards, rewarding the best in medical architecture from built projects to research excellence. The 8 projects were selected in four categories: built (less than $25 million); built (more than $25 million); Unbuilt; and Innovations in Planning and Design Research.

The awarded projects come from locations throughout the US, as well as one project constructed for Haiti. Read on after the break to see all the winners.

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