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Three SWA Projects Awarded in Third Round of Buildings of Excellence Competition

March 21, 2023

SWA is proud to be part of the project teams for Buildings of Excellence Round Three winners 439 West 36th Street and 489-501 9th Avenue (pictured, top) and Brownsville Arts Center and Apartments (pictured, below), as well as Early-Stage Design Support winner Three Arts.

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PRINT Magazine: The New ‘Building Equity Standard’ Championing Our Differences When Designing

PRINT magazine’s Charlotte Beach talks with SWA’s Victoria Lanteigne, Ph.D., Principal of Research, about Universal Design vs. designing for equity and the Building Equity Standard (BEST)—a new resource aimed at helping practitioners embed equity in the design of the built…

SWA’s Victoria Lanteigne Co-leads Effort to Relaunch the Center for Universal Design

North Carolina State University and Steven Winter Associates have been awarded a grant to reinvest in the CUD given increasing interest in related efforts such as inclusive design and building equity.

New Building Standard Advances Equity in the Built Environment

Today, a new equity-focused design standard was launched for architectural practitioners interested in embedding equity in the design of the built environment. Victoria Lanteigne, Ph.D., WELL AP, in alignment with award-winning building performance firm, Steven Winter Associates, announced the release of…