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| Inspirations Awards 2012_01 |
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The Houston Food Bank by RdlR won the complete built projects category in the Inspirations 2012 competition.
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| Inspirations Awards 2012_02 |
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Through collaboration with almost 500 non-profit hunger-relief charities across an 18-county swath
of southeast Texas, the Houston Food
Bank feeds over 137,000 people a week and distributes over 58 million
meals per year.
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| Inspirations Awards 2012_03 |
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Natural lighting for work areas with the addition of
insulated skylights provide both quality lighting and the added
health benefits of protected sunlight.
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| Inspirations Awards 2012_04 |
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Beyond alleviating immediate hunger needs, the Houston Food
Bank provides community services and education programs aimed at
promoting nutrition, enrollment in federal and state Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Programs, and job training and employment help in
an effort to break the cycle of food insecurity.
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| Inspirations Awards 2012_05 |
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The new, expanded facility has more than quadrupled the Houston Food
Bank’s cold storage capacities, allowing an increase in the distribution of fresh produce to people in need.
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| Inspirations Awards 2012_06 |
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Meeting the needs of volunteers, staff and the community was of the utmost importance in the design of the new facility.
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| Inspirations Awards 2012_07 |
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To expand the Houston Food Bank's distribution capacity more than three-fold, RdlR renovated a neglected, 30-year-old, “tilt-up” warehouse.
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| Inspirations Awards 2012_08 |
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The winning submission for the Practice Category is “Community House building project with a simple self-built
wooden panel construction" by the Applied Environmental Design Studio
(Innovator Certification Course in Environment studies). It is an experiment
in building design presented by Hiroto Kobayashi, Graduate School of
Media and Governance, Keio University.
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| Inspirations Awards 2012_09 |
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The majority of each house is constructed using 910 mm x 1820 mm
engineered wood panels (veneer plywood panels) produced by a local wood
processing company in Ishinomaki City which neighbors Minamisanriku. The
panels used in this project are panels damaged by the tsunami in March 2011.
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| Inspirations Awards 2012_10 |
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NPO Gyoryu-no-yu was designed as a solution to local residents in Utatsu of Minamisanriku in Miyagi Prefecture, where 70 percent of homes were devastated by the tsunami in March of 2011.
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| Inspirations Awards 2012_11 |
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Family Matters in Chicago by Designs for Dignity won an honorable mention from the judges.
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