The Union Trust Building has been honored with a 2018 American Architecture Award for building restoration from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design.

<p>Lloyd Princeton offers more business tips as a follow-up to his Field Notes piece in the May issue themed on the Business of Design.</p>

Home ownership wasn’t always common in the United States. For a nation in which 67.4 percent of its citizens own their own homes this seems unfathomable but Americans had to be coaxed into becoming homeowners. Selling the Dwelling: The Books That Built America’s Houses, 1775-2000 shows the 225 year story of how "the American dream" of home ownership was made accessible.

View a few behind the scenes shots from this one of a kind event! Learn more at <a href="http://dsignconnections.com/" target="_blank">http://dsignconnections.com/.</a>

What hues come to mind when you think of 1950s colors? Most people think of carnation pink, light turquoise and butter yellow. What we think was history and what history actually was are often two different things. How do we mediate this circumstance? By referring to period documents. Here we have assembled 1950s color palettes, which represent four different design phenomena: Fashion, Interiors, Architecture and Automobiles.

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<p>Another year, another&nbsp;<a href="http://www.mubadalawtc.com/Home.aspx" target="_blank">Mubadala World Tennis Championship</a>, am I right? For those of you who may be unfamiliar with this important tick of the annual clock, the Mubadala Championship marks the beginning of the global tennis season. Each year six of the world&rsquo;s top tennis players head to Abu Dhabi to compete instead of celebrating New Year&rsquo;s Eve like normal drunk people.&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 12px;">And this, my friends, is the Mubadala trophy, brought to you by&nbsp;</span><a href="http://lasvit.com/" target="_blank">Lasvit</a><span style="font-size: 12px;">:</span></p>

To help the A&D community identify and specify truly green products, Interiors & Sources and the American Society of Interior Designers present the second annual Bloom Award winners.