On May 17, 2011, a special 25th anniversary celebration of the National Building Museum’s Honor Award united our history and our future. Together with our past honorees, we celebrated the importance of the world we build and look to the inspiring possibilities of the next 25 years. The gala featured a keynote address by David Rockwell, Founder and CEO of Rockwell Group, an award-winning, cross-disciplinary architecture and design practice which focuses

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    Celebrating our Past, Building our Future

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    On May 17, 2011, a special 25th anniversary celebration of the National Building Museum’s Honor Award united our history and our future. Together with our past honorees, we celebrated the importance of the world we build and look to the inspiring possibilities of the next 25 years. The gala featured a keynote address by David Rockwell, Founder and CEO of Rockwell Group, an award-winning, cross-disciplinary architecture and design practice which focuses

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    Build Up! Washington, D.C.

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    Build Up! is a playful, collaborative, interactive installation by the LAB at Rockwell Group for the 25th Anniversary National Building Museum Honor Award Gala on May 17, 2011. Build Up! invited guests of the gala to work together to create a virtual cityscape that is projected onto a suspended structure above the gala space. Guests generated colorful buildings at iPad-embedded pedestals, and then “pushed” them up into the projected cityscape. The

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    Walls Speak: National Academy of Sciences, 1924

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    The dome for the Great Hall of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., was Hildreth Meière's first major architectural commission. Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière is an exhibition on view at the National Building Museum from March 19 - November 27, 2011.

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    Walls Speak: Radio City Music Hall, 1932

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    For Radio City Music Hall, Hildreth Meière designed the exterior, mixed-metal and enamel sculptures Dance, Drama, and Song. Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière is an exhibition on view at the National Building Museum from March 19 - November 27, 2011.

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    Walls Speak: New York World's Fair, 1939

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    Hildreth Meière's metal sculpture on the exterior of the Medicine and Public Health Building depicts Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, and the Dragon of Ignorance. Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière is an exhibition on view at the National Building Museum from March 19 - November 27, 2011.

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    Walls Speak: Nebraska State Capitol, 1924-1932

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    Muralist Hildreth Meière's designs for the Nebraska State Capitol relate the history of Nebraska to the ideals of Western civilization. Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière is an exhibition on view at the National Building Museum from March 19 - November 27, 2011.

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    Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière

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    Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière is an exhibition on view at the National Building Museum from March 19 - November 27, 2011.

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