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PORTAGE, Mich. In south Michigan, drivers are experiencing icy and wet road conditions as sleet continues throughout the area.

Law enforcement have been busy in Kalamazoo County after many multi-vehicle accidents and road slide-offs because of the icy conditions.

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The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) said they have all hands on deck.

"It really is just another winter day for us," said an MDOT spokesman Nick Shirripa.

On Friday, MDOT said they have up to 80 salt trucks out on the roadways in southwest Michigan.

"Our operators have been out all morning certainly doing everything they can. Right now, its a little more salt maybe, but it is salting, putting the blades down to scrape everything we can off. Unfortunately we dont have much control other than that so the operators have been out, and theyll stay out for as long as they need to," said Shirripa.

They're asking Michigan drivers to keep an eye out and to be patient while they do their jobs.

"Those men and women are out working their hind ends off for hours on end trying to make the roads safer for everybody. Give them lots of room to do what they need to do," said Shirripa.

A Kalamazoo County tow truck company was also out assisting with many of the accidents off of I-94, US-131 and even on city roads.

"Conditions are real slick. Right now they are a little wet, but as the night goes on temperatures start to drop and the roads become a sheet of ice. If you dont have to leave, dont leave," said Trent's Towing Tow Manager Garret Boyer.

If you do end up needing a tow truck, you could have a long wait time, so it's important to have a full tank of gas, coats, mittens and even blankets to stay warm while you wait.

"It could be within 30 minutes or 2 hours, sometimes longer than that, just depending on where you're located as opposed to the next call. We try to get to you as fast as we can, but as you can see, these roads are real treacherous right now. So take your time, and we will take our time so we can make sure to get you out safely," said Boyer.

Law enforcement are encouraging those people who don't have to drive to stay home.

If you must leave, ensure to give yourself plenty of time, limit distractions and keep space between the vehicles in front of you.

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University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Chancellor Dr. Cam Patterson said the Little Rock hospital is adding new emergency department space in an adjacent parking deck and may double up patients in single rooms in response to the growing number of COVID-19 hospitalizations.

Pattersons note on the systems status and COVID prep work came as hospitalizations set a new record for the third day in a row. The Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) reported Wednesday (Dec. 30) that hospitalizations rose by 13 to 1,174. The ADH also reported that available ICU beds statewide fell from 55 on Tuesday to 50 on Wednesday.

Total known confirmed and probable cases rose by 3,184 to 222,430, confirmed and probable active cases rose by 672 to 21,853 and confirmed and probable deaths rose by 34 to 3,637.

There is also growing concern nationwide that a more easily transmissible COVID variant first identified in the United Kingdom will begin spreading in the United States, which would place even more pressure on hospitals and healthcare workers. Despite efforts to block travel from the UK, the variant has appeared in California and Colorado. The ability to detect the new variant in Arkansas is limited.

Only a few labs in our state use the testing platform which will allow us to detect the new variant. If any cases are detected, then those samples need to be confirmed by sequencing, ADH spokeswoman Danyelle McNeill told Talk Business & Politics. We are currently coordinating with various reference labs around and outside the state which use the Taqpath testing platform to look for suspected cases from Arkansas samples. In looking back, if any suspected cases are discovered, these will need to be confirmed by sequencing by (the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).

UAMS ACTIONSIn a series of tweets posted Wednesday, Patterson, the head of the largest medical system in the state, outlined how he and other UAMS officials are working to deal with the existing rise in cases and the expected surge from Christmas and New Year gatherings.

UAMS, despite limiting the number of elective surgeries, has had difficulty keeping pace with the needs of patients with & without COVID-19 due to the impact of the pandemic on our community, Patterson wrote. Our next steps here at UAMS include asking our healthcare providers to take on more patients than usual, to reassign some of them to new duties that they are capable of, & potentially to start doubling up patients in single rooms.

Gov. Asa Hutchinson also noted the strain on hospitals.

We continue to see high numbers of new cases and capacity pressures on our hospitals. I urge everyone to be careful as we enter another holiday to reduce the virus spread, and we need to support each other as Arkansans while we work to distribute the vaccine, he said in a a statement with Wednesdays ADH report.

Patterson also praised the effort of healthcare workers to deal with the pandemic.

Unless circumstances change drastically, this will get worse before it gets better. This virus is trying to break us here in the state of Arkansas, but while we are bending we are not about to break. Thats not because of the number of beds we have or the facilities we have built. Its because of the healthcare providers at the front line who are going above & beyond to adapt to incredibly difficult circumstances.

COVID REPORT Dec. 30New known COVID-19 cases, active cases, tests 184,947 known cumulative PCR cases, with 2,289 new community cases and 31 reported cases in correctional facilities 37,483 probable cases, up from 36,619 on Tuesday There are 15,658 active cases, up from 15,158 on Tuesday There were 8,843 test results provided in the previous 24 hours. There were 4,398 antigen tests in the previous 24 hours.

Deaths 3,068, up 26 569 probable COVID-related deaths, up 8

Hospitalizations1,174, up 13

Ventilators205, up 7

Recovered cases166,198

The top five counties with new known cases reported Wednesday were: Pulaski (355), Washington (290), Benton (278), Faulkner (150), and Sebastian (134). The counties accounted for 38% of the 3,184 new confirmed and probable cases.

As of Wednesday at 1 p.m., there were 19,575,927 U.S. cases and 340,004 deaths. Globally, there were 82,330,554 cases and 1,797,732 deaths

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Chief stew Francesca Rubi from Below Deck is more than aware that some crew members arent her biggest fans.

Shes seen in tears in an upcoming episode, crying about how the crew becomes your family, but this crew views her as being abrasive. The revelation comes when My Seanna is about to dock and she sees another chief stew she knows on another yacht. She excitedly waves at the other crew member from afar, but then has to excuse herself.

A big part of yachting is the crew end up being your family, she said in a confessional. Rubi becomes emotional and she cries alone in her bunk. This crew doesnt see me like a person. They see me as this b*tchy, mean chief stew. Rubi tears up in her confessional as cameras capture her crying while trying to compose herself for docking.

The season was filmed nearly a year ago and Rubi seems to have gotten over the disappointment that she didnt bond with some of the crew. She hosted a Ask Me Anything onInstagram and was asked how she dealt with Elizabeth Frankini ignoring her direction. Frankini thought Rubi was passive-aggressive, but Rubi didnt see it that way.

Theres also no time when on charter to train, she said. So you kind of have to find a balance between training on the job and also instructing in a nice way.

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But yes, it was definitely frustrating for me when Elizabeth wasnt listening to my directions, she continued. I feel that I was communicating in a very nice and clear manner. Especially about the cutlery drawer.

She was also asked if she would work with Frankini and Ashling Lorger in the future. Rubi only talked about Lorger. I would pick lovely Ash because she just thinks on her feet, she said. And I always know its going to be sorted and I dont need to micromanage. I dont need to check up on her like you saw with the detox shots in the recent episode.

Every chief stew in the franchise has dealt with crew members viewing them as being cruel or too stern. Chief stew Jenna MacGillivray from Below Deck Sailing Yacht was often told she was too hard on her stews. Fans also bashed MacGillivray for her no-nonsense manner and tone-deaf jokes.

Chief stew Kate Chastain from Below Deck also had several stews say she was an unpleasant boss. Stew Emily Warburton-Adams recent comments about Chastain came as a surprise. She and Chastain seemed to work well together, but she said that wasnt necessarily the case.

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It mainly came after the season, she recalled about post-season tension. On the show, there were a few things obviously at the end when she started flagging things Id done wrong. Which caused a little bit of a rift.

Chief stew Hannah Ferrier from Below Deck Mediterranean also had issues with stews, especially Christine Bugsy Drake. Drake told Ferrier she thought shed been a lousy chief stew during season 2. Drake returned for season 5, but she and Ferrier seemed to have grown and worked through their differences.

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Any other year, Indianas traveling party might already be in Tampa.

There would be community events to attend, post-practice activities for players, formal dinners and pep rallies built into the bowl week schedule. Last year, for example, the Hoosiers spent time on the beach and toured combat ships at Jacksonvilles Naval Stadion Mayport in the days leading up to the Gator Bowl. In 2016, they volunteered time at a community kitchen in San Francisco and went on a guided tour of Alcatraz ahead of the Foster Farms Bowl. And in 2015, they took in the full Christmas in New York experience before the Pinstripe Bowl,

This year, for obvious reasons, teams cant do those types of things. Itll be football and only football when IU arrives in Florida later this week for Saturdays Outback Bowl matchup with Ole Miss.

It will be a little different, IU coach Tom Allen said.

After practicing in Bloomington on Monday morning, Indiana will hold two more training sessions on campus this week before flying out of Indianapolis on Wednesday afternoon. The Hoosiers will have one practice at a local high school facility on Thursday before holding a final walkthrough and taking a team photo on Friday. In between, IU will spend its time exclusively at its team hotel.

To break up some of the downtime this week, Allen said his program is putting together at least one on-site team event at the hotel.

We will have a special thing we will do on Thursday night there at the hotel, Allen said. Kind of like a Taste of Florida type deal for the players that we will put on for them so they can enjoy the Florida food many of our guys really like from down there. So, that will be fun and just things kind of around the hotel. Because of COVID-19 you will not have the events or go to any amusement parks or anything like that, or go to beach or things you usually do around the game at this location. But you still get a chance to go down there a couple of days early.

By the time IU touches down in Florida, the hope is the Hoosiers will have a full assortment of players to put through workouts. IU returned to practice last week following its recent COVID-19 pause, but, as of Monday afternoon, the Hoosiers still had some players sidelined due to quarantine procedures. Its not clear which players or position groups have been most affected by IUs outbreak this month, nor is it known what Indianas roster will look like by the end of the week.

But Allen says there is at least some reason to believe the roster will be in better shape in the coming days.

The challenge now is to get back and have a great week of practice, Allen said. The whole groups not back yet but we are getting closer. We may have them all back (Tuesday). We do not know yet. But definitely getting closer to that. You would like to get them all back at least by Wednesday so you can have a chance to get a full practice in before we head out of here. Ideally, you get them back (Tuesday) and you got two practices in pads. So, bottom line is that is still yet to be determined but definitely have a lot more guys back than we had before.

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As soon as my house stopped shaking, my phone began to ring.

Whoa! We just had an earthquake! Did you feel that? staff photographer Laura Seitz exclaimed just after 7 a.m.

Yup! We got rocked here, too, I said. Call you right back!

Because of COVID-19, we had already shifted into working remotely, but due to the severity of the quake, I knew this day was going to be challenging.

I started making calls to our Deseret News photographers for an all-hands-on-deck response after a 5.7 magnitude struck Magna and was felt throughout the Wasatch Front on March 18.

Everyone knows that when it comes to big stories, were all in this together for as long as we need to be. So our night photographer Scott Winterton responded in his Herriman community that morning, knowing he would likely have a long day, while those on day shifts started extra early so we could quickly upload our photos on the web.

Depending on the location of the photographers residence is how and where we prioritized the locations that they we responded to first. But information that was accurate was hard to come by. We simply didnt know which areas had been seriously damaged.

Our news-gathering partners from KSL-TV were knocked off the air that morning for a short amount of time due to the quake, so getting information into the newsroom and then broadcast out to the public, including those of us working remotely, was not fast at first.

We broke out the portable police scanners, watched social media, made phone call after phone call, and worked our sources to gather as much information as we could.

Within minutes of Spenser Heaps, deputy director of photography for the Deseret News, arriving on scene of a damaged downtown building, we had photos into our system.

Of course this thing caught me totally off guard, literally shaking me from my sleep. But preparedness is something you make part of your routine as a photojournalist, Heaps recalled of that morning.

So thankfully, my batteries were charged and my camera bag was pretty much ready to go out the door. Once the shaking stopped, I threw on some clothes, threw the cameras and laptop in my truck and was ready to go out the door.

By 7:29 a.m. we had a story up with the first photo. Within the hour we had a full photo report from Heaps from his downtown location along with photos from a damaged school in Herriman from Winterton.

After we learned about major damage in Magna at a mobile home community, photographer Jeff Allred was dispatched to that scene. Allred was able to quickly send photos into us for the breaking web story updates, giving our readers a complete and compelling look at the Magna victims homes that were badly damaged.

With a concern that cellphone towers might be jammed, we switched communication between our photographers to our two-way radio system a system we invested in a few years earlier for just such scenarios. This also likely allowed our photographers to use their cellular data to send photos into our system.

By late morning as things calmed down, Heaps and I were able to make our way into the building to continue coordinating coverage and work on editing the amazing images that were still coming in. Despite the initial plan to work remotely, we felt like we needed to be there.

Just like many residents, the aftershocks rattled our nerves throughout the day. But all of us working on the story, including editors, reporters and photographers, knew our readers were counting on us.

Here are some of the incredible images captured that day and in the days and weeks that followed by the Deseret News photojournalists.

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In May 2019, 17 renowned architecture firms launched a declaration of a climate, justice, and biodiversity emergency now known as Construction Declares. The group includes architects, engineers, and more disciplines who all signed a pledge that would define and expand sustainability efforts of future works.

Soon after the original UK Architects Declare, similar groups formed across the globe as others used the Declare name to make an impact on the profession and the world. Michael Pawlyn of Architects Declare explains that sustainable architecture today tends to just mitigate negativesor do less damage than a traditional buildinginstead of designing to do no damage or create a positive impact.

In an interview, Pawlyn shared, There's something inherently problematic in the framing of sustainability that implies the best you can aspire to is neutrality, and anything less than that is just part of a degenerative downward cycle. We urgently need to look at means to be regenerative, which is to get into a positive cycle in which everything we do we're trying to have a positive impact in terms of restoring ecosystems, taking carbon out of the atmosphere, regarding communities and so on.

This belief was summarized into 11 core changes or requirements. The requirements set by UK Architects Declare include:

The Declare movement has been replicated all over the world with countries taking ownership of Declare and using it to define their own list of commitments inspired by the one above, host town halls to execute these ideas, and to help local activists push for policy change.

More than 20 countries have actively created their own declaration and call for firms to sign the agreement. Still, adding a firm as a signatory does not mean that you are designing buildings as green as the statement demands. Two original signatories and renowned architecture firms, Foster + Partners and Zaha Hadid Architects, have recently left the Architects Declare network following claims that they are not meeting the requirements in their latest aviation projects.

Architects Declare did not actively rebuke the firms, explaining that they have a principle of not naming and shaming out colleagues in the industry. Though the group did not directly name names, they did publicly state that Declare was being undermined by a few practices who are not supporting the efforts of the initiative, and expressed future plans to conduct a survey and make tighter restrictions to the pledge. Declare also aired concerns that some companies may be using the Architects Declare platform as a PR program, seeking recognition for the agreement but not adjusting their practices to meet the demands.

Still, while many agree that Declare stands for an important shift in architecture and other professions in the construction industry, some companies disagree with the potential new restrictions and how Declare has otherwise been using its platform. Declare believes that no matter what sustainability measures are implemented, an airport in the desert is simply not the minimally invasive project that architects should be investing in. However, many other architects feel this is an unfair ask. Why should designers dictate this large-scale change? Why should firms have to turn away an important commission when policy is not limiting the project's environmental impact?

Zaha Hadid Architects left the group for these exact reasons after receiving criticism for their Western Sydney International Airport. We saw Architects Declare as a broad church to raise consciousness on the issues; enabling architectural practices of all sizes to build a coalition for change and help each other find solutions, explained Zaha Hadid Architects. We need to be progressive, but we see no advantage in positioning the profession to fail. In fact, it would be a historic mistake. While this seems reasonable, principal Patrick Schumacher's warning to avoid radical change surely seems antithetical to Declare's mission, and it makes one wonder why the firm signed an agreement that is seeking large-scale change.

Similarly, Foster + Partners left Declare following criticism of their Saudi Arabian airport that would serve a high-end resort. In response to these comments, the firm released a statement saying, We believe that the hallmark of our age, and the future of our globally connected world, is mobility. Mobility of people, goods and information across boundaries. Only by internationally coordinated action can we confront the issues of global warming and, indeed, future pandemics. Aviation has a vital role to play in this process and will continue to do so. You cannot wind the clock backwards.

A shift in sustainable architecture will surely be a long and difficult process. After becoming complacent in a building process that at best, mitigates damage, change will be easy to talk about but challenging to accomplish. Many may see reason in architects' unwillingness to refuse commissions, yet many others will demand integrity from those who promised to take the climate crisis seriously.

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Mr. Stull died Nov. 28 in his Milton home, according to the obituary information his family prepared. He was 83.

In 1966, Mr. Stull founded Stull Associates, and Lee while still in graduate school began working for him three years later. After graduate school, Lee joined the firm full time, and the two later cofounded Stull and Lee.

We were very much active in social change, Mr. Stull told the Globe in 2010, during an interview in his Boston office. We wanted people to have the opportunity to create their own destiny.

They did so in part by creating one of Bostons most diverse architecture firms, and perhaps one of the citys most diverse businesses of any kind.

It was like a mini United Nations, Lee said. We had people from Beijing to Boston who worked for us. We often brought women into the firm at high levels.

Building such a firm was always one of Mr. Stulls goals. At the time he founded Stull Associates in the mid-1960s, he was believed to be one of only a dozen Black architects in the country.

In a 1989 Globe interview, he said he had never attended any classes with another Black architect. Until he founded his own firm and began hiring a diverse staff, he had never worked with another Black architect.

When Lee arrived in Boston to attend the Harvard Graduate School of Design and arrived at Stull Associates seeking a summer job, Mr. Stull was happy to hire him.

When I met David, I couldnt believe it, Mr. Stull said in 1989. Here was another Black man who was studying to be an architect. I decided I wasnt going to let this guy go.

Together, they built Stull and Lee into one of the citys most prominent firms, often against the odds. They faced racism sometimes subtle, other times more obvious in the development community.

Being a Black firm has worked both ways, Lee told the Globe in 1989. We have had access to public sector projects driven by affirmative action goals. On the other hand, we have had to tell engineers: Dont just call us when you need minority representation on your project. Call us when you just want quality work. "

Their firms excellence was apparent in the $747 million Southwest Corridor project, for which Stull and Lee were lead architects and master planners. They designed the construction or renovation of nine Orange Line subway stations, along with a park that ran above them and stretched for miles.

The work earned them the Presidential Design Award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The firms design of the memorable vaulted walkway at Ruggles Station, which connects Columbus Avenue and the Northeastern University campus, also was a point of pride.

It is one of the most successful pieces of urban design from that era, George Thrush, an architecture professor who was the founding director of Northeasterns School of Architecture, told the Globe in 2010.

Globe architecture critic Jane Holtz Kay simply called Mr. Stull one of the more talented and unrecognized architects.

One of four siblings, Donald L. Stull was born on May 16, 1937, in Springfield, Ohio, according to biographical information on thehistorymakers.org website.

His mother, Ruth Callahan Branson, was a domestic worker who opened Ruths Place, a restaurant in Springfield, after World War II. His father, Robert Stull, had been raised by a white sharecropper in West Virginia before moving to Ohio, where he worked in a foundry.

While Mr. Stull was a boy, he began sketching and making carvings that were reminiscent of African masks, according to the website of The HistoryMakers, which collects oral histories. He became interested in architecture while working on construction sites with an uncle who was a bricklayer.

Mr. Stull attended the architecture program at Ohio State University and graduated with a bachelors degree in 1961. He then received a masters from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

In 1970, he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Ohio State. Boston Architectural College awarded Mr. Stull an honorary degree in 2011.

While at Harvard, he met the renowned architect Walter Gropius and after graduating initially worked at The Architects Collaborative, a Cambridge firm Gropius cofounded. Mr. Stull also worked at Samuel Glaser Associates in Boston before launching his own firm.

Don came along at a pretty challenging time for Black architects, Lee said. Even today I think we only represent 4 percent of the profession. For him to succeed and have the audacity to start a firm in the mid-1960s is pretty amazing.

Mr. Stull, who had taught at Harvard, developed a sure hand early on at designing affordable housing, Lee said.

As a result of that, Lee added, he was able to attract clients and do some of the first afford housing around this area, even in towns like Stoughton and Amherst, in addition to doing projects in the Roxbury area.

At the firm, Mr. Stull had an infectious laugh, Lee said. He worked hard. He worked on the weekends. He was there, he was present, and was important.

Mr. Stulls longtime companion, Janet Kendrick, a former executive director of the Cambridge Community Center, died in 2008.

According to his familys obituary information, Mr. Stull leaves two daughters, Cydney Garrido of Melbourne, Fla., and Gia of Allston; a son, Robert of Milton; a sister, Virginia of Dayton, Ohio; and two grandchildren.

Services are private.

Mr. Stull, a fellow of the American Institute of Architects, was a charismatic guy. People liked to be around Don. He had good stories to tell. And he was a leader, Lee said.

There was a confidence about him that radiated. And people liked to listen to him, Lee added. He was so skillful in terms of his thinking and his ability to draw and frame design opportunities that I think people enjoyed being brought into that discussion.

That ultimately drew young architects to the firm, including many who went on to form their own firms, carrying on Mr. Stulls legacy of creating diversity in a largely white field.

Ive been told by many young Black architects who started firms that our firm had been a model for them, Lee said, and a lot of them looked first to Stull Associates, and then to Stull and Lee. Everybody wanted to work at Stull and Lee.

Bryan Marquard can be reached at bryan.marquard@globe.com.

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The coronavirus pandemic has taken nearly 2 million lives around the world. Like every other industry, the design world has suffered some incalculable losses. Here, we remember just a few of the designers and creatives who have passed away this year due to COVID-19 complications.

Over his six-decade career, the renowned Italian industrial designer created modern, everyday objects that were beautifully simple, elegant, and effective. He made overlooked items such as trash cans and calendars into iconic pieces. Maris fierce ideological commitment to Communist principles was a throughline across all of his work. His greatest contribution to design culture is the zest with which he pursued his political concerns in his work: from anti-consumerism and workers rights to environmentalism, design critic Alice Rawsthorn told Fast Companyin October.

Enzo Mari [Photos: Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Images, Adriano Alecchi/Mondadori/Getty Images]Mari, who was 88, passed away on October 19. Lea Vergine, Maris wife and an art critic, passed away of COVID-19 complications a day later.

Though the Moroccan-born artist spent time studying in Spain, Italy, and the United States, he left the Western viewpoint behind when he returned to his home country. Instead, he created a new kind of modernism that drew from his lived experience in Morocco and from Islam, not Eurocentrism. Upon joining the Casablanca Art School faculty in 1964, Melehi encouraged his students to study Berber crafts and architecture and to find modernism in the world immediately around them.

A gallery worker poses with an artwork entitled Untitled by Moroccan artist Mohamed Melehi. [Photo: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images]For his part, Melehi applied the defined lines and geometric shapes of modernism in new ways, adding vibrant pinks, teals, oranges, and yellows that oscillate in waves across the canvas. Melehi hosted open-air exhibitions, and as protests grew in post-colonial Morocco, Melehi shifted to atypical painting materials more closely associated with the working class, such as car paint and wood instead of canvas.

In the 1980s and 90s, he took a position as arts director at the culture ministry and then cultural consultant to the ministry of foreign affairs, and he has had solo exhibitions worldwide. He passed on October 28 due to COVID-19 complications at the age of 83.

The architect and urban planner was a big believer that architecture and urban design could be used to further social justice. The answer to the crisis of exponentially growing cities, to the millions living in slums, to unequal distribution of access and privilege in the world, isamong other thingsto build different cities than those we have now, he said in a 2006 interview.

Michael Sorkin speaking to the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards in 2013. [Photo: Rob Kim/Getty Images]Through his studio, Sorkin Studio, Sorkin practiced what he preached. He devised new ways of living that are now ubiquitous, such as green roofs and sustainable energy sources. Sorkin was also a teacher at the Institute of Urbanism of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, and at the Cooper Union in New York. He was the author of 20 booksand was an architecture critic for The Village Voice. Sorkin passed on March 26, at the age of 71.

The famed Italian architect was best known for his large-scale building projects and for popularizing the more funky, freewheeling post-modernist architecture movement. (Postmodern architect Robert Venturi described its guiding philosophy as Less is a bore.)

Vittorio Gregotti [Photo: Alberto Roveri/Mondadori/Getty Images]Gregotti was also an editor of the Italian architectural magazine Casabella and a critic. MIT Press called his writing and buildings instrumental both in the revision of some of modernisms foundational myths and in the spectacular rise of postmodernism during the late 1960s and 1970s. Gregotti founded his own firm, Gregotti Associati International, in 1974. Gregotti, who was 92, died on March 15.

The Japanese fashion designer known as Kenzo moved to Paris in 1964. He intended to stay for six months but ended up staying for 56 years, changing the face of fashion in the process. Kenzo opened his first store in 1970 and went on to establish his own design house. His ready-to-wear styles were splashed with bright colors, loud prints featuring florals, and jungle animals. They were reasonably pricedand made statement-making accessible. In 1993, he sold his fashion house to LVMH, Louis Vuittons parent company, to focus on art.

Kenzo Takada [Photo: Foc Kan/WireImage]Kenzo Takada has, from the 1970s, infused into fashion a tone of poetic lightness and sweet freedom which inspired many designers after him, Bernard Arnault, chairman and chief executive of LVMH, told the Associated Press. To mark his passing at age 81, the fashion house posted: For half a century, Mr. Takada has been an emblematic personality in the fashion industryalways infusing creativity and color into the world.

The iconic Italian shoe designer made tasteful, stylish, and beautifully crafted womens shoes that have stood the test of time. Iconic designs such as the sexy, strappy Opanca shoe were graceful precursors to the minimalist heels that took over the 90s, while the Godiva pump, a simple and feminine stiletto heel, is a now-ubiquitous style. In addition to his own label, founded in 1968, Rossi designed shoes for other titans in the industry, including Azzedine Alaa, Dolce & Gabbana, and Versace. He was an artisan and a genius, his shoes were feminine and made in the highest quality but wearable at the same time, said Santo Versace, who recalled Rossis longtime collaboration with his brother Gianni.

[Photo: Vincenzo Lombardo/Getty Images/Sergio Rossi] He loved women and was able to capture a womans femininity in a unique way, creating the perfect extension of a womans leg through his shoes, said Riccardo Sciutto, CEO of Sergio Rossi Group. A Rossi shoe wasnt just an accessory; it was an expression of the self. The designer died in Cesena, Italy, on April 3 at age 84.

Maeda was a resident set designer at the renowned La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York, becoming a treasure and one of the pioneers of experimental theater, according toLa MaMa artistic director Mia Yoo.

Maeda arrived in the U.S. with Japanese experimental theater companies Tokyo Kid Brothers and Shuji Terayama in 1970 and was almost immediately sought after as a set designer. He was well known in the off-Broadway world, according to Deadline, and worked with theater greats such as directors Andrei Serban, Peter Brook, and Joseph Chaikin. Maeda won the 1981 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Set Design. His impact on La MaMa and theater has deeply influenced and touched generations of artists, read a remembrance by the La Mama Theatre club. We will miss him terribly. Maeda died on April 6 of COVID-19 in New York.

Cassegran was president of the French accessories brand Longchamp and served the family-run company for over 60 years. His most iconic work is likely the Le Pliage bag that he designed in 1993. Longchamp described the oversized nylon bag with leather closure flap as the quintessence of his design philosophy: simplicity, relevance and elegance. It also struck a chord with consumers: The bag became the companys best-selling style and has sold 30 million units to date, according to Womens Wear Daily.

[Photo: Longchamp]The introduction of the Le Pliage bag was one of many ways that Cassegran changed the company. He expanded Longchamp to international audiences in the 1950s and supported his father in a variety of roles, from manufacturing to marketing. Cassegran died on November 30 of COVID-19 complications at age 83.

The trailblazing Dominican fashion designer had a career that spanned nearly four decades. Through it all, she maintained an ethical brand with a strong national identity that recalled her native Dominican Republic. Polanco was known for her ability to combine clean lines and drapey silhouettes with details such as amber, horn, pearl, and coral, according to her companys website. She frequently showed at Miami Design Week.

Jenny Polanco [Photo: Johnny Louis/WireImage/Getty Images]You danced to your rhythm and you filled us with pride with every goal you achieved and we will see to it that your name continues to do so, the company wrote in a tribute on Instagram. Polanco died from COVID-19 complications on March 24. She was 62.

John Paul Eberhard founded the University of Buffalos architecture school in 1968. He profoundly shaped the schools design perspective with his adherence to general systems theoryand offered a macro vision of architecture as part of a social system, which required architects to work with engineers and politicians, according to the Architects Newspaper.

Eberhard continued to blend disciplines throughout his career while serving at a range of academic institutions and foundations. He left the University of Buffalo in 1972 and went to the American Institute of Architects Research Corp. before taking over the Building Research Board at the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine with a special interest in sustainable design and urban planning. He joined Carnegie Mellon in 1988 and was the founding president of the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture in 2003. Eberhard died on May 2 at the age of 93 due to COVID-19 complications and congestive heart failure, less than a month after the death of his wife.

The architect, critic, photographer, and thinker shaped the physical landscape in Iraq and offered a new way of thinking about architecture in the region. He melded traditional Iraqi heritage with contemporary forms in a style he called international regionalism. He was the architect behind 100 buildings in the country and became a pivotal cultural figure during Baghdads postwar modernization. He advanced the construction of factories, colleges, and more, according to the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

A telecommunications building in Bagdhad designed by Rifat Chadirji (damaged in the 2003 United States invasion of Iraq). [Photo: AFP/Getty Images]Nasser Rabbat, the director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT, described Chadirji as one of the most influential shapers of modern Baghdad and an original theorist of architecture with a broad historical and cultural breadth. Charirji died in London on April 10 from COVID-19 complications. He was 93.

The renowned Manchester, U.K.-born architect was perhaps best known for the controversial Brutalist-styled Boston City Hall, which he codesigned with Gerhard Kallman. McKinnell launched his own firm, Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles, with Kallmann and Edward Knowles, after securing the massive project in 1962. It was his first building, and the Le Corbusier-inspired structure would become a monument in the Boston landscape for decades to come. He was 26 years old at the time.

Michael McKinnell [Photo: Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe/Getty Images]The firm went on to design major buildings across Boston, including the Hynes Convention Center, the Cambridge branch of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Harvard Law Schools Hauser Hall. In addition to his practice, McKinnell taught at Harvard Graduate School of Design and MITs School of Architecture and Planning; he was also a painter. McKinnell died on March 27 due to COVID-19 complications. He was 84.

The contributions of this legendary graphic designer are so extensive theyre truly hard to capture. Glaser introduced a shift to a more eclectic and illustrative design approach, reminiscent of Art Nouveau, with decorative typefaces more closely associated with counterculture psychedelia, according to Steven Heller in The Moderns. Glaser founded Push Pin Studios with fellow designers Seymour Chwast and Edward Sorel in 1954 and was a cofounder of New York magazine. He was also the designer behind some of todays most iconic logos, including I :heart: NY (see seven of his greatest works here). Glaser died June 26 at age 91. While his death wasnt due to COVID-related complications, his passing was another huge loss in a devastating year.

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To round off our review of 2020, Dezeen looks back at the designers and architects who passed away this year, including Italian designer Enzo Mari, British entrepreneur Terence Conran and Bulgarian artist Christo.

A number of the people we lost in 2020 were victims of coronavirus. They include fashion brand Kenzo'sfounder Kenzo Takada, architect and critic Michael Sorkin, Arper founder Luigi Feltrin and Swiss architect Luigi Snozzi.

The year also saw the passing of Manlio Armellini, one of the founding fathers of the Salone del Mobile, Hidden Art founder Dieneke Ferguson, French interior designer Christian Liaigre and Enrico Astori, co-founder of Italian design brand Driade.

Other creatives who passed away this year include Bill Menking, co-founder of The Architect's Newspaper, Italian architect Vittorio Gregotti, architect Adolfo Natalini and philosopher and architecture writer Roger Scruton.

In December, we also lost graphic designer Martin Lambie-Nairn, fashion designer Pierre Cardin and textile designer Jack Lenor Larsen.

Terence Conran

Iconic British furniture designer Terence Conran, the founder of furniture brand Habitat and London's Design Museum, passed away in September at the age of 88.

Conran was born in 1931 in Kingston upon Thames, UK. He founded Habitat in the 1960s, introducing a number of novel European designs such as flatpack furniture to the UK, and went on to found The Conran Shop in 1973. In 1983, Conran was knighted.

The designer, who established London's Design Museum in 1989 in a former banana warehouse at Butler's Wharf, is remembered as one of the most influential designers of his generation.

"No one has done more to create modern Britain than Terence Conran," said former Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic.

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Christo

Bulgarian artist Christo was best known for wrapping buildings, including the Pont Neuf in Paris and Berlin's Reichstag, in fabric. He began creating the large-scale installations in the 1960s together with his late wife Jeanne-Claude.

She passed away in 2009 but Christo continued to work on the installations including his first major UK sculpture, the London Mastaba on the Serpentine Lake. Christo, who was born in 1935 in Bulgaria and escaped the then communist country to the west in 1957, died of natural causes at the age of 84.

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Enzo Mari

October saw the passing of Enzo Mari. The "giant" of Italian design died at age 88 from complications relating to coronavirus, followed by his wife Lea Vergine just a few hours later.

Mari, who was born in 1932, had a prolific career of 60 years that saw him design products for brands including Artemide, Alessi and Danese. Among them were the Delfina chair, which was designed for Driade in 1974 and won the Italian Compasso d'Oro industrial design award in 1979.

As well as working as a designer, Mari was an author and published the Autoprogettazione, a guide to making your own furniture from boards and nails, in the 1970s.

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Milton Glaser

Milton Glaser, the designer of the "I New York" logo, passed away in June in New York on his 91st birthday. He created the logo, which wasdesigned to create a positive emblem for the then crime-ridden metropolis, in 1977.

Glaser's six-decade career also saw him design posters for Bob Dylan, design logos for DC Comics and co-found the New York Magazine. The life-long New Yorker was born in 1929 in the Bronx and studied at The Cooper Union in New York. In 1954 he co-founded Push Pin, an influential graphics studio, before striking out on his own with Milton Glaser Inc. in 1974.

His recent work includes contributing to the Get Out the Vote initiative ahead of the 2016 US presidential campaign.

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Cini Boeri

Italian architect and designer Cini Boeri, the founder of Cini Boeri Architetti and one of the first post-war female Italian designers to rise to prominence, died in Milan at the age of 96.

She was known for her iconic seating designs and modular furniture, much of which is still in production. Among her work is Strips, a modular seating system for which Boeri won the Compasso d'Oro industrial design award.

Boeri also worked as an architect and completed residential projects as well as offices, shops and exhibition designs. She is survived by her three sons, one of whom is architect Stefano Boeri.

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Kenzo Takada

Kenzo Takada, the Japanese designer who founded fashion brand Kenzo, was one of the creatives taken by coronavirus this year. The designer, who was based in Paris, died from the virus at the age of 81.

His Kenzo brand, founded in 1970 and originally called "Jungle Jap," was a success from the beginning. Rebranded as Kenzo, it opened its flagship Paris store in 1976 and would become influential due to its use of bright colours and Japanese prints and textiles.

One of the defining fashion designers of the 1970s and 80s, Kenzo retired from fashion in 1999 but continued to design costumes for the opera.

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Michael Sorkin

The death of New York-based architect and critic Michael Sorkin shocked the architecture world in March when he passed away at the age of 71 from coronavirus complications.

Sorkin, who was head of his eponymous architecture firm and president of non-profit research group Terreform, was the architecture critic for New York news and culture paper The Village Voice for 10 years.

He was also the director of the graduate programme in urban design at City College of New York (CCNY) and had taught at institutions including London's Architectural Association and the Cooper Union and Harvard University in the US.

"The architecture world has lost a brilliant mind," said Harriet Harriss, dean of New York'sPratt Institute School of Architecture.

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Jan des Bouvrie

Known as the "Grandmaster of the white interior" in his native country, Dutch designer Jan des Bouvrie introduced the white, minimalist interior to the Netherlands.

The designer, who celebrated 50 years in the design industry in 2019, was also known for creating the Cube sofa. As well as furniture, Des Bouvrie designed a number of residences in the Gooi area of Holland. He also worked on collaborations with Dutch mass-market brands such as hardware storeGamma and electronics companyPhilips.

Des Bouvrie was born in 1942 and died at the age of 78 after a long battle with prostate cancer.

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Kansai Yamamoto

Japanese fashion designer Kansai Yamamoto, who was best known for his dramatic costume designs for David Bowie, died at the age of 76 from acute myeloid leukaemia. Yamamoto's career started in 1971 when the designer founded his studio Yamamoto Kansai Company.

Bowie saw his first collection and became a client, showcasing Yamamoto's exuberant designs on stage. In 1992, Yamamoto showed his final collection, but he stayed in the creative industries by becoming an events producer and, later, designing costumes for Elton John and Lady Gaga.

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Henry Cobb

Pei Cobb Freed & Partnersco-founder Henry Cobb passed away in 2020 at the age of 93. Cobb, who was called "one of the great architects of our time" by critic Paul Goldberger, was the architect of Boston's John Hancock Tower.

Other key projects during his career, which spanned almost 70 years, include the Charles Shipman Payson Building at Maine's Portland Museum of Art in 1983 and the Palazzo Lombardia in Milan, which was completed in 2013. At the time of Cobb's death, work was underway at a number of his projects, including the International African American Museum Charleston in South Carolina.

Cobb was born in Boston in 1926 and founded IM Pei together with Chinese-American architect Pei, whom he'd met at Harvard University, and American architect Eason H Leonard in 1955. The firm was renamedPei Cobb Freed & Partnersin 1989.

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Syd Mead

Industrial designer and concept artist Syd Mead was perhaps best known for his visual concept designs for Blade Runner, the 1982 sci-fi film. The American artist was born in 1933 and started his career in vehicle design for Ford Motor Company.

In the 1970s he started working on feature films and created the design for a number of sci-fi movies, including Tron, Johnny Mnemonic and Aliens.

He passed away at the age of 86 in his home in California due to complications from lymphoma cancer. Among those paying tribute to his work were Tesla's Elon Musk, whose Cybertruck is said to have been inspired by Blade Runner.

"Rest in peace Syd Mead. Your art will endure," Musk tweeted.

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