Adam Wiese
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AIA Nebraska 2025 People’s Choice Interior Architecture Winner: Grundy Hall Health Science Center
All images courtesy of RDG Proud to share that RDG Planning and Design Grundy Hall Health Science Center received a 2025 People’s Choice Award from AIA Nebraska. As part of the collaborative team at RDG Planning and Design, I worked alongside an excellent group of designers and consultants. Grateful for the collaboration and the chance to contribute…
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Adam Wiese Named to World Architecture Festival’s 40 Under 40 North America
text courtesy of RDG : Recognized as an emerging leader in architecture, RDG’s Adam Wiese has been named to the World Architecture Festival’s 40 Under 40 North America list. RDG Planning & Design is proud to announce that Adam Wiese, AIA, NCARB, has been named to the World Architecture Festival’s 40 Under 40 North America 2025 list. Now…
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Adam Wiese – Named North American 40 under 40 Architect by World Architecture Festival and Architect’s Newspaper
Truly honored to be included among the North American 40 under 40 by the World Architecture Festival and Architect’s Newspaper. Thank you @worldarchfest and @archpaper for the opportunity and I can’t wait to meet the other 39 talented architects in Miami! I am incredibly fortunate to be part of such a thoughtful, supportive, and creative team @rdgusa and for the amazing…
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Architizer Vision Award – Finalist: Kaneko Rammed Earth Sculpture Park
I am excited to share “Kaneko Rammed Earth Sculpture Park” was selected as a 2025 @architizer Vision Award finalist in the Vision for Materials category. This project is a testament to RDG Planning & Design @rdgusa and The Kaneko @thekaneko summer camp partnership and part of our ongoing research into biogenic materials. It would not have been possible without their…
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Concrete + Acrylic _ Study 2
18″ x 36″ mock up furthering exploration into casting acrylic in concrete precast sandwich panels. 2″ acrylic rods were post installed using epoxy. 3D printed knock knockout tubes were fabricated to allow for the post install of the translucent rods.
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Concrete + Acrylic _ Study 1
Initial concept model mock up for an undisclosed project. Exploring materiality of concrete and the translucent properties if acrylic rods in precast sandwich configuration.
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Cairn (Cárn) 1 to 15
“The work delves into the ancient process of rammed earth construction, where layers of soil are compacted within formwork. Each piece is crafted from earth, supplemented by recycled crushed brick and lime. Through a meticulous process loose earth is transformed into tangible objects. Employing a single-sourced earth blend generates a monolithic appearance, concealing the individual…
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8×8 Rammed Earth Studies #1,3,4
Initial 8″ x 8″ rammed earth study models. exploring different mix types with Platte River soil. Attempting to iterate through different mix compositions. While the tests had promising outcomes ultimately the soil once suspended in water proved to have too much organic matter to be viable for long term use and eventual compression testing. Test…
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a new beginning _ that starts with a sad story
Why am I researching rammed earth, and why now? Materials have always been a focus for me since joining the design profession. In college, I was immersed in theory, sociology, and psychology of digital and physical space, but I never addressed the physical materials that composed the space; hence, in my past works, they were…
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ASLA Central States Chapter Merit Award: Durham Outpatient Center – Rooftop Plaza
All images courtesy of RDG Proud to share that RDG Planning and Design Durham Outpatient Center – Rooftop Plaza, received a Merit Award from the ASLA Central States Chapter. Link to Website As part of the collaborative team at RDG Planning and Design, I worked alongside an excellent group of designers and consultants. Grateful for…
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Center for Research and Museum
“Such an architecture is an aleatory form of “planning” life itself: in the fantastic juxtaposition of its activities each of the club’s floors is a separate installment of an infinitely unpredictable intrigue that extols the complete surrender to the definite instability of life in the Metropolis. (Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan (New…
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Architizer A+ Finalist: SAY IT LOUD – Nebraska
SAY IT LOUD – Nebraska was selected as a finalist for Architizer A+Award in the Galley & Exhibition Spaces category Link to RDG announcement: https://rdgusa.com/news/rdg-in-the-media-say-it-loud Link to Architizer Project : https://architizer.com/projects/say-it-loud-nebraska/
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Stories From Beyond “The Drop” Arcanum Island
A BREIF HISTORY OF ARCANUM ISLAND The earliest reporting of Arcanum Island dates back to 1918 on the tail end of WWI when it was discovered by a British Empire ship that had been separated from the fleet during a storm. It was said that upon its discovery the islands landscape looked as if “a…
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SAY IT LOUD – NEBRASKA
All images courtesy of RDG As part of the collaborative team at RDG Planning and Design, I worked alongside an excellent group of designers and consultants. Grateful for the collaboration and the chance to contribute to this project. Project Description: The goal of the initiative is to highlight minority groups of professionals working in the…
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Derive of the un_urban
“It would be opportunistic if I said either, I told you so, or, basically, you can now tell that [cities] are actually really dangerous environments to live in,” adding, “I think that it’s simply slightly reinforcing the argument that it’s incredibly important to begin to look not necessarily away from cities but at the neglect of the…
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Urban Holistic Health “Aging in the City”
What happens after your “best days” are behind you? After you have become old and wise? Once you have lived a life of connection both digitally and physically. Where do you go to live the latter years of your life? As you age how do you interact with the built environment? How does it interact…














