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Article: Safe sustainable shelter: institutional or nonprofit category winner.
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- Environmental Design & Construction
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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The City of Dallas' homeless assistance center, The Bridge, meets the growing concerns of homelessness in Dallas in an environmentally sensitive campus designed by Overland Partners Architects in collaboration with CamargoCopeland Architects, LLP, earning the project an Excellence in Design Award from ED+C. A safe haven and focus for services for more than 6,000 homeless, The Bridge Homeless Assistance Center empowers chronically and newly homeless people to come off the streets and sustain permanent housing in order to live productively.
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