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Secrets of a structural engineer

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Secrets of a structural engineer 0 dbarista Fri, 09/08/2023 - 11:54 Engineers Walter P Moore's Scott Martin, PE, LEED AP, DBIA, offers tips and takeaways for young—and veteran—structural engineers in the AEC industry.

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Thornton Tomasetti CEO and co-founder of Charlie Thornton passes away at 83

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Charlie Thornton, the well-admired structural engineer, co-founder and CEO of Thornton Tomasetti , passed away in early December at the age of 83, according to his firm. The Bronx-born Thornton began his career in the New York offices of Lev Zetlin Associates before pursuing a new venture with Richard Tomasetti after 1977.

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Polysmiths adds Mediterranean texture to Arch House in London

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The studio revamped the existing three-bedroom house in the east London suburb of Wanstead to taking cues the client's childhood home in Gibraltar with a sequence of arches as a nod to the mix of British, Spanish and Moorish architecture found on the peninsula.

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Dubbeldam Architecture + Design sculpts "fluid contours" through renovated Toronto home

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Referencing the client's profession, Dubbeldam Architecture + Design created several more organically shaped elements, including handrails, bathroom basins and the kitchen island. Terracotta tiles are laid in a herringbone pattern across the floor in the entryway, which is separated from the living room by a wooden storage partition.

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OEB Architects adds Italian-informed loft extension to south London house

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A bedroom is located on one side of the loft Baird and Eland kickstarted the design process by asking their clients to compile a mood board of artworks, spaces, objects, details, materials and atmospheres that had caught their attention. The photography is by Taran Wilkhu.

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MAD "cracks open" facade of Denver residential building

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The photography is by Iwan Baan unless otherwise stated.

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Tuckey Design Studio uses concrete ruin as "blank canvas" for Lake Como Villa

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The project's starting point was how to reuse the concrete structure of the old house, which the client wanted to repurpose after it had been left abandoned on the site for over a decade. Its other recent projects include a home in London with a "monastery-like" interior and the renovation of a converted chapel in London.

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