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Integrating Services and Environmental Control

SW Oregon Architect

This neglect can be a result of a misalignment of priorities, poor communication among the members of the design team (architects and their engineers too often work in separate silos), or simply a lack of knowledge and experience on the part of the architects. Engineering is not one thing and design another.

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Eugene/Architecture/Alphabet: O

SW Oregon Architect

USS West Mahomet in "dazzle" camouflage, circa 1918 (photo from the Naval History & Heritage Command, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) Olive Plaza is otherwise most notable as an example of a multistory building that utilizes the lift-slab type of structural system.

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This New Zealand Holiday Home Is as Cozy as a Cocoon

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Project Details: Location: Wanaka, New Zealand Architect: Condon Scott Architects / @condonscott Builder: Christie Brothers Building / @christiebrothersbuilding Structural Engineer: Meyer Cruden Engineering Lighting: ECC / @eccnewzealand Interior Design: Condon Scott Architects / @condonscott Joinery: B&M Joinery / @bmjoineryltd Interior Furnishings: (..)

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Blood, Sweat, and Tears: The Birch Fircrest House

SW Oregon Architect

They took full advantage of available software tools, including Ladybug , which combines geometry in Rhino and the parametric interface of Grasshopper with open-source weather data from EnergyPlus to create climate analysis graphics and diagrams. 1) The structural engineer for the house was Jok Ang, PE, SE of MAE Engineering.

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UNStudio wins compotition with Green Spine

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From the outset we worked with a fantastic team of cultural placemakers, sustainability consultants, landscape designers, artists and engineers to achieve a fully integrated design. This multifaceted spine is created by the splitting open of the potential single mass at its core, thereby forming two separate high rise structures.

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A Wood Canopy With Netting Fills Out a Glass-Wrapped New York Apartment

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Like inhabitable diagrams, these installations can be read as two fragments of a 3D-gridded matrix—the timber framework expressing x-, y-, and z- lines of interconnecting spatial relations." Post it here.

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No Architecture inserts "garden folly" into New York duplex apartment

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Wooden structures supporting net hammocks rise up through the two-storey interior of this apartment in New York's West Village , designed by No Architecture. One of the structures aligns with the home's floor plan, while the other is rotated to face the park and the river beyond.