BD+C

MAY 21, 2021

Let’s start with an admission: the authors share great memories of hanging out at our local mall with friends in high school. For David, this meant the early 1960s—a couple of years before the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, and malls represented an exciting opportunity to spend time in a place that was all about a shiny future. For Jason, this meant the 1980s—the Age of Aquarius was long gone—and malls had matured into the social heart of the community, a place where everyone spent time.

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Life of an Architect

MAY 20, 2021

I was having a conversation with some academic colleagues the other day and we got on the subject of knowledge versus tools. The basic idea of this chat was about what students should be learning during their architectural education. Which of these two ideas is more important or should take emphasis in the education of students? The post Knowledge versus Tools first appeared on Life of an Architect.

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Nicole Cullinan

MAY 21, 2021

I could never be an existentialist as I don’t believe life is meaningless. Yet I am puzzled by our purpose. The conditions for humanity and our part in place making. We are united and divided by the pendulum that swings between control and chaos. Social mechanisms exerting influence from the culture within which we each exist. Patterns portraying a dichotomy of order, like a beautiful collision.

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Visualizing Architecture

MAY 19, 2021

The 47th Krob Competition has put out a call for entries. Categories include Digital/Hybrid Media, Hand Delineation, Physical Delineation, Travel Sketch, and Animation. The 47th Ken Roberts Memorial Competition (KRob) is the longest-running architectural drawing competition in the world. Students and professionals may submit entries in a number of categories including Digital/Hybrid Media, Physical Delineation, Hand Delineation, Travel Sketch, and Animation category.

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BD+C

MAY 19, 2021

In this exclusive video interview for HorizonTV, BD+C's John Caulfield sits down with two senior living design experts to discuss the latest trends and innovations in the senior living building sector. Alexis Denton, Associate Principal with Perkins Eastman, and Dana Wollschlager, Practice Leader and Partner with Plante Moran Living Forward, also recap the findings from a recent survey of providers, residents, and staff of senior living communities. .

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DesignScape Architects

MAY 17, 2021

The Design Process This week we took one of our potential projects, and posted daily on LinkedIn some of the processes that we take, as architects, to come up with a design. The project is for a proposed estate in a coastal bush site, adjacent the beach, so a very special and sensitive space. Thus, we had to tread lightly, as, on a site like this, any proposal would stir up resistance.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 16, 2021

Story Origins. In the first two articles of this series, Architects as Storytellers and Architects’ Claim to Storyteller Status , we looked at the “Story Origins” of Architecture. We saw that the sculpted frieze of ancient Greek temples was used as a narrative device to honor a god or goddess. It told a story. We claimed this as the basis of describing a building level as a story.

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BD+C

MAY 17, 2021

Many healthcare institutions have invested considerable time re-thinking the use of clinical space to increase capacity for COVID-19 patients. Could this experience be leveraged and scaled to meet a future surge—driven by a pandemic or other extreme emergency events—if considered proactively and at a larger, district scale?

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Urban Design Associates

MAY 17, 2021

When it comes to designing a home, we know that we use some “weird” lingo from time to time. It can be confusing to try and decipher some things that are common for us, but not to homeowners. We do our best to make sure you understand everything, but sometimes we slip in a few architecture terms that just don’t make much sense. . That’s why our next installment of Arizona Architect’s Share is focused on architecture terms!

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Lines on Paper

MAY 17, 2021

Photo of my father taken at my grandparent's house. This was the corner room where my youngest slept. On the 6th of April this year, my father passed away after falling ill to Alzheimer's several years ago. The house maid had woken up and found him gone, she rang my sister who texted us at 1:40 a.m. ' he's really gone' were her words which I take to mean that he had left us earlier and this time it was final.

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The Architect's Guide

MAY 17, 2021

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BD+C

MAY 17, 2021

Carolina Gaming Arena, the University of North Carolina ’s (UNC) first esports facility, was recently completed in March. The gaming arena is housed in the lowest level of Craige Hall, which is centrally located on UNC’s campus. At night, the glow of the space spills across the adjacent lawn, acting as a natural advertisement of the space to many students passing by one of the campus’s main thoroughfares.

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Shades of Grey

MAY 16, 2021

Sometimes coincidences can guide is into doing things we probably should have got around to long ago. A few days ago I was at the supermarket buying some reflective tape to scare away pigeons from my balcony and I came across some acrylic paints and a small stretched canvas. I have been thinking about ordering these online for a while now, so I bought them.

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Speaker: Donna Laquidara-Carr, PhD, LEED AP, Industry Insights Research Director at Dodge Construction Network

In today’s construction market, owners, construction managers, and contractors must navigate increasing challenges, from cost management to project delays. Fortunately, digital tools now offer valuable insights to help mitigate these risks. However, the sheer volume of tools and the complexity of leveraging their data effectively can be daunting. That’s where data-driven construction comes in.

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Architect on Tour

MAY 16, 2021

An important, extremely topical issue, which has been pushed into the background in times of the Corona pandemic, is homelessness. Anyone of us who thinks to master and to survive this exceptional situation within his possibilities and in his environment, even to emerge strengthened from this situation, overlooks the fact that there is an increasing number of people worldwide who had less possibilities or luck.

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Raj Patel

MAY 20, 2021

The Indian government has done all kinds of things in the name of modernisation. To get food rations and social grants, for instance, Indians have to submit to a state of the art biometric scanning system. When farmworkers fingertips are rubbed away through manual labour, they render themselves unidentifiable to machines, and are denied benefits. Witness, progress.

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BD+C

MAY 20, 2021

A new 240-bed addition will rise on the oldest and largest veterans’ home in the country in Yountville, Calif. The California Veteran Home, Skilled Nursing Facility and Memory Care project will provide long-term care for senior and disabled veterans, including those with dementia, Alzheimer’s, and traumatic brain injuries. . .

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Portland Architecture

MAY 21, 2021

PSU assistant professor Laila Seewang ( Portland State University ). BY BRIAN LIBBY. . This spring, Portland State University's School of Architecture has been hosting an online series of urban design conversations between designers in Portland and other cities called "Infrastructure of the Public City," addressing "both the large-scale systems and ideas that organize cities as well as concrete, contemporary urban design problems and projects," as the PSU website describes.

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BD+C

MAY 18, 2021

The Beam on Farmer, a Class A office building in downtown Tempe, Ariz., has broken ground. The five-story, 184,000-sf office building will be the first in the state to feature exposed Cross Laminated Timber construction as the primary structural system.

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BD+C

MAY 18, 2021

First-quarter proposal activity for multifamily housing added to prior quarter gains, reaching a near-record Net Plus/Minus Index (NPMI) of 71%. Multifamily topped the four other housing submarkets, though all performed well. . The first three months of the year saw housing lead all 12 major markets in the PSMJ Resources Quarterly Market Forecast survey of architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms. .

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BD+C

MAY 19, 2021

Continuing its meteoric rebound, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) recorded its third consecutive month of positive billings, according to a new report today from The American Institute of Architects (AIA). AIA’s ABI score for April rose to 57.9 compared to 55.6 in March (any score above 50 indicates an increase in billings). Neither score has been achieved since before the Great Recession.

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BD+C

MAY 20, 2021

The general contractor Balfour Beatty has been working with the San Diego Unified School District for 13 years. Over the past five years alone, the firm has completed five projects for the District, with number six currently under construction. On all improvement and construction projects, the District has a mandatory goal of 50% participation by emerging business enterprises, or EBEs.

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BD+C

MAY 20, 2021

The GDP, which in 2020 contracted for the first time in 11 years, is expected to grow by 6.5% in 2021, and keep growing (albeit at a slower pace) in the proceeding two years. In 2021, the U.S. should recover about 60% of the 9.42 million jobs it lost last year, and pick up another 5.1 million jobs over the following two years. Consequently, the unemployment rate is expected to recede to 4% by the end of 2023, close to where it was pre-pandemic.

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BD+C

MAY 18, 2021

Grumman|Butkus Associates, a firm of energy efficiency consultants and sustainable design engineers, recently released the results of its 2020 Hospital Energy and Water Benchmarking Survey, focusing on healthcare facilities’ resource usage trends and costs for calendar year 2019.

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BD+C

MAY 17, 2021

The New School in Sundby, set to become Denmark’s first Ecolabel primary school, has broken ground in the Lolland-Falster region. The project has ambitious goals for both sustainability parameters as well as local learning and community engagement.

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BD+C

MAY 20, 2021

Can sports-themed restaurants make their crowded and cacophonous “wing nights” more family friendly? Cincinnati-based sports restaurant chain Buffalo Wings & Rings (BW&R) answered that question affirmatively with a full redesign of its 4,180-sf location in Milford, Ohio, where the company last year partnered with NELSON Worldwide to create a new wing-night experience that accommodates a variety of customers.

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