L² Design

JULY 30, 2020

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BD+C

JULY 30, 2020

Circa Resort & Casino, located in Las Vegas, is set to open on Oct. 28. The 25-story, adults-only facility will feature 777 rooms, a two-story casino, six temperature-controlled pools, the largest pool amphitheater in the country, the largest sports book in the world, and, something guests in today’s world will be especially interested in, extensive contactless technology and services.

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Technology Technology 122

Life of an Architect

JULY 27, 2020

Being an Architect is hell. I've said it before and a lot of you have agreed with me (the smart ones typically). While I think it's one of the best jobs you can have, being an architect can complicate other aspects of your life, aspects that "regular" people can blissfully go about their lives completely, and at times, blissfully unaware. I am in full-blown renovation at my house at the moment, and I am either a genius or a complete lunatic for choosing this time to tackle the work.

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Wolf Architects

JULY 30, 2020

Good design is not exclusive to those with deeper pockets. Just drive around some of our more affluent suburbs and you will find 90% of those multi-million dollar mansions rather grotesque. Good design requires: Knowledge & Skill Experience & Wisdom Intelligence & Artistry Common sense & Care A new beautiful home is no simple undertaking – enter our studio with music blasting.

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The Architect's Desktop

JULY 31, 2020

File this one under, "Just because you can, does not mean you should." A colleague had called my attention to the fact that, in Windows 10, you are allowed to use emojis in file names. (Press the Window key +. to call up a dialog that allows you to select one.) I was pretty sure AutoCAD would have a problem with that, but I was surprised to find that I was able to create a file called ??.

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DC By Design

JULY 30, 2020

Following along in our series of how designers are managing through this pandemic, I had to devote an entire post to. Iantha Carley. Just like everyone else, we found ourselves with more time on our hands once the pandemic-fused shutdown began. Some of us have binged on NetFlix (don’t judge), others have read War & Peace (?!), and yet others have taken to Instagram Live to see friends and industry peers chat about life from the living room.

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Archmark

JULY 28, 2020

Turn local expertise into a marketing advantage for your firm! How many architecture firms are located in your state or your city? As a local architecture firm, setting your firm apart from the competition and attracting the right clients and projects can be a serious challenge. What can you do to capitalize on your experience and local knowledge as an architect and position your firm to benefit from — and grow with — the trends and needs in your community and your state?

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Ronen Bekerman

JULY 28, 2020

MAXTREE released a new, garden oriented collection. 3D Plant Models Vol 60 is a collection of high-quality common garden plant 3D models for architectural visualization. Includes 10 species, total of 60 models. All models are ready for Forest Pack Pro library and GrowFX origin files and come as FBX and MAX files ready for V-Ray and Corona Renderer. These models are available for 3DS Max 2014 and above, includes GrowFX original, FBX, 3DS Max format, supports V-Ray, Corona Renderer , Scanline rend

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BD+C

JULY 27, 2020

The $92 million reconstruction of the St. Petersburg Municipal Pier has completed. Dubbed the Pier District, the 26-acre project includes a park, a 1,400-foot pier, a beach, restaurants, shops, artwork, interactive experiences, and entertainment and education areas. Other project components include a custom-built, million-dollar playground; an interactive splash pad; a tilted lawn; the Spa Beach Pavilion; the Marketplace with its Solar Shade Structures and Market Stalls; the 35,000-sf pier plaza

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Applying Technology to Architecture

JULY 25, 2020

It is common to have depressed areas of a concrete floor slab of a building and you want to be able to represent this accurately in a Revit model. This may be in the middle area of a large floor slab as a containment area or the edge of a floor slab under an overhead […].

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BD+C

JULY 29, 2020

The City of Angels continues to be the City of Hotels. Los Angeles is expected to add 14 hotels with nearly 3,100 rooms in the second half of 2020, and a total of 50 hotels with 10,436 rooms in the next four years, according to the TopHotelProjects construction database. Of those 50 hotels, 33 will be in the four-star category, and 17 will be in the five-star designation.

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BD+C

JULY 30, 2020

Brick-and-mortar retailers, already gasping for air under pressure from ecommerce, were dealt a critical blow by the spread of the coronavirus that forced most stores and restaurants to close, or at best operate as carryout- or delivery-only providers.

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BD+C

JULY 29, 2020

The P.R. Mallory Building in Indianapolis was once where the Duracell battery was invented and patented. Vacant for decades, the 100-year-old building has been jolted back to life through an adaptive reuse project that converted the facility into new homes for the STEM-focused public charter school Purdue Polytechnic High School and Paramount Englewood Middle School.

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

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BD+C

JULY 27, 2020

Analysts at Lodging Econometrics (LE) report that at the close of the second quarter of 2020, the total U.S. hotel construction pipeline stands at 5,582 projects/687,801 rooms, down a mere 1% by projects and rooms, Year-Over-Year (YOY). Remarkably, despite some project cancelations, postponements, and delays, there has been minimal impact on the U.S. construction pipeline.

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BD+C

JULY 28, 2020

1. $92 million reconstruction of St. Petersburg Municipal Pier completes (BD+C) . "The $92 million reconstruction of the St. Petersburg Municipal Pier has completed. Dubbed the Pier District, the 26-acre project includes a park, a 1,400-foot pier, a beach, restaurants, shops, artwork, interactive experiences, and entertainment and education areas.".

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BD+C

JULY 29, 2020

Since completing construction, the 58-story Millennium Tower has become San Francisco’s most infamous building. .

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BD+C

JULY 29, 2020

The design and construction outlook for Multifamily Housing is again moving in the right direction, according to the PSMJ Resources’ Quarterly Market Forecast (QMF). . After a first quarter that saw the multifamily market suffer its lowest level of proposal activity in nearly a decade, PSMJ’s quarterly survey of architecture, engineering, and construction firm executives reported a +7% net plus/minus index (NPMI), up from the -2% recorded in the first three months of the year.

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BD+C

JULY 27, 2020

“I believe that one can never leave home,” writes Maya Angelou, “I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and dragons of home under one’s skin, at the extreme corners of one’s eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.”. Home is a powerful thing. It’s the place that forms you, a guiding set of relationships, memories, and experiences that, for better or worse, make you who you are.

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BD+C

JULY 30, 2020

1. San Francisco’s Millennium Tower fix approved, moving forward (BD+C) . "After a two-year permitting and approval process, a fix is finally set to move forward with SGH as the engineer-of-record. SGH evaluated whether the building required structural reinforcement to restore its integrity or seismic resistance to original levels.".

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BD+C

JULY 29, 2020

1. CallisonRTKL to design one of the world’s first net-zero airports (BD+C) . "Guadalajara Airport Terminal 2 will be a 30 gate, 1.2 million-sf terminal that places the passenger experience at the center of the design. It will also be one of the first net-zero airports in the world.".

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BD+C

JULY 29, 2020

Several jurisdictions are stepping up enforcement of COVID-19 rules on construction sites. Construction companies that don’t follow guidelines for social distancing, hand-washing, and other coronavirus-related precautions face court action, fines, and possible shutdowns. Many cities and counties have given 30-day grace periods, but some building departments say they will now crack down on scofflaws.

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BD+C

JULY 31, 2020

This week on The Weekly, BD+C editors spoke with leaders from Kaiser + Path, Page, and RCLCO Real Estate Advisors on three timely topics: . • State of the market for mass timber construction. • Why demand for microhospitals is growing, and where they make sense. • 5 key building sectors to watch amid COVID-19. WATCH THE SHOW ON DEMAND.

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BD+C

JULY 30, 2020

In the recently released quarterly United States Construction Pipeline Trend Report from Lodging Econometrics (LE), the franchise companies with the largest construction pipelines at the end of the second quarter of 2020 are Marriott International with 1,487 projects/195,952 rooms, followed by Hilton Worldwide with 1,395 projects/160,078 rooms, and InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) with 920 projects/94,499 rooms.

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BD+C

JULY 30, 2020

The Institute for Market Transformation ( IMT ) has acquired the Energy-Efficient Codes Coalition (EECC). Established by the Alliance to Save Energy in 2007, the EECC is composed of building sector advocates committed to improving the stringency of the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC). Their goal is to achieve net-zero construction standards by 2050.

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BD+C

JULY 28, 2020

The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) recently adopted a climate emergency declaration. The declaration includes a commitment to working toward an ambitious goal of delivering carbon-neutral electricity by 2030. “The declaration recognizes the immediate risks to our community and demands bold action to achieve results,” according to a SMUD news release.

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