As the population ages, designers of commercial and multifamily applications are incorporating new solutions to meet those demands. Ergonomics can be an integral part of design, manufacturing, and use. Nowhere is this more critical than in bathroom design.
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Every building starts with a concept and a design. Architects are involved at every stage of the process, even after a design has been finalized, helping other building team members through the snares and missteps in the construction process.
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June 19, 2017 | Brenda Radmacher, Partner, Wood, Smith, Henning & Berman
Logical and well-planned steps to effective negotiation.
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June 13, 2017 | NCARB
For the first time since NCARB began collecting demographics data, gender equity improved along e...
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June 07, 2017 | David Malone, Associate Editor
744 LEGO bricks are used to recreate the famous Wright design, including the 1992 addition.
David Baker at his firm’s most recent apartment project, Potrero 1010. Photo: Anne Hamersky Media
June 07, 2017 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
For 35 years, architect David Baker has been a spirited voice for affordable housing, in San Fran...
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June 05, 2017 | NCARB
Architects without a professional degree in architecture can now earn NCARB certification through...
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The 773,000-sf W and Element Hotel, which is scheduled to open in Philadelphia in 2018, will be one of the first projects completed under the combined company formed by the merger of NELSON with Cope Linder Architects. NELSON has also merged with KA Architecture, which with Cope Linder will form a core-and-shell practice within the firm. Image: Cope Linder Architects
June 02, 2017 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
More growth ahead, as NELSON expects to double its workforce and revenue this year.
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June 02, 2017 | BD+C Staff
The open plan concept features a Heineken bar and multiple social zones.
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The Tidewater Joint-Use Library, Virginia Beach, Va., has an angled “daylight harvester” that runs its length to maximize available sunlight. Photo: Jeff Goldberg/ESTO, courtesy Carrier Johnson+Culture
May 30, 2017 | C.C. Sullivan, Contributing Editor
To some project teams, “daylighting” means using glass area to admit direct sunlight, period.
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High-security entrance to the new Sandy Hook School, Newtown, Conn. Photo: Katelyn Chapin
May 30, 2017 | C.C. Sullivan, Contributing Editor
Selecting door and window systems for any building project demands a complete articulation of saf...
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May 30, 2017 | Peter Fabris, Contributing Editor
The effort involves combining ASHRAE's Standard 189.1 with the International Green Construction C...
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May 30, 2017 | Peter Fabris, Contributing Editor
New floodplain maps and state code changes loom.
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May 30, 2017 | Peter Fabris, Contributing Editor
There’s disagreement around how much pay regulations add to cost of projects.
Wooster Hall, looking north as sunlight strikes the steps of the atrium, marking solar noon. Photo: © 2016 Tim Hursley
May 30, 2017 | Randolph Croxton, Croxton Collaborative Architects
Success in retrofit projects requires an entirely different mindset than in new construction, wri...
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BIG’s 12 partners. Image: Courtesy of BIG
May 26, 2017 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
Kai-Uwe Bergmann, the firm’s head of global business development, says engineering and urban plan...
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Sean Parham, VP of Product Marketing and Management with Aditazz Photo: Adam Grubb
May 25, 2017 | BD+C Staff
BD+C’s inaugural AEC innovation conference, Accelerate Live! (May 11, Chicago), featured...
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May 23, 2017 | David Malone, Associate Editor
The installation will showcase 200 years worth of unrealized Big Apple projects via original draw...
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May 11, 2017 | BD+C Staff
BD+C's inaugural Accelerate Live! innovation conference took place May 11, in Chicago....
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May 10, 2017 | Robert Cassidy, Executive Editor
Novus Residences’ revolutionary e-lofts concept offers tenants a tempting trio of options—‘live,’...
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For the Neshaminy School District in Feasterville, Pa., Spiezle Architectural Group designed the 112,000-sf, two-story Tawanka Elementary School, with 40 K-4th grade classrooms. The building was completed in August 2016. Its Building Team included Raymond & Raymond (food services), Consolidated Engineers (MEP), Harrison-Harnett (SE), and Gilmore Associates (CE). Image: Don Pearse Photographers.
May 09, 2017 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
Now in its seventh decade, the firm expands its portfolio and moves into a larger HQs.
Chicago native Jeanne Gang, the daughter of an engineer, cut her design teeth at OMA/Rem Koolhaas before launching her firm in 1997. Studio Gang’s widely praised exhibits and design portfolio includes a range of buildings, and its recent work has been exploring new typologies and materials. Photo: Studuio Gang
May 09, 2017 | John Caulfied, Senior Editor
Studio Gang gains fans with buildings that unite people and embrace the outside world.
One of Eppstein Uhen Architects’ recent projects was the $30 million expansion and renovation of Menasha High School in Wisconsin, completed in 2015, which remodeled 125,000 sf and added 48,155 sf to the footprint. EUA just did some expanding of its own by acquiring Denver-based Burkettdesign. Image: EUA
May 05, 2017 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
Has architects in 35 states after acquiring Burkettdesign in Denver.
The Indigo Pine House being assembled. Courtesy Clemson University School of Architecture.
May 05, 2017 | David Malone, Associate Editor
Clemson University’s School of Architecture develops a patent-pending construction method that is...
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Ascent Apartments achieved Silver certification in California’s Build It Green program, thanks to such features as LED lighting, Energy Star appliances, garage ventilation fans, water-efficient plumbing fixtures, low-VOC paints, and water-saving native vegetation and landscape irrigation. All photos: Stephen Schafer | Schaf Photo
May 03, 2017 | Pat Curry, Contributing Editor
An award-winning rental complex takes its design cues from its historic location in Silicon Valle...
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Amenities like the hotel quality lobby and billiards room distinguish the College & Crown, New Haven, Conn., developed by Centerplan with interiors by Carlin & Company. Photo courtesy Centerplan
May 02, 2017 | C.C. Sullivan, Contributing Editor
This AIA CES course features seven novel approaches developers and Building Teams are taking to r...
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May 01, 2017 | Steelcase Health and BD+C Staff
Hospital rooms are often not designed to accommodate extended stays for anyone other than the pat...
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April 27, 2017 | NCARB
New data from NCARB reveals that while the number of architects remains consistent, practitioners...
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Package center at The Frasier, Arlington, Va., designed by KTGY Architecture, comes with its own trashcan plus tabletop. Photo: courtesy KTGY Architecture
April 26, 2017 | David Malone, Associate Editor
Package delivery centers provide order and security for the mountains of parcels piling up at apa...
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Photos: Jorge Gera/Luxury Living Chicago (above); Property Markets Group (below)
April 26, 2017 | Robert Cassidy, Executive Editor
Chicago’s newest multifamily development features an iconic CTA car on its amenity deck.
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April 26, 2017 | David Malone, Associate Editor
Despite currently being under construction, the building is the center of an ongoing lawsuit file...
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