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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June 19, 2017 | Brenda Radmacher, Partner, Wood, Smith, Henning & Berman
Logical and well-planned steps to effective negotiation.
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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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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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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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Lucas Richmond, Senior Media Studio Manager, Gilbane Building Company
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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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 28, 2017 | Kyle Marden, Managing Director, CBRE
Healthcare systems have much to learn from retail. While they have been laser-focused on deliveri...
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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.
Courtesy Chicago Architecture Foundation
April 24, 2017 | David Malone, Associate Editor
Launched with a Kickstarter campaign, the Chicago Architecture Foundation aims to get No Smal...
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The site of the future project. Photo courtesy of Sigurjon Gudjonsson, NYC DOT
April 20, 2017 | David Malone, Associate Editor
The winning team will have $900,000 to design and implement their proposal.
The location of six of the Frank Gehry buildings included in Voyager's Frank Gehry Architecture tour. Courtesy Google Earth.
April 19, 2017 | David Malone, Associate Editor
Google Earth’s new ‘Voyager’ feature allows people to take interactive guided tours.
The plant wall is by CASE and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Courtesy SOM/©Albert Vecerka|Esto.
April 17, 2017 | BD+C Staff
Façades that would make Dr. Seuss smile, living walls, and exterior wall space that doubles as ga...
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The 14,000-sf Shift center, Chicago, focuses on enhancing clients’ physical performance by encouraging better health and nutrition habits. Courtesy Shift
April 13, 2017 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
A new medical facility in Chicago focuses on sustaining its customers’ human performance.
The Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles. A. Zahner fabricated the 308 stainless steel ribbons using its patented ZEPPS process. Photo: ©A. Zahner Co.
April 11, 2017 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
Three firms that specialize in façades that curve, twist, and turn see themselves as artisans of...
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April 10, 2017 | David Malone, Associate Editor
The movie takes a slightly darker tone than previous projects chronicling the starchitect’s rise...
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PlanIt Impact's cloud-based platform is helping CB Properties and Milhaus Development plan a $24.3 million mixed-use building on 27th and Troost Streets in Kansas City, which will include 182 market-rate apartments and 12,000 sf of commercial space. The developers are using this platform to better understand operational costs so tenant occupancy would be more affordable. Image; Planit Impact
April 05, 2017 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
PlanIt Impact's sustainability scoring is based on myriad government and research data.
Lamar Station Classroom for Urban Farming, Lakewood, Colo. Photo: Jesse Kuroiwa
April 03, 2017 | AISC + BD+C Staff
The annual awards program, sponsored by the American Institute of Steel Construction, honors the...
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The 18-story, 350-room Hotel Indigo in downtown Los Angeles, which opens in June, will feature a grand lobby space with a playful design aesthetic that harkens back to the city's storied past, with references to a budding movie industry and the 1920s. Hirsch Bedner Associates designed the hotel. Image: Hotel Indigo
March 09, 2017 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
HKS and HBA even see a demand for hotels catering to “agritourism.”
Denver International Airport (DEN) Hotel and Transit Center. Photo courtesy of Gensler.
February 16, 2017 | BD+C Staff and Gensler
Gensler examines how design will shape the human experience in the next year and beyond.
