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Building Information Modeling (BIM) Is a Given By improving accuracy and efficiency in the design ph ase, BIM processes increase productivity and combat shrinking profit margins. On this, the AEC industry is pretty much in agreement. Three quarters of design professionals report a positive ROI on their BIM investment, with a higher return correlated to a…
Design professionals like you are delivering projects in ways that are evolving. Just look at the pr ojects you’ve done in recent years. Most likely, you’ve increased the number of projects completed using alternative project delivery requirements such as joint ventures, design-build and integrated project delivery (IPD). At the same time, firms are working on a…
Central to many of this year’s projects is the theme of sustainability, which speaks to the desire o f adventurers to travel in a green fashion.
From the industrial lofts in Bushwick to the enclaves of Victorian and Queen Anne houses in Ditmas P ark, there’s no part of the world quite like Brooklyn. So when Temple, Texas–based Wilsonart, an engineered surfaces company, was looking around for inspiration for a fresh line of laminates, the Wilsonart Design Team and eight select designers…
Teton Village, WY, United States
Inspired by Auguste Perret and the masters of the exposed-concrete architecture philosophy known as béton brut, Randolph Gerner, founding principal of Gerner Kronick + Valcarcel, (GKV) Architects, DPC, has made concrete the cornerstone of his design style. Gerner admires how architects like Perret used concrete to celebrate the structure of buildings above all else —…
Each spring for the last 46 years, architects, designers and future homebuyers have flocked to Flori da’s Marion County Parade of Homes — where dozens of newly constructed model houses await — to get a glimpse of what’s new and trending in residential design. This year, two homes in particular attracted buzz not only for their…
Eliel and Eero Saarinen (above) made the leap from Scandinavian modernist darlings to mid-century Am erica tastemakers.
“Let’s crank some metal,” reads the large mural on a factory wall at Chemetal, the Easthampton, Mass achusetts–based manufacturer of metal designs and laminates. Walk around the plant and you’ll see people wearing T-shirts and hoodies emblazoned with the same saying. “It’s fun, but it’s also what we do here,” says Geoff Schaefer, Creative Director and…