BD+C

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

On September 29, the MILL National Training Center opened in Colorado Springs, Colo. The 46,000-sf facility, in a former potato chip factory, is being touted as the first of its kind in the nation to offer high school students, military veterans, teachers, and anyone looking to start a new career training in woodworking manufacturing, cabinetry, and construction.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Where the internet is concerned, people have a “help yourself” attitude. When I first started my site, I will confess that I was ignorant of the nuances of what was, and what wasn’t, off limits. Common sense and my 10th-grade English should have told me all I needed to know, but the internet is HUGE and it is easy to be lazy. And then something happens, someone slaps your wrist and you are either horrified that you’re “that person” or you think that statistica

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EntreArchitect

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

A Structured Monday Leads To A Happy Work Week. As the new year quickly approaches, we hear the annual recommendations for planning our year ahead. Every magazine and blog is running an article about how to plan for 2018. Although stating long term goals and planning for their success is important, I suggest that planning your week, every week, will put you closer to your desired target when this time rolls around again next year.

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BD+C

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The new award-winning Florida Hospital for Women, Orlando Campus will eventually have 336 licensed beds in the patient bed tower and represents the pinnacle of women’s healthcare while overlooking calming and lushly landscaped gardens and grounds while serving women’s health needs through all stages of their lives.

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BD+C

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

3D Printhuset’s “The BOD” (Building On Demand) is a demonstration project in Copenhagen that recently became the first 3D printed building in Europe. The printing began on Sept. 11 and was expected to take a few weeks to complete but ended up taking almost twice the scheduled time.

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BD+C

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has formally adopted RELi, a resilience rating system, meaning that it will soon become a global rating system under the USGBC’s guidance. RELi is patterned on LEED, but prescribes methods for designing more resilient buildings, neighborhoods, and communities. The system was developed in 2012 by design firm Perkins+Will, the Institute for Market Transformation to Sustainability (MTS), and others.

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BD+C

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

There are plenty of design trends that have proven to be short-lived – fading away just as fast as they came onto the scene. It’s the simple, yet luxurious architectural details that tend to stand the test of time because of the ongoing demand for upgraded features. After all, that’s what sets the magnificent apart from the mediocre — and achieving this level of luxury is now easier than ever.

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BD+C

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Updated versions of the Precautionary List and Building Materials Transparency web site were released earlier this month. The Precautionary List, first released in 2008, and the Transparency web site, released in 2011, is intended to foster the movement toward the use of healthier building materials. Both were developed by global design firm Perkins+Will.

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BD+C

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The San Francisco War Memorial Veterans complex—a stunning example of the City Beautiful movement that includes the Veterans Building, the Opera House, and the Memorial Court—was built in 1932 to honor veterans of World War I. The Beaux-Arts Veterans Building, designed by Arthur Brown, Jr., and the Opera House jointly hosted the signing of the United Nations Treaty (1945) and that of the Peace Treaty with Japan (1951).

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NOVEMBER 20, 2017

“Engineering on display.” That was the theme for the 119,500-sf renovation and 197,000 sf of new construction of the University of Calgary’s engineering school. Instead of hiding MEP and structural elements, the design team of Diamond Schmitt Architects and Gibbs Gage Architects exposed them to students’ view, thereby celebrating them as a learning mechanism.

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BD+C

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Located on Summer Street and adjacent to The Silos on Sawyer in Houston’s Washington Avenue Arts District, the Buffalo Bayou Brewing Co.’s new three-story, 28,000 sf brewery and full-service restaurant will offer multi-sensory watching, drinking, and eating experiences. Guests will enter the new building through a 25-foot-tall buffalo-shaped gateway and enter the first-floor production area.

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BD+C

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

As non-vehicular modes of transportation become increasingly popular, cities are working to address the safety needs of all modes of transportation, including vehicles, bikers and pedestrians. While there has been an emphasis on improving safety along corridors, it is equally important to focus on identifying potential safety issues at intersections.

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BD+C

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Lucille is a pizzeria with all the toppings. The flatiron-shaped building, in the downtown Capitol Square section of Madison, Wis., first served as an early 20th-century bank. Two local restaurateurs, Patrick Sweeney and Joshua Berkson, teamed with investor Urban Land Interests to buy the 9,340-sf building—most recently used as the offices of a newspaper—and make it into an hip, environmentally sound pizza parlor.

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