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Gerkan Marg & Partners – gmp architects

e-architect

Von Gerkan was co-founder of the gmp Foundation and of the Academy for Architectural Culture (aac). Therefore, our work as university professors and in the gmp Foundation was particularly important to us. The architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) have been awarded the contract to design the new Kunsthalle Mannheim.

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Star Tracks

Landscape Architecture Magazine

a community development nonprofit that has owned the house since 2006, to design an experience of “physical empathy” into the land, Schwartzberg says. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 and proclaimed a Cleveland landmark in 2006. Platten Contracting Company, North Royalton, Ohio. Contractor R.

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Part 2: Reanimating Woodward Avenue's Street-cars: The M1 Rail Project

A Detroit Architect's Journal

The remainder of the construction funding is pledged by civic and philanthropic groups, including $35 million from the Kresge Foundation and $9 million from the Downtown Development Authority. A second contract for six streetcars will be released later this year. Streetcars of Desire ", Model D, April 4, 2006. "

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The Butterfly Effect

Landscape Architecture Magazine

By Anjulie Rao / Photography by Sahar Coston-Hardy, Affiliate ASLA Volunteers and staff from the Tamir Rice Foundation greet visitors at the garden’s unveiling. She remembered Austin Allen, ASLA, a Black, Cleveland-born landscape architect whom she met when she first moved to the city in 2006. BUDDIE CONTRACTING, CLEVELAND.

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A Simple Sales System for Small Firm Architects

EntreArchitect

After 7 years of slow consistent growth, in 2006 Fivecat Studio hit a plateau. When a client calls (some clients initiate the process with an email, but most start with a telephone call), I use a, Client Qualification Form (available as part of our EntreArchitect Foundations: Forms and Checklists Package ) to guide our conversation.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

Tellingly, the idea to cofound the studio came while Bordas and her partner were working together at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, an experience where the paradoxical proximity and distance between the world of design and engineering was attenuated. Right: Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia; images via Yale School of Architecture and ANTIQUES.

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Australia moves to ban engineered stone due to silicosis danger

Deezen

To contract the disease, people need to be exposed to high levels of silica over an ongoing period through, for example, drilling or cutting silica-containing material without protection. But since 2006 we started to see rolling in one patient after another, and very severe cases that needed lung transplantation.