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Back to the Garden

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Among the items they turned up: a cooking pot, a glass milk bottle cap, and part of a Scotch plaid-patterned picnic basket set, not to mention several crushed Budweiser cans whose metal tab design dates them to the Woodstock era. Today, rows of trees and a building devoted to grounds maintenance impede historic views.

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A Simple Sales System for Small Firm Architects

EntreArchitect

When we present our initial schematic designs to our client, we are selling. After 7 years of slow consistent growth, in 2006 Fivecat Studio hit a plateau. We worked hard, designed projects that people talked about and were well known in our market. It’s as simple as that. We need to make some changes.

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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. Frida Escobedo. to live among the cherry blossoms and historical monuments.