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Eugene/Architecture/Alphabet: O

SW Oregon Architect

Olive Plaza (my photo) This is the next in my Eugene/Architecture/Alphabet series of blog posts, the focus of each being a landmark building here in Eugene. The intent was not to hide the ship but to make it more challenging for enemy submarines to accurately estimate its course and range. Olive Plaza's "camouflage."

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Happenings

SW Oregon Architect

The week was equally busy and eventful for me on both the work and home fronts, so I’ll keep things brief and breezy with today’s blog post. City Hall = The Former EWEB Headquarters I’ve chronicled the interminable and almost comically tragic saga of a new, yet-to-be-realized Eugene City Hall for more than a decade now on this blog.

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Reinvestment without displacement: North Avenue Market

Community Architect Daily

The West side of the Market in 2017 (Photo: Philipsen) The set-up for the new North Avenue Market regime is tailored after similar success stories forged by the Central Baltimore Partnership (CMP) and its $10 million Future Fund loan pool established in 2016. It looks like CPB and its partners are on the right track.

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New Year. New Budget.

EntreArchitect

For the next few weeks, the articles here at the blog, the strategies shared in the newsletter and the interviews published on the podcast will all be about the money matters of our businesses. Inspired by the experiment with My ONE Goal for 2016 , much of what I plan to write about this year is how can we keep things as simple as possible.

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Buildings With Less Embodied Carbon (Part 2 of Sustainability in Construction)

Community Architect

see on this blog: The CLT Revolution ) Concrete, by contrast, looks more and more like a real villain when it comes to the carbon footprint. The AIA journal Architect reports: The American Institute of Steel Construction estimates that 98% of structural steel from demolished buildings is recovered and recycled into new steel products.

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Maryland's Key Bridge Response - A Story of Resolve, Achievement and Reverse Engineering

Community Architect

The estimate for the overall weight of the fallen bridge is 27,000 tons. The cable stayed Corpus Christi Harbor Bridge (rendering) The Texas project started with a feasibility analysis in 2003, an evaluation of alternatives in 2013, received a federal "Record of Decision" in 2016, starting construction in 2017.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

Conceived as a “habitable arc poised on the horizon,” the engineered wood structure was created as a pavilion for the 2016 London Design Festival. Readers of Architizer have recently celebrated Carillo’s work as well, selecting her 2016 project Iturbide Studio as a Popular Winner in the 2018 A+Awards. Sharon Johnston.