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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. Many of these will be familiar to most who live here but there are likely to be a few buildings that are less so. Olive Plaza's "camouflage."

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When Weather Becomes a Design Challenge

Community Architect

When a building floods or is torn apart by a hurricane or consumed by fire, or rendered almost useless by weeks without electric power, it used to be "force major" or "an act of god". The question is now: What can we do to make our buildings, towns, cities and our infrastructure withstand the new type of destructive weather?

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How to Find Architecture Clients: Five Marketing Ideas for your Architecture Firm

Archmark

Locate Clients Looking for Architects with These Five Architectural Marketing Ideas “How do I attract ideal clients and projects for my architecture firm?” However, what we are saying is that relying on hope marketing for all your future business can put your firm at grave risk. How Do Architects Attract Better Clients?

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Our First Architecture Project [#ArchiTalks]

EntreArchitect

This post is my contribution to an international blog series called #ArchiTalks. When I was 13, I started doing the same. That was when I knew I would someday own my own business. The complex was a former brick masonry mill building and every unit was different. I’m a born entrepreneur… quite literally.

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The Rise and Fall of Baltimore's HarborPlace

Community Architect

The layers of the open space that is the Inner Harbor: The water forms the innermost frame, the promenade the next, then the pavilions, the streets and finally the buildings on the far side of the street. The issue is one of balance, location and quality. Public space is not just a network of streets and spaces among buildings.

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Building with Structural Insulated Panels. or SIPs | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Home / Construction / Building with Structural Insulated Panels … or SIPs Building with Structural Insulated Panels … or SIPs Bob Borson — March 31, 2014 — 75 Comments We are building the CHouse Modern using Structurally Insulated Panels, or SIPs as they are commonly referenced.

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Solar Protocol network explores the potential of a solar-powered internet

Deezen

Solar Protocol involves a series of solar-powered servers, set up in locations across the world's time zones and serving its hosted websites from whichever spot is enjoying the most sunlight. The solar-powered servers are located all over the world, such as this one in Queens, New York. "In Tega Brain: We did also do an open call.

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