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Using Locking Hardware to Support Code-Compliant Safer School Design

BD+C

Schlage Safer school design encompasses many elements of the built environment—from the property line to classroom door openings. Often cited as one of the more difficult elements of the built environment to specify—there is even an entire blog dedicated to answering common questions around these systems.

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Toward a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship

Brandon Donnelly

There are tech workers that are the result of foreign companies opening satellite offices to take advantage of the weak Canadian dollar and our more enlightened immigration policies. The former situation is not at all bad, but a lot of the value is going to accrue outside of the country. Think Shopify.

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The promising new faces of the Middle Branch

Community Architect Daily

Together with the previously complete Sagamore Distillery and its restaurant now being updated for a new tenant and to be open soon, there are areas where one can feel the beginnings of a new urban section, even though one has to still traverse wastelands to get there. With the below photo-tour one can update the impressions from the sofa.

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Three Monographs

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

A week from today I'll have a year-capping roundup of my favorites from the many books featured on this blog in 2023. But reviewing a book or exhibition or some other creation is not about taste and personal preference; it's about judging the thing on its own merits and determining how good or bad it is relative to similar creations.

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023: The Fun Show

Life of an Architect

Sometimes bad things happen, and it impacts you in a way that you weren’t anticipating – takes you out of your normal head space. Since I don’t like feeling bad, we’re going to do something about it. For almost a year now I have wanted to record a podcast episode that was centered around a more “life” centric theme.

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To Delete or Not To Delete. | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Home / Blog / To Delete or Not To Delete … To Delete or Not To Delete … Bob Borson — April 3, 2014 — 91 Comments There are times when I am a glass is half-full sort of person and there are times when I am a glass-half-full-needs-to-be-poured-over-your-head type person. I don’t delete comments.

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What should David Bramble do with HarborPlace?

Community Architect Daily

As one example, we will take a look at New York's South Street Seaport mall which opened in 1985 as another Rouse Marketplace Festival Hall designed by Ben Thompson. The complex opened in 2018. In this case, the City owns the land, the buildings are private). It, too, went on the skids, just faster.