Design Thoughts Architects

JANUARY 19, 2022

10 Best Criteria to Know the Estimation of Your Dream House. Before you start building your house, you should estimate some important elements like affordability, land availability, legal formalities, location, house construction cost, and time till you put the final brick in the wall.

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Archinect

JULY 29, 2022

“Historically, spec buildings have been risky, but in a market environment like we are in now, where there is a race to get goods to people faster and to manufacture more things, the flexibility of the spec space becomes an asset, not a liability.”

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Archinect

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Gensler Principal Steven Paynter shares an update announcing important statistical findings related to his firm’s work surrounding the adaptive reuse and conversion of office buildings worldwide. The firm shares that an estimate of only 25% of buildings (from Gensler's original assessment) are suitable for conversion.

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Deezen

MARCH 7, 2024

Named Tor Alva , or White Tower, the building will become the world's "tallest 3D-printed structure" once complete in Mulegns later this year, according to Hansmeyer and Dillenburger. Its columns will be made from 3D-printed concrete Tor Alva will sit atop an existing building that was formerly used as a blacksmith's shop.

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

As you complete puzzles, you build puzzle-building habits. The same could be said for creating construction cost estimates — the more you frequently you do them, the more efficient you’ll become. Here are tips and tricks for three common methods of estimating. . Tips and Tricks for Manual Estimates.

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Budgetary estimates are often an overflowing well of frustration for building owners and their representatives. Often, budgeting mistakes can be traced back to construction costs. Budget miscues are entirely avoidable if building owners and reps stick to the basics and follow time-tested estimating methods. .

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Construction of what would be the world's longest suspension bridge, connecting Sicily and mainland Italy over the Strait of Messina, could begin this year after the final design recently gained approval. The controversial bridge is estimated to cost approximately $5 billion and take around seven years to build.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

With the right shapes, he argues, we could create high-rise buildings with far less concrete and, in many cases, almost no steel reinforcements whatsoever. Reducing the amount of concrete used in construction would have a major impact on climate change. Photo by J. Kurt Schmidt. Used with permission from Block Research Group.

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Archinect

JANUARY 9, 2023

Now the algorithm he spearheaded collapses the survey process — which must be conducted to determine whether a commercial building can be turned into apartments — from months to hours. And then, actually, the demand for the remaining office buildings goes up, because you're creating scarcity by taking some out of the market."

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Deezen

JUNE 5, 2024

US studio Olson Kundig Architects has shaded a boxy, glass office complex with aluminium screens near Atlanta's BeltLine and included a glass-clad volume to connect to buildings and frame the pedestrian paths. We wanted to make the building porous, which in turn helped to drive the form," said design principal Kirsten Ring Murray.

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Architecture Ideas

OCTOBER 23, 2023

It’s an exciting journey to build your own house, serving as a reflection of you. From planning to on-site construction, a lot goes behind building a house. Let’s understand every phase of the construction with a step-by-step guide on how to build a house. Let’s see how to build your own house.

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Budgetary estimates are often an overflowing well of frustration for building owners and their representatives. Often, budgeting mistakes can be traced back to construction costs. Budget miscues are entirely avoidable if building owners and reps stick to the basics and follow time-tested estimating methods. .

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Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2024

Design studio HGA has completed a pair of educational facilities , Mills Hall and Gibbons Center, that are among the first "commercially scaled mass-timber buildings" in the state of Maine. Both buildings also have mass timber frames, wooden interior finishes and brick facades.

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The Architecture Designs

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Technological advancements have constantly redefined how people conceptualize and construct buildings of all kinds. Utilizing their videography toolkits to more technical ends, construction and design firms of this day and age have been making them a part of their remote monitoring, goal-tracking, and safety maintenance processes. .

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Archinect

MAY 22, 2023

Researchers estimated the weight of all of New York City’s buildings to be around 842 million tons. But to find the areas more vulnerable to sinking — or, as they call it in more scientific terms, “subsidence” — a key factor to consider was the type of soil beneath the buildings. millimeters.

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Archinect

JUNE 1, 2022

Citing the climate crisis, the Los Angeles City Council voted Friday to ban most gas appliances in new construction, a policy that’s expected to result in new homes and businesses coming equipped with electric stoves, clothes dryers, water heaters and furnaces.

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Deezen

JANUARY 3, 2023

Founded in 2020 by Loughborough University architecture lecturer Matyas Gutai, Water-Filled Glass (WFG) aims to use patented technology to make heavily glazed buildings significantly more sustainable. Water-Filled Glass estimates its system can reduce energy bills by around 25 per cent. Water House 2.0 and Water House 2.0

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Architects Orange have developed a proposal for Oklahoma City featuring what could become the " the tallest building in the United States and currently fifth tallest in the world. Oana Stănescu is the curator for the Beta 2024 Timișoar.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The World Bank estimates the total physical damage in Turkey to be approximately $34.2 All told, there were at least 173,000 structures destroyed or damaged across Turkey as a result of the outmoded building codes and blatant corruption within the construction industry. The city centre of Antakya [.]

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Archinect

JANUARY 30, 2023

Plans call for the construction of three buildings featuring approximately 840,000 square feet of offices, educational, cultural, and commercial space. Current estimates are for an eight-year construction timeline.

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Santa Cruz Architect

MARCH 7, 2022

Straw-bale construction is a building method that uses bales of straw (commonly wheat, rice, rye and oats straw) as structural elements, building insulation, or both. This construction method is commonly used in natural building construction projects. It proved particularly useful in the Nebraska Sandhills.

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BD+C

JANUARY 25, 2024

Tactical issues for renovating university research buildings 0 qpurcell Thu, 01/25/2024 - 13:30 Laboratories Matthew Plecity, AIA, ASLA, Principal, GBBN, highlights the connection between the built environment and laboratory research, and weighs the benefits of renovation vs. new construction. To Build (Anew), Or Not to Build?

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Archinect

JULY 13, 2022

A significant next step has been taken in the construction process that will eventually culminate in Peter Zumthor ’s brand new David Geffen Galleries building for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) as it inches closer to its anticipated 2024 completion date.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Climate change is making it harder to prioritise retrofitting buildings to withstand earthquakes, architect John Lesak tells Dezeen in this interview for our Designing for Disaster series. Lesak, a principal at California architecture studio Page and Turnbull , has spent decades making older buildings more resilient to seismic activity.

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Archinect

APRIL 15, 2022

Onni Group, the Canadian real estate development firm which has emerged as one of the most prolific builders in Downtown Los Angeles, has broken ground on the neighborhood's first high-rise building since the onset of the global pandemic.

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Architecture Ideas

JULY 28, 2022

Building a new home is exciting, but you want to feel ready when starting construction. One thing to plan is your home construction budget. Why You Need A Home Construction Budget. You can research how much you’ll need, estimate the total project cost and then save this money. Review Your Floor Plans.

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Archinect

MAY 26, 2022

Developers and city officials recently joined to celebrate the start of construction on a dual-building affordable housing complex in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Total construction costs for the complex are estimated at $118 million.

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Santa Cruz Architect

AUGUST 24, 2022

CTBUH certifies Ascent as World’s Tallest Mass Timber Building. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has officially declared the recently-opened Ascent tower by Korb + Associates Architects the world’s tallest timber-concrete hybrid building. building codes. building codes.

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Deezen

APRIL 3, 2023

As our Timber Revolution series comes to an end, we round up the 10 significant buildings that have pushed the use of mass-timber. Even despite the extensive freightage, university researchers said that the 10-storey building's environmental impact was still smaller than if it had been constructed using concrete.

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Architecture Ideas

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Construction bidding is a process through which companies and contractors win projects. You may have the expertise to carry out a construction project effectively—however, bidding works quite differently. Check this link for more information on how to find construction jobs to bid on. 10 Tips for Construction Bidding.

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Deezen

MARCH 27, 2024

Construction on the Sagrada Familia began in 1882 and was led by Gaudí until his passing in 1926. The final six towers are currently under construction including the 170-metre-high central spire, which on completion will make Sagrada Familia the tallest church in the world, rising almost 10 metres higher than Ulm Minster in Germany.

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Santa Cruz Architect

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The construction industry has come a long way from the days of manual labor and rudimentary tools. In the 21st century, it has witnessed a revolution brought about by a series of technological innovations that have made construction faster, more efficient, and environmentally friendly.

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BD+C

JUNE 3, 2024

Escalation: Predicting project costs in a volatile market 0 qpurcell Mon, 06/03/2024 - 12:26 Construction Costs Thad Berkes, Chief Cost Estimator, Design Collaborative, shares that one of the major hurdles that Design Collaborative attempts to forecast for its commercial construction projects is escalation.

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The Arch Insider

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Planning to build your career as an architect? If one is choosing architecture as a career, one would essentially be responsible for planning, designing, and overseeing the construction of a building. It is the responsibility of an architect to make the lives of building occupants easier and more comfortable.

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The Arch Insider

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Planning to build your career as an architect? If one is choosing architecture as a career, one would essentially be responsible for planning, designing, and overseeing the construction of a building. It is the responsibility of an architect to make the lives of building occupants easier and more comfortable.

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The Architecture Designs

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Navigating the complex maze of any construction project can be a daunting challenge, fraught with numerous potential pitfalls. If you want to learn more, check out ALICE’s article on construction planning stages. These may range from budget overruns and schedule delays to communication breakdowns and compliance issues.

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BD+C

MAY 11, 2023

Let's build toward a circular economy 0 qpurcell Thu, 05/11/2023 - 09:34 Sustainability Eric Corey Freed, Director of Sustainability, CannonDesign, discusses the values of well-designed, regenerative buildings. A sustainable relationship to a building, community and planet should be the floor, not the ceiling.

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