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Jacobs Creates Dramatic Intrigue through Spatial Overlapping and Use of Light at Kirkwood Performing Arts Center

Architizer

Architizer: What inspired the initial concept for your design? Anselmo Testa: The concept was built around the idea that the ‘Show starts on the Sidewalk’ and the importance of exterior space and approach – tying the venue into the city fabric. The concept worked around a two-sided (east & west) entry sequence.

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Insights: What do different engineers do, and when do I hire one?

Matt Fajkus Architecture

Dealing with the local governing code can get hairy, so one of the major benefits of hiring an architect is letting them coordinate and schedule design, engineering, and construction all at once. At their most basic function, structural engineers design the bones of a new building to resist forces caused by gravity and the elements.

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

Community Architect

Carbon capture back into the material itself is also still mostly a concept. For standard construction practices the use of "green" concrete is still a structural and also a logistical problem. The more cement, the higher the strength and the small the volume of concrete needed for a structural member.

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Fifty architects and designers you need to know on Earth Day

Deezen

Andrew Waugh has long been a vocal advocate for building more sustainably and has been an outspoken critic of existing UK regulations relating to environmental construction. Taiwanese structural engineer and architect Arthur Huang has been developing novel recycling techniques and machinery for nearly 20 years with his company Miniwiz.

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Going Solar: The Rays That Pay

Community Architect

Going solar for buildings is not only as effective as improving transportation (another 40%), the two can be linked with solar as the power source for electric vehicles. solar azimuth) What are the regulations in my state, what incentives are offered? 40% of the carbon footprint comes from building emissions. Maryland ).

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Building Science, Climate Change and The Pretty Good House (Transcript)

EntreArchitect

There was an interior designer and we ended up getting a structural engineer involved. You don’t have time to be an expert and things like taxes and regulations and the old school payroll providers, they just don’t get it. It’s the concept that’s important and not the name, so just look beyond the name.

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100+ tallest buildings in the world

Architecture Quote

This is called X-Seed 4000 , a city-inside-a-building concept envisioned by Japan, which has taken inspiration from its world-famous Mount Fuji. This impressive building is located in the business district of Yeouido and it’s perfectly communicated by public transport. Ar e tall buildings safe? It was finally finished in 2020.