Aric Gitomer Architect
AUGUST 25, 2021
Big cities indicate small and compact homes. It holds for New York, London, Tokyo, and even New Jersey. Densely-populated cities can either tend to the people or larger-than-life homes. You might have to adapt to certain spaces that can’t accommodate all the elements you need with changing residential patterns. It means less stuff and less space. But does that work every time?
BD+C
AUGUST 25, 2021
Malls are important, they’re some of the most visited places in our communities, frequented by billions of people around the world every year. To survive, however, they need to become places that are about much more than retail transactions. Honestly, malls are in decline. Hundreds of American malls shuttered after the 2007-09 recession. And retail researchers estimate 25% of America’s roughly 1,000 remaining large malls will close over the next 3 to 5 years.
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Stephen B Chambers Architects
AUGUST 25, 2021
Above: Ruins of several Croft Houses in Scotland. “The bonds of milk, nature, and culture are stronger than the bonds of blood.” Gaelic Proverb. A croft is a small agricultural unit, and the person who lives on this land is called a crofter. Crofts are usually rented, akin to sharecropping, and are located in one of the crofting areas designated by the government in Scotland.
BD+C
AUGUST 25, 2021
Giannis Antetokounmpo has been the talk of the basketball world after leading the Milwaukee Bucks to their first NBA Championship in 50 years. After dropping 50 points in the clinching game six and winning Finals MVP, it’s been well deserved.
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A new industry study conducted by Architizer on behalf of Chaos Enscape surveyed 2,139 design professionals to understand the state of architectural visualization and what to expect in the near future. We asked: How are visualizations produced in your firm? What impact does real-time rendering have? What approach are you taking toward the rise of AI?
English Buildings
AUGUST 25, 2021
Surprised in Sherborne, 2 Sherborne’s Cheap Street is a very attractive jumble of architectural styles – from late-medieval timber framed structures to stone buildings from virtually every later date: a hotch-potch, mostly with recent shop fronts, but much of it given unity by the glowing stone. Even in this good company, the bow-fronted building above is outstanding.
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BD+C
AUGUST 25, 2021
Sometime in late Spring of next year, the Hotel Marcel in New Haven, Conn., is scheduled to open. This 110,000-sf, 165-room hotel is being touted by its developer as the first net-zero carbon hotel in the U.S., and its transformation is guided by Passive House and LEED Platinum certification standards.
BD+C
AUGUST 25, 2021
New scientific opportunities are creating demand for more and better laboratory space. For academic and teaching institutions, this demand often leads to renovating and expanding existing research labs to accommodate new practices and technology.
BD+C
AUGUST 25, 2021
A new study commissioned by the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) found that workplace discrimination of minority groups and women was common in the construction industry.
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