Community Architect

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

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". Unfortunate but rare. But with rare becoming common the damages to the built environment reach new heights every year. It isn't no longer enough to point to the higher powers.

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AI Interior Architects

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Photography © Sam Kittner. As interior architects and designers it’s assumed we focus exclusively on interiors, but interiors can have a profound effect on shaping the experience of a building from the outside. At a time when transparency, community, and … The post Designing From the Inside Out appeared first on IA Interior Architects.

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The Architecture Professor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Burnham & Root, Masonic Temple. Exterior from Floor 16 to the top of the skylight. Note that the windows in the Observation Deck are open. Also note the exposed steel trussed arches that support the skylight. (Hoffmann, Root ). The challenge of designing and erecting this building was not, by any means, eased by its intended program, for this was not to be your ordinary 1890 office building.

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