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The Downcity Plan, II

Architecture Here and There

Sketch of the quadrangle proposed for Johnson & Wales’ campus on Weybosset Street. In equilibrium it may still be very difficult to line up the permits and secure the finances necessary to move a project forward in Providence, but the conditions that provide incentives to do so push developers and entrepreneurs to persevere.

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Almost 40 Tips for Starting an Architecture Firm

EntreArchitect

We decided to submit our proposal for an event called “Planning a Practice”, which would bring together an Architect, attorney, finance, and branding/strategic marketer to teach young architects the fundamental skills for starting their own practice. Keep track of your finances. Plan ahead and develop a forecast for your finances.

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Gulliver DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague

e-architect

They sketched out two variants of original wooden structures and he loved them. The load-bearing wooden structure of the zeppelin is suspended by, and anchored to, a tilted steel-truss bridge, which also simultaneously serves as a load-bearing foundation for the interior wooden flooring of the zeppelin. Prague Architect Studios.

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30 Best Architecture Firms in Denmark

Architizer

With the foundation in architecture, scenography and art, JAC studios work with exhibition architecture for museums, companies as well as in public urban space. Rich of multiple expertises, the office is fueled by talented designers and experienced architects that jointly develop projects from early sketches to on-site supervision.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

Tellingly, the idea to cofound the studio came while Bordas and her partner were working together at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, an experience where the paradoxical proximity and distance between the world of design and engineering was attenuated. Left: ARE Sketches Volume I; right: Lora Teagarden. Céline Semaan. Lora Teagarden.

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A Home Leftover | Ego Design Studio

ArchiDiaries

Once the foundation was completed, the support group withdrew, and the clients barely had the finances to finish 500sqft. Now the task was to keep the leftover foundation and develop a new design substantiating the need for a three-bedroom house. Drawings & Sketches. SHARING ACROSS PROJECTS.

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Ten Pairs of Books for Christmas

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

and "foundation" (piles, spread, caissons). It's an excellent book, as is the second installment in Leslie's series of books on skyscrapers in Chicago, but the subtitle of the second book, How Technology, Politics, Finance, and Race Reshaped the City , indicates the incorporation of those wider contexts eschewed in the first book.

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