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Luminaries: 8 of the World’s Top Lighting Design Firms

Architizer

With extensive experience crafting lighting designs for a diverse array of projects ranging from art institutions to public spaces to luxury properties, the renowned company has mastered the art of highlighting architectural elements and transforming spaces through the careful use of light.

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Doris Duke Theatre, Becket, Massachusetts

e-architect

The new building is projected to cost $30 million and is supported by a coalition of donors and foundations, with a formal campaign launching in May 2023. The Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund supported the pre-schematic design phase of the project. The reimagined Doris Duke Theatre will be approximately 20,000 sq.

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Who Needs To Know?

Landscape Architecture Magazine

And also, where we are in the range of services—schematic design, design development. We’re often so rushed we just throw people in and get them going without that foundation. Because we’re visual—or call it mixed media—there’s always going to be a fluency question about how information moves from one mode to another.

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Back to the Garden

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Gerry, who did not respond to requests to be interviewed for this article, set up a foundation to create Bethel Woods and has been intimately involved at every turn, down to the selection and placement of plants (hence all the blue spruce). “He Today, rows of trees and a building devoted to grounds maintenance impede historic views.

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The A+List: Architizer’s Top Architecture and Design Firms to Watch in 2024

Architizer

Impressively, their internal digital visualization lab creates an integrated workflow for testing and developing design ideas. This multifaceted approach is evident in projects such as Kia Lab, which take a holistic view of the programmatic brief, embedding the building’s function with the broader urban and cultural environment.

Firms 91
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Letters of an Architect: Lessons from my Best Projects

Community Architect

As a step towards the schematic design refinements, my boss had prepared 6' long pencil-drawn and marker-colored large-scale wall sections on narrow sketch paper strips that showed how everything should fit together. Still, binding as they are, competition drawings are just conceptual; it was my job to create working drawings.

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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. Keely Colcleugh. to live among the cherry blossoms and historical monuments.