Life of an Architect

MAY 6, 2015

AEC Cares projectAtlanta Secures Foundation for Vulnerable Teens By Jennifer Hicks AEC Cares Atlanta – Covenant House Georgia The Covenant House Georgia is a transitional housing and service center for young people in desperate need. It wants to turn its residential services building into that needed community space.

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Architecture Ideas

MARCH 3, 2022

And who knows, you might get inspiration from them for your next project! . We’ve asked both personal and professional questions from him that will help you get to know not only Karim Rashid but also his entire interior design career journey and projects that he has worked on in the past. It is my longest project to date!

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Building and Interiors

MAY 11, 2022

An efficient and effective house design plan should feature an interactive relationship between light, movement, and material to transform an everyday space into an astounding one. The house front and interior design must ooze sustainable modernity and class. The procedure of house designing is very challenging and meticulous.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

The model that I thought I would show today is for a residential project we currently have in development. The picture above just starts to hint at its size – the scale for this model is 1″ = 1′-0″ which is without any questions the largest scale model we have ever built.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

A path leads through a grove of camellias in the Woodland Garden, down to the Leach House next to Johnson Creek. “We We wanted that project so badly,” a friend told me when I mentioned my upcoming visit in May to the Leach Botanical Garden in Portland, Oregon. Oh, Richard Hartlage is great,” the friend said.

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Life of an Architect

AUGUST 14, 2017

My office isn’t particularly large, either in terms of employees (7) or square footage (1,677 sf), but we currently have 17 physical models of projects lying around. Not to mention that I like having one of my projects in model form in the office – most of the others belong to projects run by my partner Michael Malone.

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Archmark

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Step 1: Can prospective clients find you online? Now, you may be thinking, “Oh, 65,000 is not a lot for the entire country,” and you might be right, but, as I mentioned, that is only for the TOP 20 search terms. Step 4: Go Beyond the Basics Many architects tell us they want to find better clients, better projects.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 30, 2014

SIPs are a high performance building system where the interior structural portion of the wall is assembled like an ice cream sandwich using a 7/16″ layer of oriented strand board (OSB) as the outside of the sandwich, and in our case, a 5 1/2″ interior cavity filled with styrofoam, which would be the ice cream.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Home / Buildings / Deconstruction versus Demolition Deconstruction versus Demolition Bob Borson — November 4, 2013 — 29 Comments Deconstruction is an environmentally friendly alternative to demolition and on the KHouse Modern project , the existing house on site is currently going through the process of being taken apart piece by piece.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Home / Buildings / Renzo Piano Kimbell Art Museum Sneak Peek Renzo Piano Kimbell Art Museum Sneak Peek Bob Borson — November 11, 2013 — 22 Comments This past weekend I was lucky enough to get a sneak peek at Renzo Piano’s brand new Kimbell Art Museum project. Beautiful project and great pictures!

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Also, you can take with you to a friend’s house, another architects office, or just about anywhere you want to throw a game. Utilizing your existing wiring, you can change out your light switches and take control of all the hardwired light fixtures in your house. Nothing like having a project to complete on Christmas day!

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

Tears for Fears – Songs From the Big Chair My first project where I was the lead project manager was a condominium in Tampa , Florida. As I get older I look back across my 32 years in this profession and see how one project of one moment, good or bad adds up to the whole of my career. Swedish House Mafia: Until Now 3.

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Life of an Architect

MAY 7, 2014

The additional time I spent probably averaged around another 25+ hours – of which I’m pretty sure included at least 1 full day (8 hours) each weekend up at studio. When you’re in school, you don’t get to decide the project type you will be working on – that gets determined by your professor.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 30, 2014

Home / Kitchen / The Great Kitchen Adventure Starts Now The Great Kitchen Adventure Starts Now Bob Borson — May 1, 2014 — 68 Comments Kitchens are one of the most important rooms of the house. I consulted with everyone in the family to get their approval and buy in to the project.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 15, 2014

So, with that in mind, I’ve put this together just for you: Top Ten Things that are Awesome about Getting Older 1. Agree wholeheartedly with your list, especially 1, 2 and 6. Oh, and I may have a #10 for you. so I’d have more control over the project). And I agree with 1 and 7 whole-heartedly.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Every colored entry is a meeting and every individual box is a specific task on a different project. That, and there are aa few of us out there with X41, X61, even )drool) X201 IBM/Lenovo tabletPC (sure that iPad is only 1/4″ thick; but my “tablet” will run ACAD, upon which I can scketch with my stylus [neenerneener {g}]).

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

Home / Observations / What Home Buyers Really Want What Home Buyers Really Want Bob Borson — September 23, 2013 — 34 Comments I am an architect who designs – among other things – residential projects for a fairly upscale clientele. Hot dish not included) 32% of respondents who felt is was “desirable/essential.”

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 27, 2014

They don’t realize how difficult it is to stand up in front of a room full of your classmates and professors and “explain” why you designed your project the way you did. It sucks” FYI, he lost the project. That project died that week and the client sold the property for a huge profit. Um, awkward.

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Life of an Architect

JANUARY 29, 2014

Oh, and they want to be the leader (who doesn’t?). ” Rule #1 - It’s a mission statement, not a mission novella. nbc “2/3 the quality of (star firm name here) at 1/2 the price” Tim Barber I don’t have a misson statement and best I can tell I don’t have a mission? This is our mission.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

So in I moved to an office built for 4 people which is currently housing 8 … you could say that we’ve experienced some growth. No partitions or panels separating worker bee #1 from worker bee #2, and considering how often the people in our office collaborate with one another, this is a very good thing.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 19, 2014

The ‘Shroom House – designed and submitted by Sarah Fox. Oh, wait a minute … did I forget to mention that there’s no fee required to enter!! And is that mandatory to have a door on my play house, it cant be open all the time ?!! jongyeol Jung I am also interested in this project. at same time?

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

Most of my time has always been spent in London proper so we are going to rent a house out in the country for most of our trip and go exploring in other surrounding counties. Oh & if you can – treat Kate to see Matilda on stage. DEFINITELY worth a go and great trip for the kiddos too. Took my daughter and wife.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 20, 2013

Also, I would love to see more project photos on Instagram if possible. As soon as I start managing a project under construction, I’ll definitely post more construction photos. I was working on Revit trying to get the line weights and standards set up for my last project and it was a struggle. but not on plans.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 15, 2013

In this moment, most people are concerned about how their project will be received but the real value lies in the time spent presenting. The person in school that you thought had terrible designs – but could talk about their project - will be your boss. And oh so true! Can’t wait to read more.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 11, 2013

” That is frequently the reason why the design projects students tackle in college are unfamiliar or atypical (i.e. multi-family housing on the dark side of the moon”) rather than a project type that is rooted in more practical solutions (i.e. The masterful execution of the project requires that balancing act.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 29, 2013

Home / Blog / Out with the Old, In with the New Out with the Old, In with the New Bob Borson — December 30, 2013 — 58 Comments It’s pre-dawn on a Sunday and I am currently sitting in my kitchen, the rest of my house still in bed, trying to get my bearings in place before the new year kicks off in earnest.

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Life of an Architect

JUNE 1, 2014

I was doing CA on a 64 unit condo project for the same guy, on site 8 to 10 hours a day and paperwork as well. ago, well some time ago when i was still a kid we had a terrace on the 2nd floor at out summer house and the exterior of the house was covered in about 5 cm wide planks. Dzintars Berzinskis Some 10 years?

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 2, 2014

Furthermore, to my thinking, I’ve only written 2 posts on this site where I openly call out a project by someone else as being “less than it should” (which is the nice version of what I wrote, which was “ it looks like someone broke it’s face with a poo-fist”). I might have deserved the others.]

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