BD+C

JANUARY 15, 2024

How to keep airports functional during construction 0 qpurcell Mon, 01/15/2024 - 09:56 Airports Gensler's aviation experts share new ideas about how to make the airport construction process better moving forward. For a brief but productive window, airport construction turned into a completely different game.

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DesignScape Architects

APRIL 12, 2021

The Importance of Stakeholder Engagement Airports are probably one of the most complex project types that architects can engage in. One reason for this complexity is that for most airport projects involving brownfield sites (i.e. Cape Town International has not won its numerous awards as best Airport in Africa by chance.

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A Better Built Environment

DECEMBER 19, 2020

We arrived on April 1st, 2020, flying on an empty plane between empty airports, at the peak of the first wave of the Coronavirus pandemic. We don’t need to invest millions of dollars to build new infrastructure. Kids were running around playing laser tag. We need to be nimble. Experimentation should be celebrated.

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Dwell

JUNE 27, 2012

Future female architects should be playing with tools for building, not dolls inappropriate for use as scale figures. Architect Barbie and other gender-specific toys—pastel Legos , Lincoln Logs’ pink-accented Little Prairie Farmhouse—narrow girls’ play to what manufacturers think they already like: playing house, not building one.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

MAY 18, 2023

The term megaproject first appeared in academic literature in the 1970s to describe major postwar projects such as dams, power plants, airports, factories, tunnels, stadiums, highways, railroads, and large tracts of housing. Another prominent connectivity project is the Giant Panda National Park in Central China.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

I took all the pictures in this post except for the last 4 (which should be exceedingly apparent to you) at the very end of the model building process. Jonas Ramos with Paul Morgan Photography was happy to spend the afternoon helping us move models around and build a platform large enough to accommodate this model.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 9, 2014

On a more technical level, international projects will bring with the project, the specific building codes to the area, construction tolerances, local materials and way of working with them and customs that are reflected in vernacular architecture, amongst others. This will continue from the next conceptual stages and beyond.

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