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This striking Melbourne home raises the bar for church conversions

The Spaces

He saved the best apartment for himself – now for sale via Nelson Alexander with a price tag of $5.7m-$6.2m While the price tag would set a new precedence for an already expensive neighbourhood, the apartment is already gathering lots of interest. Parties have until 5 pm on 20 June 2022 to express their interest.

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Modern Window Detail - The CHouse Modern | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

In addition, there was some delay when all the roof trusses were fabricated incorrectly. It sounds like I’ve been sleeping on the job but the truth is that this house is diagrammatically very simple and there hasn’t been a whole lot to show you just yet.

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Building with Structural Insulated Panels. or SIPs | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

On site, the method of identifying the panels is definitely old school – a fat magic marker with the panel tag written on the exterior face. With that… Lets say you are building a traditional ranch or… there are 4 main options; The first is SIPS are not used at all & you use rafters or trusses.

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In Their Elements

Landscape Architecture Magazine

We would tag stone, draw it, do measurements, figure out how many cuts we were going to make, then come back to CAD to fit them in. The building itself is innovative: The roof courtyard spans an enormous interior atrium and is supported, without columns, by a mass-timber zipper-truss system. Mountain ledges also have thin soil.

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I love you Building - Happy Valentine's Day | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Meigs completed 1887 Built before the advent of structural steel and poured in place concrete, it is constructed of 10’ wide masonry walls and wrought iron roof trusses. Architect: Montgomery C. I try and keep things light and share a thing or two about what I think I know.

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The Costs Associated with becoming an Architect | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

” Now honestly, when did you last do load take downs, size a footing, call out the nailing on a wood shear wall, or design a roof truss? It’s one thin to be familiar with concepts and strategies, and another altogether to have us calculating loads on individual chord members in trusses.

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