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    Home › Archives for June 2020

    Month: June 2020

    BLM & Architecture Live Stream

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    AIA East Bay June 29, 2020
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    Architecture billings downward trajectory moderates

    Demand for design services in May saw few signs of rebounding following a record drop in billings the month prior, according to a new report…

    Sydney June 24, 2020
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    The Rules for Now Have Changed

    The Covid 19 Pandemic has changed design. As we proceed down the road with dealing with the pandemic, one of the biggest issues is “Social…

    Sydney June 12, 2020
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    Compact Communities: in Conversation with Michael Pyatok

    Written by The Midnight Charette, from ArchDaily The Midnight Charette is an explicit podcast about design, architecture, and the everyday. Hosted by architectural designers David Lee…

    Sydney June 12, 2020
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    6 Ways Extreme Weather Can Damage Your Home

    Your home is the biggest investment you will ever make, and it is in every homeowner’s best interest to protect their home and investment from…

    Sydney June 11, 2020
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    ELS Announces David Masenten as Principal & Market Leader of the Mixed-Use Portfolio

    Berkeley, CA — David Masenten, AIA, LEED AP BD+C has been advanced to Principal and will join the firm’s Board of Directors, announced Clarence D.…

    Sydney June 11, 2020
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    YAF Connection “Call for Submissions”

    The AIA Young Architects Forum (YAF) has a quarterly digital publication called “Connection.” It’s available to view here: https://issuu.com/youngarchitectsforum They discuss issues related directly to…

    Sydney June 11, 2020
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    AIA Announces 2020 COTE Top Ten Winners

    The AIA Committee on the Environment announced the 2020 COTE Top Ten Awards. The COTE Top Ten Awards is the industry’s best-known award program for…

    Sydney June 3, 2020
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    The AIA Committee on the Environment announced the 2020 COTE Top Ten Awards. The COTE Top Ten Awards is the industry’s best-known award program for sustainable design excellence. Each year, ten innovative projects are recognized for their integration of design excellence with environmental performance. Here are the top 10 winners: Austin Central Library Located in downtown Austin, Texas, and overlooking Shoal Creek and Lady Bird Lake, the new Austin Central Library is a building shaped by light and designed to respond to the context of its place. Before design began, the project team set aspirational sustainability and design metrics for the project. Two primary sustainability goals for the library were determined: It would be the most daylit library in the country, and it would serve as a water conservation model for buildings in the region. Read more U.S. Land Port of Entry, Columbus, New Mexico The project is a remote port of entry in the Chihuahuan Desert adjacent to Puerto Palomas, Mexico. Best known for its frontier history and Pancho Villa’s brief incursion, this border crossing now accommodates daily pedestrians, private vehicles, commercial (primarily agricultural) goods, and 800-plus school children who cross each day to go to school in the United States. Read more Environmental Nature Center and Preschool In 2008, the firm designed the 8,535-square-foot Environmental Nature Center (ENC), which focuses on providing quality education through hands-on experience with nature. Through simple and cost-effective design strategies, the center was certified as the first LEED Platinum building in Orange County, California, and has operated at net zero since it opened, serving the community as an educational tool for sustainability. Read more Etsy Headquarters The largest Living Building Challenge Petal-Certified building in New York City, Etsy’s new headquarters set a new standard for the company. Every design decision was approached with consideration for the long-term health of the company, its employees, the community, and the larger ecosystem. Rather than building anew or occupying a generic tenant space in a corporate building, Etsy chose to adapt a 200,000-square-foot, turn-of-the-century, industrial building in Dumbo, Brooklyn, formerly used as a printing press for the Jehovah’s Witnesses. This decision significantly conserved material resources and preserved a valuable cultural resource for the community. Read more Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice The redesign maintains and enhances the building’s original character while significantly improving functionality, transparency, and accessibility. Many spaces, finishes, and furnishings were redesigned to be seamless with what already existed. The LEED Platinum renewal also modernizes the structure with New York City safety code and New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission requirements. Read more John W. Olver Design Building Bringing together the previously dispersed Departments of Architecture, Building Construction Technology, and Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning, the John W. Olver Design Building fosters multidisciplinary collaboration and expressively integrates construction, landscape architecture, and building technology. It exemplifies the University of Massachusetts’ commitment to sustainable and innovative design with its LEED Gold certification and demonstration of emerging wood construction technologies. Read more Keller Center - Harris School of Public Policy Leaders of the Harris School of Public Policy sought preservation and restoration of a midcentury masterpiece for their new home on the University of Chicago’s south campus. The Commission on Chicago Landmarks identified the Edward Durell Stone design in 1963 as contributing to the historic district of the Midway Plaisance—the spine of the 1893 Columbian Exposition. The transformational redesign integrates policy-inspired solutions to better connect with the community, place policy on display, and serve as an exemplar in sustainable design with LEED Platinum and Living Building Challenge Petal certifications. Read more Marine Education Center at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory Heeding this advice, the team began to conceptualize the design for the Marine Education Center (MEC) in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. The MEC is the education and outreach arm of The University of Southern Mississippi’s Gulf Coast Research Laboratory. In 2005, the previous center was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. A second storm impacted the site during schematic design, and a third, Hurricane Nate, hit during construction. It was clear—the new facility would need to be resilient, sustainable, and durable. Read more The Six The Six, a 52-unit affordable apartment building, consists of 45 studios and seven one-bedroom apartments along with a second-floor recreation and laundry room, ground-floor offices, support services, computer lab, and on-grade parking for previously homeless and disabled veterans. Veterans constitute a disproportionate amount of the homeless population in the US. In Los Angeles, veterans comprise about 11 percent of the total homeless population. The tenants are generally older and have both physical and mental disabilities; therefore, the building’s operation was expected to be similar to special needs/assisted living. Read more UPCycle UPCycle transforms the former Balcones Recycling Center into a unique creative office building in the historic community of East Austin, Texas. Rather than building anew, the client prioritized adaptive reuse to help preserve and improve the neighborhood character and honor existing resources. The main design question was, how do you maintain the look and feel of the building's industrial past but make it suitable for office use and recognizable as a place for people? Read more