Vali Architects: Setting up a Project in Sketchup - Part 2 Site Design
Chuck Vali of Vali Architects shows you the techniques he uses to set up design projects in SketchUp. This is the 2nd video in a five part series: parts 1, 2, 3 focus on site design, videos...
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Architects whose resumes are filled with skyscrapers in downtown Chicago, prominent buildings around the world and projects the likes of Canary Wharf in London did not pass up the chance to work on the banks of the Mississippi River.
From the moment the lineup of architects laid their eyes on the more that 130 acres of riverfront, they were attracted to redeveloping it. As demolition begins on the site, owned by River Eagle Investments LLC, the architects already have been busy designing buildings and elaborate landscaping to transform the former Case New Holland plant site into Fountainhead Quad-Cities.
Keeping its pledge the development would be a local project, River Eagle hired Russell Construction and McClure Engineering, both based in the Quad-Cities. Russell is the construction manager.
The scope of the project, the site and the chance to transform a rare sizable parcel along the Mississippi has created an excitement among those involved.
"We're actually creating a whole village, a little city on the site," said Chicago architect Jim DeStefano, who first saw the site three years ago. He is the project's master planner.
"I'm still amazed when you look at the plans; it looks like little parcels,'' he said after the project's first pre-construction design meeting last month in Davenport. "You get out there and it is just vast."
Tom Fennelly, Russell's senior vice president, said the project compareswith nothing else "that has been done or is being done."
"Usually, a project has many small phases. This one is coming out with a large phase at the beginning. It's more exciting and shows the commitment of the developer."
Fennelly said the original plan was for the two hotels and one apartment building in phase one, but the three planned apartment buildings now are part of the initial phase.
"It's a once in a lifetime opportunity to do a multi-building, multi-phase project that is going to be significant to the community," he said. "Early on, we had our doubts whether this would come to fruition. Now we see it is and we're extremely excited to be part of it."
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Have you ever wanted to be a fly-on-the-wall at the Rochdale Council headquarters?
The architects behind the award-winning Number One Riverside in the town centre have used the latest technology to allow you to do just that.
FaulknerBrowns Architects have teamed up with photographers Hufton and Crow to create a drone fly-through video of the 42.5m office block.
Its believed to be the first time the technology has been used to capture the inside of a building.
Steve McIntyre, partner at FaulknerBrowns, said: The still photographs of the building are beautiful, but they dont quite capture what the space feels like.
The drone video footage does.
Its great to be able to give people that extra dimension to showcase a building and it gives a much better feel of the space and what it actually looks like.
The drone helicopter was taken into the building on a Sunday when the offices are closed and friends and family were drafted in to walk about the building to give the impression it was in use.
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Let #39;s Play Pier Solar and the Great Architects Part 15
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The professional body representing the countrys landscape architects, the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects (NZILA), says it welcomes confirmation by Auckland Mayor Len Brown that he will set up a study to consider the full impact of Ports of Auckland on its surroundings.
NZILA spokesperson for urban issues in Auckland, Sally Peake, says its important that all the facts are on the table before the Port proceeds with any expansion.
"We totally support a robust examination of the Ports environmental, social and economic impacts on Auckland, and landscape considerations in particular. Only once a study based on fact has been completed, can an informed decision be made."
All landscape architects have a responsibility to ensure that the distinctive characteristics of landscapes are not compromised through insensitive or inappropriate change, says Ms Peake.
"We have a duty of care over New Zealands unique landscape assets, such as the Waitemata Harbour, and this is exercised by ensuring our assets are managed in an appropriate and sustainable way. This study is therefore a welcome development."
Ms Peake says the NZILA will not take a position in support of or against the Ports expansion plans. While individual NZILA members are free to form their own views, the role of the Institute is to ensure due process is followed in considering the landscape impacts of any project. This would include a robust assessment of the landscape and visual effects of any development.
by Jonathan Wong, jonathanwong@theborneopost.com. Posted on March 28, 2015, Saturday
KUCHING: The recent amendments to three bills to liberalise professional services raised concerns over the level of competition from foreign architects against the local waning amount.
The Malaysian Institute of Architectss (PAM) deputy president, Zulhemlee An highlighted this concern on the sidelines of the Building Trade Show 2015 yesterday at the Borneo Convention Center Kuching.
He noted that there is a shortage of architects locally due to the low passing rate in the final test which deterred most students to become professional architects.
The final test known as part three is taken after a student completes a masters course.
Despite the small amout of architects, as long as we are competitive enough to provide the best service to our clients, we will be alright.
We (as architects) must support each other, the mechanism is already in place but we have the advantage as we know the certifications which they have to go through, in a way we are still protected, said Zulhemlee.
We must now also look to export our services overseas, Asean architect council has promoted for Asean architects to work together by collaboration.
We Asean are different as we like to collaborate as compared to modus operandi of western architects which targets the best projects and leave, he added.
The number of architects in Malaysia is growing very slowly, currently with only 2,000 corporate architects under PAM. Last year, the passing rate of the part three exam was a mere six per cent.
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