Design Shop: 2013 Texas Society of Architects Design Awards
Design Shop by Shipley Architects Eleven projects received Design Awards from the Texas Society of Architects in 2013. The projects were published in the Sep...
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T3 Parking Structure: 2013 Texas Society of Architects Design Awards
T3 Parking Structure by Danze Blood Architects (Design Architect) and Cotera+Reed Architects (Architect of Record) Eleven projects received Design Awards fro...
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Roy Kelly Multimodal Terminal and Parking Garage: 2013 Texas Society of Architects Design Awards
Roy Kelly Terminal and Parking Garage by Powers Brown Architecture Eleven projects received Design Awards from the Texas Society of Architects in 2013. The p...
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Fire|Beach House: 2013 Texas Society of Architects Design Awards
Fire|Beach House by HDR Architecture Eleven projects received Design Awards from the Texas Society of Architects in 2013. The projects were published in the ...
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Building and grounds committee set to vote on architects
For several months Dougherty County School System officials have been narrowing down a list of architects for various school projects..The FOX 31 Newscast is...
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Architects Have Varied Background In Building Design
Robert B. Cerny, Ralph Rapson and W. J. Seifert are the three architects who are drawing plans for Fargos new City Hall and auditorium building to be erected in the civic center area along 4th Street North between 1st and 3rd Avenue.
The Forum, Oct. 7, 1956
At the time that story was written, the area between Fourth Street and the river and between First Avenue and Third Avenue North had been leveled for urban renewal.
According to urban renewal records, the (land) from Fourth Street to the Red River had become a dead area for commercial development and stagnated. Deteriorated buildings, vacant lots becoming refuse dumps and general blight became a permanent part of the area.
About 50 years seems to be the life expectancy of a city hall in Fargo. After what served as Fargos City Hall was destroyed in the Great Fargo Fire of 1893, a new City Hall was built in 1906 for $17,251. It was abandoned when the current City Hall was finished in the early 1960s. The new structure cost $1,773,000.
Fargo architect Vern Hunter wrote to me suggesting that a story about the existing City Hall would spur documentation of the building so its history would not be lost. He hoped that a budget item in the building process whereby an architecture student, class, or a historian would research, write, and photograph the significant details and history of the existing building.
He added that many of the mid-century modern attributes that defined Rapson and that period of architecture, such as the barrel vault canopy over the walkway, have already been removed.
Rapson was a giant in American architecture. When he died in 2008 at the age of 93, it was considered the end of an era, according to Thomas Fisher, dean of the College of Design at the University of Minnesota. Fisher said Rapson was one of our last living links to the first generation of Modernists
In a letter to the editor, former City Commissioner Mort Mazaheri said, The current building in combination with the library and the Civic Center received an Award of Excellence from the American Institute of Architects. This complex was the first contemporary design in Fargo for more than 30 years. Being 50 years old, by definition it is a historic building.
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Samsung's new R&D center in Silicon Valley will look like a giant glass donut. so that workers can see each other even when they're on separate floors. Image: NBBJ
Samsung's new R&D center in Silicon Valley will look like a giant glass donut. so that workers can see each other even when they're on separate floors. Image: NBBJ
The rendering of the new headquarters for Alipay, the payment arm of Chinese e-commerce behemoth Alibaba. Image: NBBJ
The rendering of the new headquarters for Alipay, the payment arm of Chinese e-commerce behemoth Alibaba. Image: NBBJ
Alipay's new HQ will be organized around transaction nodes, a concept that mirrors the flow of money online and of traffic along a traditional Main Street. Image: NBBJ
Alipay's new HQ will be organized around transaction nodes, a concept that mirrors the flow of money online and of traffic along a traditional Main Street. Image: NBBJ
At Amazon's new HQ, "biospheres" will let both light and the city in. Images: NBBJ
At Amazon's new HQ, "biospheres" will let both light and the city in. Images: NBBJ
Amazon's bubbles are designed around the concept of "biophilia," the idea that working in nature reduces stress and fatigue. Image: NBBJ
Amazon's bubbles are designed around the concept of "biophilia," the idea that working in nature reduces stress and fatigue. Image: NBBJ
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Every year, the American Institute of Architects invites its memberssome 83,000 licensed architectsto enter the buildings they've designed in the past five years for an award. It's about as solid an award as an architect can receive, and this year's winners were just made public.
The projects range from museums to train stations to hotels; it's a diverse bunch, which you can peruse below. Keep in mind, these were chosen by a committee of working designers selected by the primary professional organization for architects in the U.S. Ot's fun to know what projects architects choose to honor from amongst their ranks.
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This museum occupies the last surviving antebellum railroad complex, in Savannah, which required Dawson Architects to completely transform a National Historic Landmark building without actually harming the landmark itself. All around the structure, particular pieces of crumbling history are highlighted with light or framed with glass. It's a really beautiful example of what some call "living preservation."
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Cass Gilberta pioneer who built many of America's earliest skyscrapersisn't well known by many Americans these days, but he built some of the most beautiful buildings in the country. For example: St. Louis Public Library's Central Library, from 1912, which Cannon Design left intact by building its new structure inside of Gilbert's facade.
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Caledonia - (Foreign Architects Cover)
Matt Burke from Foreign Architects performs #39;Caledonia #39;.
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Here #39;s what Architects and Designers think about Edificius
A selection of interviews recorded at the SAIE 2013 - International Building Exhibition (Bologna, 16-19 october) with the opinions and impressions of users a...
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