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Foster + Partners unveils design of wooden boathouse for Row New York

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Row New York, a non-profit founded on the belief that the skills learned in rowing can help develop well-rounded individuals, is about to receive a new boathouse in Sherman Creek Park courtesy of Foster + Partners (in association with Bade Stageberg Cox as the architects or record).

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3 affordable housing projects that serve as social catalysts

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Trish Donnally MFPRO+ Blog Higher Education University Buildings Multifamily Housing Affordable Housing Senior Living Design Student Housing Designers Architects Projects Sustainable Development To say the United States is facing an affordable housing crisis is a major understatement.

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How Working with a Design-Build Construction Firm Can Boost the Bottom Line

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billion, an 18 percent jump over 2013, according to Dodge Data & Analytics, a New York research firm. Interestingly enough, we have found owners for many of the commercial construction projects out-to-bid are looking to work with design-build construction firms. True partnership. Less responsibility for owners.

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Design CFOs Note Key Role As Firms Seek Sustainable Growth

ENR Construction

Even as design firms struggle to balance backlogs and employee resources, chief financial officers’ projections of revenue growth and profit increases in the coming year may be too rosy, according to statistics and comments offered at a gathering of about 110 CFOs in New York City on April 21.

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Dennis Calvert, the right architect for Design-Build

The Korte Company

Design-Build was not always accepted in the industry. So when he encountered Ralph Korte’s vision of Design-Build in action, he saw the industry’s future. . A move to Denver in 1971 landed him a role on a ten-man design team for the largest building to date in the city’s downtown, the Mountain Bell Denver Headquarters. “I

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Handcrafted Sandstone Girls School in India

Natural Building

In the heart of the Thar Desert in the Indian state of Rajasthan, this girls school was a pro-bono project by New York–based architect Diana Kellogg commissioned by a non-profit group. When I asked about different design ideas they smiled and proudly said, ‘We can do anything in stone.’”.

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Putting 9 senior living market trends into perspective

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Putting 9 senior living market trends into perspective 0 rcassidy Mon, 08/07/2023 - 20:26 Senior Living Design Brad Perkins, FAIA, a veteran of more than four decades in the planning and design of senior living communities, looks at where the market is heading in the immediate future. and around the world.