new business card ideas… any comments or suggestions?
My project passed its building inspection!
Sacred Exchange will now be meeting at their new space at 75 Division Street in Warwick.
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Front page of the Providence Business News Sept 10, 2012. This is the lobby of my big mixed use complex.
National Building Museum, Washington DC
This grand hall held presidential inauguration balls prior from the 1880s to 1909, although the rest of the building functioned as government pension offices. It was only saved from the wrecking ball by WWII s demand for immediately available government offices.
Modeled after an Italian palazzo, the building deploys some passive cooling techniques. First, it’s high ceilings (20ft+) allow heat to rise away from its occupants. Also high and low vents could be opened to create a natural cooling draft (each floor had vents under the windows, and the main hall had vents at its top story). Lastly, the massive masonry walls (3ft at the first floor) regulated temperature well.
Newseum, Washington DC. Great museum, awesome architecture. I sure look at buildings differently now that I’m practicing on my own- each cool feature I see leads to endless questions of “how would I specify or detail that?”
Design details from the 2012 Providence Builders Ball
International Union of Bricklayers headquarters in DC is in a glass and steel building.
This 3-D Printer Can Generate Entire Rooms
BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.comOh, you 3-D printed that tiny little thing? Cool. These guys are printing a whole furniture set.
3-D printing is advancing so rapidly (3-D printed bone, anyone?) that this had to come along eventually: Dutch architecture firm DUS…
Architects spend their time drawing virtual objects that other people build . We’re getting closer to being able to hit “print” and have not just a scale model, but our actual design…makes you think.
DIY iPhone case →
Cad files already available… I’m thinking it’s laser cutter time…
Wanna Make Your Own iPhone 5 Case? CAD and STL Files Available
core77.comThis morning we passed the mob scene at the Apple Store SoHo, where hundreds are already queued up to buy the iPhone 5. Chances are none of them yet have a MakerBot Replicator 2, but for those of you with other 3D printers who plan on makin…
For those DIY fanatics… Go ahead and design your own iPhone case. I’m tempted…
Cove lighting! A great way to give a room a sense of height and airiness.
I used this effect in an interior loft space that didn’t have access to windows and the effect was transformative.
(To give a day-lit feel, use led or fluorescent fixtures with a cooler color temperature, like you see here.)
Portsmouth, NH: a great example of a balanced, varied, streetscape- each building is unique, but “cooperative”.
(it is also an example of downtown revitalization through historic preservation, walkable streets and mixed use development, but who is counting?)
Back when architects *really* drew. Original plans from 1924 from one of my projects.
Sacred Exchange fellowship construction almost complete. Gorgeous reuse of an old lodge. Reused the glulam beams, cut in new windows, added lighting..,
design on a mission: the semi-official motto for my boutique architecture firm.
I use design to make places better by helping to revive old urban buildings, strengthening mission-driven organizations or just improving the street-scape.
Expect to see designs-in-progress, both architectural and philosophical.