Design contract approved for courthouse expansion

COVINGTON — Commissioners recently approved the contract for architectural and engineering design services on the expansion of the Newton County Judicial Center. Lyman Davidson Dooley Inc. was awarded the contract at a maximum cost of $474,920. The expansion will be funded through a SPLOST allocation of $7 million. Based on a study conducted by...
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Andrew Geller, Modernist Architect, Is Dead at 87

The cause was kidney failure, said his grandson Jake Gorst. At the industrial design firm Raymond Loewy Associates (later Raymond Loewy/William Snaith Inc.), where he worked for 35 years, Mr. Geller designed the “typical American house” shown at the American National Exhibition in Moscow in 1959. The house ignited the famous Kitchen Debate between...
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Siamese Asset turns to name design firms

Property developer Siamese Asset Co Ltd will use three renowned architectural firms _ Robert G Boughey, A49 and Somdoon Architects _ to design a 3-billion-baht mixed-use residential project on Ram Intra Road. An artist’s conception of the community garden to be located at the back of townhouses at the Ram Intra project. As the...
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Yakym Pohrebniak’s architectural gem

Ukraina Incognita Tweet Enter email: Hi! http://www.day.kiev.ua/221354 Enter code: Message to editor: Hi! http://www.day.kiev.ua/221354Enter your name:Enter your email: Enter code: In commemoration of the Holy Trinity Church’s 250th anniversary Photo provided by the author   PART OF THE VVEDENSKA TSERKVA (CHURH OF THE PRESENTATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY), BOASTING REFINED SHAPE, SERVING AS...
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Editor’s Picks #243 : Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah

For Archinect’s latest In Focus feature we talked to Australian photo artist Ward Roberts. He noted that a lot of his own work “is photographed in Hong Kong as the colors and repletion in architecture has always fascinated me.“ Also, Sherin Wing dissected the reasons why there are fewer women in upper management or boardroom positions...
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CMHC program helps local firms cash in on China’s building boom

Vancouver Forest is an example of how Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. helps B.C. companies crack China’s booming construction market. As part of a little-known mandate to promote Canadian construction companies internationally, the federal housing agency helped local companies including Kryton International, a Vancouver-based concrete waterproofing provider, and local architectural firm Ekistics Architecture secure...
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Israeli couple shows winter talents in Winnipeg

WINNIPEG – Tel Aviv’s Roy Talmon, 31, and Noa Biran, 30, are working on a new architectural/art project, Winter Garden, for the people of Winnipeg. This, after being one of the winning entries of last year’s Assiniboine Credit Union River Trail’s (ACURT) Warming Huts – Art Architecture Competition on Ice, with their design and...
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Bremerton West High grad nabs top architecture honor

Bremerton West High grad nabs top architecture honor

Steven Holl, a 1966 graduate of Bremerton’s West High School, has earned the American Institute of Architects’s highest award. bank details: Bank: ABN AMRO Bank NV to: Iwan Baan, Amsterdam Acct.nr.: 512635692 IBAN: NL74 ABNA 0512 6356 92 BIC/Swift code: Photo courtesy of Steven Holl Architects One of Steven Holl’s recent projects is the...
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Sustainable building course thrives in Ulster

<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 0–> Before he took the sustainable building adviser course, Brinnier, whose architectural firm serves residential clients in Ulster, Dutchess, Orange and Greene counties, “felt confident that I had extensive knowledge of what we call ‘sustainable’ . . . I was well versed in passive solar (such as where to place windows...
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