Innovative Lighting Partnership Highlights Significant Architectural Achievement

It’s brand new. It can be seen from miles around. It’s an architectural landmark that embodies key influences and inspirations from ancient Islamic art and traditions, melded with the artistry and geometries associated with speed, movement and spectacle. Its visual impact is all made possible by leading-edge LED technology. It’s the Yas Hotel, a 500-room, 85, 000-square-meter complex recently completed by Aldar Properties PJSC, Abu Dhabi’s... 

The Melbourne Convention Centre earn a ‘6-Star, Green-Star’

In the highly competitive Business Events market, hundreds of cities around the world are vying to attract global attention and a larger slice of the meetings market. Melbourne, one of the World’s Most Livable Cities – according to The Economist – has found a way to not only be noticed, but to set a global benchmark. Responding to the international call for sustainability, the Australian city has opened the ‘greenest’ convention center in... 

The New American Home Showcases Leading Edge in Green Technology

Featuring cutting-edge energy efficient products and practices and stunning contemporary design, the 2009 edition of The New American Home® was recently unveiled at the International Builders’ Show® in Las Vegas. The New American Home offers real-world demonstrations of the latest concepts in architecture, construction techniques, products and lifestyle trends. Las Vegas builder Blue Heron and architect Danielian Associates collaborated with... 

Wight & Company Wins Seven Awards for Design, Engineering and Construction of Public Projects

Wight & Company, a leader in integrated architecture, engineering and construction solutions for the built environment, has won six awards for its public projects. These included Best Overall Project from Design Build Institute of America (DBIA); two “Project of the Year” awards from Midwest Construction magazine; and Excellence and Merit Awards from the American Council of Engineering Companies of Illinois (ACEC – Illinois). “It’s gratifying... 

Modern Architecture (Oxford History of Art)

Colquhoun, an eminent scholar in the field of architecture, offers here a new account of international modernism that explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and failures. The book focuses on the work of the main architects of the movement such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier, and Mies Mies

Prominent Women-Owned Architecture Firm Joins Forces with Perkins+Will

San Francisco-based SMWM, one of America’s premier, award-winning women-owned architecture, urban design and planning practices, has joined forces with Perkins+Will, a global integrated design firm with 18 North American and 3 International offices. “Combining the knowledge, expertise and resources of two such professionally complementary and philosophically aligned firms will result in one of the most comprehensive, innovative and integrated... 

HOK and Biomimicry Guild Form Alliance to Integrate Nature’s Innovations in the Design of Buildings, Communities and Cities Worldwide

HOK and the Biomimicry Guild have forged a first-of-its-kind alliance linking the natural and built environment. This exclusive relationship between one of the world’s largest architectural design firms and the only bio-inspired innovation company will integrate nature’s innovations in the planning and design of buildings, communities and cities worldwide. Established by biologists Janine Benyus and Dr. Dayna Baumeister in 1998, Biomimicry... 

Information Center for the Petrochemical Complex of Rio de Janeiro

This project received an Honorary Award in a national architecture competition for the Information Center of the new Petrochemical Complex of Rio de Janeiro. The complex is one of the largest public infra-structure projects ever to be undertaken in Brazil, and is currently being coordinated by PETROBRAS, the state-owned oil company.The complex will be located in the municipality of Itaboraí, in the edge of Rio de Janeiro’s metropolitan region,... 

SaaS Continues to Gain Popularity Across and Beyond Target Markets of Architecture, Manufacturing & Hospitality

PHASE 2 International announced that it is continuing its efforts to grow the business and expand its presence with the opening of a new Seattle-area Pacific Northwest office. The company’s success, as evidenced by its recent e-Biz “Software of the Year” award and exceptional revenue and profit growth in the first half of 2008 comes from the outstanding success of its software as a service (SaaS) deployments in major vertical markets that include...