Prime Group Realty Trusts Continental Towers Named BOMAs Suburban Chicago Outstanding Building for the Fourth Time.

Prime Group Realty Trust Chicago-based real estate investment trust (REIT), announced today that the premier, Class A, 975,000 square-foot Continental Towers office complex in Rolling Meadows, IL, controlled and managed by Prime Group Realty Trust, was recently named “The Outstanding Building of the Year” (TOBY) for the Chicago Suburban market by the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) of Suburban Chicago. This is the fourth time in... 

Michael B. McCook Joins Trikona Group as Senior Advisor

Trikona Group, which contributes to the growth of India by creating new asset classes around real estate and infrastructure, today announced that Michael B. McCook, former senior investment officer of real estate for the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), has joined Trikona Group as one of three senior advisors. Mr. McCook will advise the fund management division of the Trikona Group, having spent over 20 years in senior executive... 

Time-Saver Standards for Landscape Architecture

Newly designed and containing a full 40 percent completely new content, Time-Saver Standards for Landscape Architecture, Second Edition, continues to be the most complete source of site design and construction standards and data. It is fully metric, to meet Federal and International requirements. It features increased coverage of: Site storm water “best management” practices · New New

Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism

Expanding Architecture presents a new generation of creative design carried out in the service of the greater public and the greater good. Questioning how design can improve daily lives, editors Bryan Bell and Katie Wakeford map an emerging geography of architectural activism–or “public-interest architecture”–that might function akin to public-interest law or medicine by expanding architecture’s all all

Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture

The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture is a comprehensive portrayal of the finest built architecture from around the world completed since the year 2000. Divided into six world regions, the Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture provides an important overview of global and local trends in architecture for a wide range of users. users.

Many Save on Utility Bills Indoors, but Not with Their Yard, Lawn, or Garden

While most (96 percent) of U.S. adults have personally adopted sustainable or energy efficient practices at home, comparatively fewer (58 percent) use energy or water saving techniques in their yard, lawn, or garden, according to a new national survey about sustainability. Conducted online by Harris Interactive® on behalf of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), the results were presented at the ASLA Annual Meeting and EXPO in Philadelphia. Of... 

Tokyo Midtown Honor Award for Urban Architecture

The urban design of this world-class, 25-acre mixed-use complex marks a significant cultural shift in the approach to creating public open space and designing landscapes in Japan. Green space in Tokyo is traditionally found in the form of private gardens: landscapes designed to be looked at rather than used. In supporting the client’s vision, Tokyo Midtown’s innovative design includes more than 50% open space, blending large green lawns and parks... 

Planar Landscape Phenomena by Griffin Enright Architects

The ubiquitous lawn was the subject of this heuristic exercise on our cultural relationship to that thin plane of suburban carpet. The installation included the suspension of over 1,000 square feet of grass sod in an exhibition space exploring its tectonic nature by emphasizing its tissue-like thinness, flexibility and texture, while commenting on its negative impacts on our larger environment. The decision to work with sod examined the relationship... 

Hypo-Alpe-Adria Bank

Configured as an interwoven series of building components, this project melds idiosyncratic forms with landscape. Relieved of its obligation to serve as an institutional symbol, this project is free to engage the specificity of context, climate and environment with acute agility, resulting in a new icon for the bank, one that does not represent power or stability, but that responds constructively to its context. The building is partly earth building...