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Veer Tower Unveiled at CityCenter
CityCenter in Las Vegas, the 67-acre city-within-a-city, is celebrating the opening of Veer Towers and its model homes. Designed by internationally renowned architect Helmut Jahn, Veer Towers was created as an architectural and artistic landmark on the global scene and is CityCenter’s only completely residential development. Inclined at five-degree angles, its two 37-story glass towers [...]
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Industry News
FRANCE – Glass Elements Help Define New Library and Auditorium at Amiens University
Designed by the French firm Serero Architects and located in the heart of Amiens University in France, the new library and auditorium have been designed ...
Even with modest improvements in the overall U.S. economy, nonresidential construction spending is expected to decrease by more than 20 percent in 2010 with a ...
Altoon+Porter Architects LLP receives ICSC’s “Best-of-the-Best” Global Design & Development Award
Altoon + Porter Architects LLP and its client CPN received the Best-of-the-Best global design and development award presented by ICSC for their CentralWorld project in ...
Partners Joseph Fleischer, Timothy Hartung, Duncan Hazard, Kevin McClurkan, Richard Olcott, Susan Rodriguez, Tomas Rossant, Todd Schliemann and Don Weinreich and Design Counsel James Polshek ...
David Chipperfield and Paul Cocksedge to Create Installations for the London Design Festival
Now in its fourth year, Size + Matter is an annual cornerstone project of the London Design Festival at Southbank Centre, which explores the dynamic ...
New York Lobby Houses Massive Glass Installation
Designed by glass installation artist Chris Cosma, the lobby inside 1515 Broadway in New York holds an architectural surprise: a 4,000-square foot crystal-clear wall of ...
AGG Blogs
Lite Notes
By Ellen Rogers
Lessons to Learn Continuing education is an important part of most anyone’s career. After all, even if you’re one who has only recently finished school, it’s still not likely that you remember every single thing you ever learned from day one. Taking advantage of those ongoing opportunities that allow you to continue learning, even after the diplomas are [...]
Day to Day in Architecture
By Denise Beneke
Improving Process through Design Architects’ jobs are to design buildings. Most would consider this to be true. However, many times our jobs go beyond that. For the past several months I have been working on a master plan and programming a new intake facility for the county jail. This project isn’t just about the building, instead it’s about learning [...]
Based on Experience
By Michael Bitterice
Catching Up When I began this blog, I admitted that I was NOT a blogger. Well, I proved it! Over the short life of my blog, a couple of readers have submitted questions. Now, I hate to admit it but I could not figure out how to respond and no one left a return email for me. [...]
As I See It
By Charles Cumpston
Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Do you Twitter? Do you have a page on Facebook? Are you on LinkedIn? These are the social media sites of today’s world and increasingly a part of our business as well as our social lives. According to a study which the firm Function: recently conducted, looking at the habits of more thab 600 architects, [...]
Event News
Presentations Shed Some Light on the Daylighting Design Process
Daylighting designs have seen increasing interest in recent years. Several presenters during the second Building Envelope Science and Technology Conference (BEST 2) talked about different aspects of daylighting design. The event took place last week in Portland, Ore., and was ...
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