Fentress Architects has earned ISO 9001:2008 Certification for Production and Delivery of Architectural, Interior Design and Planning Services. According to the firm’s announcement, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certifies companies that exhibit the highest level of quality management and client service. It also notes that Fentress Architects passed the two-phase audit without a single [...]

The recently opened Berrien Springs School District’s Virtual Learning Academy in Michigan was designed with an abundance of glazing features, including its storefront system, which helps make it unique. The building’s striking exterior, designed by Edwardsburg, Mich.-based CARMI Design Group, is one indication that this school is different from others in Southwestern Michigan. According to [...]

To state the obvious, glass recycling is what allows us to turn glass waste into usable products … everybody knows this, right? Sure they do, and if you’re like me you already make an effort to throw your empty bottles into the recycle bin rather than your generic waste bin. “In 2010, Americans generated about [...]

With 2012 just around the corner, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at some likely architectural trends and perhaps what the industry can expect to see in the future. In my research I came across three that I think have particular significance in regards to glass and glazing. Well two, I [...]

Marilyn Monroe was not the inspiration for Absolute 4 and 5, the last two towers in the Absolute City Centre five-tower complex in Mississauga, Ontario. But that’s the nickname locals have given the curvy, elliptical-shaped structures. Mississauga, a growing, relatively new city in need of a structure that would help establish its own identity, separate [...]

The University of Michigan Law School Academic Building and Hutchins Hall Student Commons addition is part of major renovation not seen since the opening of Hutchins Hall in 1933. The construction project, which was designed by Integrated Design Solutions in Troy, Mich., and Hartman-Cox in Washington, D.C., broke ground in September 2009, and the Student [...]

The board of directors of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) voted to award the 2012 AIA Gold Medal to Steven Holl, FAIA. The AIA Gold Medal, which honors an individual whose significant body of work has had a lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture, is considered to be the profession’s highest [...]

Architect Michael Graves has been named the recipient of the 2012 Richard H. Driehaus Prize at the University of Notre Dame. Graves, the tenth Driehaus Prize laureate, will receive $200,000 and a bronze miniature of the Choregic Monument of Lysikrates during a March 24 ceremony in Chicago.  Graves is Founding Principal of the firm Michael [...]

Thornton Tomasetti of New York, a company focused on engineering design, investigation and analysis, hired architect Richard J. Vivenzio as vice president of the Building Performance segment. Vivenzio, a licensed architect in New York and New Jersey, has more than 28 years of experience in architectural project management, construction administration, building diagnostic services and forensic [...]

When architects with the Atlanta operations of LEO A DALY designed the 90,000‐square‐foot Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) Library in Lawrenceville, Ga., they knew they wanted the structure to be one that would convey a feeling of openness, light and transparency. Built as a “Knowledge Center,” with the Potts Company in Conyers, Ga., as the general [...]