Friday5 - April 2, 2021 - MillerClapperton

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IN THIS WEEK’S FRIDAY5

If you’ve listened to the radio or surfed the web recently, you’ve heard about NFTs – also known as non-fungible tokens. “NFTs are digital files, like architectural renderings and graphic designs, that are available for sale on blockchain where they can be minted, bought, and sold using cryptocurrency. On March 17, someone bought the first virtual reality house, designed by Krista Kim, for half a million dollars.” TIME Magazine even created a series of digital covers and Jack Dorsey of Twitter sold his first tweet as an NFT for $2.9 million last week. The implications are widespread as cryptocurrency gains influence and power to become a mainstream way to invest digitally. Click below to read more from the “Toronto-based Kim, who spoke with RECORD about her process creating the house, and what the future looks like for the world of architecture and NFTs.”

Location: Auburn, AL
Product: ALUCOBOND PLUS (MCM), PAC-CLAD (Single Skin)
General Contractor: BL Harbert International
Architect: Goodwyn Mills & Cawood, Inc.

The new AuburnBank corporate headquarters will be located in downtown Auburn on the corner of East Magnolia Avenue and North Gay Street. AuburnBank will consolidate its corporate headquarters, operations center, and downtown bank by occupying 40,000 square feet of the four-story, 91,000-sqaure-foot office building. The balance of the building will be available for lease. Completion of the project is slated for later this year and MillerClapperton is fabricating and installing 4,400 square feet of Metal Composite Material and 700 square feet of Single Skin.

Winners have been announced for the 68th Annual Progressive Architecture Awards. Six winning projects were selected from 125 entries by a panel of three jurors, which was moderated by ARCHITECT’s former editor-in-chief, Katie Gerfen. The jurors were drawn to “entries that embrace what recent times have made clear are central to a thriving society: community engagement, environmental stewardship, and equitable access to services. From health care and cultural centers to housing, the six winning projects shed the excess in favor of the essential to tackle these core needs and underscore how architecture in service of the greater good is worth celebrating.”

Last week, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) shared the results of the February Architecture Billings Index (ABI), which hit a whopping 53.3, an increase of 8.4 points from January and the first time the ABI has trended positively since February of 2020. “Hopefully, this is the start of a more sustained recovery. It is possible that scores will continue to bounce above and below 50 for the next few months, as recoveries often move in fits and starts,” said AIA chief economist Kermit Baker, Hon. AIA. “Beyond the encouraging billing data, architecture employment added 700 new positions in January and has now regained 45% of the jobs that were lost since the beginning of the pandemic.”

Recommendation: Architecture of Lego
Produced By: Stewart Hicks – Architecture with Stewart

Stewart Hicks is an architectural design educator that leads design studios and lecture courses as an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is also creator of the YouTube series, Architecture with Stewart. In a recent episode, Hicks explores what makes LEGOs so appealing to young and not so young architects and what makes them a good analogy for the design of buildings. “He purchases a box of of LEGOs and uses it as a springboard to talk about what he’s learned from the toy block system. From lessons on modularity and proportion to grammar and resolution, to compositional categories of additive and subtractive, the video break down these fundamental concepts apply to both LEGOs and to the history and design of architecture.”

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