Following a period of robust growth, nearly 20% in 2023 and an additional 6% in 2024, the construction industry is looking at a stark slowdown. According to the American Institute of Architects’ Consensus Construction Forecast, subdued growth is predicted in the coming years, with increases expected at just 2.2% for 2025 and 2.6% for 2026 across nonresidential sectors. Meanwhile, spending on institutional facilities is projected to see the strongest gains of 6% this year, and commercial construction spending is expected to increase by 1.7%. Check out this article in Architect Magazine to learn more.
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Location: Arlington, VA
Products: Alucobond (MCM); Morin (Profiled Single-Skin Panels); Parasoleil (Perforated Panels)
General Contractor: Turner Construction Co.
Architect: Stantec Architecture
Arlington Transit (ART) is Arlington County’s local transit system, and was in need to address parking, operations and maintenance for its growing bus fleet. ART has significantly increased its number of routes and services over the past 10 years and plans to continue growing over the next 20 years, supported by a fleet of more than 100 buses.
Located on three parcels of land at the southern edge of Arlington, VA, the project includes a 45,433-square-foot, three-story operations and maintenance building and a 65,096-square-foot, four-tier parking structure, designed for a minimum of LEED Silver certification. The facility will perform regular preventive bus maintenance, repairs and other unscheduled maintenance work, while also including administration and operations functions and parking for buses and staff.
For this recently completed project, MillerClapperton fabricated and installed 14,400 square feet of Metal Composite Material (MCM); 3,300 square feet of Profiled Single-Skin Metal Panels; and 2,600 square feet of 3/16-inch Perforated Panels.
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In this opinion piece in Architectural Record, Edward Mazria, FAIA, founder of Architecture 2030, discusses how architects, planners and builders are currently revolutionizing how the built environment is designed and constructed, showcasing the significant power of architecture and planning to drive greenhouse gas emissions reductions, address community and social well-being, and solve critical local, regional and global challenges. As we approach 2030, Mazria notes that the next five years will be crucial for scaling up proven solutions, implementing stronger actions, reducing embodied carbon, and adapting a sufficiency mindset to drive deeper emissions reductions.
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How many times have you heard, “I saw it on Instagram”? With Instagram’s ability to put photos and videos in front of us, this article in ArchDaily asks if our perception of architecture is shifting to fit this new dynamic, with an increasing focus on creating designs that are likely to go viral? While no one may fully understand the program’s algorithm, Enrique Tovar takes a look at architecture’s future—one where emerging architects are so deeply embedded in social media that their influence is almost impossible to ignore.
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Recommendation: “Beyond the Envelope: Twenty-one Pioneering Architectural Projects from the Early Twenty-first Century, Twenty-one Interviews with Their Architects”
Edited by: Tom Verebes, published by Oscar Riera Ojeda
Imagine being able to invite 21 of today’s most brilliant architects to dinner, seating a pair of architecture students primed on one of the architect’s most significant works in between them. While you may not be able to actually hear the conversations that could take place, the new book “Beyond the Envelope: Twenty-one Pioneering Architectural Projects from the Early Twenty-first Century, Twenty-one Interviews with Their Architects” offers candid and insightful interviews conducted online by final-year masters of architecture students in a building envelope course at New York Institute of Technology between 2021 and 2023, and broadcast as part of the school’s program of public events. Tom Verebes, the students’ instructor, edited and does the introduction, with each interview focusing on a single building, notable for its innovative envelope, with six themes organizing the projects.
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