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Last week, the U.S. Green Building Council announced the recipients of the annual LEED Homes Awards. The awards recognize LEED-certified residential projects that are positively impacting communities through sutainable, healthy, and resilient design, as well as builiders and developers who are helping to advance green home building. Housing projects from around the world, including those in the U.S., Mexico, and Turkey, were recognized, and the Project of the Year was awarded to Park Mozaik A Block in Ankara, Turkey. To see the complete list of award recipients, click below.
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Location: Philadelphia, PA
Product: ALUCOBOND PLUS (MCM)
General Contractor: Suffolk Construction Company
Architect: Cope Linder Architects
A new mixed-use project called 1300 Fairmount is coming to downtown Philly. The 14-story building will span 624,575 square feet, and it will include 478 new rental apartments ranging from studios to three-bedroom apartments. The retail portion of the project will include a new Aldi grocery store, as well as a pre-school. For this project, MillerClapperton is fabricating 1,500 square feet of Metal Composite Material. |
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If you’ve had the opportunity to eat at a restaurant recently, there’s a good chance that you encountered some changes to your usual dining experience. Masked waiters, spaced tables, plexiglass barriers, and even stuffed animals occupying seats, are just a few of the new measures intended to keep diners safe. There is still a lot we don’t know about COVID-19, but its person-to-person spread is certainly a threat to the way restaurants operate. They say that necessity is the mother of invention and restaurants are finding creative ways to reopen while adhering to social distancing. This time of year, we typically see a rise in outdoor dining, but in some cities, it’s the only way to eat out, so restaurants are taking advantage of new initiatives to expand their footprints outside.
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Today, it’s nearly impossible for architects to propose a new project without accompanying renders. It has become a “valuable reference that bares more weight than one might think. Not only can it be one of the closest possible representations of the architect’s vision, if approved, it can also become a promise to clients, investors, and the general public.” Early in the design phases, render accuracy is extremely important, since detailed and well-executed visuals can note issues and “allow designers, engineers, and builders to anticipate potential complications that would otherwise require project compromises.” In this piece by ArchDaily, renowned architects and their teams share how meticulous consideration of visualizations can help achieve inspiring works.
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Recommendation: Architect’s Reveal Pandemic Reads
In Partnership With: Architect’s Newspaper
Those of us who were fortunate enough to work remotely in recent months likely also experienced one of the positive effects of the lockdown – more time. With less time commuting, there were extra minutes, even extra hours in the day that we hadn’t experienced before. The internet has been filled with people trying new hobbies like baking and crafts, while some were anxious to finally get to that stack of books. So, Architect’s Newspaper polled architects – not for their sourdough recipes, but their quarantine reads. If you’ve run out of books, or looking to start, click below to get seven worthwhile recommendations.
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