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If you’ve had an opportunity to travel around the country, you can probably rattle off your favorite cities if asked. There’s so much to see and experience that you don’t need to be an architect or a history buff to appreciate them either. From historic districts to towering skyscrapers, there are plenty of cities worthy of your admiration, but some are more well known than others for their architectural prowess. Thrillist has compiled a list of nod-worthy American cities that are ranked as the most design-friendly in the country. From coast-to-coast, and the places in between, click below to see if your favorites made the list.
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Location: Cincinnati. OH
Product: larson FR (MCM), Fabral (SS)
General Contractor: Miller-Valentine Construction
Architect: BDHP Architecture
Total Quality Logistics is adding a second building to its headquarters campus at Ivy Pointe Boulevard, and plans are to add 600 more jobs over the next five years, primarily in sales and information technology roles. The privately-owned transport and shipping company will ultimately hold more than 2,000 employees when construction of the 130,000 square foot building is complete. For this project, MillerClapperton is fabricating and installing 16,000 square feet of Metal Composite Material, 6,300 square feet of single skin, and 9,100 square feet of extruded aluminum planks.
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Colors strongly influence the sensations we feel in an environment and can be used to influence a user’s behavior. Beyond strictly aesthetic preferences, certain colors offer different meanings, but “color doesn’t depend only on light and the environment, but also the perception we have of it.” There are countless studies on the theory of colors, but one author and amateur artist, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, pointed out that identification of tones is subjective, but the effects are universal. For example warm colors are dynamic and cause feelings of comfort and stimulus in people, while cool colors have a softer, soothing effect. In the architecture field, the possibilities are infinite, as are the contracts between materials and colors, and as such, colors are a “fundamental tool to facilitate or complicate the reading of the environment.”
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Last week, Construction Executive Magazine and Associated Builders and Contractors’ (ABC) held a webinar featuring ABC chief economist, Anirban Basu, that focused on how the recent pandemic has rocked a nearly invincible economy, wreaking havoc on the construction industry, and how the current recession might dovetail into prospective future growth. He helped listeners grasp the impact of the pandemic, inflation, employment, and construction spending. He also answered questions from attendees such as positive impacts of COVID-19 on the economy, how a change of administration would impact the economic outlook, which markets will struggle, and with the “new normal” of social distancing, is there a significant trend in the retooling of office space? If you missed it and you’d like to hear more from the mid-year forecast, click below.
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Recommendation: Shop Talk with Melissa Baker of the USGBC
Interview By: Snips Magazine
Melissa Baker, senior vice president of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) shares how the organization’s LEED ratings are driving a leaner, more sustainable building process. She says that “green building” and “integrated project delivery” are two of the most popular terms in the skilled trades today. “LEED encourages an integrative design approach, which requires getting different stakeholders and diverse perspectives at the table together to align on sustainability goals,” says Baker. She also discusses when buildings with LEED ratings really increased and why, when LEED will become the rule for all communities, and how the LEED system has changed the way buildings operate.
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