Friday5 - May 5, 2023 - MillerClapperton

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IN THIS WEEK’S FRIDAY5

“Southeastern design firms stayed busy and grew revenue in 2022, and as they look to the future, they expect to maintain that momentum as people continue to move to Southeastern metro areas and federal dollars support infrastructure investment.

In last year’s design firm rankings, the roughly 130 firms who participated reported a little more than $7.3 billion in revenue across the Southeast for 2021, up slightly from the $7.26 billion in revenue they reported for the previous year. This year’s rankings show a significant jump in revenue across the region for design firms, 130 of which reported just under $8.5 billion in revenue for 2022.

Staying true to form, the most active Southeastern states are Florida, North Carolina and Georgia, in that order. Design revenue in those states increased over last year as well, especially in Florida, where revenue jumped from $3.05 billion to almost $3.5 billion.” You can read more highlights from the survey below, including the top firms by ranking in the Southeast or view the nationally ranked Top 500 Design Firms here.

Location: Smyrna, GA
Product: Vitrabond FR (MCM), PAC-CLAD (Single Skin)
General Contractor: Brasfield & Gorrie, LLC
Architect: HKS

Northside Medical Cumberland is the hospital’s latest addition to Atlanta’s health care community. Located at the corner of Cumberland Parkway and Atlanta Road, the three-story, 60,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art medical office building houses imaging services, primary care offices, and urgent care. The top floor has an infusion clinic, offering 360-degree views of the city for those receiving chemotherapy treatments. MillerClapperton fabricated and installed 24,200 square feet of Metal Composite Material and 6,200 square feet of Profiled Single Skin for the project.

We celebrated Earth Day just a few short weeks ago and to coincide with this “holiday” is the announcement of the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) winners of the 2023 COTE Top Ten Awards. Now in its 27th year, the annual program celebrates 10 projects displaying “integration of design excellence with environmental performance” according to the organization. The program itself formally shifted five years ago and rather than being solely based on “predictive performance”, today’s winners have also been judged on “post-occupancy data and narratives”. “The 2023 winners include affordable housing, a living laboratory, two offices, a nature center, three education projects, one infrastructure project, and a mixed-use project located across the United States.”

Since its founding in 1972, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has dedicated itself to the preservation and protection of some of the world’s most important natural and cultural sites. “The program currently includes 1,157 wonders in 167 countries” and the list continues to grow year after year. Some of these landmarks are iconic and more well known than others, but some have a deeper history, revealing that they have unexpected origin stories. From the archeological site of Delphi in Greece to a Buddhist temple constructed in the eighth and ninth centuries (which also happens to be the largest in the world) you may surprised at what transpired at these sites before they became significant landmarks. Keep reading to learn about these special sites.

Recommendation: Classic Album Covers Featuring Iconic Architecture
Compiled By: Architizer

“A popular saying, widely but not definitively attributed to Elvis Costello, holds that “writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” In addition to skewering music critics — a perennial punching bag — this joke asserts the ultimate integrity of each individual art form. What is expressed in one medium, the logic goes, you cannot translate into another.

Album art presents an interesting challenge to Costello’s formalist maxim. While a sleeve design cannot really tell you what the music inside sounds like, it can become a part of the total work, bringing a visual component to the listening experience. In cases when architecture finds its way onto an album cover, these buildings also get bound up with the music. When this is pulled off effectively, music and architecture can speak to each other in intriguing ways.” Check out 15 examples of memorable album covers featuring architecture below.