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According to Engineering News-Record, “design firms are overwhelmingly reporting that funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is already having a signgificant influence on company scope of programs with local and state agencies. For the sixth consecutive year, total revenue for the Top 500-listed firms increased, rising 2.2% to $107 billion in 2021.” Over the past decade the share of Top 500 revenue owned by the leading 10 firms has decreased significantly and medium-sized firms appear to be the beneficiary of this shift. You can read more about what factors are contributing to the growth in market share for firms here and click below for the complete list of top ranked firms by revenue for design services.
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Location: Mountain View, CA
Product: Equitone (Fiber Cement)
Architect: HMC Architects
Saint Francis is a coeducational college preparatory school located in the San Francisco metro area. Construction is now underway on a new Innovation Center on the school’s 25-acre campus. The new center will hold 29 classrooms and labs with flexible seating to accommodate varied learning styles and purposes. Additional highlights include a ‘maker space’ for woodworking, welding, and painting while ‘Black-box Theater’ is suited for performances and events with seating for up to 200. MillerClapperton will fabricate 4,900 square feet of Fiber Cement for the project.
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The American Institute of Architects (AIA) recently announced the winners of the 2022 COTE Top Ten Awards. First established in 1997, the annual awards program celebrates projects that exemplify the integration of design excellence and environmental performance. Entrants are evaluated against a framework that includes 10 principles, which help architects achieve projects that are zero-carbon, equitable, resilient, and healthy. “This year’s winners are located across the U.S., from San Francisco to Boston, and include a children’s museum, an art center, a library, two K-12 projects, a university complex, a public works building, a nonprofit headquarters, affordable housing for veterans, and an office building.”
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“Depicting architectural visualizations of the future is no easy feat, so it makes much sense for designers to use aspects of our existing architecture as a foundation for these fictional worlds. Despite recent advancements in terms of animation technologies and CGI, there is still substantial use of existing architecture to provide tangible structural elements in film. In terms of recycling architectural aesthetics, elements of the past and future are often integrated to create a hybridized style, an amalgamation of Retro, Dystopian, Modernist and Futuristic themes. Perhaps the most varied Sci-fi movies in terms of architectural visualization is the Star Wars saga.” Keep reading to explore the architecture from a galaxy far, far away and a few days late – May the 4th be with you.
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Recommendation: From NASA to Bouncy Houses: The Evolution of Inflatables
Produced By: Architecture With Stewart
“Inflatable Architecture has enabled the imaginations of environmental dreamers of all types. From figures like Buckminster Fuller to Ant Farm, inflatables promise to liberate people from the harsh conditions of nature or the tyranny of architecture. Originally developed by the US Military for radar enclosures on the arctic, inflatables were picked up by NASA before their secrets were bestowed upon the public who deployed them to solve all sorts of problems, from enclosing pools to stadiums.” A new video by Stewart Hicks, explores “the evolution from military and NASA technology to buildings like the façade on the Kaplan Institute.”
Hicks is an architectural design educator that leads studios and lecture courses as an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. You can check out this recent video below, as well as more from his weekly series – Architecture with Stewart.
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