Further Down the Merry Road to BIM

Ghafari 

3D modeling is changing the design and construction industry, but collaborative project management is needed to manage that change.>> more

The Skyscraper: Still Soaring

Arup

The world is awash in new skyscrapers. But does this type of building really have a place in the modern world? >> more

AEC in Focus—How Are Architects Using Digital Design Tools?

NBBJ
HNTB Architecture's 200 professionals provide comprehensive buildings services to clients nationwide in the aviation, education, federal government, civic and private sectors >>more

Technology to Compress Building Cycles

Ghafari                                                                                                          
Virtual design technology helps manufacturing companies build plants and facilities quicker and cheaper >>more

3D Problem Solvers
General Motors
After General Motors Corp. opened its 2 million sq. ft. Lansing Grand River vehicle manufacturing plant in 2001, a vice president at the automaker issued a challenge to GM's Worldwide Facilities Group: Improve factors such as cost, speed and safety by 25% on the next big project in Lansing, Mich. — the $1.5 billion Lansing Delta Township vehicle manufacturing complex >>more

Open Book
BDP
The new home of the Bridge Academy, a secondary school in a low-income area of Hackney, London, will be a complex seven-story, terraced building, fitted into a relatively small site >>more

Virtual Building Blocks
General Motors
Before General Motors broke ground on its Lansing Delta Township automobile manufacturing plant on Jan. 30, 2004, the 2.4million-square-foot facility had already been designed, built and equipped -- in cyberspace >>more

Grand Prize Winner in Builings Interior Design Awards 2006: St. Anthony Summit Medical Center, Frisco, CO

Earl Swensson Associates Inc.

Colorado's Frisco, a vacation hotspot that's home to 35,000 year-round residents and 70,000-plus visitors during tourist seasons each year, was in great need of a new hospital >>more

Plans Announced for $100 Million Westin Hotel and Residential Development at Jordan’s Meats Plant
Cooper Carry
Plans were unveiled today for a $100 million Westin Hotel and condominium development at the site of the former Jordan’s Meats plant on Portland’s eastern waterfront. >>more

Caswell Park and Mechanicsville Commons win prestigious award
Barge Waggoner Sumner & Cannon
On August 18, 2006 the Knoxville-Knox County Metropolitan Planning Commission (MPC) held an event celebrating their 50th anniversary. >>more

University of Cincinnati Campus Recreation Center
Morphosis Architects
With the muscular body of an athletics compound, the slit-eyed head of a dorm, the diaphanous wings of a swarm of lecture halls, and the robust belly of a food court, the University of Cincinnati’s new Campus Recreation Center is a chimera of a building. And if that mix—with juxtapositions as unexpected as a Surrealist’s “exquisite corpse”—were not complex enough, the 350,000-square-foot facility morphs slightly wherever its contrasting “body parts” touch one another or meet such adjacencies as, say, an existing football stadium wedged up against them. >>more

The Hearst Tower
Foster And Partners
New York City’s Hearst building is a bit of a jack-in-the-box without the Jack. >>more

The National Library
T. R. Hamzah & Yeang
Ken Yeang has been preaching the green gospel for more than 30 years. >>more

National Assembly for Wales
Richard Rogers Partnership
For such a comparatively modest building, the new National Assembly for Wales was charged with immense political, economic, and architectural expectations. >>more

Maui Memorial celebrates
NBBJ
Maui Memorial Medical Center's new $46 million wing is further evidence the state-run facility is making progress toward meeting the community's healthcare needs, officials said. >>more

County library hires planner for downtown expansion
The Troyer Group
Expansion of the downtown St. Joseph County Public Library is one step closer. >>more

Structural Origami - BDP's Bridge Academy at Hackney
Building Design Partnership
David Chadwick looks at BDP's Bridge Academy at Hackney, winners of a Bentley BE Award this year, thatprovides an inspirational learning environment for local students >>more

Greener Than Green
Lionakis Beaumont Design Group
With each new hospital campus construction project, Kaiser Permanente ups the ante for sustainability. And nowhere are the green elements as striking as its current $462 million project in Modesto. >>more

Morphosis Featured in Wired Magazine
Morphosis
The September issue of Wired Magazine features an article on the U.S. federal government's Satellite Operations Facility and its designer, Thom Mayne, head of Morphosis, 2005 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, and Bentley BIM user. >>more

New Mexico Firm of the Year
Dekker/Perich/Sabatini
Dekker/Perich/Sabatini was recently honored by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) New Mexico Chapter with the New Mexico Architectural “Firm of the Year” Award. >>more

TVS Architects Design New Island Community In Dubai
Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates, Inc.
TVS Architects announced today that Sama Dubai, a division of Dubai Holding, commissioned the Atlanta-based architectural firm to design the conceptual vision for "The Lagoons," a 70-million square foot waterfront project in Dubai. >>more

Scottish Natural Heritage HQ wins BRE office building of the year award
Keppie Design Ltd
At the BRE Conference in London on 9 May, representatives of Keppie Design received the BRE Office Building of the Year award for the new £13m Scottish Natural Heritage Headquarters in Inverness. >>more

John Portman & Associates Awarded Shanghai Jin HongQiao International Center
John Portman & Associates
John Portman & Associates, Inc. (PORTMAN) is pleased to announce the signing of a design contract for a large mixed use project to be located in the Hongqiao Economic and Technological Development Zone of Shanghai, China. >>more

Design for Nissan HQ Unveiled
Gresham Smith and Partners
Gresham, Smith and Partners' design for the Nissan North America corporate headquarters in Franklin, TN was unveiled on June 15th. The form of the glass-and-metallic, 450,000-square-foot building captures Nissan's dynamic culture. >>more

Richard Rogers Golden Lion Award
Richard Rogers Partnership
Richard Rogers has been awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime achievement by the The Board of La Biennale di Venezia >>more

2006 Firm of the Year – AIA Houston
PGAL
Since its founding in 1946, PGAL has consistently provided quality architecture for landmark structures in Houston. >>more

Designs Unveiled for Freedom Tower’s Neighbors
Richard Rogers Partnership & Norman Foster
The developer of the new World Trade Center unveiled the designs this morning for three skyscrapers at ground zero, which in their gargantuan scale would reshape the New York skyline. >>more

Biodesign Institute Wins 2006 Lab of the Year
Lord, Aeck & Sargent
The Lab of The Year Award, given by R&D magazine, is an international competition that recognizes innovative laboratory design that creates a superior working environment and supports research excellence. >>more