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In this article, the author discusses the program, based on the author's white paper for the Society for Marketing Professional Services Foundation titled "Resetting the Horizon Line." The program questioned how people become owners of design firms and what's expected of them. The paper's insight was that most states today permit professional service firms to be owned either in part or wholly by non-licensed individuals.

The article reports that according to Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, the strength of a structure has little to do with the material used. Ban is known for using recycled cardboard tubes for emergency shelters. Among his latest projects is a pavilion built of a wood and plastic composite from Finnish forestry company UPM Inc. UPM's humidity resistant wood and plastic composite can be used for a range of applications, including flooring for decks with the tools used for woodworking.

The article reports that PicassoMio Gallery is holding a reciprocal exhibition in Madrid and Barcelona in Spain through January 9, 2007 to showcase the work of young American architects, trained at the most prestigious universities. The exhibition is curated by Megan Kelly-Sweeney, an architect from the San Francisco office of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, and Ariane de la Belleissue Lourie, a critic at the Graduate School of Architecture, Yale University, working with Peter Eisenman.

The article presents questions and answers provided by the Resource Directors Association. Resource director Katherine Day Sutton at Fox & Fowle Architects, responds to these queries. To a question whether there is a countertop material that's more environmentally friendly than stone or solid surfacing, Sutton replied that for years, a company called Richlite Co. has been making industrial grade, natural fiber composites for the aerospace, marine, sports and food services industries, but their materials have only recently been discovered by interior designers.

The article presents information on architect Bruce Goff, who was also a teacher. It is stated that Goff was the most democratic of architects because he believed that architecture was a combination of the individual architect's expression and the individual client's needs. The article also presents a conversation with several people who had been closely associated with Goff, including his former secretary Jerri Hodges Bonebrake, professor Arn Henderson, and architect Bart Prince.

The article presents information related to designers Jim Richärd and Kelly Bauer, who are the founding directors of architectural firm richärd+bauer. Richärd and Bauer have more than 20 years of library design experience behind them, and have been named the 2007 Designers of the Year. Both of them attended the University of Arizona in Tempe, Arizona. Stephen Kennedy joined them as a partner in 1999.

This article presents information about the RTKL balances technological sophistication with patient-friendly warmth in a state-of-the-art facility for the Indiana Heart Hospital. The Indiana Heart Hospital, is a new $ 60 million, 261,000 square hospital designed by the Dallas office of RTKL and was completed last February. To create an environment that balances technological sophistication with patient friendly warmth, architects worked closely with doctors, nurses and other hospital staff to understand the entire patient-care process from reception to discharge. The five-story hospital stands out as a dynamic, cheerful collage of colorful forms from Interstate 69, the highway that passes the hospital's 11 acre site.

This article presents information regarding the project of Kostow Greenwood Architects (KGA) during the build-out of a Manhattan loft space for Smart Design. Since Davin Stowell, CEO of Smart Design is in the design business he has been one of Kostow Greenwood Architects' most involved clients since KGA was hired for the build-out of Smart's new 40,000-sq.-ft. According to Stowell, the overall concept is to repurpose common or industrial materials that have an interesting quality, and to use them in an elegant but honest way that demonstrates their richness and complexity. The budget friendly materials palette will also yield floating ceilings made of Tectum, a material resembling shredded wheat, that will assist acoustics in the conference rooms.

The article discusses the importance of post-occupancy evaluations or POEs for designers. POE can provide valuable information to designers and clients. The evaluations help clients in gaining knowledge about how well their new space is performing, and designers are able to establish benchmarks that they can apply to other projects. The managing principal in the Dallas office of IA Interior Architects, Bob Deering, said that they try to practice POE on their every projects. The best POE, however, will take the qualitative issues, as well as quantitative ones, into account.

This article focuses on the architectural application of titanium. Perhaps the most famous architectural application for titanium is Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Bilbao. The silver-gray hue and the distinct warm and buttery sheen helped Gehry achieve a signature style, in Bilbao and beyond. Other designers are following suit, using titanium on the exterior, and more recently, indoors. The Denver Art Museum by Studio Daniel Libeskind with the Davis Partnership, set to be completed in 2006, will feature some 240,000 sq. ft. of the material to be used as cladding.

Since the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) released its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System in March 2000, hundreds of public, private, and non-profit building projects in the U.S. and abroad have adopted it as the industry standard. USGBC offers workshops preparing building industry professionals to meet LEED certification goals for their projects and the growing demand for green design expertise in the marketplace. Taking the Professional Accreditation Exam is an excellent way for architects, interior designers, and others to shine.

Interviews architect Gerardo Fitz-Gibbon. Factor which inspired him to pursue a career in architecture; His comments on the interior space of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; His views on the most valuable lesson he learned from his parents.

COVID-19 may have disrupted the architecture and design industry's preeminent international shows--such as ICFF, HD Expo, and Salone del Mobile--but it takes more than a virus to stop the design [...]

The winners of the inaugural ICFF Constellation Awards were named on May 19, the opening day of ICFF 2019, at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York. The awards [...]

Putting patients first, the concept of a clinic on wheels that delivers dental care to the workplace fits in perfectly with on-the-go tech workers and their lifestyles. Dr. Sara Creighton, [...]

How does one define the work of INNOCAD, the Austrian firm led by Martin Lesjak? The firm's portfolio--architecture and interiors for offices, exhibitions, hospitality, retail, and residences--affirms a designer's ability [...]

Pinterest is a website that enables people to share their love of design: Everyone can be a tastemaker or style guru of their particular passion. Given the diversity of visions [...]

1100 Architect JURY 'It's a surprising balance of eclectic modernism in an institutional setting. The sculptural and engaging nature of the space draws its patrons in, creating an inviting community [...]

For the first-ever ICFF Constellation Awards at this year's ICFF in May, Contract conducted live judging in six categories--Best Booth, Gallery Winner, Young or Emerging Designer, Best School, Best Country [...]

Nine new books to influence and inspire you Space Settlements By Fred Scharmen Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 208 pages, $24 In the summer of 1975, NASA brought [...]

Emmanuelle Moureaux of Tokyo-based Emmanuelle Moureaux Architecture + Design makes tangible the concept of shikiri, or 'dividing or creating space with colors,' with her immersive, rainbow-hued art installation, 'Color and [...]

King Abdullah Specialty Children's Hospital (page 54) who Architect and interior designer: Perkins+Will. Architect of record: Dar Al-Handasah. Architecture project team: Robert Jones Lindgren, AIA, James H. Smith, AIA, Diedra [...]

PELLE is a New York-based design studio founded in 2011 by the husband-and-wife team of Oliver and Jean Pelle. Together, they have designed lighting, furnishings, art pieces, interior accessory items, [...]

International Wine & Spirits Museum (page 74) who Architect and interior designer: Shanghai Godolphin. Project team: Kyle Mertensmeyer; Yin Li Xue; Matt Shields; Iris Qiu; Ryland Auburn; Kelton Spresser. Contractor: [...]

Olson (page 98) who Architect and interior designer: Gensler. Project team: Bill Lyons, principal: Betsy Vohs, senior associate; Jason Hall, senior associate; Beth Nist; Amy Barthel; Beth Mosenthal; Mark Spencer; [...]

Ruth Adler Schnee (above) has created textiles since the 1940s and her designs, which are colorful and often feature organic and geometric shapes, have become classics. She obtained degrees from [...]