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This article presents information on the interior architecture of Studio 0.10. The plain brick exterior of AZ Los Angeles (AZLA) gives few clues to what lies within. Except for an address number, no sign identifies this one-story industrial building across from a cartowing lot in Santa Monica, California. Like an exclusive club, quietly making an anonymous wrapper and in-the-know clientele part of its caché, this boxy shed reveals only a glint of its interior realm: just a pattern of translucent rectangles playing across its glass entry doors. Inside, AZLA offers facilities for engineering, recording, and composing music, voice-over, and dubbing tracks for radio, television, and film. With the gradual westward migration of Los Angeles's post-production sound industry, the studio and a cluster of others recently settled in this district, squeezing out much of the neighborhood's grittier old guard.

The article presents the effective strategies that will help facilities managers in the U.S. identify the space challenges on school campus. It states the development of thorough understanding of needs and use patterns. It notes the need to overlay facilities condition data to help determine action plan. It mentions the importance of getting support from stakeholders and school leadership.

The article discusses the changes in the designs of offices for city public employees in the U.S., including the role the new designs play in workplace collaboration and fostering an innovative work environment. An overview of the space within offices for municipal workers, including the aesthetics aspects of office space, is provided.

The article discusses the furniture and furnishings in education institutions in the U.S. which should be flexible and adaptable to changes in the learning environment. It states that some detailed furniture guidelines can inform schools when planning learning spaces. It provides some considerations in choosing school furniture including its flexibility, adaptability, functionality. It also notes the significance of ergonomics, aesthetics and the relationship of architectural space.

The article focuses on the design of spaces for physical activity that aims to curb obesity among school children in the U.S. It notes the promotion of schools for the use of physical activity through spaces such as high tables, less conventional seating, low informal stages, and gathering stairs for learners to connect and move in between. Executive Randall Fielding suggests for the integration of planning and design process with the involvement of the students, educators, and community.

The article discusses the process that leads to a bipartisan consensus for creating a new national space mission. The Columbia space shuttle accident sear the leaders of the U.S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) and shatter prevailing myths about the culture of safety within the agency. Furthermore, Exploration Systems Architecture Study (ESAS) team provided a detailed road map and architecture for Constellation, and considers it a work in progress.

Provide tips on smart storage strategies. Need to adjust architectures like rod to hold longest garment and low enough that the items don't reach the tiptoe; Provide storage boxes to customized to fit your space; Significance of providing a vertical hanging shoe rack for the space below can still be use for bulkier items.

Provides information on requirements for building-automation systems in regulated pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities in the U.S. Compliance with the standards of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; Sources of information on engineering, quality assurance and automation practices related to facility construction; Life cycle of a process-control system for a building-automation system; Impact of space conditions on the production of pharmaceutical products.

Focuses on James Turrell's latest work, a 350-square-foot concrete skyspace, which hangs above Benedict Canyon in Lost Angeles, California. Architectural features; Description of the interior; Comments of entrepreneur James Goldstein, who commissioned the skyspace; How the high-tech lighting can be programmed to change color.

Describes the interior architecture, design and plans for an apartment in New York City by Shelton, Mindel & Associates. Combination of work areas, play areas, entertaining and living and sleeping areas; Use of space; Lighting and color scheme; Furniture and furnishings.

Discusses the spatial techniques used in the design of the Pop restaurant in Manhattan on New York City, New York. Space interventions; Insertion of modular elements within the overall shell; Circulation pattern; Space programming; Choice of materials.

Offers a look at a kitchen in Tampa, Florida. Stone materials used; Area measurements; How the space was made to look spacious; Comments from owner Chip Vogel.

The article focuses on the efforts of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture (SICSA), a program created by architecture professor Larry Bell at the University of Houston in Texas, to develop planetary habitats. SICSA has designed a space station mockup which will be mounted outside its headquarters. Nathan Moore of the Man-Systems Division of NASA will examine the habitation concepts that consist of construction trailer requirements.

Sculpture with Dynamite and Murals by the Mile are the two headlines picked at random from one issue of an art magazine that serve to remind the author that U.S. is still doing things in a big way, with the aid of architect Gutzon Borgium and those artists for whom a vacant wall space a thousand feet square holds no terrors. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company "has commissioned a half-mile of murals" for the dining-rooms of its new building in New York City; and Radio City, has been a muralists' paradise.

This article presents information on the interior decoration of the U.S. White House. The U.S. White House, turns out to be much larger than one would imagine from the photographs. The spacious central section, rebuilt under former U.S. President James Monroe after the fire of 1814, is rendered even more impressive by the two wings of offices added by former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt; while the tall north and south porticos built in the 1820s in the Classical Revival style, confer on the whole the unmistakabIe air of a palace. Precisely this palatial dignity is what The U.S. first lady's new decoration for the public rooms has been designed to underline.

The article offers tips on solving space problems at dance studios related to floors, barres and mirrors from U.S. studio owners. Wexford Dance Academy co-owner Mackin Karas recommends a removable sub-floor as most studios rent space. Enrica Guana Tseng, owner of the Ballet Center in Fort Worth, Texas, opts for thinner marley as flooring for tap dancing if the studio is a multipurpose one and portable barres. Open Door Studios mount mirrors on walls opposite windows to create an illusion of a bigger space and enhance natural light.

Focuses on sustainability in interior design. Background on the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification system by the U.S. Green Building Council; Role of the facility executive in interior design projects; Impact of space planning on a project's sustainability.

Features information on C.W. Brown Inc., a company that specializes in high-end interior office construction in the U.S. Grant of The Business Council of Westchester's 2004 Hall of Fame Small Business Success Award to the company; Operations of the company; Facts about Charles W. Brown, president of the Thornwood general contracting firm of C.W. Brown; History of the company's operations.

This article presents information on the demand for prefabricated office cubicles. Since 1977, when the cubicles first came into vogue, their U.S. sales have grown twentyfold, to $3.4 billion last year. Demand is strong because these work spaces can be easily reconfigured--say, after a downsizing. In addition, cubicles accommodate lots of people in a small space, thereby reducing employers' expenses for rent.

The article offers a look at several winning custom-home designs at the 2008 National Sales and Marketing Awards in the U.S. Tradewinds, a plantation-style home in Colorado, features an understated front façade with a wide porch. A kitchen that opens to the dining, sitting, and living areas toward the back of the home is the design focus of Tradewinds. Some of the materials used in the Wine Country Residence were rugged stone walls, heavy timber beams and a clay-tiled roof. The White Residence at Seacrest features multiple outdoor living spaces.

The article focuses on how Stanley Beaman & Sears, Architecture & Interiors helped to ease patient anxiety at the Radiology Complex and Women's Imaging Center in Tallahassee, Florida by designing the practice's new Radiology Complex and Women's Imaging Center. Patients enter the building and check in at a main desk on the first floor, where there's also a general waiting room with amenities like an alcove with an Internet station and a pull-up counter for laptop plug-in. Placing the women's imaging center on the second floor, somewhat removed from male patients, for instance, also added privacy.

Presents information on the tourism and the hospitality sectors in Arizona. Size of the rentable space offered by the expansion of the Civic Plaza Convention Center in Phoenix; Addition of the Camelback Inn Resort, Golf Club & Spa, in Scottsdale to the roster of luxury JW Marriott properties of Marriott International; Value of the new football stadium in Glendale, for the National Football League's Arizona Cardinals as of April 2004; Recommended meeting hotels in Tucson.

Focuses on the changes in the structure and design of office workplaces in the United States. Purpose of space planning in the workplace design; Trends in workplace design; Types of office settings. INSET: Move to better ergonomics will be market-driven.

The article offers new briefs on the construction industry in the U.S. as of April 2010. Zavos Architecture+Design of Frederick, Maryland has developed a five-story structure with 36 on-bedroom units and support spaces for the VIDA Senior Centers. Shepley Bulfinch has started schematic design for the Health and Biomedical Science Center for the College of Optometry at University of Houston. The Galleria in the Swefiyah District of Amman, Jordan is a retail-driven mixed-use project.

The advent of highly complex space systems, such as Transformational Communications and Space-Based Radar, is forcing major changes in military system-acquisition processes.As a result, the U.S. national security space community is shifting its focus from disparate programs to architecture that can accommodate a variety of networked, interoperable platforms.This program-versus-architecture issue emerged as a consistent theme during presentations at the 19th Space Symposium held in the first week of April, 2003.

The article focuses on the use of technology applications by U.S. retailers to improve their profitability as of May 8, 2006. Save Mart Supermarkets has for several years employed the ShowCase Suite, a business-intelligence and data-mining system that runs on the IBM eServer iSeries platform. Food Lion became the first food retailer in the country to select an assortment and space planning system. Brookshire Bros. is using a price optimization tool called PriceStrat.

Development officials throughout the Hudson Valley are fans of speculative and flexible space and they encourage commercial property owners to invest in them. Some speculation surrounds speculative space, however. There's a question about whether there is sufficient demand for new construction throughout the region. Loan monies are also an issue, because spec space requires investing sometimes millions of dollars without prior assurance of an end user. Ron Coan, president of the Dutchess County Economic Development Corp., said "it is in only rare situations that a bank will loan monies for a project that has yet to sign a tenant."

It isn't about whether the glass is half full or half empty--it's about the glass itself. Five design experts describe their favorite objects. Paola Antonelli, Curator, Museum of Modern Art. "That's the apotheosis of great design," Paola Antonelli says. Since joining MoMA in 1994, the Italian-born Antonelli has emerged as a star in the design world. When Murray Moss opened his Manhattan store nine years ago, he put a steel garbage can in the window to make a point: design is everywhere--and everything. "When you go from a normal glass to this, it modifies your behavior. You become more graceful," he says. "And that's an extraordinary thing to get for $70." As founder of the San Francisco dot-com Design Within Reach (dwr.com), Rob Forbes has become a design-world fixture in just four years, making high-end furnishings an option for people with not-so-high-end salaries. Ask Alice Rawsthorn for a favorite example of smart design, and she pauses for a moment. "Probably Grand Theft Auto: Vice City," says Rawsthorn, who came to the museum after a long career as a critic for the Financial Times. "I find multimedia design fascinating. It's changing the way we live." As head of MoMA's architecture and design department, Terence Riley has the job of recording the present through its objects--so not every choice may be pretty. "Like all great chairs, it's not very comfortable," says Terence Riley of his object, a stretched-metal club chair named How High the Moon by the late Japanese design icon Shiro Kuramata.

Provides insight on the wide-open spaces in the dwellings in the U.S. Advantages of apartment buildings; Lack of walls in lofts; Comparison between apartments and lofts.