Rwanda Rising, One School and One Girl at a Time

Have you contributed to projects that have helped the human condition, in ways great and small?

Share with us your own stories of using architecture and development to advance a cause.

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Are you going 'Country?'

Have you used simple, down-to-earth but highly effective methods that have made a difference to architecture, design or development? If so, what?

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What Can Architects Do to Spur Development in this Economy?

Instead of asking, “What can I design?” architects and other consultants in this industry should ask, “What can I do to help developers?” Let’s add to our value proposition to reduce developers’ and tenants’ risk by getting more resourceful.

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Moving from Insight to Innovation

Innovation comes in many forms and magnitudes, all of which stem from a “click” or an insight. The insight kicks a presumption to the curb, making way for a new possibility to rush in. This happened for us several times this year, and I’d like to share just four of them with you.

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Big Box, Blank Slate: Repurposing Vacant Large Format Stores

While hundreds of new big boxes are built each year, hundreds are also vacated. But, at 150,000 square feet or more, large format stores are difficult to re-purpose due to their size and massing, and often closed stores become derelict, sitting empty and overgrown while setting a precedent for an area’s decline. Couldn’t there be a more productive use—and better return—for abandoned big boxes? What could that look like today—and 50 years out?

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BIMtastic! Why BIM’s a Big Deal

Building Information Modeling (BIM) software allows architects to design and virtually build in 3-D—from the start. But it’s more than a replacement for the 2-D CAD. BIM’s like a tail wagging the dog: Using this software changes the relationships between architects, their clients, their sub-consultants, and the contractor by encouraging much more collaboration. And this change is good.

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Strategies that Make your Workspace a Workhorse while Cutting Real Estate Costs

Instead of creating a new interior design for one workspace, design strategist Liz Robinson created a model of real estate management that could be adopted at different scales and locations, depending on a corporation’s strategic business plan. In other words, this design doesn’t start by thinking about a workspace’s appearance or size, but considers how workspaces and real estate could function more effectively and strategically for organizations and their employees. Results? At a multi-national aerospace company, the plan reduced rent globally by 25% over four years, improved the company’s brand recognition, and responded to the need for more collaboration and flexibility for today’s and tomorrow’s workforce .

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