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Saemisch Di Bella Architects was established in 1992 in Mesa, Arizona and is known for its leadership and involvement in improving the quality of life of its local community. SDA brings this...
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Celebration of Hampshire architects to be held in Winchester
2:00pm Sunday 8th June 2014 in News By Andrew Napier
A MONTH long celebration of architects and landscape design in Hampshire is starting in Winchester next week.
The Live Work Play exhibition is open to the public from June 14 to July 6 at the Discovery Centre in Jewry Street, Winchester.
It shows recent work by 26 architects including several based in Winchester.
Exhibitors include award-winning practices such as PAD Studio (recent winner of three RIBA Awards), Design Engine (RIBA and Civic Trust Award winners, 2014), AR Design Studio, Design ACB, ADAM Architecture, John Pardey Architects, Hampshire County Council and Ruth Butler Architects.
Design workshops with local schools is being held at the centre on June 16, June 25 and July 2 on the work, live and play theme. They are being run with local firms Architecture PLB, PAD Studio and Design ACB.
A series of lectures are also being held at the Discovery Centre by accomplished architects including Richard Jobson, Design Engine (June 25) and Robert Sakula, Ash Sakula (July 23), talks including Keith Myers, MD of The Myers Touch Designing kitchens with light, space and laughter (June 17), design workshops for local schools.
A football tournament is being held at Kings School, Winchester on June 21.
The Hampshire Festival of Architecture is being organised by the county branch of RIBA, the Royal Institute of British Architects.
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Above the whine of a power saw and the pound of hammering, nine architecture students chatted in three different languages while working on the new Ragdale Ring outdoor performance space in Lake Forest.
While some tightened supports at the base, others balanced on ladders to tack down the netting.
The group worked steadily to complete the supports for the straw wattles, lying on the ground like a jumble of giant earthworms behind the Ragdale House artist-in-residence retreat. The wattles think super-lightweight logs will cover the structure and spill onto the grass below.
We wanted something that blended seamlessly with the ground and you could actually grow things in, architect Michael Loverich said. Over the course of the summer, things will start sprouting in it and the existing lawn will grow through it. It actually becomes much more alive as the summer goes on.
Loverich and Antonio Torres of The Bittertang Farm in New York and Guadalajara submitted the winning design in the second international competition to create an interpretation of the outdoor performance ring designed by architect Howard Van Doren Shaw for what was originally his summer home, Ragdale, located at 1230 N. Green Bay Road in Lake Forest. Like Shaws original performance ring, their design will also play host to a series of artistic performances this summer.
In the first week of the design-build project on May 28, Torres was still pinching himself.
We were given this chance to stay here at Ragdale with a team of 10 people and that is just really amazing, said Torres, a native of Chicagos Pilsen neighborhood. There are not that many opportunities or projects that allow you to have a team stay and be fed for the duration of the project. Weve been able to make a lot of progress, because were all focused on what were here for to build the pavilion.
Jeffrey Meeuwsen, executive director of Ragdale, believes this years winning team embodies the vision the projects creators intended when the competition was first conceived in 2013.
The fact that it pulls a really diverse group of people from across the U.S. and Mexico and theyre here working together, learning together, experimenting, and creating something that is really special and unique to this area that will inspire a whole series of other artistic programming, is really sort of perfect, Meeuwsen said.
The Bittertang group had the same thoughts when they first arrived on the Ragdale campus on May 19 and saw in person the home and landscape they had only ever viewed in photographs.
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Architects create living Ragdale Ring amphitheater in Lake Forest
KINGSCLIFF architect Matt Cooper will be one of four north coast architects to showcase their work tomorrow at Architecture on Show in Casuarina.
NSW Country Division Chair of the Australian Institute of Architects Sarah Aldridge said it would be a great opportunity for the public to come along and meet some local architects to see how projects in their area are developed and designed.
"This is the first time we have put on a free showcase event with local architects at Casuarina," Ms Aldridge said.
The four presenting architects will have 15 minutes each to showcase their work.
Matt Cooper has been an architect for 20 years and started his business Aspect Architecture 15 years ago.
"I think it's a very good opportunity for people to get an idea of what architects do and why they do it," Mr Cooper said.
"It's important for the public to see how architects work and what they can do for you.
Casuarina architect Scott Carpenter will be curating the event, which precedes a regional seminar.
He said many regional architects are somewhat isolated from the rest of the industry.
"This conference will offer a meeting of minds, where they can discuss issues from design to practice management," he said.
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Two real estate projects in the works will bring hundreds of new apartments, retail space and an office tower to Richardson.
Richardson already has North Texas largest development the $1.5 billion CityLine project on Bush Turnpike that is anchored by State Farm Insurances new campus.
Now, other major developments are planned nearby.
Property owners on the east side of North Central Expressway near Campbell Road plan to redevelop an old Richardson office complex into a mixed-use project.
The proposed development would include a new office high-rise plus more than 500 apartments to be constructed on a tract between Greenville Avenue and North Central.
The site now has about 145,000 square feet of aging office space in a handful of low-rise buildings.
Property owners Fobare Commercial and AGF have filed plans with the city of Richardson that show a 15-story office tower and two four-story apartment complexes that would replace the old office space on the east side of U.S. Highway 75.
Hunt Development Co. out of El Paso is our partner, developer Tod Fobare said Wednesday. We hope to start construction in the fourth quarter.
Hunt Development is already an apartment developer in North Texas. It has projects in Frisco and Allen.
The 13-acre Richardson project would be the second phase of the Eastside retail and apartment development that was built in 2007 at the southeast corner of North Central and Campbell.
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An ambitious $40 million retail, residential and public park project that has risen from the ground in the historically neglected Brooklyn neighborhood along Riverside Avenue is on track for completion by fall 2014 or early next year, developers said Wednesday.
The timeline for some pieces of the 220 Riverside development have been pushed back slightly because of a few routine construction delays. But Alex Coley, principal with Hallmark Partners, the lead developer, said the project is moving steadily forward and should be fully completed no later than early 2015.
220 Riverside will have 294 apartments, 18,000 feet of retail space, 397 parking spaces and Unity Plaza, a park that will circle and overlook the city pond at the corner of Riverside Avenue and Forest Street.
Pre-leasing has begun on the first batch of 220 Riversides 294 apartments, which will be delivered in September followed by the rest in November or later next year. Developers say interest has been high, thanks in part to a boom in activity along the road that represents the busiest development near downtown Jacksonville.
Were getting a lot of buzz here, said Tri Ball, the developments property manger.
Construction on Unity Plaza, a public park that serves as the spiritual centerpiece of the development, is to begin within 30 days and be complete late this year or early 2015.
In between the retail space on the ground floor and the pond will be the plaza, which will have an amphitheater and grassy area able to accommodate about 2,000 people. Coley hopes to program events more than 300 days each year. In December, the city provided $2.6 million for Unity Plaza construction.
Hallmark is very close to signing tenants for the retail space, he said.
The apartments will rent for $1,040 to $2,000 per month, Ball said. She said progress has been moving fast but would not disclose how many apartments have been pre-leased.
Two other major developments along Riverside Avenue are helping generate interest, Ball said.
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The moment you buy a home and start its restoration, you realize how cheap and easy it is to own and operate a car. So why not just forgo the whole house thing and get a car instead?
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I'm sure a lot of you are thinking that if you're buying a car instead of a house, you should get some kind of all-terrain conversion van. Reader bpromersberger has a better idea, and it's all about a Zonda.
If you have one chances are you'll be making lots of friends, friends that might let you crash at their place if you take them out for a drive. Essentially couch surfing in the most debonair of sorts.
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ATHENS: Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras oversaw a major cabinet reshuffle on Monday in response to his government's poor showing in EU elections last month.
The shake-up, aimed at reinvigorating Samaras's struggling conservative-Socialist coalition, comes just weeks after its defeat in EU elections to the country's main opposition, the radical left-wing Syriza party.
Syriza beat Samaras's ruling centre-right New Democracy into second place in the May poll, gaining more than 26 per cent of the vote.
The reshuffle saw the replacement of more than a dozen ministers, including health, education, development and interior, government spokeswoman Sophia Voultepsi announced on Monday.
Most significantly, Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras was replaced by 59-year-old economist and university professor Guikas Hardouvelis.
Hardouvelis, a chief economist of Eurobank and previously a top economic advisor to former Prime Minister Lucas Papademos at height of the Greek financial crisis, is seen as holding similar pro-European, centre-left leanings as his predecessor.
Syriza made significant gains in EU elections on a campaign opposing the harsh austerity measures passed by the Greek government in return for a massive 240 billion euro ($330 billion) bailout funded jointly by the European Union and the IMF.
Syriza's 39-year-old leader Alexis Tsipras called the vote a "referendum" on austerity.
Following Syriza's victory, speculation has been rife that Stournaras, who played a key role in the EU and IMF bailout negotiations, may be replaced.
But it is unlikely that Hardouvelis will depart from the course set out by his predecessor, and is expected to continue to implement the conditions set out by the terms of joint EU and IMF bailout.
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