MOREHEAD CITY Preliminary proposals for consolidating the citys administrative functions now scattered around various locations and renovating city-owned properties could cost millions.

City officials arent likely to make any immediate decisions on the options presented Friday during a council work session held at the downtown Municipal Building to discuss concepts developed in a space-needs analysis, but discussions are likely to continue right away.

We will probably schedule a work session for the council just to talk about space needs sometime in the next couple weeks, City Manager Dave Whitlow said Tuesday.

Architects with MMM Design Group of Norfolk, Va., presented their findings during the work session, providing conceptual illustrations of possible renovations of and additions to the Municipal Building on South Eighth Street, the Webb Library on Evans Street and the Charles S. Wallace Building on Bridges Street. The study also looked at the city hall offices in the former U.S. Post Office and the adjacent rented office space on Arendell Street, the recreation center on Fisher Street, a storage building on Fifth Street and a downtown garage for city vehicles.

Proposed in the analysis were various options for renovating the Wallace Building, the Municipal Building and the library each including options for additions. The firm also proposed demolition of portions of the Wallace Building, including the auditorium deemed to be in poor condition, and the former fire department portion of the Municipal Building, also judged to be in bad shape.

The study recommendations were the result of city staff meeting with the architects for a couple months to discuss current and future needs, looking 10-20 years ahead, and visual inspections of the various buildings.

Architect Stelios Xystros of the MMM Design Group said there were numerous observed problems, including code deficiencies, accessibility issues and areas of space not well suited for the citys use and function.

He said the library building seems to be functioning very well. Its a nice library, he said, but accessibility problems were noted.

The Wallace building is too big for its current function, he said. The structure is home to the Coastal Academy for Technology and Science, formerly known as Cape Lookout High School, but the school occupies only part of the first floor.

The city is heating and cooling a building that is not suitable to its function, Mr. Xystros said.

See more here:
Architects offer options for renovating buildings

AETER Architects - Showreel 2014

By: AETER Architects

Read more here:
AETER Architects - Showreel 2014 - Video

Live Insights with Al Storm
Alan L. Storm, President of award-winning architecture and interior design firm DBI Architects, Inc., discusses his inspiration to own a company, as well as ...

By: DBI Architects Inc

View post:
Live Insights with Al Storm - Video

Zaha Hadid Architects - City of Dreams Hotel Tower Macau
Zaha Hadid Architects designs fifth tower in City of Dreams complex, Cotai (Macau)

By: WANtoday

View post:
Zaha Hadid Architects - City of Dreams Hotel Tower Macau - Video

Dus Architects is building the worlds first 3D printed house, which is located by a canal in north Amsterdam An industrial scale 3D printer is being used to pipe plastic bricks that will be stacked on top of one another to construct the house The 'room builder' machine pipes plastic lines according to computerised plans just like a gigantic version of a home 3D printer

By Sarah Griffiths

PUBLISHED: 09:19 EST, 1 April 2014 | UPDATED: 10:03 EST, 1 April 2014

28 shares

10

View comments

From food to medical instruments, it seems that 3D printing can be used to create almost anything.

And now a team of ambitious architects are using the additive manufacturing technique to build an entire house.

They are using an industrial scale 3D printer called a room builder to engineer the plastic parts that will be fused together to create everything from walls to the furniture.

Scroll down for video

See the article here:
3D printing is being used to construct entire building in Amsterdam

Kilam - Architects (Prod. Voeskee)
Act I, Scene I - Mixtape Drops 4.14.14 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LivingBythe4 Twitter: https://twitter.com/LivingByThe4 Instagram: LivingByThe4 Cont...

By: Malik Dailey

Original post:
Kilam - Architects (Prod. Voeskee) - Video

Career Girls: How Architects Works with Clients- Architect June Grant
Architect June Grant offers career guidance and advice to girls. Visit CareerGirls.org: http://www.careergirls.org Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook....

By: careergirls

Read more here:
Career Girls: How Architects Works with Clients- Architect June Grant - Video

Dongdaemun Design Plaza by Zaha Hadid Architects
See the entire project http://ilikear.ch/DongdaemunDesignPlaza Film by Dan Chung The DDP has been designed by Zaha Hadid Architects as a cultural hub at the ...

By: I Like Architecture

More here:
Dongdaemun Design Plaza by Zaha Hadid Architects - Video

Architects Interview 2014
Architects vocalist Sam Carter and guitarist Ali Dean being interviewed to KaaosTV before the bands show at Nosturi, Helsinki, Finland on March 24th, 2014. ...

By: KaaosTV

Original post:
Architects Interview 2014 - Video

Palic XXI
I have the pleasure of announcing that between 46 projects my design has been presented with Sponsored Award at the International open competition for the Pl...

By: MG Architects

Read the original:
Palic XXI - Video