These Colours Don #39;t Run by Architects (Cover)
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Tioga, ND (PRWEB) February 07, 2014
Miller Architects & Builders has recently broke ground on MainStay Suites in Tioga, North Dakota.
Owner, Ernie Graham of Graham Development, Minot, North Dakota, has been a long time commercial developer in the state of California. In 2011 Mr. Graham started researching the Bakken area and in 2012 he made a few trips to Western North Dakota. With those findings he and his wife Janice sold their California home and moved to North Dakota, eventually settling in Minot where they have relocated their business. His son Corbin has also moved to Minot to help in the business. The Tioga hotel project is his first North Dakota development. Mr. Graham has an identical MainStay Suites hotel scheduled to start construction early spring in Stanley, North Dakota.
The MainStay Suites hotel is an 89 unit, extended stay hotel. The hotel features a spacious great room with three distinctive areas that include a breakfast bar, fireplace lounge area, and guest bar. The hotel also features a weight room, meeting room, guest pantry, outdoor covered gazebo for cooking and relaxing, and electrical plug-ins for autos and trucks. Rooms feature full kitchens, granite countertops, large bathrooms, office/work desk, comfortable chair, and connectivity. Dora Hospitality will manage the hotel.
Miller Architects & Builders is extremely proud to have the opportunity to team with Graham Development on this project. This makes the fifth hotel project we have provided construction services for in the Bakken area.
Established in 1874, Miller Architects & Builders is one of the Midwests premier design/build commercial construction firms specializing in commercial construction. Miller Architects & Builders constructs all its facilities using your local labor where possible. Miller Architects & Builders (http://www.millerab.com) is headquartered in St. Cloud, Minnesota.
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This rendering shows one idea for a pedestrian crossing over Interstate 5 from a trolley station into Pacific Beach. AIA/SDAT
This rendering shows one idea for a pedestrian crossing over Interstate 5 from a trolley station into Pacific Beach. / AIA/SDAT
Local architects moved forward Friday with big thoughts about Pacific Beach and Mission Beach as a possible model for all San Diego neighborhoods.
The American Institute of Architects' local urban design committee mulled over ideas as simple as artistic crosswalks and roundabout intersections and as a ambitious as a major transit-oriented, mixed-use development around the coming trolley station at Interstate 5 and Balboa Avenue.
"This is an opportunity that has popped up immediately," said Dan Stewart, the committee chairman. "It would be nice if we take advantage of this."
Ideas included holding a spring workshop and fall symposium on innovative planning ideas, such as:
A roundabout is one idea for slowing traffic at busy intersections. Such an idea is being considered at the Grand/Garnet split off Interstate 5. / AIA/SDAT
The discussion grew out of a community workshop session last summer and a followup in December from a $10,000 sustainable design assessment team, sent by the national AIA, based in Washington, D.C., to look over the gritty details of living, working and visiting the beach areas.
The team in its analysis, to be followed up in the next few weeks by a formal set of recommendations, noticed that the two beach communities are too dependent on cars, spew too many green house gases into the air and need to think about an environmentally-oriented future.
Danielle Buttacavoli, who chairs the AIA's local Committee on the Environment, said the biggest threat -- sea level rise over the next generation -- does not yet figure into beach residents' and business owners' immediate priorities.
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It uses sliding partitions and storage walls, extension modules and a puzzle of garden components. Danish architects Henning Larsen's new Adaptable House is designed to accommodate the most common lifestyle changes, from having children to settling into retirement. The energy-efficient home can even be fairly separated in case of divorce.
Realized with developers Realdania Byg and contractors GXN, the Adaptable House not only offers flexible room arrangements, but has a built-in strategy for extending and separating volumes. The house has also been designed to consume 37 percent less energy than a standard home, with a significant reduction in overall carbon emissions.
The Adaptable House was conceived to help meet a range of lifestyle changes. For a growing family, bedrooms can be easily added or enlarged; when children leave home, spare rooms might be converted for other uses. There are also planned schemes for working from home, taking in boarders (in which some bedrooms would be separated from other private spaces), and aging inhabitants (for whom the garden decks and planters could be made step-free).
Perhaps the most innovative and coolly pragmatic gesture is in adapting for divorce. In this scenario, the house can be divided horizontally, separating the upper floor from the lower floor, adding a kitchen upstairs and creating separate entrances. This is, of course, the most extreme scenario (and assumes a rather amicable split). The lower floor could also be separated for use by an elderly couple who need to live on a single floor. In all cases, the idea is to adapt to changing circumstances without having to move house or tear down and start again.
Sliding partitions make flexible interiors (Photo: Jesper Ray/Realdania Byg)
The architects were determined that any new configurations meet their criteria for natural light, ventilation, plus noise and temperature control. This is perhaps what distinguishes this project from the kind of flexible open-plan living that has been around for decades. The new spaces are not just clever cut-outs, like making a bedroom out of a dark closet under the stairs. Future configurations have been thought through, so that creating the home-office space, for example, utilizes a glazed partition that allows ample light but blocks out noise.
The extension program works by starting with a house of 146 square meters (1,571 sq ft) consisting of two stories, with an optional garage/extension. The ground floor has fixed walls, which carry the load of the upper floor and leave the internal walls upstairs free to move. On the ground floor, the house can be extended beneath the first-floor overhangs. The upper floor can also be extended by enclosing the terraces. Decking around the house creates accessible garden spaces, which can be maximized for older or retired residents.
Though the ground floor has some fixed walls, the services have been tucked into an aluminum bar in the ceiling structure, making it easier to change the floor plan as needed. Partition walls include their own doors and storage, and can be moved around to reconfigure the interior without worrying about electrical fittings. Sliding partitions can be used on an impromptu or daily basis, if say, you need to have a business meeting in your living room and want to close off the kitchen and kids play area from view.
Upstairs, the partition walls are designed as moveable cupboards, which can transform the layout from a single space covering the entire floor to four separate rooms, and other configurations in between.
The architects cite statistics which show that even when people decide to move house, most of them will choose to live in the same area. The Adaptable House will mean never having to leave the neighborhood. So you might say their motto is something like "plus a change" ("the more things change, [the more they stay the same]") for the housing industry.
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Grapevine, Texas (PRWEB) February 05, 2014
KSQ Architects is pleased to announce the addition of Douglas Koehne, AIA, as the firms Director of K-12 Planning. He will be responsible for design, programming, planning, and project management for K-12 school districts across Texas and the Southwest, and work out of the firms office in Grapevine, Texas.
Founded in 1988, KSQ Architects is a full-service architectural firm that specializes in collegiate life, K-12, and multi-family housing facilities throughout the U.S. The firm offers programming, planning, architectural and interior design services.
Koehnewho has 20 years of experience in planning, facility assessment, programming, and design of both new school construction and facility renovations and modernizationhas completed school projects throughout the state of Texas. During his career he has led bond projects and handled the master planning for multiple Dallas-Fort Worth and North Texas school districts, including Richardson ISD, Arlington ISD, and Maypearl ISD. His project experience extends to over 100 completed education projects.
Douglas impact on K-12 educational design in Texas is undeniable, says KSQ Principal Sean Studzinski. His professional background will compliment the goals and objectives of KSQ Architects as we continue to establish long term relationships with school administrators in Texas and beyond.
Douglas holds a Bachelor of Architecture from The University of Texas at Austin. His educational involvement includes the AIA Committee on Architecture for Education, Texas Association of School Boards, and the Council of Educational Facility Planners International. Additionally, Douglas plays an active role in public-community service through his participation in the Green Corn Project, The 1% Pro Bono Design Program of Public Architecture, and as a Habitat for Humanity volunteer.
In addition to being named as one of the Best Firms to Work For and the #29 Hot Firm out of 100 by Zweig White, KSQ is also a Top 300 Design Firm by Architectural Record and recently opened a new office in Colorado.
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ABOUT KSQ ARCHITECTS With offices in Oklahoma, New York, Texas, and Colorado, KSQ Architects is a full-service planning, architecture and interior design firm specializing in higher education, K-12 schools and multifamily housing throughout the United States. KSQ has completed projects nationwide on more than 47 campuses totaling $1 billion in construction.
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