SANTA ROSA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

TLCD Architecture, a team of architects, interior designers, and collaborators designing community-oriented projects throughout Northern California, was the recipient of multiple AIA Redwood Empire awards at an event held on October 27th at the Kaiser Hanger at the Sonoma County Airport.

The DeTurk Round Barn project for the City of Santa Rosa received an Honor Award in the "Alteration/Restoration/Rehabilitation" category, and the new Maintenance Center project for Mendocino Transit Authority received an Honor Award in the "Built Project" category. "Being recognized by such a distinguished jury for these awards is truly a reflection of our commitment to the community, immensely supportive clients, and the high level of design these projects exhibit, said Don Tomasi AIA, Senior Principal at TLCD.

The design awards were juried by a distinguished panel including Michael Palladino/FAIA of Richard Meier and Partners, Julie VandenBerg Snow/FAIA of Julie Snow Architects, Inc., Mary Griffin/FAIA of Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects, and Mayor Ernesto Olivares from the City of Santa Rosa.

The AIARE Awards also recognized individuals who have distinguished themselves in the Redwood Empire Chapter through an inaugural set of awards handed out at the event. TLCD had two team members recognized: Jaime Stich for Associate Member of the Year, and Nate Bisbee AIA, for Young Architect of the Year.

Jaime Stich has served on the AIARE Board for several years and leads the Associates program and licensing study group. "I have always been impressed by Jaime's commitment to architecture, sustainability and the community... his commitment goes well beyond personal interest or casual involvement; he actively participates and provides leadership and inspiration to others," said Jason Brabo AIA, Principal at TLCD.

Nate Bisbee has served in different capacities on the AIARE Board for many years, and was one of the organizers of the North X NorthCoast lecture series. "Nate's contributions in the field of architectural design have been focused on the exploration of a regional expression appropriate to our area...his vision and interest in this "regionalism" have greatly shaped and elevated this firm's design work and reputation", said Alan Butler AIA, Senior Principal at TLCD.

About TLCD Architecture

TLCD Architecture is an award winning architecture, planning and interior design firm located in the heart of Sonoma County. Actively involved in the education, healthcare, transportation and civic communities, the firm has served clients throughout Northern California for nearly 50 years. TLCD Architectures design solutions are reflective of three core values: People, Place and Craft. These values are integrated into their design approach and are driven by a focus on social responsibility; creating a strong sense of place; and implementing a rigorous process of research and analysis. For information, visit the companys website: http://www.tlcd.com or call 707-525-5600

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2122 N Gower St, Los Angeles

For sale: $1.2 million

A home redesigned by an acclaimed architect is a find in itself, but a home with works by two influential architects is much rarer.

This Hollywood Hills home for sale is made of up three distinct units, one designed by architect Richard Neutra and another by Paul Hoag.

The Rajagopal family bought the home in 1933. Owner Rosalind Rajagopal was in particular connected to the scene of architects, artists and celebrities in Los Angeles. A founding member of the Happy Valley School in Ojai, Rajagopal met Neutra early on in his career. She hired him to do an upper addition to the original Spanish-style 2-bedroom, 1-bath home in 1934.

"It's very efficient and modern, and ahead of its time for the early '30s," said real estate agentPatricia Ruben, who shares the listing with agent Robert Kallick.

"It feels much bigger than it is, and no one was really doing that. That's what modern is about, and the whole living room is a wall of windows," added Kallick.

Later on, Hoag was hired to add on another unit that, like the Neutra addition, practices form and function of space.

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City dwellers will make up 70 percent of the world population by 2050, and cities must enact drastic changes now in order to accommodate the city dwellers of the 21st century; and offer them living conditions that are conducive to personal development and well-being.

Architects can play a crucial role in the city evolution with their capacity to meet the challenges of urban sustainability, and develop the tools needed to create resilient, sustainable and livable cities.

Architect Philip H. Recto, the keynote speaker during the Philippine observance of World Day of Architecture celebration conducted by the United Architects of the Philippines (UAP) recently, urged architects to be city changers by playing an active role in the city evolution, especially in areas such as mitigating climate change, reducing carbon emissions, and improving management of resources and energy; structuring cities to be more socially-inclusive, accessible and equitable; developing cities that can resist crises and cataclysms; developing economic, educational and creative opportunities for all; and ensuring the security and sanitary conditions essential to all inhabitants.

"Architects alone, and on their own, cannot bring about the ideal change that society needs in the face of climate change. However, we are in a position to initiate and lead the desired change to mitigate the challenge and get our communities more prepared in dealing with the adversities that climate change may bring," Recto said.

"The task is not really as awesome as it seems. The first step is to work towards getting everyone engaged in the change process, and inculcate the notion that change has to begin with oneself," he added.

He also said that his architectural office was furnished with 97 percent recycled materials in support of sustainable development.

Recto stressed that "in the context of the U.N. Human Settlements campaign 'I am a City Changer,' it begins with an awareness of the urban issues that confront us today; and it is this awareness that should transform our attitude - from one of resignation that things happen by chance, to a victorious attitude that we can make a difference because things happen by choice."

The World Day of Architecture celebration was initiated by the Union Internationale des Architectes (UIA) or International Union of Architects which is an international federation of national associations of architects with headquarters in Paris.

Since its founding in 1948, it has grown to encompass the key professional organizations of architects in 124 countries and territories, and counts some 1.3 million members worldwide today.

In 1996, the UIA decided to celebrate the World Day of Architecture on the first Monday of October of each year. This is the same day that the UN observes World Habitat Day in order to reflect on the state of human settlements and the basic right to adequate shelter for all.

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EPM Architects, the fastest growing Microsoft Project and Portfolio Management company, announced today the appointment of Larry Short as Business Development Manager, Victor Richardson as Senior Consultant and Valerie Lozado as Consultant.

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Mr. Short is a 17 year Microsoft veteran where he built and maintained a healthy sales pipeline through creation of a white-space analysis evaluating large public sector customers. While working at Microsoft he achieved a 25% increase in new consulting service engagements over a 12-month period by implementing a marketing plan targeting technical leads. He also managed post sales relationships and achieved $2B B2B sales opportunities advanced by driving adoption of Microsoft partner solutions.

Mr. Richardson comes to EPM Architects after 20+ years of experience in project management and consulting with major companies such as, UMT Consulting Group and Catapult Systems. At both places, Mr. Richardson was able to effectively communicate to his clients and ensure that their project always ran as smoothly as possible. His remarkable technical skills, knowledge of risk management, and passion for delivery make him a huge asset to any project.

Ms. Lozada, a detail-oriented, highly technical consultant with over 15 years of experience in development, BI, SharePoint, and Project Server, has joined the Houston Headquarters as EPM Consultant. . She is also President of the Houston Microsoft Project Users Group and an active member of the Houston SharePoint Users Group. Ms. Lozada was formerly a SharePoint Consultant with Experis IT and Senior Consultant at Catapult Systems, where she implemented major EPM projects.

We are very excited to see Larry, Victor, and Valerie join our ever-growing team. They bring a wealth of experience and skills that complement our entire organization. said Michael Samadi, President and CEO of EPM Architects. It is a true testament to our vision of becoming the leading Microsoft EPM company, seeing our team grow from 1 person to 21 talented and experienced people in such a short time. It also is a statement to the type of culture and organization we are building, that if you are truly passionate about Microsoft Project Server, then there is only one company you should consider being part of, and thats EPMA.

About EPM Architects, Inc.

EPM Architects is an Enterprise Project and Portfolio Management consulting firm focused exclusively on the Microsoft EPM solution, mainly Microsoft Project and Project Server. We are one of the top Microsoft Gold Certified Partners in the Project and Portfolio Management competency. As the largest EPM company in the south central region and one of the premier Microsoft EPM companies in the US, we are quickly building a reputation as the "go-to" EPM company for implementation, development, training, and support. Our clients consist of Global 50, Fortune 50, 100, and 500 companies as well as small to mid-sized companies in several industry verticals.

For more details on EPM Architects products and services, please visit us at http://www.epmarchitects.com or call us at 1.888.444.EPMA.

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Two architects from Flansburgh Associates outlined six design and site options for the renovation and expansion of the Tisbury School, or possibly a new building, in a PowerPoint presentation at a workshop last week. The group of about 20 people that attended the meeting in the school library included parents, school staff, members of the school advisory council and building committee, and representatives from the town's Planning Board and building and zoning department.

Voters at town meeting last spring approved spending $40,000 to fund a comprehensive facility study of the Tisbury School. The study's purpose is to determine space needs and the feasibility of reconditioning the existing building or replacing it, either on the current site or somewhere else.

The Tisbury School Committee awarded a contract for the feasibility study in late August to Flansburgh Associates, one of five architectural firms that submitted bids. The company went to work immediately to send in teams of engineering experts to assess the school building's condition before students returned, according to Principal John Custer.

In late September architects Jorge Cruz and Duncan McClelland held an initial workshop with the school staff to discuss their findings and the school's goals and vision for the future.

Based on those discussions, the architects came up with the design options that follow the guidelines of the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA), which funds grants for capital improvement projects in the state's public schools. The design options include an additional computer room, bigger classrooms that measure 950 square feet, and a larger gym, for an increase in the existing building from 50,000 square feet to 87,000.

Because of the gym, Mr. McClelland said that figure slightly exceeds the MSBA guideline of 84,000 square feet for an enrollment of 386 students. Although the school currently has 329 students, the architects based their designs on a projected future enrollment of 386 students, using an average of projected school enrollments over the next five years from the New England School Development Council.

The reimbursement rates for MSBA-approved, eligible school construction and renovation projects range from 31 to 80 percent, based on a formula adjusted for a community's socioeconomic factors and incentive points for factors such as energy efficiency and renovation and reuse of an existing facility.

Tisbury School was built in 1929 on a town-owned parcel of about five acres on Spring Street. A gymnasium was added in 1938, and a building addition and renovation project completed in March of 1995.

Three of the architect's new design options would utilize the present school site on Spring Street. Two designs feature additions constructed on both ends of the school. The third option includes a design for a new school building, to be constructed in the area where the playing fields are now located. The old school would be demolished.

To show due diligence, the architects also came up with three options that would utilize alternative sites in Tisbury, on town-owned parcels with a minimum of 10 acres. They came up with three possibilities, Veterans Field in Vineyard Haven, and two parcels near the Manter and Tashmoo wells.

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CJP's reputation for Success in Academic and Healthcare Factilites Strengthen Kasian's Capabilities to Serve Clients throughout B.C., across Canada and Internationally

VANCOUVER, Oct. 31, 2012 /CNW/ - Kasian Architecture Interior Design and Planning Ltd (Kasian), one of Canada's largest global architecture, interior design and planning firms, has entered into an agreement to merge the New Westminster based practice of CJP Architects Limited (CJP) into its existing operations.

Founded in 1954, CJP Architects' nearly 60 years of experience has provided some of the most recognizable and well received academic and healthcare facilities in western Canada. These include Douglas College's New Westminster and David Lam Campuses, the Performing Arts Expansion at York House School, the Northern Rockies Regional Recreation Centre, as well as the B.C. Children's Clinical Support Building and Chilliwack Hospital Addition.

CJP has amassed extensive experience in both new designs and renovations for a broad spectrum of Western Canadian projects. CJP owner Brian Hulme will become a Principal with Kasian and support its business development activities across various markets, with a particular focus in Academic and Healthcare sectors. In addition, CJP's staff of architects and technologists will transfer to Kasian's office located in Vancouver at the foot of Stanley Park. This merger is the second for Kasian in as many months.

Kasian and CJP share a common approach to clients and employees. "Both our practices are built upon serving the needs of clients and staff, and reflect a deep commitment to managing both with respect and transparency" commented Brian Hulme of CJP. "In joining forces with Kasian, I am confident that the strong relationships we've been able to create with employees and clients alike will only be strengthened" concluded Mr. Hulme.

"We are very excited to welcome CJP into Kasian. Their incredibly strong portfolio, particularly in educational facilities, will be an excellent addition and further enhance our capabilities in the Institutional market sector" observed Don Kasian, President of Kasian. "With the addition of CJP personnel, we will be able to expedite some recently won projects, as well as be better positioned to pursue new projects and continue our enviable track record of growth in British Columbia" concluded Mr. Kasian.

ABOUT KASIAN Kasian is one of the leading 100 architecture, interior design and planning firms in the world, with offices in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto, Abu Dhabi and Shanghai. Our goal is to harness the collective expertise and imagination of our global team of innovative professionals to find feasible solutions to the complex questions posed by our clients. We employ an integrated, collaborative approach to design to create exceptional places and sustainable environments for people everywhere. Our award-winning projects range from the most advanced children's hospital in the world, to master plans for the most densely populated cities on the planet. Kasian's landmark projects in Vancouver include the Vancouver International Airport (YVR) Link Building, the Jim Pattison Outpatient Care and Surgery Centre (JPOC), and the Surrey Civic Centre. To learn more, please visit us at http://www.kasian.com. To learn more about CJP Architects, please visit http://www.cjp.ca

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Though not aimed specifically at architects, the Sun Seeker app,developed by the Australian app company ozPDA, offers valuable solar information that makes site visits all the more meaningful. The apps main function is to show sun paths in an overhead view, with sunrise and sunset times, as well as solar angles listed in a detail view. The feature architects will find most valuable is Sun Seekers overlays of the current days solar path, with the solstice sun paths, merged with live views from their smartphone or tablets built-in camera and compass to show augmented 3D views. This can be particularly handy for architects who want to visualize where louvers might be necessary to block harsh low-angle sunlight in the summer months, and where to seek optimal solar gain in winter, without having to run back to the office to start up Ecotect. The next time you find yourself wondering if youll need to spec window shades, seek out this app instead. $5.99$8.99; ozpda.com

For a demonstration of how the app looks on a smartphone, see the video below:

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When Lake|Flato Architects decided to add a 10-kilowatt solar array to its building, the company sailed through CPS Energy's rebate application process. The architecture firm hoped the size of the array would allow it to send electricity back into the grid on days the office was closed.

It was only after the firm had installed a $40,000 system, around $14,000 after CPS and federal rebates, that employees said they heard some ominous words from a CPS inspector: I have made a huge mistake.

Lake|Flato had inadvertently uncovered a quirk in the burgeoning effort to add more solar panels downtown. You can install solar, but if you're downtown, you can't produce excess power and sell it back into the grid because of a risk that resulting surges could cause power outages.

Lake|Flato worked with CPS before installing anything providing its address and CPS account number to make sure the firm would qualify for its solar rebate. A CPS inspector pre-approved the project but somehow didn't realize the company was downtown until coming to the property for a final inspection.

It was only when CPS came for the inspection that this came up, said Heather Holdridge with Lake|Flato. I don't know how he only realized that (this) was downtown at this moment.

It turns out that a glitch in the CPS computer system wasn't flagging downtown addresses as being part of the downtown electric grid.

Only a few buildings have solar arrays in the downtown grid generally defined by CPS as the area within Interstate 10, Interstate 35 and U.S. 281 so this is a relatively new issue, said Lanny Sinkin, executive director of the nonprofit Solar San Antonio.

It's the early stages of things, Sinkin said. You learn.

So far, there have been at least two lessons.

Across the street from Lake|Flato, the recently renovated 1930s-era Hipolito F. Garcia Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse bumped into the same issue with its 50-kilowatt array.

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While Canadian architecture has had its moments on the world stagethink Moshe Safdie or Arthur Ericksonthe prevalent feeling among a generation of up and coming architects these days is that were stuck in a backwater when it comes to innovative building design. It feels a little bland or a little polite, says Johanna Hurme, a founding partner of the Winnipeg-based firm 5468796 Architecture, We are constantly trying to define what Canadian architecture is.

Hurme is part of a team of three curators who organized the Canadian Pavilions exhibition this year at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale; they call themselves the Migrating Landscapes Organizer (MLO) and are hoping the exhibit, whose theme is Im/migration, will reinvigorate the Canadian design scene by exploring the architectural potential of the immigrant experience. Their show is the culmination of a year and a half of competitions and exhibitions, from which 18 finalists were chosen to represent Canada.

Curators Sasa Radulovic, Johanna Hurme, Jae-Sung Chon outside the Canadian pavilion (Barbara Zanon/Getty)

For the purposes of the exhibition in Venice, the shows curators Hurme, her colleague Sasa Radulovic from 5468796 Architecture, and Jae-Sung Chon, an architecture instructor from the University of Manitobahave completely transformed the permanent Canadian Pavilion, one of 29 national pavilions in the Giardini della Biennale, a large lagoon-side park where most of the international architecture festival takes place. Much of the space in and around the pavilion has been filled with lumber cut in four different lengths, which acording to the curators, is meant to evoke Canadas pluralistic cultural landscape where newcomers are welcome to express their own distinctive experiences. One of the dangers of global architecture is its dominance, says Chon. It is very trendy and fast moving. But if you step back and look at your hyphenated condition as a starting point, there is a much more rich condition that you can bring to the table.

Using this expansive and malleable landscape made of lumber, the 18 teams of Canadian architects and designers have installed their various models, which consist of dollhouse scale structures, sculptural objects, and figurines, though some teams have just rearranged the lumber to make their architectural statements. Each model is positioned alongside a tablet device with a video of one of its authors recounting the story of immigration that inspired the work.

In one video, Felix Tue, a Canadian architect from Romania, recounts a story about a space that remained outside my new house, organic and inaccessible like a childrens game from the past.

In another, Amirali Javidan, a Canadian architect from Iran, recalls the chants of Allah O Akbar from the rooftops of a densely packed Iranian city where he lived during the revolution against the Shah. He draws a contrast to the suburban neighborhood of detached houses with pitched roofs in Edmonton, Alberta where he later moved to, and where the buildings never spoke.

Travis Cooke and Jason Kun, two Canadian architects born in Canada, describe the Winnipeg Condition, in their video. Thats the provincial ache of wanting to be elsewhere even when a place is your home.

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SQFT Architects beat 30 competitors to emerge as winner of the design competition for the upcoming Bukit Panjang Hawker Centre (pictured), announced Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Vivian Balakrishnan.

The announcement was made during the public forum and exhibition, Rethinking Hawker Centres, held as part of Singapore Institute of Architects' (SIA) yearly Archifest, reported AsiaOne.

The captivating design by SQFT Architects shows practicality, making use of natural lighting, while preventing heat and glare. Apart from maximising natural ventilation, the proposed hawker centre will also provide shelter from the rain.

Expected to be completed by late 2014, the upcoming Bukit Panjang Hawker Centre will accommodate 20 market stalls, 20 cooked food stalls and 20 lock-up stalls. It will also be the first of seven new hawker centres to be constructed under Budget 2012.

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