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Shigeru Ban, Daniel Libeskind, and Kartell CEO and Salone president Claudio Luti at the Where Architects Live exhibition.

More than any other furniture fair, the Salone del Mobile is the place for furniture manufacturers and product designers to introduce their latest creations. But it is also the place where practitioners from all fields of design converge each year for one week in April. Architects have a strong presence at the Milan fair, and the Salone recognizes that. This year, it organized an exhibit in one of the fairground pavilions to showcase the homes of eight renowned architects including Mario Bellini, David Chipperfield, Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas (designers of the fairgrounds), Zaha Hadid, Marcio Kogan, Daniel Libeskind, Studio Mumbais Bijoy Jain, and recently-named 2014 Pritzker Prize laureate Shigeru Ban.

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A maquette of the Fuksases' installation for Where Architects Live.

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Several of the participating architects visited the exhibit for the first time today, accompanied by Kartell CEO and Salone president Claudio Luti. Each architect is featured in a video interview within a dedicated space representing their home. David Chipperfieldspeaking from his apartment in Berlin, which he has maintained along with an office in the city after completing the Neues Museumexplains that when it comes to architecture, It doesnt matter if it is a house or not. You make places where you want to be.

From the stark white interior of Bellinis booth to the dominantand what proved to be hazardous for some visitorswater feature of Jains, the exhibit speaks equally to the intimate objects one surrounds themselves with and the location each architect chooses to call home, whether immersed in the Indian countryside like Jain or overlooking Paris Place des Vosges like the Fuksases. For some, like Ban, who spends as much time in the air as on the ground, home can be what you least expect. I have an apartment in Tokyo and one in Parisevery week, I travel between the two cities, Ban explains. When I am alone, on a plane with no phone calls, that is when I feel at home.

Bellini is known equally for his product design for Kartell, Cassina, and Artemide, and architectural projects including the Islamic Arts gallery he designed with Rudy Ricciotti inside the Cour Visconti at the Louvre in Paris. Opened in 2012, the elegant insertion creates a golden cloud within the Second Empire courtyardits undulating glass and metal mesh roof covers two levels of exhibition space below. Currently, his office is working on several projects for the Expo Milano 2015. Bellini took some time to speak with Record about his Salone experience and the exhibition.

Can you explain why the Salone is important not just for product designers, but for architects like yourself?

The Salone del Mobile has made Milan the center of the world when talking about and reflecting on design, architecture, art, and fashion because it is not only where the big fair is exhibiting design products, but where all the city itselfthe streets, shops, restaurants, and museumsbecome part of the interface of communication. Critics, writers, photographers, architects, designers, and entrepreneurs come from all over the world. That is unique, it only happens in Milan once a year.

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RTD Train Hall is one of several construction projects around Union Station. (AAron Ontiveroz, The Denver Post)

Construction gains outside of housing remain tepid nationally, but Colorado is bucking that trend.

"Part of this is a story of emerging economic momentum," said Anirban Basu, chief economist with Associated Builders and Contractors, who gave a forecast Thursday morning in Denver.

Robust oil and gas production, combined with metro Denver's attractiveness to young professionals, have provided the state a jump on other areas.

"This helps explain to a large extent why the state's economy has become turbocharged lately," Basu said of the ongoing energy boom.

Construction hiring in Colorado through February is up 6 percent, compared with a 2.5 percent annual pace nationally, noted Ken Simonson, chief economist of the Associated General Contractors of America, during an economic webcast sponsored by Reed Construction Data.

Some of the most robust construction activity is taking place in Denver's core, which the Downtown Denver Partnership touted Thursday morning at a separate event on its "development map."

The downtown area has seen 5,688 residences, 2,297 hotel rooms and 2.7 million square feet of office space either added or under construction since 2008. Two dozen projects worth $1.8 billion are expected to be completed this year alone, a third of them located in the Central Platte Valley.

Multi-family and even single-family construction have shown strength the past year, but nonresidential is an entirely different story.

"We have had a hard time building momentum in nonresidential," said Kermit Baker, chief economist with the American Institute of Architects.

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Philadelphia, Pa. (PRWEB) April 18, 2014

MB1 Capital Partners and Aquinas Realty Partners today announced the official groundbreaking for the construction of the AQ Rittenhouse, a mixed-use, apartment-retail-classroom tower at 2021 Chestnut Street in Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia.

The $40 million complex, due to be completed by the end of the year, will be constructed on the site of the former Philadelphia YWCA Annex which was built in 1954 but vacant and blighted for more than a decade. The new 12-story building, designed by BLT Architects of Philadelphia and being constructed by Clemons Construction Company of Philadelphia, will also include classroom, lab and activity space for the adjacent Freire Charter School.

Joel Brudner, Managing Partner of MB1 Capital Partners, noted AQ Rittenhouse will also include 4,500 square feet of retail space on the ground floor, as well as a 1,500-square-foot mezzanine as other components of this new 12-story apartment tower.

Brudner noted the key component of the building will be 110 upscale apartments in studio, one- and two-bedroom units to help meet the need for quality housing in Center City. The signature feature of the building will be its large exterior windows and Juliet balconies.

This will be one of the most beautiful and versatile buildings in Philadelphia, Brudner said. The plan also includes a second-floor terrace, a center courtyard on the eighth floor, and a rooftop sky terrace and lounge that will offer incredible views, all within the tremendous location in Rittenhouse Square.

As the development will cater to professionals, other amenities include a fitness center, 24-hour doorman and concierge, fitness center, Wi-Fi cafe, bike storage and even a dog washroom.

I cannot describe to you how bad of a building [the YWCA Annex] was, said Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter in his remarks at a recent groundbreaking ceremony. There are many, many challenging properties, but this particular property, literally located wall to wall with a charter school where students are trying to get an education, was a terrible property. It will now be transformed into a beautiful property.

By replacing this dilapidated property with a 110-unit apartment building, complete with restaurants, retail shops, and our top-notch charter school, this project is taking a major step towards the revitalization of the 2000 block of Chestnut Street, but much of Chestnut Street will benefit from this project, the mayor added.

The building, which will meet the standards for LEED Silver certification, is an example of public and private interests coming together to help renew old neighborhoods, while creating jobs and endless opportunity, Brudner added.

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This home was originally built for a lumber manufacturer and his family to use for the summer residence more than 100 years ago. Today, the home has been completely renovated and insulated, but still

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An Emmet County doctor accused of inappropriate relationships with patients faces multiple sex crime charges. The sheriff's department investigated allegations against Richard Ferguson of Harbor Springs,

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OTTAWA - The ball is now firmly in the Harper government's court when it comes to deciding whether to stick with the oft-maligned F-35 fighter jet program.

After almost 18 months of exhaustive research and analysis, a key report that will determine whether there will be an open competition to replace the air force's aging CF-18s has been completed, the public works minister said Friday.

The analysis looks at fighter jets already on the market, how suited they would be for Canada's defence needs, their cost and potential benefits.

The review was part of a package of research the Conservative government ordered as a way to douse the political fire started in 2012 following a scathing report by the auditor general, which accused National Defence and Public Works of low-balling the enormous cost of the stealth fighter program and not doing their homework.

Diane Finley did not release the findings of the market analysis, conducted by four outside defence experts.

"Over the next several weeks we will be carefully reviewing a number of reports relating to the evaluation of options, industrial benefits, costs and other factors related to the decision to replace our CF-18 fleet," Finley told a Vancouver business audience.

She described the research as "both rigorous and impartial."

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