The cosmopolitan district of Chueca is Madrid’s epicentre of design and tolerance, as well as one of the liveliest areas of the Spanish capital with its alternative air and wealth of coffee shops, eco-galleries and traditional markets. One of the streets in this vibrant quarter is the location for the outstanding renovation of a home […]
(Kansas City, MO) The Western Specialty Contractors – Sheet Metal Division in Kansas City, MO recently replaced leaking, improperly installed wall panels and flashings covering the control tower at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, NE. Historic Offutt AFB is the headquarters for the U.S. Strategic Command, 557th Weather Wing, and 55th Wing, the largest wing of […]
North American firm helps with stabilization effort on lighthouse staircase Cintec North America announces its Cementitious Grout Anchors were used in a project for the stabilization of the deteriorating staircase in the Morris Island Lighthouse, located on Morris Island, South Carolina. The lighthouse was opened in 1876 and decommissioned in 1962. The structure is 49M/161 […]
It was a disaster — well, almost. If the design of the bathroom remodel was followed it could actually risk collapsing the building. During a recent remodel, a Conference Center Hotel in Atlanta was, as many hotels are these days, converting the alcove tubs in the bathrooms into more elegant and usable walk-inshowers. Preformed Acrylic […]
Everyone loves a before and after! In William McIntosh Design’s recent Leroy Street project, they removed a sheetrock partition and replaced it with a gorgeous custom fabricated steel and glass wall by the craftspeople at Amuneal. Now, the homeowners at 160 Leroy can enjoy their beautiful Hudson River views preparing meals in the kitchen. Before the […]
For the landmark residential tower recently completed near the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the texture and finish of the prominent metallic surfaces needed to be just right. These aluminum surfaces really stand out, at about a 10-degree angle, in tiers of 4-story-high leaves that suggest a golden crown. Architecture writers heralded the confident symbolism […]
With a total of 32 schools slated to be built by 2025, the City of Berlin, Germany, found sustainable wooden modular construction offered the short construction time it desired while simultaneously establishing the city as one of the world’s major metropolises for wood construction. Six schools have already been successfully completed. The modular structures were […]
Watershed is a deeply green, mixed-use project that has achieved both Living Building Challenge (LBC) petal certification and Seattle’s aggressive Living Building Pilot Program (LBPP) standards. In designing the project, both the developer and architect teams sought to find a way to stand out among the progressive city’s many sustainably designed projects. “The stakes were […]
Janesville, WI – With an air of post-Covid celebration, The Mercury Store opened in June of 2021. The start-up space of 13,000-square-feet for entertainers is located in a 100-year-old metal foundry. To separate the massive space into two sound-resistant performance areas, CO Adaptive Architecture specified two movable Hufcor partition walls – each with an STC […]