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Illumination Panels Provide Cost-Effective, Durable Option for Building Teams

For many building projects one would like to hear that money's no object. Unfortunately, tight budgets mean searching for materials and labor that won’t break the bank, but will...
March 7, 2017

Harnessing the Power of Color

Kris Decker/Firewater PhotographyColor surrounds the built world everyday. Choosing to frequent a building or establishment, or even choosing to rent a certain apartment space...
Feb. 21, 2017

Color Me Trendy—How Color Highlights Importance in the Built World

Photo by Steve Hinds, Steve Hinds Inc.Color has long been a way of expressing details and emotions, and capturing one’s attention.While neutrals are universally beloved, as of...
Jan. 31, 2017
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Bringing the Warmth of Wood Back to Design

In traditional architecture, a building’s exterior was often given visual interest through ornament that was added over the primary material of the building's skin. Contemporary...
July 20, 2016
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Fiber Cement Panels: Wood Without the Headaches

Wood has been in use as both a structural and decorative material for thousands of years. Ironically, the properties that make it perform heroically as a structural material—high...
June 16, 2016
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A Better Wood

Everyone loves the look of wood. It can instantly evoke a sense of tradition, yet also fit into the most modern of architectures. Wood can convey simultaneously that the building...
May 11, 2016
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Architects achieve the look of brick while avoiding structural issues

The goal of the Park Metro Apartments in Bellevue, Wash., created a unique design challenge: attract a younger audience to a growing urban downtown area but also relate to the...
Sept. 30, 2015
Texas eye surgery center captures attention in commercial neighborhood

Texas eye surgery center captures attention in commercial neighborhood

The client was open-minded and enthusiastic about the design for the Eye Surgery Center of North Dallas, a 10,700-square-foot single-story building in Carrollton, Texas. Taking...
June 23, 2015
Nichiha adds distinctive edge to Atlanta luxury apartment building

Nichiha adds distinctive edge to Atlanta luxury apartment building

When the time came to develop the 355-unit, five-story Berkshire Terminus upscale apartment building in the Buckhead section of Atlanta, the design team had one goal: complement...
April 21, 2015