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Architects: Salmela Architect
- Area: 9000 ft²
- Year: 2015
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Manufacturers: EPDM, Loll Designs, Marvin, ROCKWOOL
Fast Horse / Salmela Architect
Larson Bergquist / Salmela Architect
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Architects: Salmela Architect
- Area: 1400 ft²
- Year: 2014
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Manufacturers: Richlite
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Professionals: Rod & Sons Carpentry, MBJ
Deployable Smocked Porch / Substance Architecture
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Architects: Substance Architecture
- Area: 90 m²
- Year: 2015
AIA Announces Winners of the 2016 Small Project Awards
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has selected seven recipients of the 2016 Small Project Awards. This is the 13th edition of the program, which was established to recognize firms for their excellence in small-project design. This year the winners have been placed into two categories: Category 1, which awards “a small project construction, object, work of environmental art or architectural design element up to $150,000 in construction cost,” and Category 2, given to “A small project construction, up to $1,500,000 in construction cost.”
This year’s winners include a wide variety of program types and sites. Continue after the break for the list and descriptions of the projects.
US Land Port of Entry / Snow Kreilich Architects
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Architects: Snow Kreilich Architects
- Area: 46000 ft²
- Year: 2013
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Manufacturers: Acoustical Surfaces, Swisspearl, Sherwin-Williams, Anderson Glass, Duluth Steel, +13
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Professionals: Winter Associates, Anastos Engineering, Coen + Partners, J & J Contractors Inc., Sasaki
CHS FIELD / Snow Kreilich Architects
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Architects: Snow Kreilich Architects
- Area: 347000 ft²
- Year: 2015
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Professionals: AECOM
2016 Wood Design Award Winners Announced
WoodWorks, an initiative of the Wood Products Council, has announced the winners of the 2016 Wood Design Awards. Honoring projects that “showcase the innovative use of wood as both a structural and finish material,” this year’s awards highlight the many uses and attributes of wood, “from structural performance and design versatility to sustainability and cost effectiveness.”
The Wood Design Awards are both National and Regional, with regional awards being presented at Wood Solutions Fairs across the country starting in late March.
The winners of the Wood Design Awards are:
AIA Names 18 Projects as Best New Architecture in US
A boathouse by Studio Gang, the Smithsonian's BIG plan, and a new Baltimore school by Rogers Partners' are some of 18 projects selected for the 2016 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Honor Awards. The awarded projects were chosen from 500 submissions as the US' best new architecture, interiors and urban design projects. Each recipient will be honored at the AIA 2016 National Convention in Philadelphia.
The 2016 Institute Honor Awards for Architecture are...
Tech, Big Data, and the Future of Retail Design
With the rise of the internet, old-fashioned brick-and-mortar stores have struggled, as online ordering services have increasingly made it unnecessary to actually go to a store. The answer for the physical stores of the future? Make spaces not for purchasing the things people need, but experiencing the things people want, as explored in this article by Matt Alderton originally published on Autodesk's Redshift publication as "How Technology and Big Data in Retail Are Shaping Store Designs of the Future." Alderton looks at how forward-looking stores are being designed to appeal to customers, finding that the same technology revolution that threatened to make stores obsolete might also play a key role in saving them, too.
Shopping used to be stimulating. Although its end was sales, its means was a mix of status and spectacle. It was social commerce in which partakers transacted not just cash, but also cachet.
Nowhere was this more evident than in the earliest department stores, whose architects designed them to be destinations. In London, for instance, Harrods boasts the motto “Omnia, Omnibus, Ubique”—Latin for “All Things for All People, Everywhere.” Established in 1849, it has seven floors, comprising more than 1 million square feet across more than 330 departments. The store installed one of the world’s first escalators in 1898, opened a world-famous food hall in 1902, and sold exotic pets such as lion cubs until the 1970s.
Family Retreat / Salmela Architect
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Architects: Salmela Architect
- Area: 1280 ft²
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Professionals: Lake Effect Builders, Meyer Borgman Johnson
Re-Thinking the Future 2014 Competition Awards BIG, UN Studio, HOK, and More
The winners of Re-Thinking the Future’s 2014 design competition - a competition that asked architects, designers, planners, and students from all over the world to submit “radical solutions for the present day problems” of climate change - have been announced. Requesting both built and conceptual works, the jury of 20 architects from firms such as SOM, AEDAS, and Perkins+Will evaluated the projects across a range of categories, from mixed-use and residential buildings to urban and landscape design.
See all the winners, including proposals from BIG, UN Studio, and HOK, after the break.
Principal Riverwalk Pavilion / Substance Architecture
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Architects: Substance Architecture
- Area: 2500 ft²
- Year: 2013
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Manufacturers: Bradley Corporation USA, FSB Franz Schneider Brakel, Bliss Nor-Am, C.W. Cole & Co., Concrete, +4
Dart Central Station / Substance Architecture
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Architects: Substance Architecture
- Area: 22000 ft²
- Year: 2012
Koosmann Residence / Salmela Architect
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Architects: Salmela Architect
- Year: 2014
Izzy’s Ice Cream Kitchen & Retail Shop / Salmela Architect
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Architects: Salmela Architect
- Area: 7500 m²
- Year: 2013
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Professionals: Bust Out Solutions, South Side Electric, Streeter & Associates, Braun Intertec, Colberg Tews, +3
Salmela House / Salmela Architect
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Architects: Salmela Architect
- Area: 3000 ft²
- Year: 2007
Hall House / Salmela Architect
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Architects: Salmela Architect
- Area: 2424 m²
- Year: 2012