Keep the natural environment of your home in mind while decorating it. You can start with the architectural approach. However, remember to opt for décor that gels well with the surroundings. For example, a casual country decoration that uses checks, floral, cotton, linen, and other cheerful colors, is apt for cottages. (more…)
Tip-toeing to the tipping point of sustainable buildings and a solar future. That’s one way to describe current activity in local construction.
While most homes and commercial buildings constructed over the past few years rarely go above mandated codes for energy efficiency, some daring developers are pushing the envelope.
Taking risks. Using innovative building practices. Sketching the promise of near-Zero Energy construction for the Georgia coast.
“I’m a plant man.” That’s not only a definition of himself, it also defines Gregg Bayard’s philosophy. A burly former forester and horticulturist, comfortable under a fine patina of dust from a roadway under construction, he and his business partner Curry Wadsworth, with 20 years experience as a landscaper, are turning a heavily wooded, former fishing camp on Salt Creek into a housing development overlooking — and preserving — the marsh. (more…)
HIGH POINT — With the flat-panel television boom showing no signs of fading, producers of entertainment furniture will have their showrooms fully stocked with new product at this week’s market.
Exhibitors say home entertainment is one of the few categories that has remained fairly robust during the furniture industry’s recent slump, and most believe the upward momentum still has at least another year or two to run.
They note that, despite the almost daily bombardment of ads from electronics stores and TV manufacturers, the majority of American households still don’t have a flat-panel set.
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Pac-Van, Inc. has won two First Place awards and an Honorable Mention at the Modular Building Institute’s annual convention – adding to its long history of success in the modular building industry’s most prestigious event
The MBI Awards of Distinction are given annually to recognize the world’s best modular building projects. The projects are scored in categories of: A – Architectural excellence; B – Technical innovation; C – Cost effectiveness/ energy efficiency; D – Calendar days to complete.
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Just when you think you’ve had a pretty good look at the office of Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects, it shape-shifts. The pivoting walls in the conference room, you realize, are set at completely different angles than they were a few hours earlier. The huge white panel in the stairwell has suddenly been etched with a new abstraction of shadows. Dozens of spiky blond architectural models migrate from one plane to another over the course of the day. And that skylight–that wasn’t open before, was it? Even the staff itself scatters and shuffles. In fact, everything about this Seattle office is a work in progress, from the zealous use of raw materials to the firm’s unique collaborative philosophy. It’s never the same place twice. (more…)
