Confidential Multimedia Entertainment Company in New York by FXFOWLE
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22squared in Atlanta by Gensler
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In addition to engaging traditional measures such as energy efficiency, daylighting, and use of healthy materials, sustainability will include a holistic and experientially based design approach
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A Hamburg hotel
evokes the city’s rich maritime culture
with eccentric touches
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Two state agencies lead by example
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SmithGroupJJR helps
a construction company achieve net zero despite the Arizona heat
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Perkins+Will trades in its labyrinthine Atlanta office for a light, lofty, and green one
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SCDA Architects creates a luxury resort
that respects the fragile ecology
of the Maldives
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Cohesive design details accentuate
the Dutch energy provider’s office
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A state-of-the-art rehabilitation hospital in Boston alters the role of healthcare within civic architecture
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Perkins+Will designs a culturally relevant communications workspace in Mumbai, India
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Architecture pays homage to Surrealist art with a new museum in Florida
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Lady Bird Johnson Middle School in Irving produces and supports its energy on-site
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Johnson Chou, founder of Johnson Chou, Inc., in Toronto, Canada
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Former use: mercantile warehouse
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Former use: 1920s-era dance and music hall
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Former uses: public bath house, laundry, printer
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Former use: Prussian military uniform factory
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A southern California building takes on a new role
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Sid Lee Architecture transforms a 1950s-era ferry into a world-class spa in Montreal’s Old Port
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Creatively adapting and preserving an historic Melbourne train shed
into contemporary open offices required BVN Architecture to rethink
the entire structure
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The Cuisinart Center for Culinary Excellence at Johnson & Wales University teaches groundbreaking cuisine in a daylight-filled, LEED® Gold–certified environment designed by Tsoi/Kobus & Associates
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A California water district educates the public on green living with a demonstration building
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H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture designs a sustainable building for the Botanical Research Institute of Texas that is emblematic of its mission
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A new broadcast media headquarters targets three LEED® Gold ratings on Toronto’s waterfront
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Touted as the most energy efficient office building in Canada, Enermodal establishes a benchmark
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The September 2011 “Resilient Design” issue from Contract magazine is now available to view online
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Contract keeps it green with a roundup of eco-friendly product introductions
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Sustainability goals inspire an elegant palette of coffee-colored hues for this chic coffee/wine bar
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A current renovation by VOA Associates at one Washington, D.C.-based office building aims to preserve history while allowing for the evolution of design
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HKS Commercial Interiors designs a winning prototype to integrate three existing, Dallas-based CB Richard Ellis offices into one
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An update on the largest hospital under construction in Colombia
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It’s a simple question, but there isn’t a clear answer
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ROI-related decision-making takes hold as consumers demand data-driven-results, not obtuse claims
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The design for a new, multi-purpose building—housing health, leisure, culture and education facilities—will take center stage in the City of Frederiksberg, Denmark
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Contract magazine's 2011 Inspiration Awards winners, announced at a gala ceremony at WGBH public broadcasting headquarters in Boston on April 6, set an example in socially responsible design
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The Association for Retail Environments (ARE) honored this year’s A.R.E. Design Awards winners at Globalshop 2011
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RUFproject, with Nike Global Football, brings Soweto, South Africa, a central hub for its professional football athletes
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With a sleek, sustainable design by Eskew+Dumez+Ripple, the newly constructed L.B. Landry High School sets the tone for a revitalized school system in New Orleans
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Lance Armstrong Foundation Livestrong Headquarters in East Austin, Texas, designed by The Bommarito Group
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HOK’s Net Zero Co2urt may be the first-generation Prius of zero emissions office buildings
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Gehry Partners design a medical research facility linked to a dramatic events space that enlivens a barren site in Las Vegas
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The 2010 Healthcare Environment Award, Long-Term Assisted Living winning project challenges conventional assumptions, showing you really can teach an old design convention new tricks.
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An appetizing renovation by Kearns Mancini Architects, with Gow Hastings Architects, presents the Toronto-based school with a solution to deliver enhanced culinary education to an increasing student population.
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There are a significant number of buildings in the repositioning market today, and an ever-increasing interest from developers to create highly marketable and financially viable building assets.
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Renovating existing buildings might just be the new “new” for colleges and universities.
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A pair of former Nike missile silos take center stage as home to the rescued residents at a 24-hour rescue and rehabilitation facility in Sausalito, Calif.
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The future of our design disciplines and service philosophies should bring a demand for increased ingenuity in design, flexibility, durability, and longevity in our buildings.
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The traditional market stand concept turns contemporary with a bit of design genius from Vienna-based Architects Collective.
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Contract asks two designers to name and explain their preferred green products.
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What office design characteristics are needed for today’s challenging corporate environment?
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In a joint venture, Leo A. Daly/LAN and PageSutherlandPage have designed a new Houston office for the General Service Administration that combines sustainability and a welcoming community image.
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A LEED expert offers a step by step guide for avoiding lost credits
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Traces of California style and Dutch contemporary art do well to make employees forget that they work in a government office.
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Eco-friendly designs, bold colors, and metal and mesh were prominent at Milan 2010.
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Current AIA president George Miller shares his views on the Great Recession, the economic potential of green job creation, and how architects and firms can get involved.
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Innovative surfacing material applications and city views contrast against a collection of Japanese and Native American artifacts in this eco-friendly San Francisco office.
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Hera Lighting exec sheds light on how LEDs can contribute to LEED certification.
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These 11 new materials and technologies offer a glimpse into where innovation is taking us.
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Woods Bagot’s interiors for Eversheds mark a radical departure from typical law firm design, and elevate a BREEAM Very Good rating to a BREEAM Excellent rating in the process.
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For more meaningful progress on green building, sustainable design and sustainable operation must become more intertwined
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The lofty green goals of law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld are achieved in a sky-high, LEED Gold-certified Manhattan headquarters, designed by Butler Rogers Baskett
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Michielli + Wyetzner Architects designs efficient, sustainable, and ultra-flexible New York offices for AECOM—in synch with its own work and work ethics
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tvsdesign digs deep to deliver a stellar platform for environmental education and sustainable design at Herman Miller’s new LEED CI Platinum showroom—the first building of its kind in the City of Angles.
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Sustainable building practices come with the related burden of myriad legal issues for architects, interior designers, and their clients to consider.
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A LEED Platinum-certified supermarket debuts in Augusta, Maine.
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As the economy recovers, the good news is that demand for sustainable
design and products in the interiors markets will accelerate even more.
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After a devastating year of layoffs, furloughs, and closures, businesses
are repositioning for the post-great recession economy. What will this
new economic landscape look like?
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Mannington, 3M partnership recycles over 200,000 sq.-ft. of Olympic
graphics materials into VCT product.
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Sustainable design is stylishly easy with these recently released eco-friendly products.
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More happiness, less stuff. It’s the conclusion I’ve been drawing lately on the speaking circuit, as I describe my reworking of a famous equation by Paul and Anne Ehrlich from their book The Population Bomb—the environmental impact equation.
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Generational differences and sustainability play a major role today in workplace design.
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The flooring manufacturer announced exclusively to Contract magazine that it has partnered with 3M Canada Company to reclaim and recycle all 3M-produced graphics used at this year’s Olympic games.
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A manufacturing CEO gains insights by earning his LEED accreditation
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A visual montage of our 2010 winning projects
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In our 50th year of publication, Contract proudly presents the winners of the 31st Annual Interiors Awards Competition.
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Sometimes the right building
design can spur its occupants to a new, better way of working. That was Cannon
Design's aim when it scouted out The Power House in St. Louis as its new, LEED
Gold-certified office, seeking a more flexible, open, and sustainable way of
working.
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Environmental stewardship is giving some convention centers a competitive
advantage.
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Leigh Stringer, vice president at HOK, took a few minutes to meet with Contract
magazine to discuss some of her expertise, as well as highlight some of the
ideas proposed in her new book, The Green Workplace.
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An excerpt from Chapter 9: Tranformative Design, The Green Workplace:
Sustainable Strategies that Benefit Employees, the Environment, and the Bottom
Line by Leigh Stringer, vice president, HOK, LEED.
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In the case of LEED for Schools (with LEED Healthcare
on the horizon), there are no LEED credits for acoustics.
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After decades of relegating staff and patients to the glare of
artificial light, many hospitals now are aggressively pursuing daylighting
strategies that have long been the accepted as the norm in Europe.
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