Building Design & Construction articles from April 2003

Building Design & Construction archives from April 2003

Lagrange on steel.
April 1, 2003... Lucien Lagrange. Principal Lucien Lagrange Architects. Born in France, he moved to Montreal in 1959. He interned at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, tasted Chicago, and couldn't stay away. Now one of the most creative classic designers Chicago has...

More soldier field debate. (Letters).
April 1, 2003... I've read Robert Cassidy's editorial [BD&C, December, p. 5] and Dirk Lohan's response [BD&C, February, p. 7] regarding the Soldier Field renovation, and I still agree with with Cassidy's opinion. Mr. Lohan, you ask "when do buildings get...

Mixed-used reflection. (Letters).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... I very much like the feel of Paseo Colorado in Pasadena, Calif., the lead project in Larry Flynn's article "Developing a Winning Combination" [BD&C, March, p. 26]. It reminds me of Addison Mizner's mixed-use development from the 1930s on Worth...

Classic revisited. (Editorial).
April 1, 2003... Years ago, the poet and essayist Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982) would treat readers of the now defunct Saturday Review to a one- or two-page reconsideration of a literary classic--everything from The Epic of Gilgamesh, through the Greeks, onward...

Government plans to build new embassy in Iraq.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Marking the beginning of the post-Saddam Hussein era in Iraq, the U.S. State Department is planning to allocate $35.8 million to construct a new embassy in Baghdad. The funds would come from President Bush's $74.7 billion supplemental budget...

Asian art revitalizes old library. (News & Trends).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Shuttered after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, San Francisco s Main Library was reincarnated March 20 as the new home of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. The $160.5 million renovation of the 1917 Beaux Arts structure is part of a...

Physical, Earth & Environmental Science Center. (Projects awarded).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The Physical, Earth & Environmental Science Center under construction at Occidental College in Los Angeles will house 23 research and teaching laboratories as well as faculty offices. Anshen + Allen, Los Angeles is architect for the $16 million...

The public will be able to see into the press hall to watch newspapers being printed when the Kansas City Star's $199 million production facility. (Projects awarded).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The public will be able to see into the press hall to watch newspapers being printed when the Kansas City Star's $199 million production facility in downtown Kansas City, Mo., opens in early 2006. The Austin Co., Cleveland, will design,...

Deer Valley High School No. 5. (Projects awarded).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Construction has begun on the five-building Deer Valley High School No. 5 in North Phoenix, Ariz. The design, by DLR Group, Omaha, Neb., includes two academic buildings that will subdivide the student population into eight smaller learning...

Arlington Gateway is a 1.25 million-sq.-ft, mixed-use development. (Projects awarded).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Arlington Gateway is a 1.25 million-sq.-ft, mixed-use development taking shape in the Ballston area of Arlington, Va. The architect is WDG Architecture, Washington, D.C. Construction began early this year on a 12-story office building and is...

Arizona breaks ground on high-tech `cactus'. (News & Trends).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Massive flowing metal "ribbons" with vertical slots highlight the design of the new multipurpose stadium for the Arizona Cardinals football team in Glendale, Ariz. The project broke ground last month. The radical design by New York-based...

Bernard Holmes Bradley, long-time partner with Chicago-based A/E Holabird & Root. (People/firms).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Bernard Holmes Bradley, long-time partner with Chicago-based A/E Holabird & Root, died in January in his home in Arizona. He was 90.

A/E HNTB. (People/firms).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Al Michejda has joined A/E HNTB as vice president, national director of aviation architecture.

BSA LifeStructures. (People/firms).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... A/E BSA Design, Indianapolis, has been renamed BSA LifeStructures.

Construction Management Association of America. (People/firms).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Karl F. Borgstrom, former CEO of the Construction Management Association of America, is the new executive director of the Construction Specifications Institute, Alexandria, Va.

A/E Carter & Burgess. (People/firms).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... A/E Carter & Burgess, Ft. Worth, has elected Phil Deaton as board chairman and Ben Watts as president, to fill vacancies created by the death of former chairman and president Jerry Allen.

Glass price deflation reflects global glut. (Industry Data).
April 1, 2003... After increasing by 2.1% on an annual average basis of measure between 2000 and 2001, overall flat glass prices declined by 0.7% over the course of 2002, according to estimates from the U.S. Labor Department. But prices increased by an...

Cost comparisons per square foot in select metro markets. (Industry Data).
April 1, 2003... Cost comparisons per square foot in select metro markets College Laboratory College Classroom '03 '02 % chg. '03 '02 % chg. Atlanta 112.72 107.39 5.0 ...

Collaboration in construction. (Computer Applications).
April 1, 2003... With so much at stake, today's Building Teams have no choice but to streamline the construction process through technologies that are readily available. Two such technologies approach this in different ways--one through the design...

Cultural enterprise: eight diverse projects from Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and South America provide map for international success. (International Focus).
April 1, 2003... What does it take to succeed in the international marketplace? If the eight projects profiled within this 43-page section are any indication, it takes the same things Building Teams do on domestic projects, only more. Dedication, patience,...

Origin of life: Shanghai's futuristic Museum of Science and Technology evokes principles of traditional Chinese culture. (Shanghai, China).
April 1, 2003... Spiraling toward the sky with a giant glass ellipsoid as its fulcrum, Shanghai's ScienceLand Museum of Science and Technology stands as a high-tech marvel in a city filled with energetic, futuristic structures. The $200 million,...

Tradition reinterpreted: ancient Ottoman design elements are incorporated into an ultra-modern Turkish university modeled after the U.S. system of higher education. (Istanbul, Turkey).
April 1, 2003... The excitement and frenetic activity of Istanbul during the height of the Ottoman Empire five centuries ago must have been similar to that which took place only a few years ago just east of the city during the construction of Sabanci...

Technology and travel overcome time difference. (Istanbul, Turkey).
April 1, 2003... With a project the magnitude of Sabanci University's 32 buildings, and with a seven-hour time difference between Buffalo and Istanbul, the Building Team relied on technology, an around-the-clock work schedule, and frequent site visitations to...

An Asian Airport with U.S. roots: American consultants' work precedes the completion of plans by the project's Korean architect of record. (Incheon, Korea).
April 1, 2003... The design of the 5.3 million-sq-ft. passenger terminal for South Korea's newest airport traces its origins 6,500 miles to Denver, the home base of Fentress Bradburn Architects (FBA), the terminal's design architect. FBA, which also...

Onyx Finery: as the city's only blast-resistant public building, the new Foreign Ministry blends into the National Precinct. (Jerusalem, Israel).
April 1, 2003... In Jerusalem--a center of religious fervor, ancient archeology, ethnic diversity, and political struggle--a new building has joined the ranks of architecturally distinct government facilities in the National Precinct. The Jerusalem Foreign...

Princely icon: a distinctively styled mixed-use skyscraper promises to raise this desert capitol's profile. (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).
April 1, 2003... A wash in the harsh sun of the Saudi Arabian desert, the gleaming 984-ft.-tall Kingdom Centre shimmers like a mirage as it towers over the Riyadh skyline. Rising from an elliptical base, the almond-shaped tower is topped by a dramatic yet...

CAD, 3-D tools link design team across miles.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The design and construction of the Kingdom Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, included nearly 200 Building Team members in five countries and 20 cities, according to Minneapolis-based A/E Ellerbe Becket. The firm partnered with Riyadh-based A/E...

Environmental transparency: Helmut Jahn's new headquarters for chemical/pharmaceutical giant Bayer proves that people who work in glass houses can be pretty lucky. (Leverkusen, Germany).
April 1, 2003... Six years ago, Bayer Group, the $30-billion chemical, pharmaceutical, polymer, and agricultural products manufacturer, took steps to further globalize operations and restructure its business to put greater emphasis on its pharmaceutical line....

One way to save on costs.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... One of the unusual things about having a chemical company for a client is that some of the client's products can wind up in your building, as Murphy/Jahn found out when the firm built a new headquarters for Bayer Group. Here's how Bayer...

Merging with tradition: a rigorous approval process and construction above a Metro station did not deter the Building Team for this mixed-use project. (Prague, Czech Republic).
April 1, 2003... One of the first modern mixed-use buildings in the tradition-rich city of Prague, Czech Republic (population 1.2 million), now faces Charles Square, the largest public space in the central city. Charles Square Center incorporates 165,000...

Work del arte: corporate headquarters for Chile's largest retailer is hailed by the local community as a work of art, setting a new direction in architectural design for the capitol. (Santiago, Chile).
April 1, 2003... Rising 22 stories above one of Santiago, chile's most high-scale commercial districts, the glass-and-steel corporate headquarters for Almacenes Paris LTDA--Chile's largest retailer--stands as an icon of innovative, post-modern architecture in a...

A word about the maps in this issue. (About The Maps).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... The maps and town plans in this Special International Issue have been provided through the courtesy of Jonathan Potter, one of the premier cartographic antiquarians in the world. Visitors to his shop at 125 New Bond St., London, will find...

Bonding with nature. (Products at work).
April 1, 2003... The Kitimat Hospital and Health Centre in Kitimat, British Columbia, considered affordability, performance, and design as top factors in selecting an exterior cladding. The building utilizes 25,000 sq. ft. of 4mm Alucobond 21 Material in birch...

Just call. (Cladding).
April 1, 2003... The Concord Telephone Company wanted its new headquarters building in Charlotte, N.C., to reflect cutting-edge technology. Its highly visible location made long lasting and good looking cladding materials crucial. Formawall Dimension Series...

Faux stone. (Cladding).
April 1, 2003... Aluminum composite has the strength and appearance of stone, but it can be bent, routed, drilled, and trimmed. The cladding is made by bonding two thin sheets of aluminum around a thermoplastic core, creating a lightweight, durable, flexible...

FRP finish. (Cladding).
April 1, 2003... Panelized exterior wall system offers a hard, aggregated, fiber-reinforced polymer finish and comes with a 10-year warranty and the appearance of a field-applied EIFS. The 2- or 4-in.-thick, factory-insulated wall panel options deliver R values...

Fans: enter here. (Products at work).
April 1, 2003... The $450 million American Airlines Center in Dallas, home to the Mavericks basketball team and Stars hockey club, features arched openings that welcome fans. For the curtain wall entrances, general contractor Austin Commercial installed a...

Constructions Spefications Institute. (Products).
April 1, 2003... Date: April 9-11 Location: McCormick Place, Chicago www.constructamerica.org A larger, meatier Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) convention will make its debut this month in Chicago, as the first annual "ConstructAmerica."...

D.C. makeover. (Products at work).
April 1, 2003... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Formerly the offices of the U.S. Secret Service, 1310 L St. in Washington, D.C., was recently transformed into a modern office building by the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation. The old exterior walls were...

Guided cladding. (Products at work).
April 1, 2003... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Guide Corp. chose polyurethane foam insulated wall panels for its Technology and Customer Center in Pendleton, Ind. More than 30,000 sq. ft. of the polar white and regal gray-accented CF Striated panels were...

Stone simulation. (Products at work).
April 1, 2003... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The 125,000-sq.-ft. Gateway Exchange II office building in Columbia, Md., incorporates Model 230 Slenderwall exterior wall panels in a "buff" color. They are made of architectural precast concrete mix and finished...

Lightfair International. (Products).
April 1, 2003... Date: May 6-8 Location: Javits Convention Center, New York City www.lightfair.com Now in its 14th year, Lightfair International is the world's largest annual architectural and commercial lighting trade show and conference, with over...

Led lighting. (Products at work).
April 1, 2003... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The M CLub in Belfast, Ireland, uses new LED technology to light up its exterior, as well as the perimeter of the bar. The external lighting installation was designed around the building, with the glass windows at...

Optics options. (Lightfair).
April 1, 2003... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Prismatic glass lighting fixtures are available in five optical designs and two sizes, with up to 92% efficiency, according to its maker. Each shape of the Illuminaire fixture is offered with plain optics or a...

Limber lighting. (Lightfair).
April 1, 2003... Low-voltage Monorail System features a bold look, cutting-edge technology, and more than 150 new fixtures, including track heads and pendants. The system can be custom designed with curves, as it can bend for high visual impact. W.A.C....

Guest lighting. (Lightfair).
April 1, 2003... Motion sensor nightlight saves energy in hotel bathrooms, providing comfort for guests. WN-100 uses passive infrared technology to detect occupancy and turn lights off when the room is vacant. A light-emitting diode provides night-lighting when...

Earth friendly. (Lightfair).
April 1, 2003... T8 linear fluorescent lamps available in 2-, 3-, and 4-ft. lengths are now compliant with the Toxic Characteristic Leaching Procedure standard. The Exolux lamps exceed stringent EPA standards, which require the lamps to pass a landfill disposal...

Tight fit. (Lightfair).
April 1, 2003... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Recessed Pendant lighting series is designed for architectural spaces too small for full-sized pendants, but requiring energy efficiency and high lumen output. Ideal for interior commercial applications, each fixture...

Light bar. (Lightfair).
April 1, 2003... Heavy-duty rod for illuminating closets and hanging garments is designed for cloakrooms, retail store garment displays, and hotels. Closet Rod combines flexible Clickstrap snap-in low-voltage linear strip lighting with a lightweight but durable...

High-efficiency ballasts. (Lightfair).
April 1, 2003... High Efficiency ballasts are the biggest energy-saving breakthrough in linear fluorescent lighting in more than 25 years, says the maker. When paired with energy-saving T8 lamps, these ballasts cost up to 40% less to operate than T12...

Quick starter. (Lighfair).
April 1, 2003... Watt pulse start lamp features improved starting, faster hot restrike, and better color uniformity compared to standard 175 watt lamps, says the maker. The Uni-Form 150 watt lamp offers the same initial lumens. It is recommended for retail...