With this app, design professionals can search for building product information quickly on iPhones and Android devices McGraw-Hill Construction Sweets, the one-stop source of building product information for the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) community, has developed and launched a new mobile app that enables design professionals to search and download specs, CAD, BIM, catalogs, data sheets and more quickly and easily on their iPhones and Android devices. Design professionals can choose from the thousands of building products via Sweets Search or by "MasterFormat Browse" to find the products that meet their design vision. "We're very excited about this new
The first of several planned congressional hearings concerning a General Services Administration’s costly conference saw House members grilling current and former GSA officials about the spending scandal and a key figure in the controversy cite his Fifth Amendment right six times. Photo courtesy M Resort Several key officials departed the GSA after the agency was accused of wasteful spending on a 2010 conference at the M Resort near Las Vegas (pictured). Related Links: GSA Chief Resigns Following “Wasteful” Spending on Conference The focus of the April 16 hearing, held by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, was a GSA
Will the Frank Gehry-designed Ike Memorial ever get built? Image courtesy EMC The design features metal tapestries depicting Eisenhower’s childhood, along with stone bas-reliefs showing him as a general and president. Click to view more images. Related Links: Gehry Hopes to Meet With Eisenhower Family to Allay Concerns Designs for National Mall Sites Unveiled Gehry Chosen to Design Eisenhower Memorial For an architect, no commission is more troublesome than creating a national memorial. Frank Gehry is learning firsthand just how fraught the process can be, with his design for a President Dwight D. Eisenhower memorial in Washington, D.C., generating widespread
Photo courtesy SHoP The noted urban planner Vishaan Chakrabarti (second from right) recently became a partner at SHoP Architects. No one has a résumé like Vishaan Chakrabarti, a planner who has darted between the public and private sectors: as a top executive at Related Companies; a director at the New York City Planning Commission; an associate partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; a transportation planner for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; and, most recently, as the director of Columbia University’s Center for Urban Real Estate (CURE). In March, Chakrabarti became a partner at SHoP Architects. He
Photo courtesy Stephen Sandstrom (left) / S'ren Simonsen (right) Utah Rep. Stephen Sandstrom (left) and S'ren Simonsen (right). Thomas Jefferson may be the most celebrated American architect, albeit an amateur one, to lead a political life, but he certainly wasn’t the last. According to the American Institute of Architects, there are currently about 1,250 AIA members serving in elected and appointed positions, including six mayors, 55 city council members, 135 historic preservation commissioners, and 226 planning commissioners. But oddly, there are no architects currently serving in the U.S. Congress, and according to the AIA, there was only one during the
Finalists include Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Michael Maltzan Architecture, and Snøhetta, among others. Image courtesy Trust for the National Mall Click to view the shortlist of proposals for Constitution Gardens. Click to view the shortlist of proposals for the Washington Monument Grounds at Sylvan Theater. Click to view the shortlist of proposals for Union Square. Related Links: Finalists for National Mall Competition Announced National Park Service Begins Campaign to Reconceive Mall Gehry Hopes to Meet With Eisenhower Family to Allay Concerns While the proposed Eisenhower Memorial by Frank Gehry has dominated headlines in recent weeks, another project in Washington, D.C.,
Surviving Progress paints a bleak view of humanity’s future Photo courtesy First Run Features The Sao Paulo skyline as shown in the film. Related Links: Review: How Do I Love You, Mr. Foster? Review: New Eames Film Tepid Tribute Review: Imploding the Pruitt-Igoe Myth Questioning whether progress has actually occurred in the past 200 years is an audacious task in a film of less than 90 minutes. But directors Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks make a noble attempt in their documentary Surviving Progress, which opens in New York on Friday and nationally on April 20. The film, based on the
Two other officials reportedly “removed,” including Robert Peck, head of Public Buildings Service. The head of the U.S. General Services Administration, Martha Johnson, resigned on April 2 and earlier removed the leader of GSA’s Public Buildings Service and another senior official from their jobs, an Obama administration official says. The shakeup was sparked by an inspector general’s report blasting GSA for “excessive and wasteful” spending and failing to follow federal contracting rules on a 2010 conference whose price tag exceeded $822,000. Related Links:Peck Returning as GSA Buildings Chief The Obama administration official said the two GSA executives removed were PBS
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