Applied Architecture quick photoshop color studies The third scheme is meant to support a new name for the building : Blueberry Ridge – one to bring a smile to the tenants, while still connecting to the historic Ridgeway Hotel name.

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Best Firm Tour Ever . not too late to get a seat on da BUS ! Best+Firm+Tours+Ever.pdf

With help from Tom at AtlasPaintCompany, the front elevation gets freshened by some new paint; meanwhile Mike Malinowski AIA and Belal Siddiqui are on roof duty adding a water diverter and a new layer of ‘secret sauce’ at the dome. Spiffy outcome from some high (and rather scary) work; now it’s back to the computer boards .

At the Warehouse Artist Loft project, R street between 11th and 12th: Foundations for the “new building” for the pit include Auger Cast Piles and Micropiles; work continues; while rebar cages are waiting for placement and grouting. On the interior of the historic warehouse, some columns get a ‘haircut’ to prepare for the new pneumatically placed concrete shear wall that will become one part of the new seismic system. Copyright MFMalinowski AIA

Another reminder that we are more alike than different

Designed some 22 years ago by Mike Malinowski AIA for a growing family, this Davis home is now ready for the next generation . SACMClientFull.pdf

Not easy to find solid info on unemployment of architects. Things are far from rosy when you look at this recent survey data; which could well be reflective of conditions in parts of the US.

Leave it to the British to have over a hundred years of good data to show how the number of rooms in homes has changed over time. “How many rooms in your home” has been a census question in the UK since 1871. In medieval times, many Europeans cooked, ate, slept and socialised in one big room. By the start of the 21st Century, the average British home had 5.34 rooms, according to 2001 Census figures. says Lucy Worsley, curator of Historic Royal Palaces: “We’ve passed the peak of the proliferation and specialisation of rooms which happened in the Victorian age: billiard rooms, morning rooms, parlours, studies. It was a use of space that’s no longer affordable. The trend now is like a return to medieval living. I live in an open-plan flat with one central space. I use it for cooking, for eating, for watching TV – the modern equivalent of storytelling by the fire – and guests sleep on my sofa.”