Posts Tagged ‘Architect’
Talking With… Michelle DeLora: Helping buildings go green
Michelle DeLora, 40, is chairman of the Orlando chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council and an architect with Burke Hogue Mills Inc. The firm's building in Lake Mary has been certified gold by the USGBC. DeLora spoke last week with Sentinel staff writer Mary Shanklin.
V-Newswire: Architects Going Green in a Grey Economy
Rand Soellner Architect is promoting “Going Green 4 Less” : a strategy to help custom home architects be Green Home Architects, selling the idea of using energy efficient home architects design systems, materials and methods, as well as recycling choices for sustainable home architecture. People are having a hard time staying afloat these days.
Quilting in prison
Interesting article by Maggie Fergusson in Intelligent Life magazine: When Colin Eliot, four years into a 15-year sentence, stuck a bird’s-eye diagram of HMP Wandsworth , London, to the wall of his cell on the high-security wing, the screws were straight on to him. Escapes do happen: it was from Wandsworth, in 1965, that Ronnie Biggs gave the authorities the slip, scaling a 30ft wall during afternoon exercise. And Colin, who was a successful architect on the outside, is crafty. As the dia
What to do on 9-9-09: Forget Dubai; try David Hovey at the Chicago Architecture Foundation
This was supposed to be the day when the Burj Dubai, the world's tallest building, flung open its doors to an adoring public. But like a lot of things about the Post-Crash era, the future isn't turning out the way people thought it would. The Burj may open in December. Or it may not. We'll just have to wait and see.Instead of jetting to Dubai, you might be interested in what's going on at the Chicago Architecture Foundation: Chicago-area architect and developer David Hovey will discuss two of hi