ATLANTA - On Saturday, November 14, 2009, the AIA Atlanta Tours committee offers a lecture and guided tour of the Howard School. Reserve your place by clicking onAIAatlantaTours@gmail.com or through the AIA Atlanta calendar section of the AIA Atlanta website. The lecture starts at 2 p.m., and tours run continuously from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Lecture and tour are free and open [...]
AIA Tour – Cannon Chapel
November 2, 2009 By
ATLANTA - On Saturday, November 7, 2009, the AIA Atlanta Tours committee offers bonus lecture and guided tour of the Cannon Chapel at Emory University by Kemp Mooney, AIA. Reserve your place by clicking onAIAatlantaTours@gmail.com or through the AIA Atlantacalendar section of the AIA Atlanta website. The lecture starts at 2 p.m., and tours run continuously from 3 p.m. to 5 [...]
Robert Gatje Speaks About Marcel Breuer
October 27, 2009 By
When: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 Reception starts at 6 PM Lecture starts at 7 PM Where: Central Branch Public Library 1 Margaret Mitchell Square NW Atlanta, GA 30303-1022 Phone (404) 730-1700 How Much: Free! About: Mr. Gatje was a partner in the architecture firm of Marcel Breuer and worked along side Marcel Breuer for 23 [...]
What If Your Roof Could Change Colors?
October 26, 2009 By
What if your roof could change colors? Was the question that a team of engineers at MIT asked themselves and created Thermeleon. The idea behind this product is that most homes have black shingle roofs and in the summer it is absorbing heat and increasing your cooling bill but that is slightly offset in the [...]
The Second Tallest Building in the World
October 22, 2009 By
The Lotte Super Tower will become the world’s second tallest building when it is completed in 2014 in Seoul, South Korea. Lotte Tower, which will be the the head quarters for the Lotte Group, will stand an amazing 1,821 feet tall, that is more than a third of a mile. The project designed by Kohn [...]
Traffic Lights Go Green!
October 21, 2009 By
There are have been great strides in making the the world more green and here goes another one. The solar powered traffic light designed by Cheng-Tsung Feng, Yao-Chieh Lin and Bo-Jin Wang, who won the 2009 Lite-On Award (Silver Level). This new and innovative traffic light is an attempt to make the infrastructure of the [...]
Floating House Made of Waves
October 20, 2009 By
The Fennel Residence has definitely been making some waves up in Portland, Oregon. This floating house offers up dynamic wide views of the river with minimal yet designed interruptions. The glue lam curvilinear house was designed back in 2001 and built in 2005. The dining and entertaining spaces are located closest to the large sliding door to [...]
AIA Atlanta Tours Visits 1010 Midtown
October 14, 2009 By
ATLANTA - On Saturday, October 17, 2009, the AIA Atlanta Tours committee continues the 2009 tour season with a dramatic tour of a high-rise structure on the Peachtree corridor. Reserve your place by clicking onAIAatlantaTours@gmail.com or through the AIA Atlanta calendar section of the AIA Atlanta website. The lecture starts at 2 p.m., and tours run continuously from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. [...]
Transportation For America
October 1, 2009 By
Some of you may not know about this organization, Transportation For America, or that the US Senate has decided to cut more than half the budget requested by the House from $4 billion dollars to $1.2 billion. This is crazy and ridiculous, especially once you start looking at the facts, “national transportation program is essentially [...]
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