/author/gemmasmeltprogressivedigitalmedia-com/ The leading site for news and procurement in the design-build industry Fri, 22 Oct 2021 06:07:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 /wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2022/12/cropped-wcfavicon-32x32.png /author/gemmasmeltprogressivedigitalmedia-com/ 32 32 /news/newscalifornian-state-utility-plant-achieves-leed-platinum-certification/ /news/newscalifornian-state-utility-plant-achieves-leed-platinum-certification/#respond Wed, 21 Sep 2011 06:28:00 +0000 http://live-kgi-verdict-network.pantheonsite.io/designbuild/uncategorised/newscalifornian-state-utility-plant-achieves-leed-platinum-certification/

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]]> /news/newsbroadway-malyan-designed-shopping-centre-opens-in-china/feed/ 0 /news/newsnorthrop-grumman-opens-new-green-headquarters-in-us/ /news/newsnorthrop-grumman-opens-new-green-headquarters-in-us/#respond Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:30:00 +0000 http://live-kgi-verdict-network.pantheonsite.io/designbuild/uncategorised/newsnorthrop-grumman-opens-new-green-headquarters-in-us/ Northrop Grumman has opened its new corporate headquarters building at 2,980 Fairview Park Drive in Falls Church, Virginia, US, which was designed to achieve LEED Gold Certification.

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]]> /news/newsvinci-to-build-brakes-groups-distribution-centre-in-uk/feed/ 0 /features/featurethe-changing-face-of-the-office-work-space-makeover/ /features/featurethe-changing-face-of-the-office-work-space-makeover/#respond Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:30:00 +0000 http://live-kgi-verdict-network.pantheonsite.io/designbuild/uncategorised/featurethe-changing-face-of-the-office-work-space-makeover/ It was the late 1980s when Moshe Safdie first voiced his disapproval of corporate architecture, describing it as nothing more than a 'gloomy landscape behind a glittering façade'. While enhancing many a city skyline, the interiors of most offices were homogenous and interchangeable, in turn engendering a glaring lack of affinity between employees and the space within which they worked.

]]> It was the late 1980s when Moshe Safdie first voiced his disapproval of corporate architecture, describing it as nothing more than a 'gloomy landscape behind a glittering façade'. While enhancing many a city skyline, the interiors of most offices were homogenous and interchangeable, in turn engendering a glaring lack of affinity between employees and the space within which they worked.

]]> /features/featurethe-changing-face-of-the-office-work-space-makeover/feed/ 0 /features/featurerem-koolhaas-preservation-politics-and-progress/ /features/featurerem-koolhaas-preservation-politics-and-progress/#respond Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:30:00 +0000 http://live-kgi-verdict-network.pantheonsite.io/designbuild/uncategorised/featurerem-koolhaas-preservation-politics-and-progress/ New York's Festival of Ideas for the New City (4-8 May 2011) was too multivalent to have a centre of gravity, but it did have an intellectual motor: the opening address by Rem Koolhaas, introducing the Office for Metropolitan Architecture's (OMA) Cronocaos exhibition at the New Museum.

]]> New York's Festival of Ideas for the New City (4-8 May 2011) was too multivalent to have a centre of gravity, but it did have an intellectual motor: the opening address by Rem Koolhaas, introducing the Office for Metropolitan Architecture's (OMA) Cronocaos exhibition at the New Museum.

]]> /features/featurerem-koolhaas-preservation-politics-and-progress/feed/ 0 /features/featurein-key-construction-acoustic-design/ /features/featurein-key-construction-acoustic-design/#respond Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:30:00 +0000 http://live-kgi-verdict-network.pantheonsite.io/designbuild/uncategorised/featurein-key-construction-acoustic-design/ The transparent calcite known as Iceland spar exerts a double-refraction effect on light passing through it, creating two separate polarised patterns. View anything through this crystal, and the doubled image is liable to trigger speculation about the nature of transparency, the processes of mediation and context, and the impossibility of direct and pure perception.

]]> The transparent calcite known as Iceland spar exerts a double-refraction effect on light passing through it, creating two separate polarised patterns. View anything through this crystal, and the doubled image is liable to trigger speculation about the nature of transparency, the processes of mediation and context, and the impossibility of direct and pure perception.

]]> /features/featurein-key-construction-acoustic-design/feed/ 0 /features/featureshady-character-sevilles-metropol-parasol/ /features/featureshady-character-sevilles-metropol-parasol/#respond Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:30:00 +0000 http://live-kgi-verdict-network.pantheonsite.io/designbuild/uncategorised/featureshady-character-sevilles-metropol-parasol/ In 1248, King Fernando III of Castile retook the city of Seville after five centuries of Moorish rule. Already the political and cultural centre of Andalucía, this significant step in the 800-year reconquista sparked Seville's expansion into a major mercantile hub, flooding the city's coffers with wealth.

]]> In 1248, King Fernando III of Castile retook the city of Seville after five centuries of Moorish rule. Already the political and cultural centre of Andalucía, this significant step in the 800-year reconquista sparked Seville's expansion into a major mercantile hub, flooding the city's coffers with wealth.

]]> /features/featureshady-character-sevilles-metropol-parasol/feed/ 0 /features/featurea-rediscovered-tradition-the-trinity-long-room-hub/ /features/featurea-rediscovered-tradition-the-trinity-long-room-hub/#respond Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:30:00 +0000 http://live-kgi-verdict-network.pantheonsite.io/designbuild/uncategorised/featurea-rediscovered-tradition-the-trinity-long-room-hub/ In 1987, Niall McCullough and Valerie Mulvin published A Lost Tradition: the nature of architecture in Ireland. This beautiful, trail-blazing book traced the evolution of Irish architectural forms from the 'mound and circle' of prehistoric sites, through ecclesiastical monuments, fortified plantation enclosures, vernacular farmhouses and bravura Georgian mansions, to the institutional architecture of modernity.

]]> In 1987, Niall McCullough and Valerie Mulvin published A Lost Tradition: the nature of architecture in Ireland. This beautiful, trail-blazing book traced the evolution of Irish architectural forms from the 'mound and circle' of prehistoric sites, through ecclesiastical monuments, fortified plantation enclosures, vernacular farmhouses and bravura Georgian mansions, to the institutional architecture of modernity.

]]> /features/featurea-rediscovered-tradition-the-trinity-long-room-hub/feed/ 0 /features/featurepractice-makes-perfect-qatar-football-architecture/ /features/featurepractice-makes-perfect-qatar-football-architecture/#respond Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:30:00 +0000 http://live-kgi-verdict-network.pantheonsite.io/designbuild/uncategorised/featurepractice-makes-perfect-qatar-football-architecture/ In November 2010, at a ceremony in Zürich, FIFA president Sepp Blatter revealed that the host of the 2022 Football World Cup would be Qatar. As the winning delegation leapt from their seats in triumph, the look of disbelief on the faces of those around them was palpable. This desert emirate with an average August high of 44°C, no football heritage to speak of, and only one stadium capable of holding a major international fixture, was to host the world's biggest and most prestigious sporting event?

]]> In November 2010, at a ceremony in Zürich, FIFA president Sepp Blatter revealed that the host of the 2022 Football World Cup would be Qatar. As the winning delegation leapt from their seats in triumph, the look of disbelief on the faces of those around them was palpable. This desert emirate with an average August high of 44°C, no football heritage to speak of, and only one stadium capable of holding a major international fixture, was to host the world's biggest and most prestigious sporting event?

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