Signing contracts and managing your project finances can prove to be challenging responsibilities. After doing some research, we have come up with a few tips to help make these difficult tasks a... Read more >>

Have you ever wished that you had something that you didn’t know exactly how you were going to get, and then, as if by magic, somehow you just got it? I remember lying there on Julie... Read more >>

In the past several days, I noticed something very peculiar. It was that I had been frantically attempting to fix myself; my hair, my skin, my body, and who knows what else. I decided to stop the... Read more >>

The window. What a fabulous invention created by a simple idea in one’s mind. It is structured to be exact in math, yet has all of the symptoms of weathering over time.  As I peer into a... Read more >>

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Rundown water towers, forgotten farmhouses, and decaying churches are like molding clay for these architects and designers. A church becomes an apartment, a water tower becomes a family’s dream house,… Read more >>

Joyce Fownes is a principal at Perkins + Will, an architectural and interior design firm. Using her knowledge of interior design, as well as her professional accreditation in Leadership in Energy and... Read more >>

Next time you are out on the road, especially on a weekday, pay attention to the types of vehicles that are sharing the asphalt with you. How many of them are related to the building trades in some... Read more >>

I had a dream that I was sitting on a dock and next door was a building. I saw this cargo plane hit the roof of the building and crash. Then soon after another plane landed on top of that one and then... Read more >>

October 6, 2006. The piazza in front of San Marco is so full of tourists that it’s kind of difficult to sit and sketch. I limited myself to a quick impression of the detail above the main... Read more >>