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Moxy Banff’s collaborators on the spirit of hospitality
Everyone knows hospitality is all about creating a welcoming environment for guests and customers. But that spirit of welcome infuses the entire industry, shaping the culture of the designers, builders, and managers at work behind the scenes. We speak with industry insiders Aliya Khan and Matt Berman, who recently collaborated on the Moxy Hotel in...
Brick & Wonder Profile – Bill Caleo
Bill Caleo originally trained as an actor, but he swapped the limelight for site-lights to pursue hands-on residential renovation and development.
Brick & Wonder Profile – Jacob Morris
One often overlooked service in our mix is the handling and storage of fine art, and furniture. We caught up with Jacob Morris, owner of Morris Moving and Storage, whose team does just that.
From the Builder: R.L. Baxter Building Corp.
Small towns have a way of creating an opportunity a little differently than bigger cities. In small towns, connections are driven by proximity, location, and existing relationships, and for R.L. Baxter Building Corp. this provided space for a high school teacher to found and grow a multimillion-dollar boutique construction firm building high-end projects across the Hudson Valley…
From the Product Manufacturers: How a Trash Bin Inspired These “Hotels”
The Vipp trash bin (or really just the “bin”) is something of a product design staple in Europe, and it has migrated overseas in recent years to become recognizable among designers and architects. It has even found a spot in MoMA’s design collection. Created in 1939 by Danish metal worker Holger Nielsen’s for his wife’s beauty salon,…
From the Architect: How Transparency Transformed our Firm
In architecture school, we were always taught to keep our knowledge and ideas hidden under a veil of secrecy from other architects – and certainly from our clients. I assumed that it was based on the idea that if we isolated ourselves from other professionals, our art wouldn’t be affected by their influences. Or maybe…
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