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Excavating the Future
All told, the Eaton and Palisades fires destroyed more than 16,000 structures. For many, the rebuilding process starts below grade, going beyond ground-up. San Francisco–based construction company FORMA has taken on one such project, marking their first commission in Los Angeles. Excavating for a full basement, FORMA installed perimeter soldier piles to serve as a...
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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