Archive | March, 2012

2012 Green Products Directory

To deliver successful projects, architects often team with professionals who serve the design and construction industry. Inform publishes a series of directories to aid architects and other specifiers in locating just the right professional with ease. Currently, we are proud to present the 2012 Green Products Directory. The companies listed have chosen to support the VSAIA and the [...]

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When You’re Handed a Box, Think Outside of It

KGD Architects transformed a drab cube of a warehouse into a sleek high-tech facility for the Transurban Express Lanes Operations Center.

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Virginia Theological Seminary Boasts LEED-Certified Homes

Bright and welcoming, a pair of semi-detached homes on the VTS campus demonstrate the seminary’s commitment to sustainable design.

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New Military Community Hospital the ‘Jewel of Fort Belvoir’

Ft. Belvoir, Va., is home to a new military-community hospital that demonstrates the commitment by the armed forces to build spaces that heal.

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How Design Impacts Health

In an easy-to-follow Q&A format, Ray Pentecost, FAIA, points to the current shift from design that supports health to design that heals.

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Scan Your Horizons

U.Va. Library Digital Media Specialist Will Rourk explains laser scanning, point-cloud manipulation, and where to find consultants to help you save countless documentation hours.

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Nurturing Future Leaders

Retaining and sharpening the talents of emerging professional is a key AIA priority both for firms in the present and leaders in the future.

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Have Preservationists Been Misinterpreting the Secretary’s Guidelines?

In The Future of the Past, Steven Semes points out that deferential not differential new construction in historic districts should be the goal.

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