Yearly Archives: 2016

There is still time for a last-minute holiday gift purchase, but most importantly, we thought it would be fun and informative to review what our editors and other literary pundits felt were some of the best books on architecture and…

PricewaterhouseCoopers and Urban Land Institute just released their annual Emerging Trends in Real Estate report for 2017

New York City is full of aging buildings that have suffered the vagaries of time, erosion and gravity

Twenty finalists for Archaid Images annual Architectural Photography Awards were exhibited at the World Architecture Festival in Berlin last week, and the winner was Matt Emmett for his interior of the East London Water Works Company in Finsbury Park

We have been reading a lot about how drones — also known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles  (UAVs) – are being adopted by the construction industry to save time and money

CodeWatcher is a new online and print publication that merges the complex world of building codes, standards and green certification

One World Trade Center in Manhattan, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, was recently awarded LEED gold certification for its sustainable design

In the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew earlier this month, it appeared that structures built in South Florida in the last decade weathered the storm far better than years past due to stricter codes and lessons learned from the devastation of…

Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) may have originated in the video game studio but these technologies are now taking the AEC industry by storm presenting huge new opportunities to improve design-phase outcomes by leveraging real time data to…

Culinary tourism (delicious); historical tourism (educational); medical tourism (not so fun); tourism for singles (mega-fun for some); art museum tourism (a visual treat); TV tourism (see the “real” Downton Abbey