The World Wide Web – sounds big doesn’t it? But it’s an essential tool for potential clients researching design, designers and products. So it’s crucial for dealers and designers to be online with an effective, updated and sophisticated Web site.
“For the same reason you shouldn’t have outdated displays in showrooms, you shouldn’t have an outdated [...]
Provided in both Metric and English versions, this software is easy to use and interactive. Simply browse to www.Blocklayer.com/stairs enter the measurement for total rise of the stairway and hit ‘Calculate’ to instantly redraw stair, stringer, headroom and upper floor opening plans with full dimensions, ready to print. The designer is preset with commonly accepted [...]
Selecting, planning and ordering custom designed rail assemblies is easier than ever with Weidmuller’s New RailDesigner 4.0 software. Configure your projects and the user-friendly RailDesigner will take care of the rest.
Design, draw, email your vendor for quotes and place your order—this innovative software does it all at an impressive speed. Some of the new features [...]
www.alibre.cn Provides Free Download of Fast Growing Alibre Design Xpress in Chinese Alibre Inc. announced today that it is now offering its free, award winning parametric 3D CAD software, Alibre Design Xpress, to the Chinese market.
A dedicated Chinese language web site (www.alibre.cn) has been launched that enables users in China to easily learn about the [...]
From jobs as janitor, then a dishwasher, Renato A. Heray never dreamed that he would one day put the Philippines on the Middle East’s map.
Today, his replicas of the Mayon Volcano, the Rice Terraces and Lake Lanao adorn the landscape at the Philippine Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Not only homesick Filipinos enjoy their homeland’s icons [...]
FEH Associates Inc., with offices in Sioux City and Des Moines, has been selected as the architect for a new $34 million apartment-style residence hall complex for Drake University in Des Moines.
FEH will be part of a Des Moines design-build team that includes Hubbell Realty Company and Weitz Construction. FEH will coordinate the design [...]
Azah Al-Deghather has become the first Saudi woman architect in the Kingdom to get a license by the Saudi Engineering Association to open her own private engineering firm in Riyadh.
Engineer Adel Al-Moselli, Head of the Professional Affairs at the Association, told Al-Hayat Arabic language daily that two more Saudi female engineers have applied for the [...]
Architect Terry Martin owned a former blacksmith and carriage shop in Waupaca that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. He had renovated the upper two floors of the four-story building into offices and apartments but the lower half of the building was unoccupied.
Martin and three friends who are all Waupaca County residents [...]
Follow the winding roads through Highfield and find mature trees and preserve areas scattered throughout the new development.
Lee Wetherington Homes’ Addison model is an elegant Mediterranean home with arched windows and stone detail. From exterior to interior, the home feels luxurious without losing its cozy appeal. At 4,520 square feet, the two-story home features four [...]
‘Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, a German-born pioneer of modern architecture, was famous for his aphorism ‘God is in the details’,” says Asaf Sadeh as he gently pushes an iced cappuccino out of his elbow space. “He was right, and this is the philosophy I and my partner, Guy Zur, live by in our own [...]
As a child, he made cities and freeways with his grandmother, preferring to use leftover pieces of wood instead of conventional building blocks.
He flunked an introductory course in architecture, and one of his first instructors — perhaps motivated by anti-Semitism — strongly urged him to try something else in life.
Fortunately for the world, Frank [...]
The 4th year architectural exhibition by students from the Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the University of Malta is a yearly event organised by the students themselves whereby they take the opportunity to display their work to the general public and profession alike. This year, the exhibition is being held from August 26 [...]