Posts Tagged ‘Army’

Dzhalal Kadiyev: architect behind Grozny’s rise from the ashes

The Kadiyev family have long been builders in Chechnya, but no one has had a job quite like that facing architect Dzhalal Kadiyev: reconstructing the entire city of Grozny from the ashes of war.
Kadiyev, a small, bird-like man sporting large spectacles, is unfazed by the task ahead of him and often draws inspiration from [...]

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 In Architecture, Building Construction, General News Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Aerolite delivers EMS interior for the EC145

Aerolite recently delivered its 17th EC145 EMS interior to a customer in the US. The latest state-of-the art EMS interior includes a roll-in Stryker cot system, medical floor, ergonomic seating for 3 attendants, NVIS compatible interior and patient lights, primary and secondary patient medical rack for various patient care equipment, quick-installation IABP mount, LOX, integrated [...]

Thursday, February 8th, 2007 In Home Improvement Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Dan Saxon Palmer, 86; architect of 1950s’ Modernist tract homes

Dan Saxon Palmer, an architect who with his partner, William Krisel, designed Modernist tract homes that provided the building blocks for Southern California’s suburban boom in the 1950s, has died. He was 86.
Palmer, whose work included custom homes, apartments, commercial office buildings and large-scale design projects, died of congestive heart failure Dec. 22 at Saint [...]

Monday, January 29th, 2007 In Architecture, General News Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

City’s past, future intersect in designs for Trinity bridges

FORT WORTH - With hopes of inviting pedestrians to stroll along the Trinity River, architect Bing Thom revealed his sleek preliminary designs for three new bridges that are expected to become signature structures in the Trinity Uptown project.
Thom’s curvilinear bridge supports — sweeping spans of concrete that not only hold the bridges over the river [...]

Friday, January 26th, 2007 In Architecture, General News Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Gurnee architect hired for new Zion fire station

A Gurnee architect has been named to design a new city fire station that will replace the current 70-year-old headquarters facility, called Station One, that adjoins the north side of City Hall.
It is the first step of a potential major building and remodeling program to meet future expected needs of the city’s Fire and Rescue [...]

Sunday, September 24th, 2006 In Architecture, General News Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Architect presents proposed school designs

One of the things Moje is taking into consideration in his plans is the idea of a “green school.” He explained that it is both financially and environmentally beneficial to design a school that runs as efficiently as possible.
“We’re looking at where things are situated environmentally,” Moje said, adding that the classrooms are situated to [...]

Friday, September 1st, 2006 In Architecture, General News Tags: , , , , ,

Emotion a tool of trade for Denver architect

Architect John Rogers is the “R” in RNL Design, a firm that grew out of a one-man operation he founded in Denver in 1956.
He’s designed numerous buildings here, including the Denver Service Center for Mountain Bell (now Qwest Communications’s office tower), the Colorado State Judicial Heritage Center Complex (the Colorado Supreme Court and the Colorado [...]

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006 In Architecture, General News Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Taxi II hails tenant BRS Architecture

Barker Rinker Seacat Architecture has long been an urban pioneer, leasing space in funky neighborhoods before they became trendy.
Thirty years ago, the firm was one of the first tenants in lower downtown, long before the neighborhood was LoDo.
Then, it leased two different spaces in Highland, before that neighborhood took off.
BRS, one of the nation’s largest [...]

Friday, July 28th, 2006 In Architecture, General News Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Peoria architect Richard Doyle dies

Bradley’s Field House is among his most recognizable works
Richard L. Doyle, the architectural mind behind some of Peoria’s most recognizable structures, passed away July 15 in Peoria. He was 87.
As owner of Doyle Associates Architects, he helped design Bradley University’s Field House, the Forest Park Foundation Building, Whitney Veterinary Hospital and churches, schools, civic and [...]

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006 In Architecture, General News Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Architect Of A Capital Idea

Twenty-two-year-old Pierre Charles L’Enfant was stirred. He’d watched American colonists declare their independence from England and fight for freedom. Now, he decided, it was time for him to act.
Led by the same democratic spirit that inspired the colonists, L’Enfant became one of the first French volunteers to enlist in the Continental Army in 1776.
Then a [...]

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006 In Architecture, General News Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,