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CAD Academy Contest Tests Student Acumen with ArchiCAD
High school students from across the United States recently put their ArchiCAD knowledge to work as they competed in the first annual National LEED Dream Home contest, sponsored by Arizona based STEM curriculum developer, the CAD Academy. The CAD Academy®, is a secondary and post-secondary pre-engineering and pre-architectural program designed to inspire a new generation...
Filed Under: ArchiCAD 16 / ArchiCAD Education / Competition / Contests / Education / Energy Efficiency / Graphisoft / Green Projects / LEED / Net Zero / Residential / Sustainability
ArchiCAD Designed Buildings Earn ArchDaily Building of the Year Awards
GRAPHISOFT is proud to announce an honor achieved by Portuguese architects competing in the annual ArchDaily Building of the Year Awards. The designs made using ArchiCAD finished with high marks in the competition. In the Hotels and Restaurants category, Luis Rebelo de Andrade and Diogo Aguiar won the ArchDaily Building of the Year Award for...
Design Biennial Boston
In just a couple of weeks, the Boston Society of Architects and pinkcomma gallery are combining their efforts to showcase local firms and their designers at the third Design Biennial Boston exhibition. GRAPHISOFT is a supporting sponsor of the juried exhibition which displays new and important design leaders in the Greater Boston area. BSA Space will host the designs...
It’s Hammer Time and We Need You
Forgive the circa 1980s-90s reference, but we couldn’t resist. Don’t worry – no baggy pants or shaved hairdos are required. Voting is open for the 7th Annual Construction Computing Awards and GRAPHISOFT is a finalist in the competition in several categories. BIM Product of the Year 2012 (we won this one last year!) – this...
Filed Under: ArchiCAD 16 / ArchiCAD User / BIMx / Competition / Contests / Events / Graphisoft / Recognition
OpenAEC Challenge: a Collaboration Competition
So let’s end this week of collaboration talk with something for students. While scanning Twitter last night, I came across the OpenAEC Challenge. This challenge’s goals, methods, and criteria for winning are atypical for a competition. It’s about working together and data exchange, not just proving who’s the next Starchitect. Here’s what the competition brief...
Build London Live – We are Winners!
The team using ArchiCAD, GRAPHISOFT’s BIM solution software has been selected as the winner of this years Open BIM Build London Live 2012 Award for creating the best overall BIM effort as voted by the judges. Teams from all over the globe competed in the event, which is part of the collaborative collaborative design challenge series...
Filed Under: Cloud Computing / Competition / Contests / Events / Graphisoft / OPEN BIM / Unique Project
Build London Live 2012
Take part in Open BIM’s Build London Live 2012 As a headline sponsor of Build London Live, GRAPHISOFT is proud to promote this year’s virtual event. Build London Live 2012- will take place May 21st, 2012- Noon BST, till May 23rd, 2012- Noon BST. This exciting Open BIM sponsored event is for BIM practitioners to...
Filed Under: ArchiCAD 15 / ArchiCAD User / Collaboration / Competition / Contests / Events / Graphisoft / Unique Project
“Skyscraper Village” Design Reaches Winning Heights with ArchiCAD
ArchitectsJURY.com, an online student architecture community, has selected the design of Brendan Bakker, a graduate student at the Technical University of Delft in The Netherlands as the winner of the 2011 Fall ArchitectsJURY competition. Bakker created an entry entitled Skyscraper Village for the online competition. Designed using ArchiCAD, Bakker created Skyscraper Village to demonstrate his...
Adopting BIM to Win – A Case Study
The integrated architectural design firm, Azusa Sekkei has designed landmark public venues such as the Tokyo International Airport’s domestic line passenger terminal and Saitama Stadium. Having implemented BIM relatively early and using it to advance a reputation for excellence; the firm recently entered and won an open competition for a trial project “Shinjuku Labor Advisory Government facility...
Our PRO Winner, Michael Rensing – Kirksey Architecture
Michael Rensing, BIM Manager at Kirksey Architecture entered and won the BIMx competition in the PRO category. His chosen building, the Hall of Justice – Union Terminal – is based on an actual building in Cincinnati Ohio. A National Historic Landmark, Union Terminal was built in the 30s just as train use was on the...
We Have Our Winners!
After a month long contest, the Facebook BIMx Competition received hundreds of submissions from 69 different countries. Just browsing through all the work that was uploaded was a visual treat. The new Facebook community, established for the contest was very active – with numbers reaching nearly 15,000 votes/likes received over the span of the competition....
Fun and Prizes with BIMx on Facebook
Have you visited the integrated BIMx community on Facebook? It is a great place to share your interactive 3D building models. Open to architects holding a BIMx license – whether commercial or educational – have publishing rights through this online community. And now the BIMx contest has begun. Upload your BIMx models for a chance to win...
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