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Award Winning Designs Examined at Key Client Conference
GRAPHISOFT Hosts 2012 Worldwide Key Client Conference This past fall, GRAPHISOFT invited a select group to attend the Key Client Conference at the company headquarters in Budapest, Hungary. The conference served as a platform in which GRAPHISOFT’s top 100 clients could hear about the company’s strategic plans. The event also allowed an opportunity to network...
ArchiCAD Provides Integration Foundation for UCSF Medical Center
A project that has been thought about, designed and worked on for more than two years now is getting some well-deserved attention for the way it has focused on a very lofty goal: securing Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold rating for an 878,000-sq-ft hospital complex. Even before the December 2010 groundbreaking for the massive...
Filed Under: ArchiCAD User / Graphisoft / Green Projects / LEED / Notable ArchiCAD Users / Sustainability
EUROBUILD and GRAPHISOFT Grab Green IT Award
This year’s “Sustainable Design Project of the Year” is the Rural Regeneration Centre at Hadlow College. One of the top three agricultural colleges in the UK, it was created by James Anwyl from EUROBUILD using GRAPHISOFT’s market leading BIM and energy assessment tools, ArchiCAD® and EcoDesigner™. The Green IT awards seek to reward organizations that have demonstrated...
Filed Under: ArchiCAD User / Events / Graphisoft / Green Projects / Notable ArchiCAD Users / PassivHaus / Recognition / Sustainability
“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...
3 in 1 Building Designed with ArchiCAD by Dake Wells Architecture Unites Community
Dake Wells Architecture designed an award-winning multi-purpose room for a school in Exeter, Mo. ArchiCAD BIM software assisted the architects as they took on that challenge with vigor – going so far as to create a design solution that has been recognized with a National AIA Award. While the Exeter project would be the first Dake Wells submitted to the...
Building a Green Home, as easy as A, B, C?
The ABC Green Home project – a virtual home experience and multi-platform event, debuted at the June 2011 Pacific Coast Builders Conference in San Francisco. It was produced through cooperation with leading U.S. Homebuilding industry magazine exclusively dedicated to sustainable residential design and construction, Green Home Builder (Peninsula Publishing). The project presents the all-new “Affordable, Buildable, Certified”...
Filed Under: ArchiCAD 15 / ArchiCAD User / BIM Server / Graphisoft / Green Projects / Notable ArchiCAD Users / Sustainability / Unique Project
Six ArchiCAD Firms Among Top 250
In addition to Orcutt Winslow, previously highlighted for their inclusion in Architectural Record’s top 250 list – there are five other respected and award-winning firms using ArchiCAD – we are proud of their accomplishment and the recognition they’ve received. San Francisco based firm, Anshen + Allen, listed in the AR Top 250, gained notoriety for last year’s efforts to...
Orcutt | Winslow Makes the Cut
We would like to offer our congratulations to Orcutt | Winslow – a long time ArchiCAD firm recently named to Architectural Record’s Top 250 Architectural Firms. Throughout the firm’s history, Orcutt | Winslow has established a reputation of excellence. being one of Architectural Record’s Best Managed Firms, one of the Valley’s leading architectural firms, Arizona’s American Institute of...
Over,Under Oversees Major City Project in Abu Dhabi
Chris Grimley of Over,Under recently spoke to me about a unique project his firm is taking on in Abu Dhabi’s new central business district, Sowwah Island – in the largest of the United Arab Emirates, east of Dubai. Grimley’s company website describes the project: Designated as Abu Dhabi’s new Central Business District in Plan Abu...
Congratulations, Kit Johson – Newly Named Austin City Architect
Graphisoft would like to congratulate Kit Johnson on his new role of City Architect – for the city of Austin. Kit has been a long-time user of ArchiCAD and brings a wealth of experience to this new position. He’ll be responsible for providing oversight to architecture, sustainability and design issues faced by the City’s Capital...
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