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ArchiCAD 15 is #4 on Residential Design + Build's Top 100 Product List

ArchiCAD 15 is #4 on Residential Design + Build’s Top 100 Product List

Over the past twelve months, the readers of Residential Design + Build magazine have asked its editors about products featured in the magazine. The most requested products are listed every December in the order of popularity. This year, ArchiCAD 15 was ranked 4th on the list (page 20). ArchiCAD 15 was GRAPHISOFT’s BIM software version...
Adding Legibility to Details

Adding Legibility to Details

Last week I wrote about rethinking what elevations created in ArchiCAD could look like. Today I want to expand those ideas to details (and also plans, sections, etc.). In preparation for my talks at Architecture Boston Expo and EcoBuild in Washington, D.C., I revisited a detail I worked on many years ago. Here is the...
EUROBUILD and GRAPHISOFT Grab Green IT Award

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...
Passive House Expert, TE Studio Sharpens ArchiCAD Tools

Passive House Expert, TE Studio Sharpens ArchiCAD Tools

More than a decade of experience and design in ArchiCAD as well as a solid educational footing in Germany has given Tim Eian of TE Studio the tools he needs to produce extremely high performance buildings. Recently he took time to chat with us about Passive House, trends in the industry toward building “green” and...
Produce PassivHaus in ArchiCAD

Produce PassivHaus in ArchiCAD

With six projects featured on the recent NESEA Open House Tour, Portland, ME based Kaplan Thompson Architects (KTA) is fulfilling its mission to create and design buildings that are “Beautiful, Attainable, Sustainable”. We’ve chosen to highlight two of the projects KTA is designing, in light of the focus on sustainability this week’s Greenbuild show in Toronto provides. These two...