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Peak oil is here and industrialized civilization is facing its final challenge, the challenge that will decide if we as a species continue. Peak oil is not when the oil is gone, this is when the energy being put into drilling, pumping, transporting, refining, and finally selling the oil is greater than the energy of [...]
“I can not live without books” -Thomas Jefferson Pictured here is “Time-Savers Standards for Building types-2nd Edition”, Joseph De Chiara & John Callender (1980), a 1280 page tome that is an excellent time capsule of late 70’s design thought in architecture. I found it in a used bookstore. First, I was ecstatic they had it, [...]
Blogging from Birch Bay, WA this week, it is a lesson in views. The Birch Bay is part of the northern Puget Sound. This area is not far from Victoria, the San Juan’s, and it is quite beautiful. The condo I am staying is situated so that the beach side units are angled like a [...]
The old Seinfeld joke – “When you are moving, all you see are boxes everywhere, and you think: That looks like good box!” I have been involved in several office moves in my career and they all suffer from one commonality: Too Much Junk! Especially samples. I was a temp at an A/ID office that [...]
How many square feet is your project? As simple question you say, it’s AxB=C and other geometry equations we all learned in the 4th grade. But what if your project is going to be leased out? Or owned as condos, but have common spaces? Do elevators count? Commercial spaces can have complex considerations for dividing [...]
I grew up in the Washington DC area, a metro area blessed with a well funded transit system. As a kid I could take a bus or subway into DC. I grew up a few blocks from the deepest subway station in the US, I used all the time. When I skipped school I didn’t [...]
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