5.5.08 | Introduction
Most architects are faced with significant competition when they decide to compete for a large industrial facility design project; when the process includes both architects and design-build contractors this competition often becomes both more severe and more polarized. And neither the design firm nor the developer is often able to step out of their metaphor for industrial design quality.

4.28.08 | In 1994, the Northridge earthquake caused such significant structural damage to the highly acclaimed UCLA Medical Center that the cost to repair the damage and retrofit the building was more than double the cost to replace it, so replace it they did. On March 7th 2008, the brand new Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, the most technologically advanced medical center in the world, held one of its first pre-openings: a tour led by Lynnette Tedder, Perkins + Will (founding member) and other members of the design team for AAHID (American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers).

3.3.08 | When clients visit the new headquarters for Rothstein Kass, they may be a little awed. This is exactly the reaction that Steven Kass and David Liebman, principals, had in mind when they sat down with David J. Fournier, principal of The Aztec Corporation, to plan their 71,000 square foot Roseland, NJ, headquarters.

1.28.08 | Last year Moody's Corporation signed a 20-year lease at the 52-story, 1.7-million-sq.-ft. World Trade Center in downtown Manhattan. This was the largest lease signed in Manhattan in 2006, the year the building opened. The company's total commitment at 7 World Trade Center represents 670,000 sq. ft. across 17 floors, an inviting plum for the interiors industry.

12.10.07 | How clever is Eva Maddox & Co.? Last Wednesday we attended the opening of Haworth’'s new New York City showroom located, to the delight of any Connecticut commuter, directly across the street from Grand Central Station and adjacent to Cipriani’s. In true NYC fashion, although the entrance is conveniently located on 42^nd Street, the address is 125 Park Avenue and, like other buildings in the area, was the home of a bank built in the golden era of the early 20^th century.