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UBC SALA Site Takes ADCC Award
We recently learned our website for UBC’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture has been accepted into Directions 2008, The Advertising and Design Club of Canada’s (ADCC) annual awards...
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Clip/Stamp/Fold
We just received an intriguing promo from the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver) for their current exhibit titled, Clip/Stamp/Fold 6 The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X-197X. The...
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Money can buy you anything
Dubai. I have a strange fascination with Dubai, I would love to visit the city that seems to change substantially every few years. You live in a hot climate but like to ski – build ‘Ski Dubai’ If you...
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SALA Website honoured at Lotus
In addition to ADCC and W3 awards we took home earlier in the year, we were recently very pleased to learn that our website for UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture was honoured with...
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Future Systems
I have just learnt of the company Future Systems. The founder Jan Kaplický died earlier this month but leaves behind a most impressive portfolio of both architecture and product design. Two pieces of...
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SHARD – London Bridge, England
Just found out about this as a friend photographed the foundations being dug. It will be when complete the tallest building in Europe and the UK. From what I remember of London it will be a good...
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Sliding House
The base of the house is fixed but has a ‘second skin’ that slides to expose more sunlight to the glass section of the house or exposes the interior courtroom to the open sky. Simple, elegant and...
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Henriquez Partners Architects Blog and Website Launched
We really enjoy working with architects. The simple fact that we speak the same language of design and work in the creative field, often immersed in a similar processes makes it all the more...
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Coast Modern Documentary
I love when “research” time comes around at the office. It gives me a valid excuse to do what I clandestinely do the rest of the week: Surf the Internet. We’re deep into work on an architectural firm...
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8 Fun Things Going On In Our Client’s Worlds
Azure magazine and other Architecture newsletters released their big stories in the construction, architecture, and design industries. We love following this stuff and we’ve created a recap of our Top...
View ArticleThe Online Marketing Train is Leaving the Station and AEC Firms Aren’t Onboard
Five Reasons Why Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Firms are Lagging Behind in Online Marketing One of the most important objectives for an AEC firm is to generate quality leads. Regardless...
View ArticleFive Guiding Principles from a Guiding Principal
Michael Green, architectural thought leader and principal at MGA, shares some thoughts on marketing. A few of us in the office were recently discussing common characteristics and marketing approaches...
View ArticleChanges in the SEO landscape and what it means for your AEC firm
What happened? News broke recently that Google will begin encrypting data on all keyword search queries and the internet went up in flames. For many people, this was bad news indeed. For some of us,...
View ArticleThe biggest change we’ve seen in our industry over the past 10 years: An...
I recently asked our three partners to answer three questions I had been thinking about lately with respect to clients in our industry. Here is what they had to say: Q1. What are the biggest changes...
View ArticleWhy Brand Authenticity and Storytelling Need to be Adopted by the...
A version of the following article was published in the November, 2013 issue of Canadian Architect Magazine. “Brand wasn’t even a word in our vocabulary when I was in architecture school,” says Roger...
View ArticleSpecialization is the way forward, not something to be feared
Long heralded as heroes of innovation, architects and architectural firms are typically afraid to tackle a challenge that may well be the secret to their success—specialization. I know what you’re...
View ArticleKA Connect 2015 a great option for AEC firms
Last May, we attended KA Connect in San Francisco and felt it was one of the best events we’d attended in recent memory. The event, hosted by KA Architecture (creators of the A/E social intranet...
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