Silver Spring Civic Building and Veterans’ Plaza in Silver Spring, United States

The Silver Spring Civic Building and Veterans’ Plaza designed by Machado and Silvetti Associates is located in Silver Spring, United States .  This MSA project treats the civic building as the terminus of an important pedestrian axis that links the building and Veterans’ Plaza – via the town’s newly developed main shopping street, Ellsworth Drive – to the Metro transportation... 

Tags: Alcantara Machado Feiras de Negocios Limitada, Geography of the United States, Maryland, Sidewalk, Silver Spring, Silver Spring Maryland, Silver Spring Civic Building, Silvetti Associates, transportation station, United States, Veterans' Plaza, Walkway

Loblolly house in Maryland, United States

Designed by Kieran Timberlake Architects, Loblolly house is located in Maryland, United States. This project proposes a new, more efficient method of building through the use of building information modeling (BIM) and integrated component assemblies. The thousands of parts that make up a house were collapsed into a small number of offsite fabricated cartridges and blocks and simply attached to an industrial... 

Tags: Building engineering, Building Information Modeling, Building insulation, Construction, Door, electric and mechanical systems, Energy conservation, Engineering, Environment, Heat transfer, Insulators, Kieran Timberlake Architects, Maryland, Mechanical engineering, radiation, Thermal insulation, United States

National Museum of China Expansion in Beijing, China

Located in Beijing, China, National Museum of China Expansion was designed by RTKL, a global architecture and engineering practice, headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland has won an international competition to expand the National Art Museum in China. The Museum, which was completed in 1962 as one of ten buildings commissioned for the commemoration of the ten-year anniversary of the Founding of the People’s... 

Tags: Architecture, Art museum, Baltimore, Beijing, China, City, Geography, Maryland, National Art Museum, National Museum of China, National Museum of China Expansion, Royal Ontario Museum, RTKL Associates Inc.

Hampden Lane House in Bethesda, United States

Designed by Robert M. Gurney, Hampden Lane House, FAIA is located in Bethesda, United States . The new house occupies one third less area than the original structure and is sited to maximise green area on the property. Designed as a cube, the new house is approximately 2,200 sq ft with no unused or underutilised spaces. The flat roof provides an additional 1,100 sq ft of outdoor living space with views... 

Tags: Bethesda, Maryland, Purple Line, Red Line, United States

Maryland District Court of Rockville in Rockville, Maryland, United States

Maryland District Court of Rockville that located in Rockville, Maryland, United States, was designed by AECOM. The design is a strong, contemporary form with an identifiable, civic-scaled entry. Building materials were selected in consideration of their solemnity and durability. The monolithic stone form embraces a multi-story window, which helps define the building’s public zone. The use of glass... 

Tags: Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area, commissioners’ suite and state administration, Courtroom, Geography of the United States, Maryland, Maryland District Court of Rockville, Montgomery County Maryland, Office of the Public Defender, Rockville, Rockville Maryland, Southern United States, United States, Washington metropolitan area