2012's Top 10 Moments in Architecture
2012 surprised us with some of the most innovative and original architectural builds to date. Here are our top 10 moments from 2012.
2012 surprised us with some of the most innovative and original architectural builds to date. Here are our top 10 moments from 2012.
It used to be that I made big plans for a night on the town every New Year's Eve. I'd concoct elaborate arrangements to visit the hottest of hot spots with my most fun-loving pals and ring in the 12 o'clock hour, champagne glass raised to the disco-ball ceiling, with friends and friendly strangers amidst a shower of confetti. Between overserved revelers and understaffed bars, my grand ideas always seemed to turn into pumpkins somewhere before midnight.
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) designs a Winter Bath for Copenhagen Harbor that will make the existing Harbor Bath a year-round public park (for those hearty enough to take the plunge).
If you’re a bit of a DIY enthusiast, you might be all for jumping into a self-build. Watch out for these common problems.
You can see your home looking its best for the holidays – cleaned from top to bottom, with sparkling holiday decorations and smiling friends and family gathered to help celebrate – but what you can’t see in your home could spoil everything.
Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning and the Salvation Army are raising $10,000 to help low-income households pay heating bills during the upcoming cold winter months. For every new Facebook Like on the Service Experts Facebook page during the month of December, the company will donate $1 to the Salvation Army Housing and Homeless Services program, up to $10,000.
Keeping the family safe should always be a top priority, but it has long proven expensive and cumbersome to protect our homes with alarms and surveillance systems.
Rooftop decks can be a smart value-add to your home. Learn the essentials here.
Tropical Sunset. Beaver Creek. Steely Green. These are just some of the personalized custom color roofing tiles that DaVinci Roofscapes® has created during the past several years. Because the company has the ability to custom create any roofing color or color blend, the options are limitless for builders, architects, roofers and homeowners who wish to create unique colors for their polymer DaVinci slate and shake roofing tiles.
For the seventh consecutive year, Fypon has been named a leader of decorative mouldings and millwork in the 2013 Brand Use Study issued by Builder magazine. Fypon earned the number one ranking in the survey of builders for the categories of “Brand Familiarity,” “Brands Used in the Past Two Years” and “Brands Used the Most” in the Decorative Mouldings/Trim/Columns: Interior portion of the study. Fypon also earned the number one ranking in the categories of “Quality Rating” and “Brands Used the Most” for the Decorative Mouldings & Columns: Exterior study component.
Therma-Tru Corp., the nation’s leading manufacturer and most preferred brand of entry doors, now offers a stainable astragal that combines beauty and performance for use in any Therma-Tru® grained double-door application.
Our guide to patio heaters can help you take the chill out of the air. Find the right outdoor heater for your needs and budget and enjoy your patio this winter.