Business Strategy

Business Strategy

• Prairie Management Group

  Northbrook, Ill. / Goettsch Partners

   

• The AIA’s Architecture Billings Index Dips Below 50 in April

  Breaking a streak of five straight months of growth, billings contracts for architecture work reported to the American Institute of Architects. Only half of the nation’s regions and half of the industry’s sectors came in above 50 for the month, fewer than in each of the months for the past...

   

• Biophilic Design Could Save Millions of Dollars

  Incorporating access to nature and other biophilic design strategies could save millions in healthcare costs and in employee wages across all industries, as well as add millions to profits, according to a new white paper from Terrapin Bright Green.

   

• New York City School Children Learn How to Be Landscape Architects

  A handful of schools in New York are killing two birds with one stone: teaching students about the environment and preventing storm-sewer runoff from reaching the nearby rivers.

   

• Sheikh Khalifa Medical City

  Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates / Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

   

• Joplin's Return

  Rebuilding in a recession's and a tornado's wake.

   

• Capital Partnership

  Connecting place and practice with Janet Bloomberg, AIA, and Richard Loosle-Ortega, RA.

   

• A Light Coat of Paint

  New advances turn paint into a pollution filter, a structural sensor, and a source of solar energy.

   

• Tracking LEED

  Following the progress of LEED in total projects, square footage, and news coverage.

   

• Wal-Mart wobbles under weight of bribery scandal