June 20, 2008
  New Army National Guard Helicopter Facility Soars
USAF honors Guard facility with an honor award for sustainability
The Army Aviation Support Facility/Maintenance Hangar (AASF) at Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora, Colo., recently was awarded a 2008 United States Air Force (USAF) Design Honor Award. Designed by Coover-Clark & Associates, with engineering and architectural production by CH2M Hill, for the Colorado Army National Guard, the USAF deemed the AASF this year’s “best sustainable facility.”

SOM’s Roadside Attraction
Just beyond the freeway, a new kind of urbanism will be planted in Dallas
SOM’s Icon Tower and the mixed-use retail/commercial area to which it is attached seek to energize Dallas with a lifestyle district that is active 24 hours a day. Icon Tower, like its entire development, is defined by its relationship to the automobile. Its dynamic, fluid form is generated from the network of freeways and open space that surrounds it.

Fire and Ice Interior Brings Finland to South America
Leo A Daly links Nokia to a New World market through Miami
When Nokia, a high-design-minded cellular provider based in Finland, decided to concentrate on the burgeoning market potential in South America, they wanted a symbolic link. The Dallas office of Leo A Daly, working with the firm’s Miami office, provided it with a 10th floor suite in Miami—considered the gateway to Latin America—and a design theme of fire and ice linking Nordic to Latin in an interactive, employee supportive way.

 

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