Shipping Container House: Great piece from Arch Daily on our friends @studioht. http://www.archdaily.com/222361/shipping-container-house-studio-ht/

Shipping Container House / Studio H:T

Architects: Studio H:T
Location: Nederland, Colorado, USA
Project Completion: May 2010
Building Area: 1,517 sqft
Photographs: © Braden Gunem

This project questions the need for excessive space and challenges occupants to be efficient. Two shipping containers saddlebag a taller common space that connects local rock outcroppings to the expansive mountain ridge views. The containers house sleeping and work functions while the center space provides entry, dining, living and a loft above. The loft deck invites easy camping as the platform bed rolls between interior and exterior. The project is planned to be off-the-grid using solar orientation, passive cooling, green roofs, pellet stove heating and photovoltaics to create electricity.

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Check this out - Moses Bridge / RO&AD Architecten

Moses Bridge / RO&AD Architecten

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Architects: RO&AD Architecten
Location: Halsteren, The Netherlands
Client: Municipality of Bergen op Zoom
Project Area: 50 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of RO&AD Architecten

The West Brabant Water Line is a defense-line consisting of a series of fortresses and cities with inundation areas in the south-west of the Netherlands. It dates from the 17th century but fell into disrepair in the 19th century. When the water line was finally restored, an access bridge across the moat of one of the fortresses, Fort de Roovere, was needed. This fort now has a new, recreational function and lies on several routes for cycling and hiking.

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Plan

It is, of course, highly improper to build bridges across the moats of defense works, especially on the side of the fortress the enemy was expected to appear on. That’s why we designed an invisible bridge. Its construction is entirely made of wood, waterproofed with EPDM foil. The bridge lies like a trench in the fortress and the moat, shaped to blend in with the outlines of the landscape.

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The bridge can’t be seen from a distance because the ground and the water come all the way up to its edge. When you get closer, the fortress opens up to you through a narrow trench. You can then walk up to its gates like Moses on the water.

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http://www.archdaily.com/184921/moses-bridge-road-architecten/

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Parking Lots Quickly Emerging as New Hotspot for Solar Projects

I really want to do something like this in Boulder.

Parking Lots Quickly Emerging as New Hotspot for Solar Projects
by Urban Land Institute on Monday, October 24, 2011 at 7:47am
by Jeffrey Spivak, Urban Land institute



All across America, surface parking lots dot metropolitan landscapes, serving the same solitary purpose day after day, a poster child for underutilized real estate.

But that is changing in some parts of the country. Parking lots are quietly becoming the new frontier in solar power.

While photovoltaic solar-panel installations are most often seen on swaths of vacant land or on top of buildings, parking lots are quickly emerging as a new hotspot for solar projects, primarily on the East and West Coasts. So far this year, thousands of solar panels have been constructed over parking lots at government offices in California, a football stadium in Maryland, a zoo in Ohio, and a corporate campus in New Jersey, among other places . . .

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Great piece on the HBR blog about sales.

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/09/selling_is_not_about_relatio.html?referral=00563

We would like to give a special shout out to our friends at HMHArchitecture + Interiors, Levitt Architects, Studio H:T and Neenan for theirrecognition by the AIA Colorado North Chapter.

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Five developers on ACE park shortlist | Boulder County Business Report

Five developers on ACE park shortlist

LOVELAND - The city of Loveland and the Colorado Association of Manufacturing and Technology have five developers on the shortlist of candidates to help run the Aerospace and Clean Energy manufacturing park, according to media reports.

The city and the trade group are trying to establish the facility at the campus formerly occupied by Agilent Technologies Inc. CAMT said the center could be used by more than 70 companies and provide up to 10,000 jobs. Loveland bought a long-vacant portion of the campus for $5.5 million in June.

CAMT and Loveland initially signed an agreement with United Properties, a Minneapolis-based developer, to help create the center, but in August the developer withdrew from the project.

The city and CAMT have received requests for proposals from five developers, according to press reports. Three are from Colorado.

Local candidates include Loveland Commercial LLC, which is based in Loveland, Neenan Co., which is in Fort Collins, and the Broe Group, which is headquartered in Denver.

Cumberland & Western Resources, from Bowling Green, Kentucky, the Beck Group, which is headquartered in Dallas, are the other bidders.

Betsey Hale, Loveland's director of economic development, could not be reached for comment.

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By Michael Davidson

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