Using sunlight as a crucial element, Lake|Flato Architects’ San Antonio Courthouse is designed to showcase the Federal Judicial Process while evoking a sense of civic pride

San Antonio, Texas, USA Designed by Lake|Flato Architects along with Alta Architects, the US San Antonio Federal Courthouse exemplifies the order and calmness of the federal court system through its use of local vernacular and natural stone. The initial plan of Lake|Flato Architects was to erect a five-story structure and a lower bar building that enclosed an open-air courtyard but they had to reconfigure the courthouse into something much more conventional: a three-story structure with an atrium due to limited resources and the updated budget of the new federal government. The architects sought to deliver a truly innovative building, one…
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Golf Business News – Nagle sets up own course design company

Jim Nagle, the architect behind the restoration of Lancaster Country Club, venue for this year’s US Women’s Open, and many other historically significant courses, has launched his own firm, to be known as Nagle Design Worksafter 25 years as part of Forse Design. And Nagle is going solo with a bang, announcing two major new projects, the restoration of Dick Wilson’s 1954 design of the North course at NCR Country Club in Dayton, Ohio, and the creation of a master plan at Eagles Mere Country Club in northern Pennsylvania, whose creation in 1915 was one of William Flynn’s earliest…
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Walking the Floor at IME West

We interviewed a number of exhibitors when we were in Anaheim covering IME West. Here are some live comments about each exhibitor’s offering during the show. Carsten Horn of maxon Carsten Horn is the application engineering manager at Maxon. The company, Maxon Group, is a Swiss manufacturer and supplier of high-precision motor systems. The group, including its subsidiaries, offers electric AC motors, DC motors, encoders, gears, motor controllers, and sensors. Peter Olisa of Calvist Peter Olisa, head of sales and program management at Cavist. The company is a contract manufacturer that specializes in sealing and protecting electronics using low pressure…
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