Updates

January 10, 2014

Tally™ Empowers Architects to Leverage Life Cycle Data at the Speed of Design Tally™, a new Revit application for calculating the environmental impact of building materials during the design process, is available free through Autodesk Labs and the Tally website. The free trial version expires on March 1,…

December 20, 2013

Stone Hall is the first of Harvard’s venerable Houses to undergo renovation as part of the House Renewal program. Recently, correspondent Colin Manning reported in the Harvard Gazette that students living at Stone Hall since work was completed last summer have “explored and utilized the new academic, social, and…

December 6, 2013

In a recent issue of the Journal of Architectural Education, Research Director Billie Faircloth asks a simple question: How is knowledge of the environment acquired? Excerpt from “Pardon Me, May I Borrow Your Umbrella?” Journal of Architectural Education, Volume 67, Issue 2, 2013…

December 5, 2013

Many Philadelphians remember reform-minded mayor Richardson Dilworth, the namesake of Dilworth Plaza to the west of City Hall. But the layers of history that underlie this site begin much farther back, with the planning of the city by William Penn in 1683. Since then, it has been a…

November 18, 2013

Tally™, a new Revit application that allows designers to measure the environmental impact of building materials, is available for a limited time as a free download through the Tally™ website and Autodesk Labs. It is being offered as a public beta from November 19…

November 18, 2013

Environmental researchers Stephanie Carlisle and Max Piana recently presented green roof research findings at the 11th annual Cities Alive Conference in San Francisco, attended by international green roof professionals, designers, and researchers. The theme of this year’s conference was resilience, with presentations and research exploring the…

November 13, 2013

The new US embassy in London broke ground today in a ceremony that included Ambassador Matthew Barzun, Director of Overseas Building Operations Lydia Muniz, and Leader of Wandsworth Council Ravi Govindia. The embassy, which will stand on a 4.9-acre site in the Nine Elms neighborhood on the South…

November 8, 2013

As part of the Home from Rome series sponsored by the American Academy in Rome, Steve Kieran delivered a lecture this week entitled “Carrying Rome.” His lecture traced a passage back to his 1980-81 fellowship in Rome and its influence on thirty years of making architecture. While in…

October 30, 2013

Tally™ empowers architects to conduct Life Cycle Assessments directly in a Revit Model. Philadelphia, PA — KieranTimberlake announced today the release of Tally™, a new software application that allows designers to measure the environmental impact of building materials directly in a Revit model. The application provides…

October 7, 2013

In the early morning hours of July 11, a major concrete pour raised progress on the Dilworth Plaza renovation to a new level—quite literally. Previously, work on the plaza at Philadelphia’s City Hall had been restricted to the transit concourse below ground. Now, with the addition of a…