OPEN BOOK The new home of the Bridge Academy, a secondary school in a low-income area of Hackney, London, will be a complex seven-story, terraced building, fitted into a relatively small site. With a focus on mathematics and music, the school is one of many specialist academies being built by the British government. It is sponsored by UBS, a global financial services firm. — Published 2007.0124
	MEASURING UP WRIGHT What would you do if you were asked to build a house on a rocky island with only five pencil drawings to go by? This was the challenge given to Thomas Heinz, AIA, a renowned Frank Lloyd Wright scholar. The house he was asked to model and execute was designed by Wright in 1950 but never built. — Published 2005.1026
	VILLAGE VISION The Fort Carson Army Base in Colorado Springs is experiencing a population boom. In an effort to plan its land use in a more sustainable and sensitive way, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is using its geographic information system, enhanced by CommunityViz software, to produce data-based visualizations to help local participants envision the spatial, economic, and visual effects of planning choices. — Published 2005.0907
	ENERGY ANALYSIS EARLIER One sixth of the electricity consumed in the United States goes to cool buildings, at an annual cost of $40 billion... In the 1970s the yearly high temperature in Los Angeles exceeded the former high temperatures caused by the eruption of Krakatau in 1883... — Published 2004.0616
	ARCHITECTURAL GLOBAL WARMING When we think about the causes of "global warming," what commonly comes to mind are gas-guzzling cars and smoke-spewing industrial processes. But a lion's share of the pollutants that cause global warming are attributable to architecture. Architect Edward Mazria of Mazria, Riskin Odems, Inc. in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has been making a case for why his profession should take greater responsibility for the problem. — Published 2004.0218
	CAD FOR AEC PRINCIPALS Does computer-aided design provide significant business benefits to architecture, engineering, and construction companies? In many cases, the heads of these firms are skeptical, according to new studies. Is this a matter of perception, or are the software technologies really failing to measure up to vendors' claims for efficiency? At the recent Congress on the Future of Engineering Software (COFES 2000), technology experts Kristine Fallon, FAIA, and Kenneth Stowe, P.E., offered their opinions on the problems and the solutions. — Published 2000.0719

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