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Building Dialogue Magazine, QuarterlyLone Tree, RidgeGate Embrace Attainable Housing
Attainable housing choices are essential to metro Denver’s continued economic growth and development. In the Lone Tree/Douglas County region, the challenge is even greater given the current median home price of over $600,000 and the median apartment rental price of approximately $2,000 per month.
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Building Dialogue Magazine, QuarterlyThe Closed-Plan: Is Office Shame a Factor?
Even the concept of a closed-plan office today seems unacceptable if not wildly unimaginable. Most office employees likely don’t know what a closed office even looks like. And why would they? The seismic shifts in workplace design have illustrated just how fleeting a cultural movement...
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Building Dialogue Magazine, QuarterlyKey Factors for Successful Historic Renovations
Modern architecture and construction have evolved in the past 15 to 20 years to the point that buildings all across the world are becoming art forms and models of sustainability.
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Building Dialogue Magazine, QuarterlyPrologis: Move to LoDo Fosters Communication
When warehouse powerhouse Prologis, the world’s leader in logistics real estate, decided to relocate their operational headquarters from the outskirts of Denver to a historic and artsy micro district in Denver’s urban core, they put a stake in the ground, thereby initiating a paradigm shift...
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Building Dialogue Magazine, QuarterlyMaking an Entrance: A Look at the Luxurious Laurel Cherry Creek
Cherry Creek North is no stranger to luxury, but with the addition of the neighborhood’s tallest for-sale condos, the bar has just been raised. Laurel Cherry Creek, developed by Pauls Corp., is an urban haven that combines the comforts of home with the design of...
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Building Dialogue Magazine, QuarterlyEdge Conditions: Zones Where Intrigue Happens
Edge conditions are the boundary zones where most of what intrigues us happens; the beaches, the sunsets, of architecture. Like waves on a shoreline, the edge conditions ebb and flow and are in constant states of change; existing as neither land nor water, they are...
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Building Dialogue Magazine, QuarterlyConstruction Costs and How to Manage Them
Since the economy rebounded from the Great Recession, rising construction costs have become a hot topic in the real estate community, particularly here in Colorado, where growth has outpaced the national average and it seems like a new building goes up every day.
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Building Dialogue Magazine, QuarterlyDesigning a New Era of Experience-Based Learning at CSU
Millennials are out – centennials are in. With the new generation of students comes a breadth of new research and a need for refining the approach to higher learning. As true digital natives, centennials are using technology less as a consumer and more as a...
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Building Dialogue Magazine, QuarterlyInfusing Art to Enhance Private Development
You notice a thin white structure pouring down the side of a building and splashing to the ground like spilled milk. You smile and enter the alleyway. You turn a mysterious knob on the wall and are surprised to unlock the sounds of the Colorado...
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Building Dialogue Magazine, QuarterlyMartin/Martin: 30 Years of Following Passions
Milo Ketchum Jr., the Lakewood-based engineering firm’s founder, was something of a renaissance man. He was a pioneer in consulting engineering, educator, musician and sci-fi writer. Some of his work in the building trade reflected his future-leaning vision, like the arched Rainbo Bread building in...
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