In the first of this new three-part series. Barbara Crum, Principal and Market Sector Leader for K-12 at Perkins+Will, discusses the transformation of Benjamin E. Mays High School in Southwest Atlanta. Perkins+Will won an Atlanta Urban Design Commission Award for the project in June 2012. If you’ve ever been involved in a home renovation then […]
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Designing Refuge: A Hospice Case Study
In part four of this series on hospice design, Ila Burdette of Perkins+Will illustrates how a thoughtful hospice design benefits patients, caregivers and families while also attracting community interaction. Willson Hospice in Albany, Georgia illustrates the latest hospice design trends we have covered in the past three columns. The new 34,000-square-foot facility includes a 15,000-sf […]
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New Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Rules will Help Protect Consumers
By Cal Haupt, president and CEO of Southeast Mortgage Earlier this month, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced their proposed rules to protect homeowners and increase mortgage servicer accountability. The CFPB asked consumers, a Small Business Review Panel and mortgage industry professionals for their input while developing their proposed rules. The public has 60 […]
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Reaching Out, Ushering In: Transparent Buildings & Regenerative Gardens
In part three of this series on hospice design, Ila Burdette of Perkins+Will discusses the importance of the design of outdoor spaces at a hospice in supporting the work of the caregivers. Welcoming hospices that sensitively house treatment programs for the terminally ill can architecturally support caregivers’ extraordinary work. Perkins+Will has found we can do even more […]
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Should You Pay Off Your Mortgage Early?
By Cal Haupt, president and CEO of Southeast Mortgage In Samuel Coleridge’s epic poem, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” the narrating sailor details a stalled voyage on the sea: “We stuck, nor breath nor motion; as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean.” Our debts weigh us down, and can make us […]
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Making Places to Talk is Critical in Hospice Design
In part two of this series on hospice design, Ila Burdette of Perkins+Will discusses how good design considers the needs of the patient and the family members to provide a variety of comfortable and appropriate settings for all types of gatherings. Last week we explored strategies Perkins+Will uses in making friendly buildings to draw in […]
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Connecting Communities and Caregivers: Hospice Design
In part one of this new three-part series on healthcare design, Ila Burdette, principal at Perkins+Will, discusses the unique challenges of designing a hospice and how design can be used to create a welcoming magnet for the community. Photos are from hospices designed by Perkins+Will. In the fast-moving world of healthcare design, Perkins+Will has […]
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Pass T-SPLOST, Then Maximize Opportunities
In the final part of this series on urban design, Perkins+Will principal David Green discusses how the region can maximize its opportunities to improve transportation and the health, safety and welfare of its citizens if it passes T-SPLOST. We are voting on the transportation referendum on July 31. It is almost certain that the result of the […]
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Two Conditions Must Change to Ensure Productive Transportation Planning
In part six of this series on urban design, Perkins+Will principal David Green discusses the two questions our region needs to ask itself as we deal with transportation issues and the upcoming referendum and the two conditions that have to change. In this series we have discussed how, for the past 100 years or so, we have […]
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To Move Forward with Transportation Issues, We Must Do Two Things
In part five of this series on urban design, Perkins+Will principal David Green discusses what our region needs to do to move forward, based on research, common sense and a Supreme Court Ruling. In the 1922 City Planning Commission Annual Report for Atlanta we were asking ourselves the same questions we are asking today with […]
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History Shows Transportation Improvements Critical to Economic Growth
In part five of this series on urban design, Perkins+Will principal David Green discusses the collaboration that took place between public authorities, the private landowners and developers, and the general citizenry of the area when Atlanta city leaders in 1922 dealt with transportation issues similar to what we face today. Beginning more than ninety years ago, the Atlanta […]
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From Atlanta’s Earliest Days, Transportation Improvement Tied to Economic Development
In part four of this series on urban design, Perkins+Will principal David Green discusses the collaboration that took place between public authorities, the private landowners and developers, and the general citizenry of the area when Atlanta city leaders in 1922 dealt with transportation issues similar to what we face today. As we discovered in last […]
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Avoid Being a Victim of Mortgage Fraud
Just this week a federal judge sentenced a former Auburn attorney to nearly four years in prison for mortgage fraud. James Boyd Douglas Jr. handled mortgage refinancings and real estate closings and was found guilty of embezzling $2.3 million from clients. An Atlanta area woman and her brother ran a real estate scam in Baldwin County […]
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Atlanta Leaders Considered Similar Transportation Issues in 1922
In part three of this series on urban design, Perkins+Will principal David Green discusses the transportation projects Atlanta city leaders considered in 1922 and how we are living with these decisions today. On July 31, 2012 the residents of Atlanta, along with others across the region and throughout the state, will vote on a referendum […]
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Consumer Will Benefit From Simpler Mortgage Disclosure Form
For more than 35 years, two federal laws (the Truth in Lending Act or “TILA,” and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act or “RESPA”) have required lenders and settlement agents to give consumers who take out a mortgage loan separate but overlapping disclosure forms regarding the loan’s terms and costs. This duplication has long been […]
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Street and Sidewalk Design Vital to Enjoyment, Economic Development
In part two of this series on urban design, Heather Alhadeff, Senior Transportation Planner in the Atlanta Urban Design practice at Perkins+Will, uses the Little Five Points district in Atlanta as an example of the importance of good street and sidewalk design for economic vitality I’ve been coming to Little Five Points since I was […]
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Basel III To Change Mortgage Landscape
The mortgage industry has undergone many significant changes as a result of the financial crisis. One of the less known pending changes is about to take its final form and in its current draft Basel III will increase consumer costs and reduce consumers’ choice of mortgage providers. Basel III requires that a bank must maintain common […]
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Design of Our Surroundings Affects How We Feel and React
Have you ever wondered why you feel like you are driving so slowly down Freedom Parkway? Or you’ve tried to visit a friend in an area hospital and couldn’t find the front door from the street. Or you recently walked to the Braves game from the Georgia State MARTA station and it seemed to take […]
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Lifecycle Building Center
In last week’s entry, Paula Vaughan mentioned Atlanta’s Lifecycle Building Center. For those who would like to learn more about the LBC, this week’s entry will give more information. From the LBC Case Statement: “A Lifecycle Building Center is a community-based warehouse facility that directly assists the general public by identifying and implementing best practice […]
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Innovations in Sustainability
In the last of this five-part video series, Paula Vaughan, Co-Director Sustainability for Perkins+Will, showcases some of the sustainable features of the new Perkins+Will office in Atlanta. This office, located at 1315 Peachtree Street, recently received LEED Platinum status with a score of 95. It is the current record holder for a LEED Platinum project […]
