McGala 2013: Superhero Spectacular
Stanley Beaman & Sears Principal, Don Glitsis, attended the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Jacksonville’s biggest yearly fundraiser last weekend with 500+ in attendance for dinner, a silent auction, entertainment and dancing (even an appearance from the Batmobile). A highlight from the evening included a performance where each dancer represented a superhero. Children dealing with serious ...
Reality Check: Implications of Senior Housing Trends with Poesy
Visitation By John Stone At Serenity Gardens, winter has surrounded us. My mother’s room is way too warm for me, just right for her—with an extra sweater. Outside, this uneasy year, her 93rd, lurches through December. She is surely serene in this place, thanks to whatever goodness; queen of the electronic piano. Among my chief ...
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As a culture impressed by our own ability to build and consume and move ever outward, it should not be surprising that we are also culpable when it comes to issues of sprawl and abandonment and waste. The strings that tie the threads are tangled and the binding knots are complicated. We tear down homes ...
5 Things You Need to Know About STEAM Education
“Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.” – Max Ernst 1. From STEM to STEAM. STEM is an acronym for the fields of study within science, technology, engineering and mathematics categories. There isn’t an exhaustive list of the exact disciplines it includes, but wiki has ...
Collaborative Labs: Higher Ed’s Push Towards Scientific Renaissance
The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us the human race is poor in independent thinking and creative imagination. Even when the external and scientific requirements for the birth of an idea have long been there, it generally needs an external stimulus to make it actually happen; man has, so to speak, to stumble ...
We Like Throwing Parties
This post is dedicated to wishing a very Happy Birthday (milestone!) to Marisabel, an important member of our interiors group. Her many talents compliment each project she undertakes. We love her for her innovative design solutions, artistic flair, client communication and project management. She can do it all and she’s fluent in Spanish and French. ...
Cogitation on Behavior Modification
We attended one of the Sustainable Atlanta Roundtable (SART for short) breakfasts hosted by Southface Energy Institute. Friday’s roundtable was about behavioral change in Atlanta- how to drive less, conserve more and recycle. You’d have to be living under a rock not to hear the constant message of “Reduce!” “Recycle!” “Your Carbon Footprint!” “Climate Change!” ...
Nemours Children’s Hospital won Best of the Best
We’d like to congratulate our team who worked on the Nemours Children’s Hospital project. Nemours is a very special client of ours – a hospital built by families for families in Orlando, Florida. It won two awards at last night’s annual IIDA Best of the Best gala (Georgia Chapter). The first award was in the ...
2 cans + 1 string
New work in the SBS Gallery: Yukari Umekawa : itodenwa (2 cans + 1 string) We are pleased to present the dreamlike photographs of Yukari Umekawa, graciously loaned to us from Whitespace Gallery currently on display in the SBS Gallery. According to the recent Whitespace show description, “Photographer, Yukari Umekawa’s art emerges from her efforts ...
Pediatric Hospitals: 3 Approaches | One Goal
We are so very honored to have just completed three children’s hospitals in Florida- each with their own approach and philosophy but with the same mission of delivering the best possible care to their young patients. You may have heard the saying before ”children are not small adults”. Nothing could be more true than when ...
