Posts about Design

Make It Manchester: New Residential Quality Guidance Promotes Innovation and Sustainability

CallisonRTKL’s Michael Dillon discusses smart new standards for Manchester development. With a rapidly growing and diversifying population, Manchester is a city on the rise. Next to London, it is currently the fastest growing city in the United Kingdom— one of the many reasons we decided to open an office in the city this year. Over […]

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Brainstorming: rainmaking buildings could alleviate California drought

Michael Militello and Amar Shah discuss cloud seeding and the skylines of the future. Originally published on eVolo as a part of the 2016 eVolo Skyscrapers Competition, in which this project received an honorable mention. Droughts are a recurring feature of California’s climate, and the current four-year period starting from the fall of 2011 has […]

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Spark Week 2016 luncheon

Igniting Innovation: Spark Week 2016 strives to stifle scarcity

CallisonRTKL’s offices around the world took on the issue of addressing scarcity through design during Spark Week.  Even as Spark Week 2016 draws to an official close, innovative ideas are still bouncing around the CallisonRTKL offices, and it can’t be overstated how inspiring it is to be surrounded by coworkers that are joining the race […]

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Green Breakthrough: the new invention behind sustainable temperature control

CallisonRTKL’s sustainable design expert Pablo La Roche shares his latest innovation on creating thermal comfort 90 percent of our time is spent indoors, so it makes sense that we gravitate toward the outdoors when given the chance. But while investing in outdoor amenities seems like a no-brainer, the impacts of a warming planet make it […]

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Connecting the Dots: Architecture and Design in a Changing World

What do Tesla, Airbnb and Amazon have in common? They’re all shifting the paradigm for quality of life and the built environment. Tesla was founded over a decade ago upon the hallowed ground of Silicon Valley and launched the first Tesla Roadster in 2008. Four years later, the company and its prolific founder Elon Musk […]

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