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The Collegiate Consumer: Millennials Take Over
Today’s college students have four times the spending power their parents had, even after adjusting for inflation. Institutions of higher learning and national retailers are working hard to capitalize. This blog post begins an ongoing dialogue exploring the consumer behavior of today’s millennial college student…
3D Mapping Projection Technology:
3D projection mapping is equal parts artistic vision, cutting-edge hardware, purpose-built software, and marketing innovation. By plotting three-dimensional points onto two-dimensional surfaces, companies are stretching the boundries of design, entertainment, education, and architecture…
Retail Healthcare Clinics: the Customer is in the Driver’s Seat
Consumers “are shifting their demand for healthcare away from expensive, conventional physician offices with limited hours to affordable and convenient retail clinics.” These trends indicate a preference for market- and consumer-driven options such as affordable, convenient retail health care clinics over the traditional physician’s office, often bogged down in massive paper work and long waits for appointments.
Pre-design Architectural Services and Retail Location
The key to selecting your next retail space is location, location, location. And pre-design services. Even the most ideal location may have hidden problems that drive up build-out costs, create store design liabilities, or even negatively impact daily operations and profitability.
Healthcare Goes Retail
At present we see three high-growth avenues for health care delivery transformation, based on retail planning and design principles; Locating express health care clinics in large-scale retail stores, medical malls as an adnunct to hospitals, and locating retail brands within health care campuses.
Smartphone Architect: 10 Android and iPhone Apps for Architecture Fans and Professionals
In the “hit-or-miss” world of iPhone and Android OS applications, finding useful and entertaining specialty apps can be downright frustrating. Davis Wince has gone through the the search process and we’ve come up with some architecture application gems:
Selecting the Right Architectural Partner Can Make or Break your Store Design Project
Whether your business is a start-up or an already established and growing concern, choosing the right architect and designer for your project is a critical step. In reality, what you are selecting is a project manager who just happens to use architecture and design as business consulting “tools.” Follow this roadmap:
Retail and restaurant design for challenging locations
Architects and Designers have been coordinating their design visions with program implementation and site evaluation since the beginning of time. Michelangelo’s Piazza de Campidoglio immediately comes to mind. Fast forward 350 years and architects and designers are still contemplating the same issues in modern retail spaces.
Preparing for the healthcare redesign?
Healthcare has changed dramatically in the last two years. The economic meltdown, coupled with the uncertainty of federal healthcare reform, has left many practices struggling to remain competitive in a healthcare industry that has become increasingly consumer-focused. The trends and challenges that healthcare systems and individual practitioners are facing revolve around three critical underlying themes:
Revit Architect BIM Software
Autodesk Revit Architecture, a BIM (Building Information Modeling) software, is on the leading edge of project design and development. Davis Wince has already begun migrating to this software, the first ever BIM platform designed specifically for architects.
