A local architectural firm will have knowledge of economical materials- sourcing and labor rates. The architect is more likely to be able to reduce project costs by taking your design standards and suggesting labor sources and “equal” substitute finished materials from the local building market. Davis Wince, Ltd.’s knowledge of local building climate and finish materials helps us provide accurate project costs estimates through our extensive regional project experience. We can accurately forecast and control your budget because of our extensive financial knowledge of the local building industry and potential pitfalls.
Dominant storefront design, creative window display, and iconic signage will always be essential elements of a store’s visual marketing strategy. But a growing pool of Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN) apps, each with its own unique twist, are helping business owners project their retail brand through walls, across city blocks, and outside the mall parking lot.
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:
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.
Institutions of higher education across the country are competing with one another in upgrading residence halls, building new student life facilities, enhancing athletic structures, and creating new high tech learning environments, all in an effort to attract the highest caliber students and faculty members to their campuses.