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Home » Authors » Joann Gonchar, FAIA

Articles by Joann Gonchar, FAIA

Timber Grows Up

Continuing Education: Tall Mass Timber Construction

Read the story below, then take the quiz "Timber Grows Up" for Continuing Education credit.
Joann Gonchar
Joann Gonchar, FAIA
September 16, 2015
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Architects and engineers, drawn to wood for its environmental attributes, push the material to new limits.
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Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building

Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building

A home for Boston's school district preserves historic facades and breathes new life into a corner of the city's Roxbury neighborhood.
Joann Gonchar
Joann Gonchar, FAIA
August 16, 2015
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A sign on the door of Dudley Dough, a soon-to-be opened caf' on the ground floor of Boston's recently inaugurated Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building, advertises 'pizza, coffee, and economic justice.' This improbable menu gives a clue to the larger goals behind the construction of the 215,000-square-foot, six-story structure completed this past spring.


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Whitney Museum of American Art
Water and Resilience

Continuing Education: Flood-Proofing Art Museums

Flirting with Disaster: Two recent art museums with prime waterfront sites protect their buildings and collections from severe weather and rising water levels.
Joann Gonchar
Joann Gonchar, FAIA
July 16, 2015
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The move of the Whitney Museum of American Art from its Marcel Breuer'designed quarters on Manhattan's Upper East Side to the city's Meatpacking District presented a host of challenges, flooding among them.


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WELL Building, San Francisco

Continuing Education: Well Building Standard

Joann Gonchar
Joann Gonchar, FAIA
June 16, 2015
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A new certification system for buildings places the occupants at the center of sustainable design.


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Swedbank Headquarters

Swedbank Headquarters by 3XN

Sundbyberg, Sweden
Joann Gonchar
Joann Gonchar, FAIA
May 16, 2015
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Roughly five years ago, the leaders of Swedbank decided to move their operations out of the office building they had occupied for four decades in the heart of Stockholm.


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Grace Farms Sets Date for Opening of its SANAA-Designed Complex

Joann Gonchar
Joann Gonchar, FAIA
May 1, 2015
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The Grace Farms Foundation, a New Canaan, Connecticut-based non-profit with a multifarious mission focused on faith, justice, and community, has announced that it will officially open its new complex on October 9. 


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The AIA Unveils the 2015 COTE Top Ten Awards

Joann Gonchar
Joann Gonchar, FAIA
April 22, 2015
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ZGF’s Federal Center South Building 1202 in Seattle, is the recipient of this year’s COTE Top Ten +—an award that recognizes one past Top Ten winner that has quantifiable metrics. The project, which provides office space for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is performing more than 30 percent better than ASHRAE 90.1. On Earth Day, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) announced the winners of Committee on the Environment (COTE) awards. The goal of the program, now in its 19th year, is to recognize ten projects that protect and enhance the environment. For the third year in a row,
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Pound Ridge House

Pound Ridge House by KieranTimberlake

Pound Ridge, New York
Joann Gonchar
Joann Gonchar, FAIA
April 16, 2015
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A house wrapped in a sophisticated skin makes the most of a site with challenging topography.
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No Shadow Towers for the River Thames

The Bright Idea: NBBJ proposes a set of "shadowless" towers for London's rapidly changing skyline.
Joann Gonchar
Joann Gonchar, FAIA
March 30, 2015
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Architects from the global firm NBBJ have designed what they call a “No Shadow Tower” for a site along the Thames River in London. The hypothetical scheme, developed in response to a call for ideas from the architecture think tank New London Architecture (NLA), offers one way to lessen the impact of tall buildings on the urban fabric surrounding them.


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Innovations in Glass

Continuing Education: Double-Skin Buildings

Thick-Skinned: Two very different buildings deploy double curtain walls to satisfy the competing demands of transparency, efficiency and comfort.
Joann Gonchar
Joann Gonchar, FAIA
March 1, 2015
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At 121 stories and 2,073 feet, the Shanghai Tower will be the world's second-tallest skyscraper when completed later this year.


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