Mississippi Business Journal » architecture http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Mon, 20 May 2013 12:38:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Students design home that makes power, water, food http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/03/students-design-home-that-makes-power-water-food/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=students-design-home-that-makes-power-water-food http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/03/students-design-home-that-makes-power-water-food/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 11:25:10 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=74166 STARKVILLE — Mississippi State University architecture students designed a sustainable home that can provide its own electricity, water supply and food for a family of four. In the final project of a sustainable design class, the students turned theoretical principles into a practical home and landscape. They designed all aspects of a self-supporting, modern homestead, [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/03/students-design-home-that-makes-power-water-food/feed/ 1 Beard + Riser Architects, PLLC welcomes Katherine Wylie http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/26/firm-welcomes-wylie/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=firm-welcomes-wylie http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/26/firm-welcomes-wylie/#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:29:52 +0000 Stephen McDill http://msbusiness.com/?p=74285 Beard + Riser Architects, PLLC recently welcomed Katherine Wylie, intern architect. A native of Ocean Springs, Wylie is a 2010 graduate of Mississippi State University. She brings valuable experience to Beard + Riser, including previous positions with Pryor-Morrow Architects and Engineers and Allred Architectural Group. In addition, she served for six months as a volunteer [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/26/firm-welcomes-wylie/feed/ 0 Tupelo architect follows her dreams with architecture business http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/19/williams-overcomes-challenges-to-open-architecturesouth/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=williams-overcomes-challenges-to-open-architecturesouth http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/19/williams-overcomes-challenges-to-open-architecturesouth/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:56:44 +0000 Wally Northway http://msbusiness.com/?p=73583 Terri Williams can laugh about it now. She perhaps would not call it a last laugh, but… “I came to Jackson, Miss., straight out of college, didn’t know a soul, no contacts — nothing,” Williams remembered. “I just started knocking on doors. I got a lot of, ‘You want to do what, young lady?’” And, [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/19/williams-overcomes-challenges-to-open-architecturesouth/feed/ 0 Firm adds Shields http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/29/firm-adds-shields/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=firm-adds-shields http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/29/firm-adds-shields/#comments Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:58:38 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=72578 Bobby Shields has joined Canizaro Cawthon Davis as a CADD specialist. Shields graduated with honors from Hinds Community College in 2012 with a architectural drafting and design degree, specializing in building information modeling and management software.

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/29/firm-adds-shields/feed/ 0 Landscape architect opens office in N. Miss. http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/27/landscape-archtiect-opens-office-in-n-miss/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=landscape-archtiect-opens-office-in-n-miss http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/27/landscape-archtiect-opens-office-in-n-miss/#comments Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:18:11 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=71924 OXFORD — MRC Landscape Architecture has opened an office in Oxford. MRC provides landscape architectural and land planning services such as site planning, recreational design, public space design, and landscape design to design professionals, municipalities, developers, contractors, commercial businesses and residential clients in Mississippi and Alabama. The firm is led by principal landscape architect Matthew [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/27/landscape-archtiect-opens-office-in-n-miss/feed/ 0 As a youngster, Anne Marie Decker found love in love of memorable spaces to bring to architecture http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/22/as-a-youngster-anne-marie-decker-found-love-in-love-of-memorable-spaces-to-bring-to-architecture/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=as-a-youngster-anne-marie-decker-found-love-in-love-of-memorable-spaces-to-bring-to-architecture http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/22/as-a-youngster-anne-marie-decker-found-love-in-love-of-memorable-spaces-to-bring-to-architecture/#comments Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:25:38 +0000 Lynn Lofton http://msbusiness.com/?p=72102 As a child exploring her home’s attic, roof and the space under the stairs, Anne Marie Decker did not know she would become an architect. She just knew she liked spaces and the ways they affect human beings. “As early as age 4, I can recall getting up before the sun and camping out in [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/22/as-a-youngster-anne-marie-decker-found-love-in-love-of-memorable-spaces-to-bring-to-architecture/feed/ 0 Foil Wyatt Architects has specialties in veterinary schools, other campus buildings and health care http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/15/foil-wyatt-architects-has-specialties-in-veterinary-schools-other-campus-buildings-and-health-care/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=foil-wyatt-architects-has-specialties-in-veterinary-schools-other-campus-buildings-and-health-care http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/15/foil-wyatt-architects-has-specialties-in-veterinary-schools-other-campus-buildings-and-health-care/#comments Fri, 15 Mar 2013 21:14:52 +0000 Becky Gillette http://msbusiness.com/?p=71576 Foil Wyatt Architects & Planners, PLLC specializes in large institutional projects for hospitals and universities, including one $80-million building in excess of 1.5 million square feet. The firm has developed an expertise in buildings for veterinary schools having completed projects at 16 campuses, including the Large Animal Hospital at Texas A&M University, new Terry Companion [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/15/foil-wyatt-architects-has-specialties-in-veterinary-schools-other-campus-buildings-and-health-care/feed/ 0 Why termites are good for our buildings http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/15/why-termites-are-good-for-our-buildings/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-termites-are-good-for-our-buildings http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/15/why-termites-are-good-for-our-buildings/#comments Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:59:56 +0000 Jeff Seabold http://msbusiness.com/?p=71572 I recently spent some time back at Mississippi State’s fifth-year architecture school here in Jackson talking to some students about their work. I find these times a place where I can get inspired and find some hope and optimism back in the world from the pure and innocence of design that can be mired by [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/15/why-termites-are-good-for-our-buildings/feed/ 0 Stewart makes more history http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/01/stewart-makes-more-history/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stewart-makes-more-history http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/01/stewart-makes-more-history/#comments Sat, 02 Mar 2013 01:07:05 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=71210 The 2013 Jury of Fellows from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has elevated Belinda Stewart, FAIA, to its prestigious College of Fellows, an honor awarded to members who have made significant contributions to the profession. 2013 AIA Mississippi president Anne Marie Decker, AIA, said Stewart is the first female president of AIA Mississippi and [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/01/stewart-makes-more-history/feed/ 0 New school still on track to open next January http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/02/26/new-school-still-on-track-to-open-next-january/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-school-still-on-track-to-open-next-january http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/02/26/new-school-still-on-track-to-open-next-january/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:14:05 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=70339 OXFORD — Framework is in place and brickwork is progressing on the new Oxford High School. Tim Prewitt, who oversees the work for Eley Guild Hardy, the school district’s architecture firm for the project, tells the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal the project’s January 2014 opening target is still doable. Oxford School Board members voted yesterday [...]

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