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Echelon Photographed Documenting the project located in NYC Flatiron on West 20th street. Description and renderings of this project are in the post located below and posted earlier. The program was for a new construction rental building interiors including lobbies, gym, resident party room that includes chef kitchen, lounge, and pool table area off of private roof garden. ... read full post
Stephen Alton Architect, P.C. Perrine Bridge B.A.S.E. Jumping Platform Proposal Stephen Alton Architect, P.C. developed a design proposal for the Design-It Google Guggenheim Shelter competition as part of a creative development exercise for our New York Studio.  Alton's proposal poses that if a shelter is itself sheltered, it may offer both spatial and functional liberties that may otherwise ... read full post
CHELSEA CONDOMINIUM: DESIGNED BY STEPHEN ALTON ARCHITECT, P.C. The Chelsea Condominium project,  currently in design by Stephen Alton Architect, P.C., reflects the refinement and steady advancement of our interest in Faceted Geometry, applied here as a typology for the building facade. The overall project goals are to create an up-scale residential property of high architectural quality that ... read full post
ECHELON RESIDENTIAL INTERIOR COMPLETED: DESIGN BY STEPHEN ALTON ARCHITECT, P.C. Stephen Alton Architect, P.C. is pleased to announce the successful, recent completion of The Echelon, an elegant interior project on 21st Street and Fifth Avenue, New York City, that reflects a sophisticated lighting and material palette for the main lounge, rental office, gym and entrance lobbies. ... read full post
BIM and the Ever Changing Building Process Many think that Building Information Modeling (BIM) is the next generation/ standard for how buildings will be built.  BIM is best thought of as “a digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a facility.”  Simply put BIM is comparable to the transformation that occurred in the aircraft, microprocessor and automotive industries.  Early on BIM was thought to be simple a 3D model of a facility, but the truth is that does not adequately communicate the potential of digital, object-based, interoperable building information modeling processes and the tools and modern communications methods.  If BIM becomes the standard procedure for how buildings are built, almost all pieces of information that an owner need... read full post