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A Year In Celebration
December 2025 the FUNOMENAL CHRONICLE A NEWSLETTER FROM YOUR FRIENDS AT ODA ARCHITECTURE VOLUME 71 A YEAR IN CELEBRATION HAPPY HOLIDAYS Dear Friends … As the end of the year approaches, the ODA team has taken a moment to reflect on 2025, not just on the buildings we have designed, but at the Magic that
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Value Integration: Infill Mixed-Use Development
Dear Friends… Value engineering has become one of the most defining, and often misunderstood, phases of a project’s life. For Owners, it marks the point where ambition meets attainability — when the design they fell in love with must be pared back to fit within the constraints of a budget or project schedule. Traditional project
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Soulful Subconscious
Nashville Dual Brand Canopy Homewood Suites Nashville, TennesseeOwner: Chartwell HospitalityCivil: Barge DesignLandscape: Lose Design & DevelopmentStructural: I.C. Thomasson AssociatesMEP: PNE (Perry, Netherland & Engineers) Dear Friends… Have you ever noticed how some spaces feel alive, while others feel contained? Initially, a leaf of food feeds us, a garden nurtures us, but how do buildings feed
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Generational Architecture: Building Legacies for the Future
GENERATIONAL ARCHITECTURE Element by WestinGreenville, North CarolinaOwner: Westin HotelsDeveloper: Windsor/Aughtry | Civil: Thomas and Hutton | Landscape: CriderLand DesignMEP: Jordan & Skala | Structural: Britt, Peters & Associates | GC: DPRContractor: Harper Corporation Dear Friends … The term “generational architecture” typically refers to designing with future generations in mind. It involves sustainable and resilient practices
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THE NEXT 40…
Kazakhstan World EXPO 2017 – ODA Architecture was invited to provide an entry for the 2017 World Expo in Astana, Kazakhstan. The theme of the Expo was sustainability and how architectural planning principles can reduce the impact on earth’s rapid population growth. This invitation gave ODA the opportunity to Dream Big and Design Globally. As
AI: ARCHITECTURAL INNOVATION
Over the last decade, artificial intelligence (Al) has presented itself within popular culture as our latest technological breakthrough. Al is often mentioned in the same breath as the creation of the internet, proliferation of the smartphone, and the continued efforts to popularize electric vehicles. Despite recent recognition, Al has been in existence since Alan Turing’s
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LIGHTING MAGIC
Artificial lighting plays a critical role in our everyday lives, simply by the way it influences our experiences within the architectural spaces we inhabit. Lighting is not only about being able to see at night, but also about how it creates a moment in time. Its strategic application in a space can enhance the ambiance,
Post-Pandemic Themes: Biophilic Design Approaches More With Nature In The Built Environment
Post-pandemic, people are now craving the outdoors more than ever. We feel more at peace when surrounded by nature. How do we bring that same invigorating feeling into the built environment? Biophilia means “the love of nature”, but there is more to biophilic design than filling a room with planters and integrating a moss wall.
Thrifted Architecture
Civil – American Engineering Assoc. Structural – O’Donnell & Naccarato, Inc. PME – Shultz Engineering Group Contractor – Danforth Construction The three “R’s” of sustainability are Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. While all three concepts are important, the most critical ideology when considering the built environment is to “reuse”. The concept of “thrifting” was popular after World
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