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Adaptive Reuse: Celebrating our Past, Building our Future

By Jeremiah Tuchyner & Laura Smith

Adaptive reuse is a powerful approach to architecture that reduces environmental impact, celebrates culture, and creates unique spaces. Adaptive reuse involves transforming existing buildings so that they may serve a new and modern purpose, such as turning a warehouse into an apartment building or a historic church into an office. By re-utilizing existing buildings, the total carbon footprint from “new builds” is significantly reduced, while preserving our connection to the past.

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Unseen Carbon Cost of Design & Construction

By Zach Clegg

Through Life Cycle Assessment, we unveil the hidden carbon costs of constructing a building. As designers, we have immense influence on this impact. Our design decisions have a far-reaching effect on environmental health and climate goals that can alleviate environmental disaster.

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Unseen Carbon Cost of Design & Construction

CRSA Sustainability Series: Through Life Cycle Assessment, we unveil the hidden carbon costs of constructing a building. As designers, we have immense influence on this impact. Our design decisions have a far-reaching effect on environmental health and climate goals that can alleviate environmental disaster.

Strategies to Help Save Utah from Environmental Disaster

Laura Smith & Zach Clegg

CRSA Sustainability Series: Architects, planners, and problem-solvers need to think about the built environment not in the context of “doing less harm” but in actively “doing good”. This paradigm shift is not a lofty goal, but a fundamental design driver that we can express in the choices we make every day.

How Transit-Oriented Development Can Transform Community Placemaking

Kelly Gillman, ASLA, AICP

Before the heavy use of automobiles, a community’s sense of “place” emerged naturally, and was often built around a transit station. Today, communities are again turning to the transit station as one of many built components that can help create a sense of place. Once your community's name shows up as a dot on a transit map, therein lies opportunity for placemaking and growth.

Reimagining Work at the Taylorsville State Office Building

Jeremy Bringard and Kathy Wheadon discuss workspace strategy and the new Taylorsville State Office Building transformation.

What are Greenways and Why are they Important?

Laura Smith, AIA, LEED BD+C, WELL AP

Cities around the world, including Salt Lake City, are making bold interventions to naturally replace roadway systems with healthy corridors that connect us to nature and to each other.

Allen Dale Roberts Bibliography

Allen D. Roberts, FAIA

Allen has written books and articles on a wide range of subjects including Utah history, architectural history, community/town history, religious issues, fine art and a host of social topics.

Frances Pruyn, CMO, CPSM

CRSA was the first firm in the region dedicated to historic architecture–and its founders were very credible experts as they brought both academic historic background and practical remodeling know-how.

How To: A Pumphouse

When a pumphouse can't be boring, you pull out all the stops. Historic research and public input made this potentially mundane project unique.

505 E South Temple: Steiner American Building

505 East South Temple's transformation into a modern office space is discussed in a video interview.

The Retraining of SLC

Betsy Anderson, Assoc. ASLA

"We had a number of meetings," Gillman says, "trying to figure out how we were going to meet the engineering requirements, the safety requirements, the urban planning requirements, which sometimes were all in conflict."

History of the Walker Center

Frances Pruyn, CMO, CPSM

"The building was designed with the most modern of amenities and innovations in building equipment and design."

Art in Architecture

Frances Pruyn, CMO, CPSM

Art has been integral to architecture since the dawn of humankind: cave paintings and sculpture gardens, ornamental hardware and draperies, decorative cornices and sconces.

Designing for the Soul

Sara Staffanson, AIA

Creating introspective spaces is not as straightforward as a cookie cutter design and can be incredibly inspiring when truly achieved.

Paid to Preserve

CRSA Preservation Studio

Making preservation of historic buildings more affordable begs knowledge and experience.

Women In Architecture Spotlight – Laura Smith

Laura Smith is an innovator in every sense of the word and has been a leader in sustainable design at CRSA for nearly 5 years. She was recently recognized by Women in Architecture (WIA), an organization working toward gender parity in the professional field of architecture.

What to Expect When Working with an Interior Designer

Tasha Urban, NCIDQ, LEED GA

Most clients believe they're hiring an interior designer to perfect the aesthetic of their space: pick the right paint, place furniture to achieve "feng shui," and purchase stunning artwork. This is all true, but only one of many reasons why interior designers are integral to the design and construction of any project.

Designing a 2020 Office in a 1912 Building

Frances Pruyn, CMO, CPSM

"We needed to design specifically to CRSA's workflow, product, process and our engagement with our clients."

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