WorkShop is a unique architectural practice founded in the spirit of making, collaboration and craftsmanship. The traditional workshop is a space where expertise and tried and true practices meet experimentation and play; where an idea can be explored, tested and refined before it is built in real time. At WorkShop, this iterative and pragmatic approach is fundamental to our practice. We believe our clients want functional design solutions that meet their specific needs. But, that is not the end of the story! Most of us also want our environments to say or provide something?beyond functionality. At WorkShop, we activate our decades of experience and love of craftsmanship with a collaborative & iterative approach, to realize our clients needs, and to discover that ineffable 'something' that is the difference between a good project and a great project! WorkShop's founder, Doug Childers, AIA, has more than 30 years experience in architectural practice.? He has delivered projects of all sizes and types, from major hotels to master plans, vacation homes, kitchen renovations and small additions . He has worked locally and globally with major clients including Hines, the Austin Transit Partnership, the Houston Astros, Rice University, Barneys New York, and many more.? Doug also spends hours making things in his personal workshop.? WorkShop, the Firm, represents the convergence of a 30 year professional career with the more playful environment of a workshop laboratory. Let’s play together!
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2 of Houston's own made this prestigous list. Congrats to Natalye Appel + Associates Architects, and Brett Zamore Design.
NA+AA is honored to be included in the inaugural Forbes America’s Top 200 Residential Architects!!! Thank you to Forbes and our amazing team and clients!
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If you are involved in designing, or managing, or delivering, or building, or owning, or developing projects (big or small), you should be reading and following Professor Flyvbjerg...
Villum Kann Rasmussen Professor and Chair. Copenhagen. Oxford. Bestselling author in 22 languages; award-winning scholar, speaker, advisor.
WSJ ON THE "IRON LAW OF MEGAPROJECTS" WSJ writes in tomorrow's print version: 'They cost too much. They take too long. They fall too short of expectations too often. This is what Dr. Flyvbjerg calls the Iron Law of #Megaprojects: “over budget, over time, under benefits, over and over again.”? The Iron Law of Megaprojects might sound familiar to anyone who has survived a home renovation. But when Dr. Flyvbjerg dug into the numbers, the financial overruns and time delays were more common than he expected. And worse. Much worse. His seminal work on big projects can be distilled into three pitiful numbers:? ??47.9% are delivered on budget.? ??8.5% are delivered on budget and on time.? ??0.5% are delivered on budget, on time and with the projected benefits.? It’s brutal enough that 99.5% miss the mark in one way or another. But even those stats are misleading. The outcomes are bleaker than they look. Dr. Flyvbjerg has found that the complexity, novelty and difficulty of megaprojects heighten their risk and leave them unusually vulnerable to extreme outcomes. ? “You shouldn’t expect that they will go bad,” he says. “You should expect that quite a large percentage will go?disastrously?bad.”' Read the full WSJ article here: https://lnkd.in/eGMssa_f Kindly help share.