Using the recently designed and currently under construction Douglas County, Georgia Detention Center and Law Enforcement Facility as a case study, the course will outline strategies ...
Money for new detention facilities is scarce. Architects can help justify the construction of new facilities through a rigorous examination of key challenges that the proposed new facility ...
Faced with the issue of reuse of an existing prototype and a predefined program from our clients, do we, as architects accept this as our basis of design or do we push the creative ...
In its short history, Judicial Council of California-AOC has achieved a portfolio of 59 courthouse projects (56 trial courts and 3 appellate courts) including 9 completed projects, ...
This session analyzes courtroom configurations: corner bench, center bench and re-centered bench. This includes case studies of recently completed courtrooms that represent the latest ...
This presentation examines the challenges, complexities, and lessons learned in creating a new federal courthouse as part of the GSA ’s Design Excellence Program. Using the new 400,000 ...
The Maricopa County Court Tower project is a model for collaboration and design innovation that has yielded a progressive approach to public safety and the administration of justice. ...
As the landlord of the largest inventory of civic buildings, the GSA plays a significant role in how we cope with the aging of our American courthouses. The AOC in California is founded ...
During difficult economic times, it has never been harder to get courthouse renovation, expansion or new construction projects funded and approved. This session explores how public ...
New courthouses in Europe base their formal strategies on partis conceptually distinct from those widely used for new courts in the US and Canada. Based on observations gained on a ...