Archive for September 2008

Jim Johnson, AIA, founder and principal of JG Johnson Architects in Denver and a past chair of the Denver Partnership Housing Council, discusses his firm’s work on a new mixed-use, mixed-income, transit-oriented development in Denver. When completed, Alexan Broadway Station will be comprised of 479 units and 14,000 sq. ft. of retail space and public…

By Bob Koch, Principal, Fugleberg Koch ArchitectsAs the emerging population of baby boomers enter their pre-retirement and retirement years, they are bringing to the market a new variety of housing objectives, activity interests and product responses to consider. They are not the generation that preceded them. Their interests, lifestyle, financial capacities, and tastes are the…

Mr. Bamboo Inc. has introduced its BamLoc, a 100 percent strand-woven, “click” bamboo floor. Designed to lock together, BamLock is reportedly easy to install on any type of subfloor.BamLoc is free of VOCs, uses a formaldehyde-free adhesive that conforms to the European E1 standards–more rigid than U.S. standards–during the lamination process, and is finished with…

By Teresa O’Dea Hein, MHN Managing EditorDoesn’t it always seem ironic that yesterday’s Labor Day is when most of us — happily — tend to do the least amount of actual labor? It’s a great tradition, originated in 1882 when the Central Labor Union of New York City sought to create “a day off for…