🌆 ACE Club Digest - See You Next Year!

To those who came to our final 2024 meetup - Thank you!

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🕗 ACE Meet Up #3 Meeting Minutes

What’s an AEC meeting without proper minutes? At ACE Meet Up #3 tons of topics and recommendations (both AEC and non-AEC) were thrown around.

Here’s some that we captured:

• Arch Digest covers the breakdown of “Why All American Diners Look Like That” + Procore vs Plangrid (Nash, Silverlining)

• Speakeasy bars to visit Please Don’t Tell (Matthew, MBH Architects)

• Books: Delirium New York, Power Broker, Learning from Las Vegas (Sawyer, Revi Systems)

• We all want more good courses - any recommendations? (Danny, Silverlining)

🏗️ Project of the week

Working on a project you’re proud of? Know anyone who’s worked on a project from a previous newsletter? Tell us all about it and get featured in the ACE Club newsletter!

255 East 77th Street

• Development Team

  • Developer: Naftali Group

  • Design: RAMSA, Hill West Architects

• Project Overview: A 36-story structure spanning over 170,000 square feet, with 62 condos, as well as 3,861 square feet of retail space. The building could potentially top out sometime next spring.

• Why it’s interesting: This development replaces 3 low-rise structures that previously occupied the plot of land. RAMSA has been quite active around the neighborhood and the pre-war inspired structure will be gorgeous if the renderings are any indication.

📰 Our favorite reads, listens & watches

• The $20-Trillion Tunnel That Could Link New York and London - By creating a vacuum within the tunnel and using pressurized vehicles, trains traveling along the structure could theoretically reach speeds of more than 3,000 mph, making the journey between London and New York barely an hour long.

• Advancing prosperity for architects - AIA President Kimberly Dowdell, AIA, NOMAC, discusses what AIA can do to address the key issues architects are facing.

• The Modular Construction Landscape - The vision of factory-built homes solving the inefficiencies of traditional construction has captivated innovators for decades. However, the reality of modular construction reveals persistent challenges—economic, logistical, and cultural—that repeatedly thwart its success.

• Can the U.S. Climb Out of Its ‘Unprecedented’ Housing Crisis? - There is some optimism on the inventory front. The National Association of Home Builders is expecting construction to start on about one million single-family homes next year.

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Until next time,

Emma & Sawyer