by Ross Cann | Feb 19, 2025 | Architectural Design, Articles, Climate Change, Guide, Health and Wellness, Newport Spotlight, Professional, Sustainable Design, Technology
This past year, the price of municipal water in Newport increased by 17.5%. Newport is not alone in seeing the price of water increase even faster than the rate of general inflation. This trend is happening both around the United States and globally. As 2025 unfolds,...
by Ross Cann | Feb 12, 2025 | Architectural Design, Articles, Guide, Historical, Newport Spotlight, Professional, Sustainable Design, Technology, Urban Planning
Newport, Rhode Island, has long benefited from “Adaptive Reuse,” which is the practice of repurposing old buildings for purposes they were not originally intended for. Founded in 1639, Newport grew to be the fifth-largest city in the American colonies at...
by Ross Cann | Feb 5, 2025 | Architectural Design, Articles, Guide, Health and Wellness, Professional, Technology
Like many cultures worldwide, American society is getting older on average. As people live longer and have fewer children, the demographics of the population are changing rapidly. In the United States, where multi-generational households are less common, the...
by Ross Cann | Jan 22, 2025 | Articles, Guide, Professional
When architects, lawyers, doctors and many other professionals graduate from university, they are often well prepared in their area of expertise but exceedingly unprepared to manage a professional practice or business. For generations, these small business leaders...
by Ross Cann | Jan 16, 2025 | Articles, Guide, Historical, Newport Architect Spotlight, Newport Spotlight
The Ballroom at The Breakers in HBO’s The Gilded Age, Credit to Alison Cohen Rosa Sir Julian Fellowes became famous for his wildly successful television series Downton Abbey, about the Grantham Family and their ancestral home. To follow up on that...
by Ross Cann | Jan 8, 2025 | Articles, Guide, Newport Spotlight
A Building Suffering From Galvanic Action Architecture is not just the artistic composition of forms for aesthetic purposes but also the assembly of tens of thousands of individual components for specific practical purposes. Without understanding the complicated...