by Ross Cann AIA RA | Mar 5, 2025 | Architectural Design, Articles, Climate Change, Guide, Health and Wellness, Newport Architect Spotlight, Newport Spotlight, Professional, Sustainable Design, Technology
Recently, one of our clients requested an upgrade to their power supply from the local electrical utility in order to install more sustainable heating and cooling for a building on their property. Because the grid lacked the capacity, they were denied the installation...
by Ross Cann AIA RA | Feb 26, 2025 | Architectural Design, Articles, Climate Change, Guide, Health and Wellness, Newport Architect Spotlight, Newport Spotlight, Professional, Sustainable Design, Technology
Climate change is significantly reshaping the landscape of home insurance across the United States, with Rhode Island feeling the effects particularly acutely. Rising sea levels, increased frequency of severe storms, and heightened fire and flood risks are forcing...
by Ross Cann AIA RA | 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 AIA RA | 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 AIA RA | 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 AIA RA | 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...