DBMC Design LLC

10/23/2023

Wishing David Baker a very happy 50th Birthday!

02/21/2023

Our Little Red Barn project is finished and ready to be lived in!

09/17/2022

The public can weigh in on their preferred design for the new addition to the Air and Space Museum until Sept. 19.

05/27/2022

Well deserved. It is heartening to see the social and fundamental aspects of architecture awarded rather than formal aesthetics alone.

The biggest international prize in architecture will be awarded Friday in London to an architect known for his work on buildings that address social needs, particularly in African countries. This year’s prize also made history, as Francis Kéré became the first African and first Black architect t...

05/19/2022

Rooftop racquetball court

05/14/2022

Abstract facade. Nice materiality

03/29/2022

I wonder how Shigeru Ban’s cardboard tubes stack up with a more standard aluminum frame system in terms of time, cost and availability.

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban’s resourceful technique for creating paper emergency shelters is helping displaced Ukrainians across Europe.

03/17/2022

Here are seven exciting ventures popping up at New Kitchens on the Block in April.

03/04/2022

More residential density and affordable housing in Takoma Park? We shall see… but I hope for the project’s success!

The proposal has grown in the past seven years, and since DC's passage of the amended Comprehensive Plan.

02/24/2022

It’s amazing, that with the technology available today, we still construct houses using wood platform framing, a technique developed about a century ago.

It's often said that there’s no place like home. But what if that home was built with a 3D printer? Only a handful of people in the U.S. currently live in these types of houses, but some believe this will soon change because of 3D-printing technology’s potential to reduce construction times and ...

02/22/2022

Columbia growing up and still striving for the ideals espoused by its founder, James Rouse. More affordable housing, greater density, while still preserving shared open spaces. Nice to see the suburban exemplar still evolving.

The planned community of Columbia, Maryland, is trying to add urban-style density, without losing its suburban soul — or its founder's utopian ideals.