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Art Meets Architecture
Charming and inventive work by Sam Stoltz Sam Stoltz, an innovative artist, also created some of the most distinctive buildings in...
Mar 26, 20233 min read
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The Architect of Orlando’s First Schools
Howard Montalbert Reynolds, Sr., was born in Detroit Michigan on June 17, 1885; one of ten children of Finley Howard Reynolds and his...
Feb 28, 20233 min read
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St. Cloud Heritage Museum / Veterans Memorial Library
One hundred years after its completion, the St. Cloud Heritage Museum (originally Veterans Memorial Library) remains as a symbol of the...
Apr 25, 20226 min read
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Clyde A. Brady III, FAIA
Clyde Brady is one of the most influential architects who between 1965 and 2000 helped shape the Central Florida environment through a...
Mar 23, 20212 min read
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Connecting to Nature – Orlando Health on Osceola Parkway
(This is a continuation of the Article featured in our April OFA Newsletter: FOUNDATIONS) HuntonBrady Architects received an Award of...
Mar 28, 20203 min read
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LMN Lecture Rescheduled Thursday 11/17
This Thursday November 17, from 5:30 to 8:30 pm CityLab Orlando- 500 West Livingston Street, Orlando, FL 32801 LMN Architects: In Service...
Nov 14, 20161 min read
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Central Florida Architecture Guide in Development
Scheduled for release at the end of 2016, check back here from time to time for more info on this full color book currently being...
Jul 13, 20162 min read
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Isabel Roberts Honored with Gravestone
Here is a link to the announcement on the History Center website: http://www.thehistorycenter.org/historical-society-honors-orlando-trai...
Mar 7, 20161 min read
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Lake Sumter State College plans new Science-Health Building
Nebraska-based architecture firm Leo A. Daly has designed the Clermont-based college’s new science-health building. The 51,000 square...
Dec 2, 20151 min read
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The Yard At Virginia and Orange
The Yard is a mixed use complex ready to break ground any day. It will stretch from Virginia, north, almost to Lake Formosa along the...
Nov 19, 20151 min read
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Historic Cameo Theater Gets AIA Florida Award
If you haven’t noticed, the Cameo Theater at 1013 East Colonial Drive has been restored and is the new home of the Snap! Orlando...
Aug 5, 20152 min read
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18 Local Architecture Firms Rank in National Top 300
We have covered some of their local projects on this blog before, check the links below: AECOM- https://orcadblog.wordpress.com/2014/03/2...
Jul 29, 20151 min read
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The Mid Century Motel gets Supersized at Universal Orlando
Universal’s 1800 Room Cabana Bay Beach Resort is Universal’s latest addition to its collection of on property guest resorts adjacent to...
Jul 23, 20152 min read
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Contemporary Look for Nemours Ronald McDonald House
Since the Nemours Hospital in Lake Nona is more like a giant colorful child’s play toy than a hospital, it seems only fitting that the...
Jul 20, 20152 min read
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Way Cool Homes Tour
Phil Kean Design Group focuses their design studio on Modern styling. The houses they have designed are sleek, clean and spacious, with...
Jul 12, 20151 min read
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AIA Orlando 2015 Design Award Winners
Out of 52 submissions, an independent jury has selected 10 projects as Excellence, Honor, Merit and Honorable Merit award winners. Some...
Jul 8, 20151 min read
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Vote Now for Central Florida in 2015 People’s Choice
48 dramatic new buildings are up for public favorites voting, in the 2015 2nd Annual Peoples Choice Awards by the Florida Foundation for...
Jul 6, 20152 min read
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Isabel Roberts Helped Shape Early Orlando Architecture
One of Orlando’s architects in the early 1900’s, was a woman, and a Prairie School figure. She was not the only female architect in town....
May 25, 20154 min read
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Hotel Proposed for Dr. Phillips PAC Front Lawn
The city had envisioned a hotel on the site during planning, and only one team submitted a response to the city’s request for proposals....
May 21, 20152 min read
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Adventist Health Received IIDA’s Member Award
In keeping with the Adventist Health System’s philosophical approach to healing (the intersections of faith and medicine), the project...
May 8, 20151 min read
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