Rick Allen of Nautilus Productions with a Sand Tiger shark on the wreck of the Caribsea, North Carolina. Skyline Post’s motion graphics and animation department did a complete re-brand for the Carolina Panthers. There’s plenty of space to create inside the BES Studios shooting sound stages with cyc walls, dressing rooms/make up rooms, plus set construction areas.

The Southwest region of the United States is a geographically diverse and ecologically rich area that is home to about 19 million people. With deserts, mountains, vast open spaces, modern cities, abandoned and/or historic settlements, and plenty of sunshine, this region offers something for nearly every filmmaker.

Clockwise from Top] Deadline, filmed in Tennessee. [Right] The Blind Side, filmed in Georgia. Photo: Georgia Dept. of Economic Development. [Middle] Hunger Games, filmed in North Carolina. Photo: Lions Gate/Murray Close. [Left] Sarasota, Florida. There is so much happening in the beautiful South that this location feature from the Nov/Dec issue of Markee deserves a sequel.

MarchApril 2008 Spotlight: Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc. 50 Years and Counting For half a century, SGH has upheld the goals of its founders, while earning numerous accolades and awards.

Spotlight: Legat Architects Designing Relationships Meeting client goals is how Legat Architects measures success, one project at a time. In a highly competitive industry - and at the center of the architectural universe, no less - it can be quite difficult for an upstart firm to create a brand.

Green Building Photo courtesy of Legat Architects Inc.The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reports that up to 48 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions contributing to global climate change are a result of building construction and maintenance projects. That's a much larger percentage than most Americans believe.

Just a short drive from anywhere in Cobb County, in the foothills of the North Georgia Mountains, sits an idyllic, 380-acre, farm with numerous lakes and ponds in Waleska, Georgia. This time of year, when the leaves are changing and every sunrise reveals a pillowy fog rising from the lake, it’s hard to imagine a more beautiful, natural setting than this property known as Wiley Creek Duck Preserve.

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020, when health officials didn’t know much about the virus, one of the recommendations issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) was for people to delay dental care. Well, we all soon learned that medical-grade personal protective equipment (PPE) would prevent transmission of COVID-19. So, if your dentist and dental hygienist wore masks, you could seek treatment safely and your dentist would be protected from possible exposure as well.

Some school districts and other organizations are breathing a little easier thanks to equipment manufactured by Marietta’s Aguair.

We all have hobbies and passions. They’re what fuel us. They’re how we find new friends. They’re how we relax and relieve stress. Believe it or not, our local leaders and government officials have hobbies too. So get to know them a little better as they talk about their passions.

New museum is dedicated to the literary legacy of the Brothers Grimm. We’re all familiar with the tales from the Brothers Grimm, the 19th-century German authors whose stories still haunt and entertain us today. Their work – “Rumpelstiltskin,” “Cinderella,” “Rapunzel,” “Snow White,” and “Hansel & Gretel,” for example – still is being adapted into new books, movies, and TV shows today.

ZGF Architects designs a new urban space in our nation’s capital. If you were to visit the site of a new building project and were asked to examine the hardscaping design, your natural inclination would be to look down at the ground. In most instances, you wouldn’t be wrong in making that choice.

There’s a new architectural gem in Lexington, Ky., that is getting national attention. The Apiary is a catering company and 15,500-square-foot event space on Jefferson Street in the so-called “Horse Capital of the World’s” emerging restaurant district. While the food and service from Cooper and Mandy Vaughan’s kitchen deserves praise (and it has many times), it is the design of the Apiary’s brick and stone facility that is turning heads from the media including Garden & Gun magazine, Keeneland magazine, and Sophisticated Living magazine.

A new stone panel installation system is just one highlight of a new museum in Kansas. All photos courtesy of Sam Fentress (unless otherwise noted) The official city slogan for Overland Park, Kan., is “Above And Beyond. By Design.”. A quick review of the area’s recreational facilities, entertainment complexes, museums, and other architectural gems, and one realizes that Overland Park’s planners, architects, and engineers take this slogan seriously.

Designing contemporary architecture for a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In the center of Bruges, among the medieval churches, old-world homes, and Brick Gothic structures, sits a modern, new building that wouldn’t look out of place in any major European or American metropolis. Yet this building – known as the Rijksarchief – blends beautifully with its surroundings and is changing attitudes toward new construction in Bruges.