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Designing a museum in minutes instead of months: Onuma Inc. innovates with Web-based tools.

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As a speaker from the Smithsonian Institution earlier this year was presenting the specifics of a plan to build a museum in Washington, architect Kimon Onuma was taking notes at the back of the conference room.

By the time it was his turn to address the conference, Onuma already had transformed those notes into a design for the 500,000-square-foot museum on his Web-based architectural software tool,

He had planned a demonstration to show how Onuma Planning Systems can expedite the design process but ended up presenting a project. Starting from zero, in 45 minutes he found the Smithsonian's four proposed locations for the museum on Google Earth, then produced a computer simulation of the museum at each site based on the elements described by the speaker.

"It was the perfect illustration of what our software can do," Onuma said. His high-tech architecture practice, Onuma Inc., is at the forefront of an industrywide movement to digitize information-sharing among architects, builders and developers to...

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