UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State celebrated the beginning of construction of its new building with a ceremonial groundbreaking on Friday, Aug. 27, at the new museum site neighboring the H.O. Smith Botanic Gardens in The Arboretum at Penn State. Construction of the 71,000-square-foot […]
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Meghan Ford Taylor of West Palm Beach joins family’s building business
Meghan Ford Taylor grew up in West Palm Beach and has always been a problem-solver. She would beg her mother to give her long-division math problems to do for fun. Growing up in with her father, George Ford, in the construction business, pursuing a degree in architecture seemed like a […]
Theater to open in former Oxnard furniture building
A theater company with long-time community roots is set to open in a former furniture building in downtown Oxnard, bringing back live entertainment more than a year after COVID-19 shut everything down. The Teatro de las Americas, a bilingual performing arts theater troupe that has been around for decades, will welcome guests […]
The Columns building bought | News, Sports, Jobs
Local developer and contractor Chris Cook has bought The Columns on 11th Avenue and soon will be using the former bank building as a banquet hall. Mirror file photo Local developer and contractor Chris Cook has bought The Columns on 11th Avenue from the Seltzer family […]
East Grand Forks to loan $149,999 for furniture store in former Shopko building
East Grand Forks city officials on Tuesday voted 6-1 to approve a $149,999 loan to St. Michel Rental, LLC to buy and renovate the former Shopko building on Gateway Drive. The city’s Economic Development Authority OK’d the plan earlier that day. Council member Clarence Vetter was the lone vote against […]
Kiel Moe’s Unless breaks down the ecology of the Seagram Building
Unless: The Seagram Building Construction EcologyKiel MoeActar PublishersMSRP: $35 It is September 1609, and Henry Hudson is at the entrance to Upper New York Bay. Although he is familiar with maps and can instruct his crew on how to read them, his most important reference is a book called the […]
Liberty Twp. accepts new administration building offer
LIBERTY TWP. – The former Liberty Township administration building may get a new use later this year. Township officials have accepted an offer of $485,000 for the single-story building and its 3.6-acre site. The offer from Keith Adams came a week before trustees approved a zone change from neighborhood business […]
Home Truths: How HGTV, Magnolia, and Netflix Are Building a Massive Space in the Stream
Early in 2021, the particular fascination of my household became Home Again With the Fords, a new HGTV series from the sister-brother designer-contractor duo Leanne and Steve Ford, who work interior wonders in their native Pittsburgh. Leanne recently moved back to her hometown from Los Angeles, echoing a trajectory of […]
we+ turns waste building materials into modular furniture and wall surfaces
tokyo-based design studio we+ is finding new uses for discarded building materials in a research project titled ‘link’. looking specifically at the japanese context, the team explores the important issue of recycling for SEMBA ethical design thinking, a new activity for SEMBA corporation, which designs and constructs commercial buildings. images […]
What Will Replace Building Management Systems?
Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems are dominated by a small group of large corporations (Carrier, Goodman, Rheem, Trane, York, Lennox, and Nordyne) who collectively control over 90 percent of the U.S. market. These companies use the same generic terms to describe their operating systems, building management system (BMS) […]
Short supply of building materials leads to project delays and consumer complaints
Many homeowners starting smaller repairs or major remodels want to capitalize on lower interest rates for loans. They’re sprucing up their homes where they’re spending more time. But with so many building materials in short supply, delays are part of the process. Home services site porch.com says its survey found […]
New architecture and design competitions: City Nature Challenge, bathroom innovations, Korean government building redesign, and Russian urban development | News
anchor A new design competition seeks proposals to overhaul a 1970s government office complex in Seoul’s Gangseo district (details below). Photo: hongmyeon/Pixabay. For this week’s curated picks of architecture and design competitions listed on Bustler, we have compiled four new challenges inviting […]