Strong commercial and industrial growth helped contractors continue to build on another record construction year in Waterloo during the first three months of 2007.
In Cedar Falls, construction value for the first three quarters is running 22 percent behind last year’s totals.
“There were some large commercial projects that went down already this year with contractors wanting [...]
Not only is the Goldman Sachs building at 30 Hudson St. in Jersey City the tallest in the state. It is also distinguished by its design and use of wood products and energy-saving measures that help protect and sustain the environment.
That helps make the financial giant a leader in building construction and in corporate [...]
Design build firm MetroPartnership is seeking loft design entries, due March 9, to the Interior Motives Design Competition (pdf). Applicants will propose luxury living and working interiors for three raw lofts at Lofts at Metro92 in Yonkers, New York.
Open to designers, design firms, schools, and students, the contest is an opportunity for free publicity. On [...]
In his design for a 52-story tower across the Hudson River from Manhattan, internationally acclaimed architect Rem Koolhaas wants to inspire social interaction, life and energy.
The building’s design — three rectangular slabs stacked perpendicular to each other — allows for a mix of uses: condominiums, a hotel, artist lofts and studios, gallery and retail space.
“I [...]
Olana, named by Frederic E. Church and his wife, Isabel, for an ancient Persian “fortress treasure house,” is a work of art in itself, on the order of Claude Monet’s house in Giverny, France, or Albert Barnes’ gallery and arboretum in Lower Merion, Pa. Inspired by a trip to the Near East in the late [...]
This may be the year when environmentally focused architecture gets serious, driven by global climate change. Even smog-swaddled China is jumping on the eco-bandwagon.
Several U.S. cities — including San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Austin — now require use of guidelines developed by the U.S. Green Building Council for public projects. (Called LEED, the guidelines encourage [...]