A good school district, desirable homes and appealing surroundings have helped increase the value of Murrysville homes in recent years.
While the 2006-07 median sale price of Westmoreland County houses has risen by 1.6 percent over last year, Murrysville home prices are up 9 percent for the same period.
And since 2003-04, the median sale prices [...]

Thick, intersecting beams form a dramatic front view for a unique Tenafly contemporary amid weeping evergreens and serene rock gardens.
Giant cedar horizontal and vertical columns converge under a stucco overhang into a striking, two-story portico for the six-bedroom East Hill home.
When the home was built in the 1970s, architect James McConnell of Hackensack said he [...]

Thick, intersecting beams form a dramatic front view for a unique Tenafly contemporary amid weeping evergreens and serene rock gardens.
Giant cedar horizontal and vertical columns converge under a stucco overhang into a striking, two-story portico for the six-bedroom East Hill home.
When the home was built in the 1970s, architect James McConnell of Hackensack said he [...]

SIMPSON MANUFACTURING CO. is battling to stay afloat in a housing market swamped by a slump in home building and sales.
The 2,600-employee company makes fasteners, ties and other gear that construction workers use to join the wooden parts of homes and small commercial buildings.
Executives at Simpson are determined nevertheless to navigate the rough waters. The [...]

OMAHA, Neb. — Hundreds of millions of tons of coal are hauled from northeast Wyoming each year as fast as the nation’s two largest railroads can carry it away.
But Union Pacific and BNSF haven’t been quick enough to satisfy utilities in the last few years, and America’s appetite for coal is expected only to grow.
That’s [...]

NEW HAVEN – Almost a century ago, noted architect Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., creator of New York City’s famous Central Park, was hired to produce a ‘green’ vision for New Haven.
In a 1910 master plan for New Haven, Olmsted recommended “connecting parkways” or greenways that would link larger parks and recreation areas, making them more [...]

Scott McCallister owns the entire 400 block of East Second Avenue, and he has decided to develop the entire block in one project. Architect R. Michael Bell told the Design Review Board the building would be a “test” of the new Second Avenue Character District design guidelines.
“We haven’t traditionally seen whole block faces redeveloped [...]

It’s official: Two of the most iconic buildings in the United States — the Empire State Building and the White House — top the list of America’s Favorite Architecture, a public poll of the 150 best works of architecture conducted and released today by Harris Interactive and the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
This time, at [...]

A DREAM home inspired by Sydney Opera House is taking shape – after a businessman, fed up with professionals, asked students to design it.
While the exterior of the £1m building in Titchfield has been designed by professional architects, the interiors will be drawn from the creative talents of college students.
The mammoth building, named ‘Dreamfield’, will [...]

Although Yalies often bemoan the outdated architecture of Morse and Ezra Stiles colleges, New Yorker architecture critic Paul Goldberger ’72 manages to find architectural beauty underneath the surface of the colleges.
The large crowd at the Branford Master’s Tea Thursday afternoon gathered to listen to Goldberger discuss the architecture of the past, present and future before [...]

The Irvine Co. is in talks with award-winning international architects Pei Cobb Freed & Partners to design a new high-rise in downtown San Diego – perhaps signaling the company’s intention to add a landmark tower to the city’s skyline.
While the Orange County real estate giant has not signed a contract with Pei Cobb – the [...]

The current skirmish in Westport over the future of a house at 16 Minute Man Hill designed by the late architect Paul Rudolph isn’t a first by any means for a design of the former dean of the Yale School of Architecture.
This time angry Westporters are not alone, as Rudolph mania flourishes at times in [...]