Buffalo’s downtown housing renaissance, a long-awaited dream come true, came at a huge cost. And few paid as big a price as Dan D’Andrea.
D’Andrea, a young, ambitious construction worker eager to get his own contracting business off the ground, suddenly found himself in a wheelchair two years ago.
He was working at the old Holling Press [...]
British architect Lord Richard Rogers, acclaimed for his urban, socially minded and open designs including the airy Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, is the winner of the 2007 Pritzker Architecture Prize, it was announced Wednesday.
Rogers, 73, is the fourth British architect to receive the field’s top honor, founded in 1979 and sponsored by the family [...]
Beneath its dark netting and scaffold-covered exterior, the historic Sears building at 400 E. Fordham Rd. is undergoing drastic restructuring. The shopping center will re-emerge in the next 16 to 18 months as Fordham Place, the Bronx’s first mixed-use development in more than 15 years.
Last Thursday, real estate developers Acadia Realty Trust and P/A [...]
McGraw-Hill Construction’s GreenSource, a publication devoted to sustainable design and construction, won the Jesse H. Neal Award for Best Start-Up Publication at the American Business Media’s annual Neal Awards event. McGraw-Hill Construction, a unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP) , also received two awards for ENR.com (http://www.enr.com/), the website of Engineering News-Record. The website [...]
The construction industry is going through a period of extraordinary growth. At the same time, there is much discussion about the sugar industry and the significant land use.
As we stand at the threshold of this massive period of construction, we need to ask ourselves if we will create a worthwhile legacy. The changes to the [...]
In its half yearly survey of public opinion on Dubai’s real estate sector, DSL Exhibitions – organizers of the Resale & Rental (R&R) Property Show, due to be held in Dubai on 13th and 14th April 2007 at Crowne Plaza Dubai – have found residents of the city uniformly concerned with the drastic drop in [...]
According to both the code enforcement statistics for 2005 and 2006 and the number of subdivisions currently under development, Lincoln County is continuing to grow at an unprecedented rate.
In a building and construction report issued recently by the local code enforcement office, it was noted that during 2006, 461 building permits were issued and 1,231 [...]
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 [...]
Maryland-based All Around the Home (http://www.allaroundthehome.com) announced a successful start to a partnership with one of the country’s largest and most successful Home Remodeling, General Contracting and Handyman firms, Case Design / Remodeling, Inc. (http://www.casedesign.com).
All Around The Home (AATH) and Case Design entered into a service agreement where as of February 15th, AATH will be [...]
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 [...]
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. announced that they received an Indefinite Delivery-Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract from the General Services Administration (GSA) Central Office to provide commissioning, project development services, and construction management services on a nationwide basis supporting all GSA Regional Offices, the GSA Central Office, and GSA Centers of Expertise.
The contract performance period is for [...]
When Robert Legere left his Manhattan couture wedding gown business in 2002, he reluctantly agreed to open a home-design firm in Asbury Park.
Starting out with a handful of clients who wanted help with anything from choosing the right color for their living room to redecorating an entire home, the next venture involves a partnership with [...]