Business continues to boom for Drummond Designs, as the company, which specializes in the development of residential home plans and architectural-related services, posted record sales for a ninth straight year in 2006.
The company announced today it sold more than 6,500 plans throughout North America between January 1 and December 31, 2006. Drummond Designs’ sales [...]

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 [...]

Dan Saxon Palmer, an architect who with his partner, William Krisel, designed Modernist tract homes that provided the building blocks for Southern California’s suburban boom in the 1950s, has died. He was 86.
Palmer, whose work included custom homes, apartments, commercial office buildings and large-scale design projects, died of congestive heart failure Dec. 22 at Saint [...]

Focusing on the chronic shortage of Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) professionals, ZapThink and Excel Partner today announced the formal release of the Architect Resource Center (ARC), an online and consultative service aimed at helping enterprises locate and fill EA and SOA resource needs and expanding the opportunities for capable architects.
ZapThink, the industry’s [...]

CoWare®, Inc., the leading supplier of platform-driven electronic system-level (ESL) design software and services, and Tensilica®, Inc., the leading provider of configurable processor cores, announced they have collaborated to deliver a comprehensive ESL design environment with CoWare’s Platform Architect for Tensilica’s processors. CoWare will distribute a SystemC-based Processor Support Package (PSP) with the flexibility to [...]

On February 27 at Chicago’s Merchandise Mart, the American Society of Interior Designers-Illinois Chapter (ASID-IL) will present Design Summit 2007. The annual, one-day conference, now in its third year, will feature seminars, product showcase, career-building, and education and networking opportunities.
The 2007 keynote speakers are Joan Gaulden, of Education-Works (morning keynote); Colene S. Joiner, of Joiner [...]

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Building America program today announced the release of the fifth volume in its series of regional best practices handbooks for builders, which provides useful tips builders and homebuyers can take to increase efficiency in the marine climate zone. The publication, Builders and Buyers Handbook for Improving New Home [...]

A new package of materials from the Alliance for Building Regulatory Reform in the Digital Age is designed to update communities on how to eliminate overlapping and duplicative regulations that increase the costs and slow the construction of residential and commercial buildings.
The CD-ROM report from the alliance, the fourth in a series, also includes information [...]

Tech-friendly features include help figuring everything out
No more waiting all day for the cable guy Need help getting on the Web, troubleshooting TV reception or installing a telephone?
In one of Charlotte’s newest subdivisions, residents need only call the neighborhood “technology concierge.”
Homeowners in Cedar Mill, under construction in west Mecklenburg near the Gaston line, will have [...]

The Gulf and Atlantic Coasts dodged a bullet this year, with an El Niño event in the Pacific effectively canceling a potentially disastrous hurricane season.
In this city, still slowly recovering from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, the respite is allowing the government and home builders time to look for ways to minimize the effects [...]

Google Inc. has chosen William McDonough, an acclaimed architect whose projects feature grass roofs and recycled water, to make preliminary designs of its planned offices at the NASA Ames Research Center, according to two sources familiar with the deal.
The assignment signals Google’s intentions to go green at the facility, an ambitious complex that could encompass [...]

Opponents of the city’s $141 million plan for a new Newton North High School are increasingly coming up with alternate site plans and designs that they insist will be less costly and more efficient than the one created by the Gund Partnership , the nationally renowned architects hired by the city for the job.
While two [...]