Businesses from Spain’s Canarias region will take part in an international trade fair in Vietnam (Vietnam Expo 2008), scheduled from April 9-13, in order to increase their presence in the Southeast Asian nation.
Vietnam is now considered a replacement for neighbouring China in investment due to its lower production costs, particularly in footwear, wooden furniture and [...]
The 12th International Exhibition on Woodworking Machinery and Furniture Manufacturing Equipment / The 12th International Exhibition on Furniture Accessories, Materials and Wood Products (also known as WMF 2008) will be staged at China International Exhibition Centre (CIEC), Beijing, P.R. China on March 7 - 10, 2008. The upcoming edition is the largest ever, in both [...]
The volume of construction materials sales at the commodity exchange (UzEX) is constantly rising, which is the results of the increase in the volume of construction works being carried out in the country and the Central Asian region as a whole. At the same time the sales dynamics for the year are also demonstrating a [...]
Thousands of South Asian construction workers went on strike Sunday over harsh working conditions in the latest threat to a spectacular building boom already endangered by a falling currency and labor shortage.
While laborers have long complained about working conditions in this Gulf city known for its avant-garde skyscrapers, luxury dwellings and archipelagoes of artificial islands, [...]
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 [...]
Riffa Views Signature Estates today held a ground breaking ceremony to announce the beginning of construction on the second of its Signature Estates, The Lagoons.
The contract was awarded to GPZ-Sembawang, a joint venture between local contractor GPZ and Singaporean engineering and construction giant Sembawang. The Lagoons Estate will comprise 258 two and three bedroom [...]
India has 181 hotels / 31,319 rooms in the Pipeline averaging 173 rooms per project. There will be a flow of 4 and 5 Star projects in the major cities, but most of the future development opportunity is expected to be mid-market and economy construction located in the suburban “new cities†and office park developments [...]
Lodging Econometrics (LE), the Global Authority for Hotel Real Estate, reported there are 962 hotels having 259,588 rooms in the Asia Pacific Pipeline at the end of 1Q ’07. Projects average 270 rooms in size.
Patrick Ford, President said, “Developers across the region are constructing new hotels at a torrid pace.†LE’s forecast for New [...]
The future of the University General Hospital system will bear the mark of Houston’s Chinatown.
The choice of this growing neighborhood for the company’s second location was based on market research indicating it will be in an underserved area.
And this choice will leave a lasting imprint because the culture in this area has helped inspire a [...]
There are those who would decry many fashion and design trends as vulgar, cheap stand-ins for the real thing and an indication of bad taste. Is there really such a thing as good or bad taste when taste is, well, a matter of taste?
Moderation is the key here. For those of us who like to [...]
Architect Rodolfo Machado likes what he sees of the University of Wisconsin’s Chazen Museum of Art.
What he sees in his architectural dreams will determine the shape of the museum’s new expansion.
That structure will double the size of the state’s second-largest art museum. And it may turn what was considered a crown jewel building on the [...]