The 49ers may again be in the market for a new home. After burning most of their bridges with San Francisco and then annoying Santa Clara with demands, the 49ers are stirring up memories of 1997’s failed stadium plan.
What the team needs is a new location, and we have one in mind: the Concord Naval [...]

Officials said ancient human remains from an extinct American Indian tribe have been unearthed near a downtown Miami condominium construction site.
According to the Archaeological and Historical Conservancy, fragmented bones belonging to five or six members of the extinct Tequesta tribe or its ancestors were found in recent weeks at the Brickell Avenue site.
Officials said the [...]

JERSEY CITY: In his design for a 52-story tower here, 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 condos, a hotel, artist lofts, gallery and retail space. The Dutch architect Monday showcased his plans to transform [...]

With wintry weather and low mortgage interest rates, this is a great time to upgrade the interior of your home.
And few improvements will make your home look as plush and attractive as upgrading doors, knobs, moldings and other types of decorative trim. Here’s our recipe for an inexpensive and luxurious look.
Changing doors doesn’t [...]

Some of the lacy ironwork decorating Mobile’s homes, buildings, parks and cemeteries has been maintained with tender care since the 1800s. A large amount, however, has been stolen, scrapped and sacrificed for urban renewal and renovations.
Architectural historian John S. Sledge’s book, “An Ornament to the City, Old Mobile Ironwork,” with black-and-white photos by Sheila Hagler [...]

Sheboygan has decided where its new police station will go.
But projected cost and potential size is keeping the city’s architect from working on the project.
The city’s Capital Improvements Commission voted to cap the cost of a new police station at nine (m) million dollars, down one-third from the 13.5 million the commission recommended last month.

Yvonne Szeto never had any doubts about her career choice. Her father was a prominent architect in Hong Kong, as was her brother.
For the last 28 years, Szeto, a Ridgefield resident since the early 1980s, has been an architect with the firm of Pei, Cobb, Freed in New York City.
In that time, she worked on [...]

Glass prisms, landscaped plazas and a lighted spire meant to resemble the Statue of Liberty’s torch are all included in the latest design of the skyscraper being built to replace the World Trade Center.
Architect David Childs unveiled the new design details of the 1,776-foot Freedom Tower Wednesday at an American Institute of Architects ceremony [...]

Calvin Hudgins is only 26, but he has a big vision.
The UTPB student started Firebase27, a print and digital design company, earlier this year. The name comes from firebase, a military encampment beyond a main base camp, and Psalm 27, which says, “The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be [...]

The Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art has a collection of 80,000 works ranging from ancient Egyptian artifacts to contemporary art — but some passersby might never know it.
The museum has for decades been hidden among a row of historic red brick buildings on a hill leading to Providence’s east side. But it [...]