The 5th Annual Alternative Building Materials & Design Expo (AltBuild) returns this year as the largest and most cohesive green-building Expo in Southern California, offering a number of ‘firsts’ and unprecedented presentations, including the first official presentation by collaborative Green Cities California (GCC). AltBuild will take place on April 25-26, 2008 at its new location, [...]

Flughafen Wien AG’s ongoing construction of a new 150,000 square metre pier at Vienna’s Schwechat airport could face a building stop on concerns raised by the European Union’s environment commissioner, Stavros Dimas.
According to the newest issue of the Austrian weekly ‘Der Profil’, Dimas informed Austrian authorities on March 21 that his office believes construction of [...]

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 [...]

The American Institute of Architects, Santa Barbara Chapter, has been awarded $10,000 of grant funding from The American Institute of Architects (AIA) in Washington, D.C. to develop an initiative that addresses sustainability for future buildings in the Santa Barbara region. The grant award is a part of AIA’s community-based initiative “Blueprint for America,” celebrating its [...]

Behr Browers Architects, Inc is an award winning architectural firm located in Westlake Village, California conveniently located between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, only 20 minutes from Malibu. Our well established and growing firm is widely recognized for producing unique architecture and high-end quality design. In addition, our office is at the leading edge of [...]

BJW Architecture, Inc. has been contracted by the Town of Landis to renovate the town hall and design a fire station to serve the southwestern part of the town. Construction has begun and is expected to be completed in January 2007. Lafave’s Construction Co. of Landis is handling construction of the projects. Keith Morrow of [...]

Noah’s Ark Animal Workshop has announced its inaugural Design Your Own Teddy Bear contest. Designs may be submitted to the home office in Crestwood, Ill., through Thurs., Nov. 30. Design template, entry form and more information are available at the website www.noahsarkworkshop.com or from local company representatives. The entries will be reviewed by a panel [...]

Ask John Zvosec’s family and friends to describe him, and they would reply that he was a generous man who wanted to help people and make the world a better place to live.
That’s one of the reasons why following the death of his first wife, Barbara, in 1998, Mr. Zvosec joined the [...]

IT won’t take long for readers of “The Fellowship,” an ambitious new study of Frank Lloyd Wright by Roger Friedland and Harold Zellman, to realize that the book is no ordinary exercise in architectural history. Maybe it will happen on Page 8, when the authors describe the teenage Wright daydreaming about sex, drifting into his [...]

Watercolors of Roman ruins, sunset skies ablaze with color and abstract studies by Ayodele Yusuf will be exhibited from 6 - 9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 18 in Kathy Thompson’s studio at 3 East Mountain Street. Approximately 100 works by Yusuf, a recent graduate of the School of Architecture program, will be on display - and [...]

Laurance is currently exhibiting his work in Manhattan, Miami, Morocco, Paris, Philadelphia, Palm Beach and now in Southampton. For the Hampton Designer Showhouse Laurance has transformed with the help of Ralph Lauren Paint two areas of this fabulous Hampton’s home, built by Burns Development Corp. Both the grand dining hallway and master bedroom nook will [...]

Architectural Concepts, Inc. (ACI) a San Diego firm regarded as one of the Southwest’s top hospitality-oriented architectural and interior design firms has been selected by San Vicente Inn and Golf Resort (Ramona, CA) to design the new interiors of 28 guest units. The San Vicente Inn is located approximately 35 miles inland from San Diego [...]