No sooner does Coverings put the wraps on one of its most successful tile and stone expositions and conferences to date, than it already is preparing for the 2008 edition, which returns to familiar turf in Orlando and the Orange County Convention Center, April 29 to May 2. Plans are well underway and organizers report [...]
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 [...]
Fitch Ratings issues a construction loan servicer rating of ‘Acceptable’ to Wachovia Securities (Wachovia). The rating considers Wachovia’s extensive history of construction loan administration and servicing, its experienced and tenured management and staff, and the strong financial resources provided by its parent, Wachovia Corporation.
In addition to corporate history, staffing, policies and procedures and technology, Fitch [...]
Owners of One Indiana Square today unveiled a rendering for the new façade planned for their 36-floor downtown office building. The new exterior will repair the damages suffered during an April 2, 2006, storm and update the 38-year-old tower with a contemporary design.
“What you see in the rendering is a modern façade to a building [...]
NEW YORK — Stocks closed mostly higher Friday, sending the Dow Jones industrials to their best week in four years after a surprise jump in home sales eased concern that frailty in the housing market will hurt economic growth.
Existing home sales rose by the biggest amount in nearly three years in February amid a [...]
Leopardo Construction, a leading construction services firm, completed Lakeside Tower and topped off Vision on State, both of which are 20-story condominium projects in Chicago’s South Loop. The two projects – Lakeside Tower and Vision on State – are poured-in-place concrete structures with a combined size of 644,000 square feet and 397 units.
Located less than [...]
OMAHA, Neb. — Hundreds of millions of tons of coal are hauled from northeast Wyoming each year as fast as the nation’s two largest railroads can carry it away.
But Union Pacific and BNSF haven’t been quick enough to satisfy utilities in the last few years, and America’s appetite for coal is expected only to grow.
That’s [...]
Contrast Design Group, an innovative interior design firm, is launching “Shaping Spaces for the World – Exploring Interior Architecture”, a seminar on the latest approach to commercial and residential interiors. The one- hour free seminar will be held bi-monthly beginning Saturday, March 3rd, 2007 at 2:00 p.m. All seminars will be held at Contrast Design [...]
Design shapes our lives, from the moment we awaken on, and yet too often we think little about its ability to transform us. So much of our material world is mundane, be it a faucet for our bathroom sink or a container for our leftovers, and yet both form and function affect us on a [...]
Aiming for an iconic new building that will grab international attention, the Cleveland Institute of Art has hired MVRDV, a highly regarded Dutch architecture firm known for edgy, humorous and provocative buildings, to design a major expansion of its campus on upper Euclid Avenue.
The project, which could cost $40 million and take three to [...]
L.A. architect Eric Owen Moss’ vision for restoring and harnessing the Los Angeles River and building along and above freeways gathered no garlands on the History Channel’s website, where visitors voted a competing plan from Chicago’s UrbanLab team as winner of the “City of the Future” contest and its $20,000 first prize.
Moss earned $10,000 in [...]
The many facades of Frank Lloyd Wright – selfish, hedonistic, godlike – come to light in Manhattan with the Jan. 30 opening of Richard Nelson’s Frank’ Home.
Robert Falls directs the New York City premiere of the play about Wright re-connecting with his adult children while scoping out work in Los Angeles in 1923. The production [...]