Architect Cathy Simon calls the waterfront near the Embarcadero the “living room” of San Francisco because it’s alive with activity. Since she first came to the city more than 30 years ago, it’s an area that re-invented itself.
Neighborhood: The waterfront from the ballpark to just past the Ferry Building.
In 1969, when Simon was interviewing for [...]
About 10 years ago, the late Barry Spitznass introduced Chicago architect Doug Farr to the Twin Cities with a plan to convert an old warehouse to urban apartments.
Farr made a lot of trips to Bloomington, had many dinners at the Lucca Grill, and “met a whole posse” of Spitznass’ friends.
“I felt like I got an [...]
As the director of Planning & Landscape Architecture on campus and the one responsible for developing and implementing the Campus Master Plan, I find it intriguing Mr. Hennick hasn’t checked more into the history of Madison and the details of the latest Master Plan. The development in the Greenbush neighborhood had nothing to do with [...]
The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland has chosen an architect to design its new building in University Circle.
But it’s holding off on announcing the name because of a slowdown in an associated real estate development being undertaken by Case Western Reserve University, MOCA director Jill Snyder said Monday. In addition, the normal summer vacation [...]
The World Wide Web – sounds big doesn’t it? But it’s an essential tool for potential clients researching design, designers and products. So it’s crucial for dealers and designers to be online with an effective, updated and sophisticated Web site.
“For the same reason you shouldn’t have outdated displays in showrooms, you shouldn’t have an outdated [...]
As a child, he made cities and freeways with his grandmother, preferring to use leftover pieces of wood instead of conventional building blocks.
He flunked an introductory course in architecture, and one of his first instructors — perhaps motivated by anti-Semitism — strongly urged him to try something else in life.
Fortunately for the world, Frank [...]
Studio G Interiors today announced that the interior design firm has moved their Chicago office to expanded headquarters at One Magnificent Mile, 980 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 1400. Their new phone number is 312-988-4822.
“Business has been wonderful, and we just outgrew our old space,†said Studio G’s president and principal designer Tracy Grosspietsch. “We also [...]
Green-building proponents have had some success convincing government builders to embrace energy-efficiency standards; the GSA mandate for new LEED-certified construction is a case in point. Now the movement is infiltrating policy-making, as different governmental bodies float tax incentives for sustainable private development.
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 offers federal tax credits of $1.80 per square [...]
Developers of a condo in the famed Oak Park village near Chicago got not bouquets but bricks — in the form of a hefty fine — for using the wrong bricks.
Commenting on the $188,223 fine, the village planner said the architect and the developer used a type of brick that doesn’t “fit … in to [...]
Melbourne, the large city that doesn’t have its own Biennale, lays a lot of store by its biennial Art Fair. It’s more than the sum of its parts, which on their own would be a host of discrete galleries from near and far, some great and some mediocre. Instead, the aggregated galleries that make up [...]
Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the winners of the sixth annual Adobe Design Achievement Awards, the premier student design competition that honors the world’s most talented student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers and computer artists from the top design, film and broadcast institutions. Using the latest Adobe products, more than 1,800 students [...]
Bradley’s Field House is among his most recognizable works
Richard L. Doyle, the architectural mind behind some of Peoria’s most recognizable structures, passed away July 15 in Peoria. He was 87.
As owner of Doyle Associates Architects, he helped design Bradley University’s Field House, the Forest Park Foundation Building, Whitney Veterinary Hospital and churches, schools, civic and [...]