Buyers, builders and homeowners in the Cedar City area are becoming more sophisticated, with design desires expanding well beyond traditional white walls and brown carpet.
For those who have experienced this, there are many choices without leaving the area. Home design options in the Cedar City area have expanded recently, providing an easier decision-making process for [...]

In the age of environmental awareness, greening your home is the next frontier. The question is how do you green your house and what are the benefits? The answer is, it is easier than you think. Greening your home is affordable, good for the environment, increases its value, lowers your utility bills and makes [...]

ACTIVITY in Australia’s construction sector deteriorated last month after a fall in new business, but stable interest rates this year should provide a platform for recovery.
The Australian Industry Group/Housing Industry Association (HIA) performance of construction index (PCI) fell 3.7 points to 48.4 in January, below the 50 point level separating expansion from contraction.
Ai Group economic [...]

Kaw Development & Construction Co. President Janene Dexter-Kibbe has announced the opening of Interior Lines, a custom drapery and textile company located in Mission, Kansas.
The new venture will specifically serve Kansas City-area designers, architects, home builders and home owners with design and installation of custom draperies and related products.
According to Dexter-Kibbe, Interior Lines is separate [...]

Whether you like walking, riding, messing about in boats, or just sitting in the garden and soaking up all that’s around you then a property for sale through the Marlborough office of Dreweatt Neate will appeal.
Willow House, at Manningford Abbots, was originally a pair of Edwardian cottages that have been combined and extended to [...]

NiteLites of Charlotte, the Landscape Lighting Professionals, will demonstrate home expansion techniques at the Southern Spring Home and Garden Show, the South’s premier home and garden, indoor and outdoor living exposition. The show, scheduled for February 28 through March 4, will be held at the Charlotte Merchandise Mart, and includes eight distinct areas – a [...]

There’s a charming stone cottage on a snow-dappled hill, surrounded by mature trees and a low stone wall. Smoke billows from chimneys on either end of the house. Inside, the patina of centuries has settled onto rough-hewn timber beams and floors of large, uneven old bricks. Yet anyone scouring the English countryside for this cozy [...]

In the 1980s, postmodernism reigned supreme in the worlds of art and architecture.
Postmodernist architecture, of course, was a reaction to the minimalist modern architecture of the 1950s and ’60s. But, whereas the Michael Graveses and Robert Venturis of the world were busily designing whimsically overwrought buildings as a reaction to the excessively boring buildings that [...]

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 [...]

Although Yalies often bemoan the outdated architecture of Morse and Ezra Stiles colleges, New Yorker architecture critic Paul Goldberger ’72 manages to find architectural beauty underneath the surface of the colleges.
The large crowd at the Branford Master’s Tea Thursday afternoon gathered to listen to Goldberger discuss the architecture of the past, present and future before [...]

WINCHESTER architects have designed a new £4m embassy for British staff in the Middle East.
Design Engine, based in St Clement Street, landed the contract through a competition.
Their brief was to draw up plans for a new embassy in Sana’a, capital of the Republic of Yemen.
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The practice put forward plans for [...]

Noted Oakland architect Horace Gilford had a flare for design, whether working on schools, city buildings, shopping malls or unique single-family homes.
But what people remember most was his willingness to reach out and mentor young black colleagues, offering support, guidance and a forum for them to showcase their work.
Gilford died Jan. 4 of complications from [...]