HDR is part of a team that was selected to provide construction management for a project to extend the Number 7 Subway Line in New York City. The contract was awarded to Hill International, LiRo Engineers, Lemley International and HDR, a Joint Venture. The team was selected by MTA (Metropolitan Transportation Authority), NYC Transit and [...]
Endesa France has launched the first half-hour electricity exchange platform in France. This management system, the only one of its kind in France, allows for trading of half-hour contracts, optimising the management of shortfalls and increasing the value of the surpluses of each member of the platform. The platform is currently being used by three [...]
To the applause of fellow passengers, the Jewish designer was escorted from a New York flight as a potential bomber. Because, he tells Sophie Goodchild, of his holiday tan
Seth Stein is used to jetting around the world to create stylish holiday homes for wealthy clients. This means the hip architect is familiar with the [...]
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 [...]
TWO hundred new homes will be built in Leith under plans to transform the site of former Standard Life offices.
Scottish Parliament architects RMJM are behind the scheme earmarked for a three-acre swathe of land off Bonnington Road, in Leith.
The Standard Life offices -which were built in the late-1980s - have been lying empty for [...]
Concern over the security of Russia’s museum collections mounted after officials revealed yet another theft — the disappearance of an architect’s drawings, worth millions of dollars, from a Russian state archive.
The crime, blamed by the archive’s director on unscrupulous staff members, came little more than a week after Russia’s most-famous museum, the Hermitage, announced [...]
MORE than 40 years after he drowned off a remote beach in the south of France, Le Corbusier remains a transcendent force. Even if some blame him for the modern city’s greatest sins, from the steamrolling of historical neighborhoods to a stultifying emphasis on function, he is indisputably the most influential architect of the past [...]