China Architectural Engineering, Inc. (CAE) (NASDAQ:CAEI ), a leader in the design, engineering, fabrication and installation of high-end building envelope systems, today announced that Wang Xin, former CFO of the Company, has been appointed as the Company’s interim CFO, to replace Xin Yue Jasmine Geffner, who has decided to leave CAE for personal reasons, effective [...]
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, [...]
Could it be that we’re entering a golden age in concert hall design?
The very idea may sound a little crazy, given how adamantly some people insist that the audience for classical music is slowly dying off.
To those skeptics the current explosion of new concert spaces may seem nothing but a last-ditch attempt to attract younger [...]
Victoria Beckham is set to write a book about interior design.
The former Spice Girl has found decorating her new Beverley Hills mansion so inspiring she plans to turn her experience into a book.
Victoria – who has been busy furnishing her new home ahead of her family’s move to Los Angeles later this year – has [...]
Celebrity interior designer Kenneth Brown and MSN Shopping have teamed up to bring today’s hottest interior design ideas, trends and tips to the online community.
MSN Shopping will feature seasonal content created by Kenneth that will help inspire users to transform their living spaces with his simple yet sophisticated design tips. This month Kenneth shares his [...]
The Art Institutes schools in California will launch their comprehensive, career-focused Graphic Design and Interior Design bachelor’s degree programs in an Evening & Weekend format in the Summer Quarter starting July 9, 2007. The programs are designed to provide working adults the opportunity to complete their education in three to four years through a combination [...]
Speaking at this week’s 11th Annual East Coast Gaming Congress, Kevin DeSanctis, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Revel Entertainment Group, announced that Arquitectonica has been named the design architect, BLT Architects has been named Executive Architect and Architect of Record and SOSH Architects has been named Associate Architect for the Company’s Atlantic City resort [...]
David F. Thorman, AIA, State Architect, of the Division of the State Architect, of California, has been reappointed to another term as California State Architect by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The State Architect oversees the operations and functions of the Division of the State Architect (DSA).
The DSA functions as California’s policy leader for building design and [...]
The East Bay has become one of the worst-hit epicenters jolted by the housing slump, and the aftermath is likely to slow the region’s surging economy and job market, according to a report released today.
Some of the sharpest spikes in home mortgage defaults in California have surfaced in the East Bay, a study by the [...]
Los Angeles engineering giant Aecom has acquired STS Consultants, Ltd. (STS), a Vernon Hills, Ill.-based engineering consulting firm with more than 550 engineers, scientists and support personnel in 18 offices in the United States and the United Arab Emirates.
The combination of Aecom, whose 28,000 staff members serve clients in more than 60 countries, and STS, [...]
Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center has joined sister facilities St. Joseph Hospital-Orange and St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton in the construction race.
St. Louis-based McCar-thy Building Cos., which has a Newport Beach office, started work earlier this month on a $67 million, four-story, 95,000-square-foot critical care building for the Mission Viejo hospital.
Mission, Orange County’s fifth-largest [...]
Green building as a cause has united disparate parties from environmental groups to big business to policymakers, but one key industry has struggled to react to the change in public sentiment.
The major home builders, who account for 80 percent of all home-building activity in the nation, face a unique challenge in implementing green building on [...]