A good school district, desirable homes and appealing surroundings have helped increase the value of Murrysville homes in recent years.
While the 2006-07 median sale price of Westmoreland County houses has risen by 1.6 percent over last year, Murrysville home prices are up 9 percent for the same period.
And since 2003-04, the median sale prices [...]
MWH, a global provider of environmental engineering, construction and strategic consulting services, has been selected by American Municipal Power-Ohio (AMP-Ohio) to serve as the Owner’s Engineer for the design and construction of three new hydroelectric projects on the Ohio River.
The first project will be located on the West Virginia shore at the Willow Island locks [...]
Ingersoll-Rand Co., the maker of Bobcat machinery and Thermo-King refrigerated trucks, said first- quarter profit fell 14 percent on slower sales of equipment used in housing construction.
Net income dropped to $217.5 million, or 70 cents a share, from $253.2 million, or 76 cents, a year earlier. Profit beat analysts’ estimates. Sales rose 5.7 percent to [...]
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 [...]
February home sales in the region fell to their lowest level in four years, as real estate associations in both Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky reported double-digit declines Friday.
Home sales dropped 11.7 percent last month in the Southwest Ohio counties served by the Cincinnati Area Board of Realtors and 12.9 percent in the counties represented [...]
The material that fascinated the Victorians has become the eco-chic darling of home design.
Bamboo, a staple of British Colonial style, is making a resurgence in fashionable new forms. It’s turning up in contemporary flooring, furniture, accessories and even bedding, and it’s grabbing the attention of interior designers and consumers who are drawn to bamboo’s beauty, [...]
No other 20th-century architect is loved and hated more than Le Corbusier.
The Swiss-born French designer, who died in 1965 at age 77, envisioned utopian cities with high-rise towers surrounded by vast parks. He conceived elegant Modernist villas as “machines for living.” His leather and tubular steel furniture, still in production, is sleek, sexy and [...]
You may not know Shawn Walker but you’ve probably walked through his work.
The Ironton native is an architect and worked on projects that include the Briggs Lawrence County Public Library, local hospitals and churches.
While he didn’t necessarily want to grow up to be an architect, he knew that he wanted to do something that combined [...]
This may be the year when environmentally focused architecture gets serious, driven by global climate change. Even smog-swaddled China is jumping on the eco-bandwagon.
Several U.S. cities — including San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Austin — now require use of guidelines developed by the U.S. Green Building Council for public projects. (Called LEED, the guidelines encourage [...]
“Gritty Brits: New London Architecture” presents the work of six young firms and opens Friday at Carnegie Museum of Art’s Heinz Architectural Center with a talk by African-born London architect David Adjaye. Heinz curator Raymund Ryan organized the exhibit, which comes with a 120-page catalog and runs through June 3.
The six firms — Adjaye/Associates, [...]
The year 2007 looks as if it’s going to be more about circuses than bread.
While Lord Foster’s over-budget and unfashionably late Wembley Stadium reaches completion and Londoners begin to worry about paying for the 2012 Olympics, the costs of which are rising as fast as the city’s absurd property prices, Beijing will be completing its [...]
Students from Toledo to Wapakoneta to Milan swept the prizes in Bowling Green State University’s fourth annual high school Web design contest.
In the high school organization category, which attracted 13 entries, sophomore Chad Downing, senior Nancy Walls and the rest of teacher Julie Courter’s Web design class at Wapakoneta High School designed the award-winning site [...]