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 [...]
The 49ers may again be in the market for a new home. After burning most of their bridges with San Francisco and then annoying Santa Clara with demands, the 49ers are stirring up memories of 1997’s failed stadium plan.
What the team needs is a new location, and we have one in mind: the Concord Naval [...]
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 [...]
Turner Construction Company, the leading general builder in the U.S., will commemorate the firm’s 100th anniversary of building in Philadelphia on April 28th. Turner first opened its doors and began shaping the skyline and community of Philadelphia in 1907. Turner has successfully built over 1,000 area projects that include the Bell Atlantic Tower, Mellon Bank [...]
Fitch Ratings issues a construction loan servicer rating of ‘Acceptable’ to Wachovia Securities (Wachovia). The rating considers Wachovia’s extensive history of construction loan administration and servicing, its experienced and tenured management and staff, and the strong financial resources provided by its parent, Wachovia Corporation.
In addition to corporate history, staffing, policies and procedures and technology, Fitch [...]
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 [...]
West Chester-based Archer & Buchanan Architecture is among the eight winners of this year’s Palladio Award in a national contest for design excellence.
Archer & Buchanan’s winning project was selected from hundreds of entries submitted across the country. The award was given for the “Hobbit House,†a structure built to house a special collection of J.R.R. [...]
Aiming for an iconic new building that will grab international attention, the Cleveland Institute of Art has hired MVRDV, a highly regarded Dutch architecture firm known for edgy, humorous and provocative buildings, to design a major expansion of its campus on upper Euclid Avenue.
The project, which could cost $40 million and take three to [...]
These cold days it gets even colder in the 16-story tower without walls once called the Wachovia building.
“It reminds me of home,” said architect Brian Slevar, who grew up near frigid Buffalo, N.Y.
But neither cold, scary heights nor youth — he’s 26 — keep him from his appointed task.
Not long out of Philadelphia University’s architectural [...]
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 [...]
Two Cambridge residents are among four Conestoga College architecture students to be honoured with scholarships.
The scholarships are from the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) foundation - the largest and most widely-recognized professional association for facility management. The foundation awarded 23 scholarships.
Winning students come from highly-regarded schools such as Columbia, Cornell, Georgia Tech and Cal-Berkeley. No [...]
In the late 18th century, Georg Jensen (1866-1935) took the world by storm with his namesake silverwares firm. This year, the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s 14th Annual Student Design Competition is inspired by the late Danish silversmith.
Sponsored by Collab: The Group for Modern and Contemporary Design, a collaboration of design professionals supporting the modern and [...]