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 [...]
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 [...]
The Ringgold School District has a new superintendent who has served the district for nearly 31 years.
The district also could have a new middle school complex, replacing two aging schools.
In a 90-minute special session Friday night dominated by two executive sessions, the board chose Acting Superin-tendent Gary Hamilton as superintendent, over the objections of board [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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, [...]
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 [...]