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 [...]
“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 Pittsburgh Cultural Trust will announce today the winner of a competition to design a riverfront neighborhood downtown.
Officials say it will be the nation’s first mixed-use, environmentally friendly arts and residential development. It will be built in Pittsburgh’s cultural district.
Twelve teams competed in the design competition.
Vincent Anthony Lopardo, a commercial interior architect and artist, died of a brain tumor June 9 at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The former Severna Park resident was 49.
Mr. Lopardo, whose work can be found in hotels, restaurants and offices, was born in Pittsburgh and raised in Severna Park. He was a 1974 graduate [...]
“Art Leads to Innovation” inspired 30 high school students from across the U.S. to create their own vision of what innovation means in the 2006 Poster Design Scholarship Competition, sponsored by The Art Institutes and Americans for the Arts. Budding artists with an interest in graphic design created original poster artwork reflecting the theme “Art [...]