Architectural & Engineering Services

Great Shakes: Meet the remarkable jelly mongers

They've made Calpol cupcakes, a 6ft gingerbread Gherkin and a walk-in G&T cocktail. But it is for their remarkable jellies – and sense of the ridiculous – that Sam Bompas and Harry Parr have caught the eye of everyone from...

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Hints of construction recovery as architects get more contracts

By Roger Vincent Los Angeles Times After more than a year of meager activity, the nation's architects reported a growing number of new contracts in October from builders preparing to get real estate developments off the ground....

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Franklin Pepi

By Herald Staff Sunday, November 22, 2009 - Added 3m ago Franklin Marconi Vincent Pepi of Natick, a retired architect and an Army veteran, died Thursday at MetroWest Medical Center in Natick. He was 83. Born and raised in...

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Central High to feel like one campus again

Unseen by students and their parents, a tidal wave of change is heading toward Central High School’s sprawling, university-style campus. It won’t begin to crest until next summer, when demolition will start on seven buildings....

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Wonders of the World: The Buildings of 2006

The major trend of the year, seen in everything from houses to skyscrapers: Environmentally benign design Over the centuries, Western architecture has had its movements—Gothic, Beaux Arts, International Style. Architects...

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Touch of animal magic as £15m pet hospital named best new building

Published Date: 21 November 2009 AN ANIMAL hospital has been named Scotland's best new building. The £15 million Glasgow University complex, in the grounds of its Garscube campus, beat off competition from ten other buildings...

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IBI Income Fund announces the closing of a merger of Tetra Design, Inc. with the IBI Group of Firms

TORONTO, Nov. 20, 2009 (Canada NewsWire via COMTEX) -- IBI Income Fund (The "Fund") (TSX:IBG.UN) announced today the closing of the merger of Tetra Design, Inc. Architects, ("Tetra") within the IBI Group of firms. For the past...

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Allegheny West home combines an elegant design with an intriguing past

By Patricia Lowry, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette In 1889, architects Longfellow, Alden and Harlow used rusticated and dressed stone on the Richardsonian Romanesque home. But the house at 838 N. Lincoln Ave. in Allegheny West has seen...

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Changes in store for Northerly Island and Grant Park

Both getting fresh designs -- maybe for the better Blair Kamin: "They are two of the most contested pieces of ground on Chicago's lakefront. ... And -- hold your breath -- they might even turn out for the better."

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Colden Florance Receives the District of Columbia Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in...

WASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwire - November 20, 2009) - Colden "Coke" Florance , FAIA, LEED AP, senior vice president at the Washington, DC office of SmithGroup , received the District of Columbia Lifetime Achievement Award for...

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