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...
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....
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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."
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...