WTC Tower Trading Floors Overlook Church (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
The smallest of five office towers planned for the World Trade Center site has a boxy extension that juts out toward the site and overlooks a small church, creating an "outdoor room" at street level, the building's chief architect said Thursday....more...Architecture, Taken Apart With Pen and Ink (New York Times)
The first major retrospective of the work of David Macaulay, who could be called the Mr. Wizard of architectural history, opens on Saturday at the National Building Museum....more... Sidewalk grab on South St. (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Over city objections, a developer has taken over all but 3 feet of a public right-of-way....more... Local construction firms honored at national conference (BizJournals)
The Associated Builders & Contractors (ABC) has honored three San Antonio construction firms for their work on a slate of projects in the Alamo City....more... Museum and Gallery Listings (New York Times)
Selective listings from art critics of The New York Times....more... 'Noah's Ark' is setting sail at the Skirball (Calendarlive.com)
For kids there's plenty of animal attraction, and some life lessons too. SMALL and homely, the tarantula is an unlikely role model. That makes it a perfect fit for "Noah's Ark," the interactive children's galleries opening Tuesday at the Skirball Cultural Center in Brentwood....more... Fleeting Structures and Nomadic Art (New York Times)
Two of Zaha Hadid?s sculptures will be featured at separate events: at London?s Serpentine Gallery in July and as part of ?Mobile Art,? a traveling pavilion....more... Tensions surface over vote on school (Herald Standard)
Thursday night's motion made by Uniontown Area School Board member William Rittenhouse Jr. to stop a $35 million high school renovation/addition project caused board tensions to surface....more... By MEGAN WILDE (Big Bend Sentinel)
MARFA ? The elementary gym?s estimated cost surprised school board trustees when they reviewed draft plans for the building at their Monday night meeting....more... |