Prashant Gopal of BusinessWeek looks at Green Jobs in the recovery The American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 is a stimulus package that includes money for solar farms, wind turbines, electrical grid updates, mass transit, and the weatherizing and | Read More
Leighton’s Thiess wins Melbourne M80 upgrade contract – Business Spectator PA Governor Rendell Announces $355 Million Investment in Water Infrastructure – PRNEWS (Clark) County to rewrite proposed law on urban animal farming – Columbian.com Jensen Corporation Landscape Contractors Wins Three | Read More
Building.co.uk reports Construction of Sammy Ofer wing, named after shipping magnate who donated money for the project, is due to start in August Bovis Lend Lease has won the £35m contract to build a new wing for the National Maritime | Read More
Starting today we have a new section In the News where we will post news stories that didn’t make it as full posts but may be of interest to our readers. Trees For The Future: Don’t Count Your Footprint, Just | Read More
The West Kowloon Cultural district was a design competition won by a team led by Foster & Partners was announced in February 2002. The winning design was shelved in 2006 over concerns of funding and development. Since then three advisory | Read More
A great opinion piece about a need for a Design Policy by Allison Arieff of the NYTimes.com Some designers I spoke to are less than thrilled with the whole design policy idea. An architect said emphatically, “Good design needs no | Read More
World Landscape Architect has a new mobile text-based edition for those of you on the go and like to read on the train or sitting back at your favourite cafe reading World Landscape Architect. To get the mobile edition you | Read More
Daily Commercial News reports California brush fires frequently make the news as they destroy homes and businesses. Supposing a brush fire occurs on top of a downtown highrise? Read more at the SOURCE: Daily Commercial News – Fire safety concerns | Read More
Image Credit: Brooklyn Botanic Garden With the approach of its centennial in 2010, the Garden looks forward to both celebrating past achievements and creating new ways to engage and inspire future generations. In this spirit, BBG is pleased to unveil | Read More
FOLLOWING an international design competition, one of the region’s most ambitious seafront regeneration plans was unveiled today (3 July) which will transform Redcar seafront and create the first-ever 80ft ‘vertical pier’ on this stretch of coast. A total of £30m | Read More
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