GRAND RAPIDS — It hasn’t taken long for some of the much-touted environmentally friendly features of Rapid Central Station to lose their green. Rapid officials Wednesday approved spending $220,000 to replace the station’s green roof and $160,000 to replace the | Read More
AMBITIOUS plans to more than double the number of people visiting Hazelborough Wood near Silverstone have been unveiled by The Forestry Commission.Plans have been submitted to South Northants Council for a new visitors’ centre, 75 car parking spaces with parking | Read More
The four members of the Delhi Urban Art Commission (DUAC) who have collectively resigned Thursday declared they were sticking to their stand. “Our resignations is a well-thought out move. When left with no option, we were constrained to put in | Read More
The Merrimack Valley’s first green roof will take root at Phillips Academy next year, and town officials here hope the idea blossoms. A 2,000-square-foot roof covered with tiny shrubs will cap off the $30 million addition to the Addison Gallery | Read More
Queen Street upgrade in National Awards Auckland’s controversial Queen Street upgrade is up for a prestigious national design award. The multi-million dollar makeover of New Zealand’s busiest street is among a record number of entries competing for an award from | Read More
Over the past three millennia Jerusalem has known its fair share of master builders, from Kings David, Solomon and Herod to Suleiman the Magnificent and mayor Teddy Kollek. But the city has also known a mirror-image legacy of monumental and | Read More
WORK was due to start today restoring the historic Playfair Steps which run from Market Street to Princes Street Gardens.The steps, which were built in 1828, are being revamped as part of a £10,000 project, which will see the original | Read More
To cover the littered lake of cracked asphalt, the students suggested gardens. For the darkest corners of the schoolyard, they asked for new playgrounds, safe and bathed in light.Skip to next paragraphEnlarge This ImageSylwia Kapuscinski for The New York Times | Read More
A brownfield in Norway will be going green, literally, thanks to a new master plan that calls for a rolling green roof to shelter a cultural center. The Danish architecture firm 3XN beat out Henning Larsen Architects, Niels Torp, L2 | Read More
Some artists might take offense if their work were likened to a giant pickle, but the architect Ken Shuttleworth has no objection to the nickname that Londoners have bestowed on his most famous design, 30 St Mary Axe, aka the | Read More
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