Office developers look to convert older buildings into apartments
For decades, two unassuming single-story properties on Hartwell Avenue in Lexington were steady performers on the Boston ...
Smithsonian Magazine9d
The Breathtaking Hermitage Museum, Filled With Treasures Like the Kolyvan Vase and the Peacock Clock, First Opened to the Public on This Day in 1852
Russia’s palatial institution is now the second largest in the world, with an impressive collection of three million objects ...
The Daily Telegraph14d
China building world’s largest military command centre – 10 times bigger than Pentagon
China is building a new military command centre near Beijing that is 10 times the size of the Pentagon, US intelligence officials have said. Satellite images of the base, about 20 miles south-west ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation15d
VIDEO: NASA presents samples of building blocks of life found from asteorid Bennu
NASA has presented rock and dust samples from the asteroid Bennu which exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life.
Reuters23d
Los Angeles wildfires spark interest in adobe, natural building materials
Natural building using less flammable materials gain interest post-wildfires Officials open to alternative building materials like adobe Challenges include financing and insurance for new ...
PCGamesN27d
Path of Exile 2 character building just got a massive, much anticipated upgrade
Even in its early access state, Path of Exile 2 is a complex game. The skill tree is vast and sprawling, there are a colossal number of items and skill permutations at your disposal, and trying to ...
Time27d
Sweden is Building the World’s Largest City Made Entirely From Timber
A yellow crane hovers above a building site in Sickla, a former industrial neighbourhood that’s home to one of Stockholm’s biggest real estate projects. But instead of delivering concrete ...
CBC.ca27d
Vancouver heritage building to be demolished this weekend
City crews began the demolition process on a 115-year-old building on Vancouver's Dunsmuir Street on Saturday, in a process set to last until Monday and leading to road closures in the area.
VOCM News29d
Approval For 10-Storey Apartment Building into the Home Stretch
A new 10-storey apartment building planned for the east end of St. John’s is one step closer to the finish line. It’s pegged for New Cove Road on the site of the former YMCA and Max Athletics building ...
Dezeen29d
SOM's Burj Khalifa was the most significant building of 2010
Next in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series we examine SOM's Burj Khalifa – the most significant building completed in 2010 and still the world's tallest skyscraper.
bdonline.co.uk29d
‘Where sculpture and building come together’: a history of collaboration between sculptors and architects
The Edwardian architect Edwin Rickards once wrote that the practice of placing a portrait sculpture on a free-standing plinth in or by a building reminded him of the school dunce (perhaps himself) ...
The Bay State Banner29d
MPA PROJECT NO. H275-C1 HANSCOM AIRPORT RESCUE FIREFIGHTING / UNITED STATES CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION FACILITY, L.G. HANSCOM FILED, BEDFORD
The project includes the construction of a new state-of-the-art, Massport Airport Rescue and Firefighting Facility (ARFF) / United States Customs and Border Protection Facility (CBP) at LG Hanscom ...