Architectural Heritage Center seeks nominees for top Portland buildings list
What are your favorite Portland Buildings? In conjunction with Oregon's 150th birthday, coming up this Valentine's Day, ... Portland buildings – "from houses to skyscrapers", they say – by February 1. The AHC will publish its list of the 150 favorite Portland buildings on the anniversary. You can email your picks to Val [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 20:48:05
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Today on the Hill
Today on the HillBetween Senate confirmation hearings, House hearings on economic policy and legislation hitting the floor, it's looking like a tightly packed Tuesday.The House meets at 12:30 p.m. for an hour and considers ... out the Washington Post's interactive feature, Building 44.Notable House Committee HearingsRules Committee [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 13:00:00
Scribe: 1.20.2009
Scribe: 1.20.2009 Posted on January 20th, 2009 by Mr. Eldridge Period 4 Scribe for January 20, 2009, Inauguration Day!!! ... ! -Metaphor- Humans build houses using instruments, like hammers. Natural processes are God’s tools ... was an interesting and historic day, because as you all know, President Barack Obama was inaugurated. YAY [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 04:36:44
Hawaii's House of the Heavenly King
Yesterday, bana-bear and I visited the historic Ali'iolani Hale, listed as one of United States's sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation (per National Register of Historic Places ... judicial history which includes a restored historic courtroom. The building also houses Hawai'i's [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 20:30:21
Irvine Co. announces first layoffs in 16 years
Irvine Co. headquarters in Newport Beach (Updated to add links, photos, more details and background.) The Irvine Co ... property taxpayer in the county. The original 93,000-acre Irvine Ranch, formed from several Spanish ... has been transforming the ranch into master-planned housing developments, apartment and office buildings [more...]
Date: 2008-09-19 23:12:46
HONEYSUCKLE COTTAGE
HONEYSUCKLE COTTAGE posted by Sean Videotape - "Night Lights". Videotape - "He The Moon". After Lola broke his heart, Hugh drove up to St-Sauveur and started building a house. He took measurements & drew up blueprints & drove his pick-up to the Rona loading dock, buying every [more...]
Date: 2008-09-15 16:50:26
Neither Festival nor Marketplace
Is there something amiss with Boston's Faneuil Hall, Ben Thompson's 1976 project that originated the concept of the "festival marketplace"? ... to the greater city. What was conceived as a creative re-purposing of historic buildings to house the public [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 21:10:15
The Philippines: America's other war on terrorism
CAMP BAUTISTA, Philippines (McClatchy / Oct. 22, 2008) — It's movie night at the U.S. military enclave on this Filipino military base, and dozens of giggling young boys and girls jostle their way into a free show in a modest wood-frame building that formerly housed a bar named [more...]
Date: 2008-10-23 00:01:05
Downturn Pounds Commercial Real Estate
And despite the tone of this article, some people believe it will be worse than the residential crash: Contractors, ... the early 1990s, when the industry built a small city’s worth of speculative office buildings that later ... reeling from a historic housing depression. “This is a rolling problem that’s only going [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 15:04:37
Obama Gets Personal Google Earth Update
Today, the 20th of January 2009, the USA inaugurates its 44th President: Mr Barack Obama ... . Then a parade is held from the Capitol Building to the White House. Google Maps Mania has a summary ... through some clever blending of new aerial and older satellite images. Read more about this on Ogle [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 14:16:00
Eye on Business January Brandon
Japanese Steakhouse Coming To Brandon Kobe Steakhouse, a chain of restaurants with locations also in Tampa, Clearwater and Orlando, will soon be open on S.R. 60, across from the Westfield Brandon mall. The steakhouse will sit in the same building that used to house Benningan’s, which closed in July [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 21:53:44
Harris School
It sits like a mausoleum on the 800 block of Southard Street, ... to be surrounded by other cement structures of a 1950's or 60's style and they included the MARC house ... in the Harris building. That clearly didn't happen:There were plans aired to hand the building over [more...]
Date: 2008-11-30 05:01:00
ShoeMoney Announces Incredible Toolset for Bloggers and Webmasters!
As you know, making money online is becoming more popular by the day! ... last weekend in Las Vegas. We wanted to ask him some questions about his new long awaited set of Internet ... the ShoeMoney Tools Program? ShoeMoney: Sure, over the last 4-5 years we have been building tools in house [more...]
Date: 2008-09-25 23:31:59
Date: 2008-10-29 04:24:16
HITBSecConf2008 - Malaysia
The HITBSecConf2008 - Malaysia took place in october 2008; now the videos are available for download! There were some interesting talks!! ... Kiosks - Analysis and Visualization of Common Packers - A Fox in the Hen House - UPnP IGD ... Generation Reverse Shell - Build Your Own Password Cracker with a Disassembler and VM Magic [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 06:31:50
Pinc House: Scandanavian Modern Housing & Prefab Developments
Pinc House is all about bringing life into style. An Ittur Group owned company in Sweden, they conceive of, create, develop and build housing developments, prefab homes and projects that are modern, sustainable ... : their original model home, the Sport range are available in two categories, "Leisure" and "Residence [more...]
Date: 2008-10-17 13:50:00
Engagement is Bad Policy - Part II
In our first post discussing “engagement” with Islamists, which Barack Obama’s team initiated even before he was elected, ... , in the U.S. Congressional Rayburn House Office Building (RHOB), speakers in a panel discussion sponsored [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 10:15:08
Modulex: Legos for grown-ups
Date: 2008-10-15 20:23:08
Heights food news News of note for the Heights/Hillcrest crowd (and beyond) ... Finer Foods, the old-line carriage trade grocery on Kavanaugh, from Gene Lewellen. The Goldens, whose ... the Goldens once owned on Kavanaugh. (That building now houses Cafe Prego.) In time, that restaurant space [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 02:14:33
Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Guns
In a judgment that gun advocates are calling as historic as Brown V ... . For example, he said guns may be prohibited near schools and in or near government buildings ... , Stevens said. The White House issued a statement calling the case historic. "The president strongly [more...]
Date: 2008-06-26 21:17:50
Paul Sahre: A Designer and His Problems
Friday, 06 February 2009 Katie Murphy Amphitheater Fashion Institute of Technology Building D 27th ... Now: The Beach House for Everyone, 1964–, a loving look at a short-lived product of early '60s consumer ... . In one room he designs and prints posters (some now in the permanent collection at the Cooper-Hewitt [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 15:02:57
Notes from the Field: New Orleans Loses a Valued Leader
Rev. Marshall Truehill, a staunch ally in our battle over the demolition of the New Orleans public housing developments, and more recently, ... of this confident preacher. As the representative of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in New Orleans ... about saving and re-using old buildings, that it was really about whether housing policies for [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 19:45:36
The Energy Challenge - No Furnaces but Heat Aplenty in Innovative ‘Passive Houses’ - Series - NYTimes.com
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL DARMSTADT, Germany — From the outside, there is nothing unusual about the stylish new gray and orange row houses in the Kranichstein District, with wreaths on the doors and Christmas lights twinkling through a freezing drizzle. But these houses are part of a revolution in building design: There are no drafts, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 13:16:00
Parks for revitalization - Dr. King would approve, I think
The image just below, which photographer Bill Lim has made available to us through the wonder of the Creative Commons, ... buildings, run-down warehouses, and shoddy housing near the Tenderloin," according to a new article ... of development-and they often serve as the anchor for the old and new buildings around them. From Boston [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 14:47:43
Green Building: 4 Types Of Healthy Insulation
Typical house insulation is made of fiber glass and is unfortunately treated with hazardous fire retardant chemicals that can outgas up to 7 years ... some options: 1. Thermo Hemp - I really love the idea of hemp insulation knowing hemp is naturally mold ... moisture. Instead of using the usual fire prevention chemical they saturate the denim in borates [more...]
Date: 2008-12-13 17:32:00
BP reveal plans for Birmingham magistrates’ court.
18th November, 2008. — Simon Birmingham Post have revealed the new Birmingham magistrates’ court. O ... building is set to house 24 court rooms over 13 storeys. Work is expected to get under way ... glazed public entrance at ground floor level is accessed through a public courtyard [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 21:40:06
The Solution for All Problems Facing the Right...
...will not be found here. Not on this site, not with Web 2.0, not on the Internet, not... .. ... to operate the tools, the tools themselves are relatively worthless. It takes architectural drawings ... . The Republican Party could build a socially conservative and fiscally liberal house. Alternately, the GOP [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 05:11:47
PAKISTAN PRESIDENTS WALKS DIFFICULT LINE BETWEEN ISLAMIST CRACKDOWN AND ANGERING HIS MILITARY
BY SUSANNE KOELBL Pakistan’s President Zardari is trying to avoid a conflict with India without completely alienating his own powerful army ... mosque, a madrassa, other school buildings and housing for college students, and a hospital. Jamaat-ud [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 06:47:19
Schwimmhaus, a Compact Modern Houseboat
Crafted with outmost elegance by German architects Confused-Direction, Schwimmhaus is a compact modern houseboat that keeps in tune with the tranquil environment ... fabricated out of salvaged wood from an old farm house in addition to other sustainable building [more...]
Date: 2008-11-07 21:32:37
St. Louis Real Estate-Building Inspection-Crawl Space Inspections
crawl space No Basement, No Sweat. . .but you better pay attention to this! A crawl space is an area or portion of a space in a building or house, without a basement ... a basement for storage and we don’t care what our crawl space looks like, we will never go down [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 01:21:49
Interested in the Benefits of Wet Sauna Treatments?
What are the benefits of wet sauna treatments? Well, to begin with, ... and skin. Some people like to build an outdoor sauna near their house in a separate cabin, it’s probably more cheap that way than trying to convert a room of your house into a sauna. You’d be amazed [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 03:40:33
Community pressure mounts on Kaua‘i Burial Council
Community pressure mounts on Kaua‘i Burial Council Posted October 6th, ... . Do not let it start with this home.“ Brescia’s plans to build a house on the 15,667-square-foot lot ... dirt road and a naupaka hedge fronting a white-sand beach, the narrow lot that Joseph Brescia owns [more...]
Date: 2008-10-07 00:32:04
City panel rejects Ken Karl's appeal of house razing
The city’s decision 14 months ago to raze a historic house that building inspectors condemned got the backing Friday of an appeals panel weighing the ... Karl, who owned the 313 Main St. home knocked down under orders from the city, said he plans [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 22:37:00
Recycled
I was all set to do a post about industrial or "working" buildings -- barns, cotton mills, carriage houses -- used as homes. For some reason I thought the phenomenon really took off in the late 1960s [more...]
Date: 2008-10-05 18:48:34
Green Building meets Air Quality Guidelines
How Healthy Are National Green Building Programs?, The National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) ... improvements be made to several programs to reduce contaminants: Avoid the use of mold susceptible ... gypsum board.Require sub-slab depressurization systems radon mitigation system in new homes [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 21:37:52
Casa BF / Humberto Hermeto
Saw this incredible house by Brazilian architect Humberto Hermeto posted on Notcot today, amazing! I guess the plan is to first save up and buy a bunch of Herman Miller pieces, then build a house [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 07:09:19
Spoil Your Own Country BROWNSKI Not Ours’
Immigrants Have Taken 40% of all Homes Built in Last Decade December 4, ... European immigration since 2005. The Brown Government plans to build three million new houses in the UK ... by the Home Office. Nearly 600,000 properties have been needed to house immigrants since 1997 — [more...]
Date: 2008-12-04 17:31:20
How to Build Animal Housing: 60 Plans for Coops, Hutches, Barns, Sheds, Pens, Nestboxes, Feeders, Stanchions, and Much More
Since you've decided to raise chickens, you'll need a little house for them. Some people use the traditional shed style coop and some are using innovative designs ... has plans, sketches and dimensions for several different sizes of chicken houses. It also has 60 (yes [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 01:47:36
Despite program, new members dis-oriented
Despite program, new members dis-oriented POSTED November 18, 2008 | 12: ... of Congress. Monday on Capitol Hill was Orientation Day for incoming House freshman — and it showed. As lots of new faces wandered the halls of the Cannon House Office Building, pols-to-be asked [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 18:47:26
On Dream Homes
Looking for inspiration for your dream home? Are you ready to get started building? ... you a totally modernist style house on a realistic budget. Other plans that you can choose from are narrows, prairie styles, southern houses, colonial homes, new england plans, beach house and many [more...]
Date: 2008-08-06 17:06:00
Leona Update
Leona Update Now that the election is over and we have a new President(!) ... are some thoughts on the recently completed Leona project. Last weekend, Leona had their open house ... on the north side of the building on Ward St. There are quite a few different floor plans [more...]
Date: 2008-11-07 22:43:16
Death toll at 112 in Brazil floods
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (CNN) — The death toll from historic floods in southern Brazil continued to creep upward Monday, with 112 reported dead, ... effect, with bridges, roads, houses and buildings destroyed. The federation of industries said [more...]
Date: 2008-12-01 13:59:18
Managing Disasters (Again)
Sometime last night, someone opened up this blogsite thus marking the 500,000th time that this site was accessed ... the last few weeks. Ridges are nice places to build houses - overlooking down on other people [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 22:21:00
Much change in Biggie Smalls' neighborhood
.fullpost{display:inline;} In rapper Biggie Smalls'old Brooklyn neighborhood, the building that once housed a coin laundry is now a plastic surgeon's office [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 12:16:00
A Slightly Worrying Thought...
Folks, I'm beginning to wonder if we haven't been slightly barking up the wrong tree with the Equestrian Events in the Park in 2012 ... Museum which we discussed recently. If you recall, they're going to knock down some Victorian buildings and build a new, unexciting but not particularly offensive wing to house - well - not very much [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 14:58:38
A typical day in Jammu
Our bedroom is part of a 3-room building separate from the main house. The room has 3-exposed walls made of concrete ... house for breakfast. There is no table as you’d recognise, just a foam mat on the floor with a table [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 07:18:27
Daly: Triumph over legacy of slavery
Daly: Triumph over legacy of slavery They had no last names, for slaves had no more official status than dogs even as they helped build the Capitol and the White House. Their reward comes only now, two centuries later, as the ultimately triumphant powers [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 21:00:00
Monrovia's Courtyards At Old Town Breaks Ground
You know, there's really not enough coverage of Monrovia development ... on Myrtle Avenue. The four-story buildings will house spacious one bedroom and two bedroom floor plans [more...]
Date: 2008-10-30 19:02:24
President Mills To Consult Chiefs On Appointment Of Mmdces
President Atta Mills (in suit) and Vice President John Mahama (on his left), in a pose with members of the National House of Cheifs ... other to build a better Ghana. He decried the disrespect shown by some MMDCEs to traditional rulers [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 09:22:08
Lac Superieur Residence: Stacking boxes with style
For a vacation home, the Lac Superieur Residence is a structure full of grace and visual appeal ... Residential Renovation Contemporary Three Storey Home in Manhattan Beach The Seigle House in Lincoln Park ... , the award winning building features a simple, clear minimalist design that divides it in three [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 21:00:45
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