Interview: Reginald Hill - Creator Of Pascoe And Dalziel

It's hard to believe that their first appearance was back in 1970, but that's the year that A Clubbable Woman introduced the world to Reginald Hill's fictional Mid-Yorkshire's Odd Couple of police officers Andy Dalziel and Peter Pascoe. Numerous awards for crime fiction, and a television adaptation later, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 06:39:41

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Norman Foster to re-design Mecca.

(((Well, if anybody's up for the job...))) http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/dailynews/2008/11/foster_and_hadid_to_redesign_mecca ... ' building in the world. The top-secret plans are being backed by King Abdullah ben Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia who has asked a hand-picked collection of starchitects to 'establish a new architectural [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 19:14:02

Developer says $225M project in Newark is on track, despite economic shift

Developer says $225M project in Newark is on track, despite economic shift by The Star-Ledger Continuous News Desk Friday November 28, 2008, 6:17 AM Plans for a $225 million residential and retail project near the New Jersey Performing Arts ... through the normal early stages of architectural planning, engineering, financing and approvals before [more...]

Date: 2008-11-28 11:23:27

Gene Leedy-Designed House For Sale in Winter Haven, FL

From Martie Lieberman at Modern Sarasota... There is an important Gene Leedy-designed "Sarasota School of Architecture" house for sale. It is located on Drexel Avenue in the heart of "Leedy-Land" in Winter Haven, Florida. Check the slide show and floor plan here. More details after the jump... Featured in Sarasota Modern [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 02:23:03

ArchiCentral for architects and admirers alike

I just love watch designs of buildings and houses, don’t you? ... in high school. Nevertheless, that does not stop me from ogling the designs of structures. I cannot ... , or perhaps like this apartment-style house I came across that looked like the bathroom was on the patio [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 04:46:53

Oman Emerging Progressively

(Crealis) -- Oman could be the world's best-kept secret, but probably not for long, writes Lydia Moss in her report titled 'Oman With A Plan' in the December 2008 issue of the US-based monthly magazine Global Traveller. The writer through a lengthy report highlighted the development, progress, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 09:42:54

Refinancing Home Loan Deals - Strategies To Discover The Best Available

Refinancing Home Loan Deals - Strategies To Discover The Best Available Author: Jennifer 18 Jan Whether you need cash to renovate your house, ... mortgage or refinancing, make sure you know exactly how much your house is worth. Get a full ... . Once you know how much your house is worth, you can confidently present that information to the bank [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 16:43:41

Gareth L Powell: How to Communicate More Effectively, part 3

3.] Having shown the reader that your product (magazine subscription, book, story, etc) can do something for them, you need to inspire in them the desire to take the next step. If you want them to download your podcast or subscribe to your magazine, you have to make them want to do it. You have to make the product look desirable [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 18:00:31

Real Estate Roundup: Eoff Electric Supply Co. renews lease

Eoff Electric Supply Co. renewed its lease for 11,943 square feet of office and warehouse space at The Evergreen Park, 22995 N.W ... 2,443 square feet from Countrywide Home Loans at One Centerpoint Drive, Lake Oswego. Brian Wise of Hume ... at Westlake Village Office, Lake Oswego. John Medak and Jennifer Medak of NAI Norris, Beggs & Simpson [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 05:48:55

Prospect, refuse.

The terms of prospect and refuse, architecturally speaking, ... that is large and bright and disproportionately large (like the "great" room found in many contemporary homes, or wall-free open floor plans) and you leave your users feeling vulnerable. With no private [more...]

Date: 2008-06-09 14:12:32

SOA in ‘09: Dead, alive or in search of new meaning?

January 1, 2009 could be considered a big day in the Oracle world — a fresh start, ... SOA plans for 2008. An overwhelming majority (68%) said they either didn’t have or didn’t know their 2008 SOA plans, with the rest citing plans to implement SOA within the next three years. Economy [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 03:35:25

Another Green Roof

'The various advocates of solar, wind and water power, of small and decentralised sources of energy, of 'intermediate technologies', ... of their visions or plans to be actually adopted by any substantial number of people, the most radical [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 16:03:00

Marcel Breuer, The Postwar Man And The Bi-Nuclear House

The original title of Marcel Breuer's December 1943 article for California Arts & Architecture was "Design for Postwar Living ... --and kids. Breuer's 1949 prototype house in the Museum of Modern Art sculpture garden didn't ... ." But he changed it to "On a Design of a Bi-Nuclear House." Actually, on the typescript, he wrote [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 17:06:48

How to Save Big From House Plans

Are you planning to build a house this 2009? Owning your own land and house is a big investment ... online are not limited. Most sites that offer house plans now present around 40 architectural ... to professionally-prepared house plans that are available not through a face-to-face architect but online [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 16:33:18

Randolph Duke's Glam Pad In the Hollywood Hills

SELLER: Randolph DukeLOCATION: Fareholm Drive, Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $8,250,000SIZE: 3 bedrooms, 3 ... for the open plan and unabashedly modern manse, dubbed Open House by the architects, indicates ... Freddie, Your Mama has learned that dress designer Randolph Duke has put his Hollywood Hills house [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 16:30:00

“Photos your photographer won’t take at your wedding….unless you ask for them!”

“Photos your photographer won’t take at your wedding….unless you ask for them!” By | January 20, 2009 Photography is a very rewarding field, no matter what specialization you choose. While some photographers decide to focus on just one specialty, others offer services in multiple photography disciplines [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 18:00:13

This evening I was reading a post at Bartholomew’s Notes on Religion, which someone might find interesting ... where he cites evidence of plans for a renewed temple in Israel. While Mr. Lindsey is a fine [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 09:34:13

Africa begs for business

Africa begs for businessTanzania youth representative: Any aid terms that inhibit Africa's self-management should be discouraged Related: economics, geopolitics, unAnalysis by James Jay Carafano, Ph.D., Eric SayersDefense spending fraud and real solutionsUnder the law, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 10:10:07

Minutes Regular Meeting July 8, 2008

CAPITOL HEIGHTS CIVIC ASSOCIATION REGULAR MEETING July 8, 2008 The Capitol Heights Civic Association held its regular meeting on July 8, ... Jim Walter Homes as a contractor. The contractor has submitted several sets of plans, all of which have been denied by the Architectural Review Board. The contractor has submitted another plan [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 04:16:26

Tourists and Collectors Enter the World of Tomorrow: An Interview with Angela Ndalianis (Part Two)

You suggest some connections between the birth of Superman and the 1939 World's Fair with its theme, "A World of Tomorrow." Explain. The New York World Fair of 1938-9 reflected a mindset of the times that saw utopia as becoming an achievable reality in the not too distant future [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 02:09:41

The Thereization of Second Life

Yes, it's official now, the Lindens have acquired the two leading shopping sites for SL content. And now Linden Lab is squarely positioned above the content-creation and content-sale stream, and able to centrally clear on content -- just like the smaller virtual world There, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 06:29:06

Practice Facility Plans

Practice facility plans will go before the regents this week. The document outlining the plans is located here. They are planning to build the practice facility on the east side of Crisler Arena. An addition ... is proposed. The new facility will house two new basketball practice courts that will provide better [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 18:11:18

Review: Retrofitting Suburbia

What to do about the suburbs? This will be the great urban development challenge in coming decades ... with today's preferences in floor plans, aesthetics, etc. These new suburbs will have no more staying power [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 18:49:00

Baghdad’s Post-Blast Wall Bibliothèque

As I kept flipping through the images in this gallery of Baghdad’s incredible blast wall murals, recalling fairly recent news of how the U.S ... in order to serve a new architectural configuration, and maybe the foundation for a revived sense [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 01:01:00

eHarmony Succumbs to Gay Pressure Group —The moral of the story is that morals are not allowed in the public sphere. Fr ... on architectural theology using the new church of Saint Michael the Archangel in Leawood, Kansas by architect [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 03:27:15

Dark Sky Park

.Note: This is a guest post by Nicola Twilley ... Forest Park in Scotland announcing its plans to become Europe’s first “dark sky park.” The forest ... of the IYA plans in the UK, is determined to gain recognition from the International Dark-Sky [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 02:49:00

The ATM Known As Your House Has Shut Down

The Missoulian reports from Montana. “The Missoula Symphony Orchestra is not in the business of selling houses ... has really hit home in Missoula. ‘Right now, we seem to be doing fine,’ said Murphy. ‘Who knows,’ [more...]

Date: 2008-11-30 18:10:53

Flat Fee Discount Brokers? Do They Save You Money Or Cost You Money? Posted By : F. Lanni

Flat Fee Discount Brokers? Do They Save You Money Or Cost You Money? Posted By : F ... of free websites that will allow you to post your house for free. Consider starting with craigslist ... a new house and after trying unsuccessfully to sell our existing house through a real estate agent [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 05:00:11

Houses for a Californian imagination

Author D.J. Waldie ruminates on the Spanish Colonial Revival style, ... imagination. I still miss the solidness and shapes of my Spanish-style house south of South Carthay, built ... and Scott McAuley. From his blog at KCET Local: The architects of the Spanish Colonial Revival managed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 06:49:31

Angeleno dispatches from the inauguration

While LA Metblogs’ Sean Bonner is in DC blogging about the inauguration, I’m feeling a bit stranded here in Los Angeles as the pomp, ... Klein winter coat; a floor-length black wrap; black heels by Arche; nail color: “We will always [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 20:13:10

Proposals . . . and proposals

Architectural, engineering and construction industry marketers face constant challenges in responding to RFP deadlines -- especially when technical staff fail to provide materials in a timely manner [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 11:31:00

Life coming to upper floors in Bricktown

Above first floor, buildings in Bricktown remain vacant BY STEVE LACKMEYER Published: January 15, ... lots, has deals pending or signed with Allen Contracting and a Tulsa architectural firm that is going [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 19:50:55

ReactOS 0.3.7

ReactOS 0.3.7 | ISO | 30 Mb ReactOS is a free, modern operating system based on the design of Windows® XP/2003. Written completely from scratch, it aims to follow the Windows® architecture designed by Microsoft from the hardware level right through to the application level [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 20:08:58

Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 1/5/2009+

Windows Azure, Azure Data Services, SQL Data Services and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series.••• Update: 1/13/2009 10:00 AM PST: Minor additions •• Update: 1/10/2009 1:30 PM PST: Minor additions • Update: 1/8/2009 10:00 AM PST: Minor additionsNote: This post is updated daily or more frequently, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 18:53:00

Looking for “green” in the New Yankee Stadium

Below is the pinch-hit post I wrote for PA’s Lohud Yankee Blog.  Follow this link if you’d like to follow the discussion ... Yankees. As Old George put it - “This new ‘Home of Champions’ will preserve the architectural integrity [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 17:33:59

LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 1/5/2009+

Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles.••• Update: 1/11/2009 6:00 PM PST: Minor additions •• Update: 1/9/2009 5:30 PM PST: Minor additions • Update: 1/8/2009 4:30 PM PST: Minor additionsEntity Framework and Entity Data Model (EF/EDM) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 23:55:00

ORDOS 100 #4: Rafi Segal

Architect Rafi Segal sent us his villa, located in plot #03 of the ORDOS 100 project. Some images, plans and the architect’s description after the break. CONTEXT: Mass media and architectural tourism are as much of the project’s context as the urbanization of the Ordos plains [more...]

Date: 2008-12-25 13:00:40

Refinancing Home Mortgage Deals - How To Find The Best Available

Refinancing Home Mortgage Deals - How To Find The Best Available Whether you need cash to renovate your house, money for college, ... will require you to submit documentation that includes full plans, architectural drawings [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 04:53:57

Research For Contemporary Fiction — Part IIIA

Though it might seem that contemporary fiction is not as complex to research as historical, ... (such as small town/metropolis or northern states/southern states), I tend to do extensive research [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 01:16:00

Architectural confusion

In reply to DOJ: 1915: I'm confused by the descriptions of this building ... the front door was moved; to me it seems like William Schneider's big plans were simplified before [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 04:09:57

Pudukkottai tourism development steps

Sittanavaasal, avudayarkoil, kudumiyaanmalai get attn: http://www.hindu.com/2009/01/19/stories ... 890600.htm Rs. 63.41-lakh tourism plans for Pudukottai M. Balaganessin PUDUKOTTAI: Tourism development schemes are being implemented at an expenditure of Rs. 63.41 lakh in Pudukottai district, Union Minister [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 00:18:40

City Showing Less Disrespect For History, LA Conservancy Says

2009.12.cg.jpg The LA Conservancy, a nonprofit that works to preserve and revitalize the architectural gems of the county (a subjective subject), has released its annual report card [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 22:20:46

New Members Sunday 01/18/09

Welcome New Members That Joined FreelanceDesigners.com Sunday 01/18/09 DesignQuote Freelance Design Project Lead: 01/19/2009Project: ... ) Richfield Freelance Photographers Specializing in Fashion, product and Architectural Photography [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 15:01:00

Week-in-Review — Jan 18, 2009

The new Chicago-area Jamatkhana has been described as the "Ruby of Glenview" ... and Centre.From Africa, the Nation Media Group plans to invest in Rwanda’s media industry.In other news [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 14:00:00

Pudukkottai tourism development steps

DEAR VIJAY, IT IS IMPORTANT TO MENTION AND RECORD HERE THAT OUR RESPECTED MEMBER (RETD IIT) PROF. SWAMINATHAN (OF PUDUKOTTAI) ... ... 890600.htm Rs. 63.41-lakh tourism plans for Pudukottai M. Balaganessin PUDUKOTTAI: Tourism [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 03:26:54

Testability - re-discovering what we learned and forgot about software development

by Christian Gruber ( ... , and I would contend that all the architectural threads [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 23:59:19

Here’s The Scoop…Post It Where?…. Pavilion Pushed Aside…Pitifully Produced Response..

Here’s The Scoop…Post It Where?…. Pavilion Pushed Aside…Pitifully Produced Response. ... description, approved plans, all conditions of Chapter 62-B-33, Florida Administrative Code, or any pre [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 17:18:15

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