
The Sage Gateshead is one of the great project of Foster & Partners the Architecture and Planning, Product Design, and Workplace Consultancy architect. Sage Gateshead is a center for musical education, performance and conferences, located in Gateshead on the south bank of the River Tyne, in the northeast of England. Beautiful interior and exterior design allows you to enjoy the great architectural building in every single detail with Eye-catching...

This beautiful public sculpture is one of the masterpiece of the designer Masayuki Sono. It is called The Postcards which is a Staten Island 9/11 Memorial, located in the St. George neighborhood on the northeastern tip of Staten Island. The Postcards are two white marble wing sculptures with 30 feet high, This sculpture was built in 2004 and became the permanent outdoor memorial that honors 274 Staten Island residents killed in the September 11, 2001...

Sitting only in one-acre site surrounded by textured desert mountains to the south, west, and northeast, The The Desert House is a contemporary house living residence design project of The Scottsdale, Arizona based Circle West Architects. This Desert House is a remodeling house design, which is the private residence of Circle West’s founder Peter Koliopoulos. Both interior and exterior designed so modern with lifestyle and beautiful aesthetic in...

Typically Brazilian modern living residence has been done by the architect, The Lisbon, Portugal based Camarim Architects. This architectural building designer have designed a tropical house, located in the fishermen’s village of Mundaú in the state of Ceará, in Northeast Brazil. The design is based on the owners that wanting a nice place to spend the time during holiday with 3 bedrooms that allowed wide possibilities of contact with nature. The...

These CMUs and concrete facing brick are manufactured using up to 30 percent post-consumer recycled glass as a portland cement substitute, and an average of 50 percent post-consumer recycled masonry aggregrate from local sources in the Northeast. According to the manufacturer, compared to conventional CMUs and brick, they require less energy to produce, are stronger, and have greater moisture and chemical resistance. Kingston Block & Masonry...

New kindergarten, on the island of Krk in Croatia, is located on northeastern border of the town, amongst mostly touristic apartments and shopping malls. In such unattractive neighborhood, this kindergarten is shaped as enclosed and introverted insula, surrounded with soaring stone walls. Inside of this small town-kindergarten, units-houses are combined with open gardens, placed next to pedestrian communications. Due to the rather small area of kindergartens...

Stone & Youngberg, a leading financial services firm, and Building & Land Technology, a Connecticut-based developer, today announced that they have completed a $145 million financing for the Harbor Point Project in Stamford, Connecticut, a pioneering smart growth project that has been awarded a LEED-ND Gold Certification by the U.S. Green Building Council. The project is nationally significant and will create thousands of jobs and generate...

Abengoa Solar announces the signing of a power purchase agreement with Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) to supply the electricity generated by the new solar plant “Mojave Solar.” The project will generate 250 megawatts (MW) of Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) and is to be located in an unincorporated area of San Bernardino County, between Barstow and Kramer Junction, approximately nine miles northwest of Hinkley, and 100 miles northeast...

Greenlight Initiative (GLI), a USA headquartered LED-lighting sales and solutions provider, announced the successful installation of a complete LED-based lighting system for the first of a number of new Marco’s Pizza franchise restaurants across Georgia. Mellina LLC, the design builder for the Georgia projects reports this first installation has been well-received in terms of quality and energy-savings, and represents the first of 80 new locations...

Inspired by the First Family’s decision to plant a vegetable garden at The White House, W. Atlee Burpee & Co. decided to cultivate its own version at Fordhook Farm in Doylestown, PA, where the nation’s leading home gardening company trials most of the vegetables and flowers it sells, by catalog, at retail stores and on the Internet. According to Mr. Ball, gardeners in the Northeast who planted heirloom tomatoes organically this year had a...