The award-winning condominiums at Zero Marlborough offer spectacular luxury finishes, concierge services, valet parking and gorgeous views of the Public Garden and Back Bay skyline. Beth Dickerson of Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty is the exclusive sales and marketing broker for the remaining residences, including the newly furnished seventh floor model. “This building is in a prestigious location, offering fabulous design and a wonderful...
Trinity Building and Construction Management Corp., a Mass-based general contracting and construction management firm, announced today that it has completed construction at Oceana Restaurant’s new location, inside the McGraw-Hill Building, at 1221 Avenue of the Americas at 49th St, New York, NY. Oceana has been recognized as one of New York’s most well-known seafood destinations since 1992. Trinity provided the restaurant with a modernized and...
FreeForm is a new FSC-certified particleboard that is produced with no added urea-formaldehyde. A melamine-formaldehyde binder is used rather than industry-standard urea-formaldehyde. Initial chamber testing has shown formaldehyde emissions to be in the range of 0.09 to 0.13 parts per million which meets the recently announced Phase I California Air Resources Board (CARB) standards for formaldehyde emissions—but not the Phase II standards. Within...
Masonite’s Emerald Safe ’N Sound solid-core interior doors feature wheat-straw particleboard cores, skins made from composite wood, and stiles and rails made from solid wood certified according to Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standards. These doors reduce sound transmission and do not contain any added urea-formaldehyde. Safe ’N Sound Emerald doors are available in 1-? ” thickness and 6’ 8”, 7’ 0”, and 8’ 0” heights, with...
Smith & Fong has introduced the first bamboo flooring to carry Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification. Available under the brand name PlybooPure, the flooring is also made with low-emitting, non-formaldehyde polyisocyanurate binder. PlybooPure is available either flat or vertical-grained in a natural or amber color. It can be delivered unfinished or prefinished with aluminum oxide. All flooring measures 5/8” x 3-3/4” x 75” and comes...
Set against the majestic Rocky Mountains, the timeless elegance of the French countryside is realized in this luxurious $10 million Cherry Hills Village estate. Just minutes from downtown Denver, this new rural retreat perched upon ±2.50-acre seamlessly blends wood and stone to create an opulent display of world-class architecture. Following an increasing trend in real estate sales, this exquisite property at 5800 Piedmont Drive will be auctioned...
As host to the 14th FINA World Championship in 2011, the city of Shanghai invited international bids for the design of a competition venue commensurate with the international standing of the city, to incorporate a swimming stadium, sports stadium and outdoor swimming pool for high-diving competitions. As part of a permanent improvement of the city, former industrial brownfield sites along the HuangPu river are being redeveloped. Like the World Fair...
The new kiosk is conceived as a pavilion amongst the trees in the listed park by the lake, as an object that is a further link in the chain of leisure amenities stretching along the lakeside landscape. In principle the aim was an integrated treatment of the façades and to largely dispense with the usual differentiation of the front and the back in order to obtain an object-like and sculptural appearance. The new building is principally fabricated...
BBVA Tower is a skyscraper on the Paseo de la Castellana in Madrid. It is a monolithic building that stands on a square solar, formally separated from its surroundings and that is seen from great distances. Its facade was carateriza by having a series of overlapping rings that mark a horizontal streak on the surface that contrasts uniform vertical. Pictures of alvy, Erazo-Fischer and felipe_gabaldon from Flickr CC
DIVA, from Nordwall, is a movable partition wall system with daylighting and sound-control benefits that uses 48- or 60-inch by up to 20-feet glazed or solid panels, deployed vertically or horizontally. With single- or double-pane, ¼-inch tempered glass options, a sound transmission class (STC) of 40 is achieved—a typical fiberglass-insulated wall has an STC of approximately 39. Manual or remote-controlled venetian blinds located within the glass...