Cubellis Thomas P. Baglivo, AIA, NCARB, Appointed National Peer to U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)

Cubellis, an international architecture, interior design and engineering firm, announce that Thomas Baglivo, AIA, NCARB, Principal, Architecture and Interior Design has been appointed by GSA’s Commissioner of Public Buildings to serve on its National Register of Peer Professionals for the Design Excellence Program. GSA commissions architects and engineers to design new buildings and to modernize existing facilities for civilian federal agencies... 

Prominent Women-Owned Architecture Firm Joins Forces with Perkins+Will

San Francisco-based SMWM, one of America’s premier, award-winning women-owned architecture, urban design and planning practices, has joined forces with Perkins+Will, a global integrated design firm with 18 North American and 3 International offices. “Combining the knowledge, expertise and resources of two such professionally complementary and philosophically aligned firms will result in one of the most comprehensive, innovative and integrated... 

Urban Restaurant and Retail Marketplace Plans to Open in Summer 2009

U.S. Equities Realty, a leading full-service commercial real estate firm, announced today that it is beginning construction on MetraMarket. Connected to the Ogilvie Transportation Center in the West Loop, MetraMarket is a 100,000-square-foot restaurant and retail development that will enliven the area through its eclectic mix of dining and shopping options. Several of MetraMarket’s tenants are scheduled to open in summer 2009. MetraMarket will... 

Munich design firm develops exclusive yacht interior

My yacht is my style – anyone who forks out millions for the ultimate status symbol of a luxury yacht has the right to an interior that looks more than merely ‘functional’. Taking design to a new dimension is the task that the team of the Munich architect Kathrin Haak have set themselves. In collaboration with their creative crew, they develop boat interiors that set new standards for both pragmatic and aesthetic excellence. Their idea is that... 

Observatory, Air-Port-City, 2008

The exhibition ‘Psycho Buildings. Artists Take on Architecture’ in the summer of 2008, marks the 40th birthday of the Hayward Gallery. Opened by the Queen in 1968, it today belongs to one of Europe´s largest cultural centres as part of the South Bank Centre on the South Bank of the Thames. Even back then it had more of a high security prison feeling than an art location due to the massive use of concrete – reason enough for curator Ralph Rugoff...