NEWS
By Johanna Neuman | October 12, 2007
WASHINGTON -- The acting architect of the U.S. Capitol cleared the way yesterday for the certificates that accompany flags flown over the building to include the word "God," reversing policy on an issue that was becoming the latest touchstone in the nation's culture wars. "When one of our services or policies doesn't effectively serve members of Congress or the American public, it needs to be changed immediately," architect Stephen T. Ayers said in a statement. "I appreciate the Congress bringing this important issue to my attention."
NEWS
By Edward Gunts | August 14, 2007
John M. Johansen has painful memories of a time when TV personalities Phil Donahue and Marlo Thomas paid $6.8 million to purchase a house he designed in Connecticut, only to tear it down. "It was like a death in the family," he laments. Now the retired architect wants to avert another death - this time a theater he designed for downtown Baltimore. Parking lot operators have purchased the dormant Morris A. Mechanic Theatre in Charles Center for $6 million and teamed with a developer who wants to build housing, stores and maybe a hotel on the site.
FEATURES
By Edward Gunts | October 8, 2007
A "hardhat tour" of an old brewery that's coming back to life, art exhibits, talks on preservation and waterfront design, and a costume ball in a former department store are among the highlights of Baltimore Architecture Week, which starts Thursday. The Baltimore chapter of the American Institute of Architects sponsors the event each year to call attention to the built environment and what architects are doing to improve it. This year's event spans 11 days, making it Architecture Week and a Half.
FEATURES
By Los Angeles Times | March 29, 2007
LOS ANGELES -- Richard Rogers, an Italian-born Englishman who wields political influence as a liberal member of Britain's House of Lords and the unpaid chief of the London city government's Architecture and Urbanism Unit, was named the winner yesterday of the 2007 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the profession's leading award. Rogers' signature buildings over the past 30 years include heralded temples to art (the Pompidou Center museum in Paris, co-designed with Renzo Piano), commerce (the Lloyd's of London insurance tower)
NEWS
By Stephanie Shapiro | April 8, 2007
In a booth at the Sip 'n' Bite, Gabriel Kroiz talks omelets and Formica with manager Tony Vasiliades. It's the mid-afternoon lull and a few patrons dawdle in the Canton fixture. Keenly aware of the waterfront neighborhood's new wave of residents and their healthy eating habits, Vasiliades serves omelets made with egg whites and has banished cooking oil laden with trans fats. Now it's time to update the diner, faded from wear and tear, as well. But after consulting with local customer Kroiz, the architect who will design the renovations, Vasiliades has nixed other "yupdates," including -- gasp!
BUSINESS
By Edward Gunts | February 28, 1999
Sarah Susanka, a Minnesota-based architect who co-wrote "The Not So Big House" and whose firm designed Life Magazine's 1999 "Dream House," will discuss her view of residential design during a lecture that starts at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Baltimore Museum of Art, on Art Museum Drive.Susanka is the lead-off speaker in the spring lecture series sponsored by the Baltimore chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Nationally, she has gained attention as a young architect who believes that bigger is not necessarily better.
NEWS
By Jacques Kelly | December 11, 1999
Richard M. Foose Jr., a retired architect who designed several notable local buildings, died Wednesday of cancer at the Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. He was 69 and lived in Timonium.An award-winning designer, he helped create the 1969 Loyola-Notre Dame college library, a 1973 addition to the Harford County Courthouse and the 1971 renovation of the University of Baltimore's academic center at Charles Street and Mount Royal Avenue.Before his retirement in 1993, he designed buildings for two Baltimore firms -- Fisher, Nes and Campbell, and Meyer Ayers Saint.
NEWS
By Sheridan Lyons | July 16, 1999
Members of the State Architectural Review Board suggested changes yesterday to a preliminary design for Carroll County's new District Court building and told HLM Design of Bethesda to return for the board's regular meeting next month.The county's $6.7 million multipurpose courthouse will house two district courtrooms, public defenders, court commissioners, juvenile justice, parole and probation, clerks and other offices -- with room to double in size and add two courtrooms, said Tom Massey, architect, senior principal and project manager for HLM.The courthouse will be at Court Street and Greenwood Avenue -- a tight 1.5-acre site that put constraints on the design when coupled with specific rooms required inside, he said.
NEWS
January 24, 1999
Norman L. Dresden, 72, trucking company executiveNorman L. Dresden, a retired trucking company executive who lived in White Marsh, died Monday from complications of diabetes at Sinai Hospital. He was 72.Mr. Dresden retired in August from ABF Freight Lines in Baltimore, where he had been director of government sales for more than 22 years.Earlier, Mr. Dresden, who began his trucking career in Chicago, worked for the Transcon and Pacific Intermountain Express trucking companies in sales.Born and raised in Chicago, where he graduated from high school, he served in the Navy during World War II in the Pacific.
BUSINESS
March 14, 1999
These companies were honored at the 22nd annual awards ceremony of the Sales and Marketing Council of the Home Builders Association of Maryland at the Mechanic Theatre Wednesday.AWARD OF EXCELLENCESingle-family detached$150,000-$189,999: The Bedford, Ryan Homes, Lohr's Orchard, Joppatowne. Architect: Ryan Architectural Group.$190,000-$209,999: The Albany, Gemcraft Homes, Beacon Point, Perryville. Architect: Architecture Collaborative.$210,000-$269,999: The Anthony Wayne, Patriot Homes, Russett, Laurel.