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Kevin K. Pierce, 1957-2013
Kevin Pierce was an architect whose focus on the best use of resources made him a leader in green design and sustainable development. "From early on, Kevin established himself as a real innovator and leader in green building design, not only in Chicago,...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP, Englewood, Environmental Issues, Conservation
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Back Story: Seeking landmark status for valve house at Cross Keys
Passersby on Falls Road may catch a quick glimpse of what looks like a misplaced limestone mausoleum sitting atop a slight grassy berm in front of the Village of Cross Keys. What they're looking at is one of three surviving Greek Revival valve houses...
Tags: Roland Park, Arts and Culture
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READER SUBMITTED: Research Laboratory By Tate Burns Architects LLC Is LEED-CI Platinum Certified
StatewideTate Burns Architects LLC of Essex, Connecticut's design for a 9,600 square foot Laboratory for Comparative Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine received a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-Commercial Interiors (LEED-CI) Platinum...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Drugs and Medicines, Energy Saving, Essex (Middlesex, Connecticut), Environmental Issues
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Classical sounds, unusual spaces
The players lift their bows with the customary this-is-the-end flourish, finishing a movement of a Shostakovich string quartet, and the audience claps. A few "Whoo!" yells escape from the back of the room. Some people whistle. As the quartet launches...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Chicago Reader, Disc Jockeys, Culture, Music Industry
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LACMA executives to move to high-rise across street
The top brass of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will have a lofty view of the much-touted $650-million makeover of the museum's Wilshire Boulevard campus after they move across the street to a new perch in a high-rise office tower. Executive...
Tags: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Manufacturing and Engineering, Services and Shopping, Companies and Corporations, Plant Openings
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19th century building facade will be preserved in downtown L.A.
The Victorian-era facade of one of the oldest buildings in downtown Los Angeles will be preserved as part of a $15-million project to provide housing for the needy. Civil War veteran and real estate developer Charles Charnock erected what is the Charnock...
Tags: Arts and Culture
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Historic homes populate Hagerty and Lloyd district in Aberdeen
The list of residents who once lived in the Hagerty and Lloyd Historic District reads like a who's who of famous Aberdonians: author L. Frank Baum, philanthropist C.C. Lee, U.S. Sen. James Henderson Kyle and F.H. Hagerty. Kathie Allstot led a walking...
Tags: Human Interest, Realty, Shingles, William McKinley, Book
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Abingdon's faithful return church to its colonial state
When the pious parishioners of Abingdon Church arrived for Sunday services in the mid-1700s, they stepped into one of the most breathtaking architectural spaces in Virginia. Erected nearly a century earlier, the house of worship had risen from the...
Tags: Christianity, Colonial Williamsburg, Gloucester County, Religion and Belief, Anglicanism
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S.B. architectural tours start Friday
South Bend Tribune ReportSOUTH BEND -- Popular downtown South Bend architectural walking tours will return, starting this Friday. The tour will be offered nine times between now and early September. "Then & Now: A Downtown South Bend Architecture Walking Tour" provides a...Tags: Travel, Tourism and Leisure, Arts and Culture
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Historic Ware Church is a colonial gem
When the well-to-do congregation of Ware Parish began planning a new and much bigger church during the early 1700s, they did so with no small ambition. What the vestry designed - with the help of a now unknown builder - was destined to become one...
Tags: Christianity, Colonial Williamsburg, Religion and Belief, Anglicanism, Design and Engineering
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Is it curtains for Central Park Theatre?
In a sea of empty lots in Chicago's North Lawndale neighborhood sits a faded relic that is one of the most historically significant American movie theaters still standing. When it opened in 1917, the red-brick, three-story Central Park Theatre was...
Tags: Car Repair and Maintenance Tips, Religion and Belief, Paramount Pictures, New York City, Maxwell Street
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DAR preserved Yorktown history with 'a lot of stamina and faith'
Emma Leake Chenoweth was already 61 years old when she founded the Yorktown chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1922. But age didn't keep her from attempting something that a lot of people thought was crazy. Marshalling...
Tags: Human Interest, Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Culture, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Fort Eustis
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