Three bedrooms, modern furniture and warm colors are all part of an incredible interior that was designed by the Paxton Locher Architects. Modern apartment design is a great way to make the most of the often small quarters found in apartments. With modern design, you can create an apartment home that seems full of room to spread out, no matter how small the space really is. Contemporary is a great style choice for homes or offices and even college dorms and apartments. (more…)
Yalick Farms, being developed on 56 acres that once produced crops sold at a stand on the other side of Memorial Highway, is the first project of its kind in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Mostly residential, the “luxury condominium village,” as one partner described it, will include a clubhouse, an Olympic-size swimming pool, tennis courts and small shops.
Lead developer J. Naparlo said Yalick Farms would not be considered unusual in the Williamsburg, Va. area, where the Plymouth native now lives.
“There are projects like this down here,” he said recently; developments that include small shops with housing above or nearby.
Partner Perry Dunford, who also is the general contractor, said the first of a planned 112 townhouses will be ready for sale within weeks. A sales office will be set up in the clubhouse and initially they will be marketed directly by the developers.
Both Naparlo and Dunford tout the building quality and amenities at Yalick Farms. (more…)
Good architecture, likable towns, and genuine communities can go together. They certainly used to. This, though, requires thoughtful planning and considered development; for a government in thrall to spin, “coolness”, US business school jargon and the need to measure and monitor all things (and people), the result has been a wave of brash and flashy commercial architecture and urban planning at one end of the spectrum – those “vibrant” northern city centres – and cascades of cheap, cheerless housing on the edges of towns and in what was once countryside. (more…)
At the same time the American Institute of Architects is holding its national convention at the east end of downtown, new architects by the multiple busload are being produced at the west end.
“In the last five or six years we have been the fastest-growing architecture program in the country,” said Julius Gribou, dean of the UTSA College of Architecture. “That kind of growth is virtually impossible to cope with in most cases.”
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that the field of architecture will grow at an average rate through 2014, with most openings resulting from population growth and the associated construction in all sectors, public and private, that serves growing communities.
Architecture is one of the most competitive professional fields. From the moment you decide to pursue this career, you face competition – first to get into a reputable school, then trying to win an apprenticeship with a promising firm. After about eight years of training (and passing a state exam), you are eligible to become a licensed architect. All along the way, your work ethic, problem-solving skills, construction-related knowledge, work experience and drafting skills will be stacked up against competitors applying for the same position. With some talent, a little luck and a lot of hard work, you might earn the chance to land a job with a prestigious architectural design firm. (more…)
