Spotlights

Rogers of BRB joins NAIS board of trustees

According to Butler Rogers Baskett Architects (BRB), founding partner James Rogers III, FAIA, has been named to the board of trustees of the...

Thornton Tomasetti wins ACEC New York Platinum Award

Thornton Tomasetti, Inc., a leading building engineering and design firm, has received the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) ...

President's message: At the Center for Architecture

In the December issue I wrote about our 2008 theme Architecture: Designs for Living and programs planned for the Center for Architecture. Th...

Aragon Construction completes 7,000 s/f build-out at 100 Park Ave.

General American Investors, one of the nation's oldest closed-fund investment companies, has moved from 450 Lexington Ave. to 100 Park Ave.,...

ACEC N.Y. engineering firms honored for outstanding projects

The American Council of Engineering Companies of New York (ACEC New York) will award 30 Diamond Awards to 28 consulting engineering companie...

A312 Payment Bond - Caution! Court cases cause contractor conundrum

The Problem Contractors and their bonding agents throughout the country are receiving chilling notices from their surety carriers: AIA's Pay...

PWC holds construction developers forum on January 31 at the General Society in NYC

Looking for opportunities. Creating opportunities. These were defined as two key tactics for "Carving a Niche" in today's turbulent real es...

Schneider of VVA on hard work, entrepreneurship and staying one step ahead of the game

"There are no free rides, you work hard for everything you get." This important belief, along with an entrepreneurial spirit, was instilled ...

Steiner NYC chooses GreenbergFarrow to design 114-unit 80 Metropolitan

GreenbergFarrow, a nationally prominent architectural, planning, engineering and development consulting firm, has been tapped by Steiner NYC...

HOK NY completes 54,000 s/f museum complex for $25 million in Tupper Lake

The Wild Center/Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks, a new museum complex designed by HOK NY, has earned distinction as the first LEED...