EDGEWATER — Steep Theatre will remain in Edgewater with plans to open a venue blocks from its previous location, which it lost to redevelopment. Steep Theatre Company announced Wednesday it has signed an agreement to buy a building at 1044 W. Berwyn Ave. The spot — the former location of […]
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Written by Rebecca Cairns, CNN Contributors Junko Ogura, CNNMayumi Maruyama, CNN Planks of burgundy cedar wood frame 700 mismatched windows, forming a patchwork quilt of glass panes against a backdrop of mountain peaks and rolling groves of evergreens. The facade of the Kamikatsu Zero Waste Center is striking, to say […]
If you’ve ever wondered what 27 high school girls with access to power tools might create, the answer is something considerably bigger than a birdhouse. The teenagers, all students in an Engineering for Social Good class at Concord’s Carondelet High School have been learning to build houses — and then […]
The Seattle-based architect Michael Eliason has a number of complaints about the way America makes its apartment buildings. The components are inferior, he says: The best sliding doors and windows are made elsewhere. The designs rarely accommodate larger families. And there are too many staircases. Too many what now? Eliason […]
What do two lavish new condo towers coming to the Upper West Side and Midtown have in common? Connections to dubious Kazakh cash. Set to rise 755 feet, 50 W. 66th St. on the Upper West Side will eventually boast 127 glittering residences — including a grand 3,889-square-foot, five-bedroom spread […]
ATHENS — “Sea, sun and sex, with some Greek columns in the background,” said Poka Yio, the artistic director of the Athens Biennale. He was summing up the Greek government’s tourism campaigns in the 2000s as he led a visitor around a rambling former department store that was one of […]