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No specifics on an East Middle School project were included in the master plan that the Board of Education passed Wednesday.

Few, including the jazz great's grandson, knew until recently that he once lived in the vacant house at 2216 Druid Hill Avenue, complicating a planned park.

The developer and the architect of a planned apartment complex in Baltimore’s Woodberry neighborhood announced late Tuesday that they were quitting the job.

Two 19th-century homes in Woodberry that neighbors had waged a battle to save last year were demolished Tuesday.

During their work session, the Carroll County Board of Education heard an update on the project to renovate and add onto the Career and Technology Center.

Raymond J. Piechocki, a retired architect who specialized in institutional, governmental and franchise retailing and was the founder of Piechocki Consultants, died Feb. 23 from a cerebral hemorrhage at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, Fla. He was 78.

Baltimore's Beth Am synagogue has begun a $5 million renovation of its 1922 building.

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Johns Hopkins University now plans to make over a 1930s-era hospital building on the edge of its Homewood campus that was originally established by Congress to care for sick and disabled seamen for academic purposes.

In 2015 the former Uniontown Bank in Westminster was at risk for demolition.  But after almost four years, it has been transformed into a single-family home that marries history with the present, and can be viewed at an open house from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27.

Plans to develop a plot of land in Baltimore's Westfield neighborhood has residents organizing to protect an old graveyard they say is threatened by the project.

In addition to the five employees killed in June in the shootings at the Annapolis Capital, the region lost a number of notable citizens in 2018. Here, we recall some of those who left a lasting mark.

Baltimore’s neighborhood churches are opening their doors this month for guests to enjoy some amazing architecture, and to hear holiday music produced by local talent.

A father-son builder-architect team is putting up eight prefab, or modular, homes in East Baltimore Midway in hopes of boosting the neighborhood.

Eugene F. Baldwin, a retired Baltimore City public schools English teacher who later worked as an editor, died Nov. 12 from an aneurysm at Holy Family at Merrimack Valley Hospital in Haverhill, Mass. The former longtime Catonsville resident was 74.

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Graham Paul Banks, an officer in a decorative plastering company that restored the Hippodrome Theatre and numerous other landmarks, died of cardiogenic shock Nov. 15 at Howard County General Hospital. The Ellicott City resident was 66.

Baltimore officials issued new plans for a redeveloped Lexington Market, where a new building will have a smaller footprint and cost less than earlier plans for the revamped market.

William G. Melluish, a Baltimore architect and construction specialist who worked on cultural and educational facilities, died Sept. 25 from glioblastoma at Gilchrist Center Towson. He was 39.

Downtown projects Towson Row and Towson Station each took a step forward in the development process Wednesday night when Baltimore County’s Design Review Panel approved each project under the condition that each developer address its concerns.

A $7 million renovation and expansion of the main Aberdeen firehouse on North Rogers Street is expected to begin early next year, fire company officials said this week.

Shifts in population and religious affiliations have left many Baltimore-area churches bereft of congregants. But a congregation’s loss can be a homeowner’s gain as churches get redeveloped into housing stock.

Work is underway to add the historic Annapolis post office to the complex of state offices and tunnels in the heart of Annapolis.

The City of Westminster’s Mayor and Common Council met Monday, July 23 to address the Mid-Atlantic Gigabit Innovation Collaboratory, vote on the purchase of police vehicles and a bid to pave city streets and to review blueprints for the new city offices.

While July 11 was Lockard’s first meeting with the Board of Education, his term as superintendent began at the beginning of the month.

City and state economic development leaders have concluded that a plan to build a replacement for Royal Farms Arena on the site of the Baltimore Convention Center is too ambitious and complicated to be realistic.

Open Works maker space in East Baltimore is launching a commercial fabrication shop backed by Stanley Black & Decker that's expected to boost city manufacturing.

Every week, The Baltimore Sun's Travel Unraveled newsletter shared a new must-visit destination in the Mid-Atlantic region.

Ted Pearson, an interior designer who won awards for his work at the Octagon Center in Mount Washington, died of hypertension and cardiovascular disease on Feb. 23 at his Mount Vernon home. He was 66.

Towson High advocate group "New in '22" met with county officials in March to discuss the process for taking the school off the historic landmark list, making it easier to renovate and expand the building.

Merritt Properties aims to continue the development of the Canton waterfront with a new 20-story building.

Entrepreneurs see Maryland Avenue corridor of Old Goucher as a small but emerging business hub.

The Bainbridge Companies plans a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday of a 224-unit unit apartment project on Key Highway in Federal Hill.

After a two-year, $6.5 million renovation, the Community College of Baltimore County held a ceremony to mark the reopening of the historic Hilton Mansion.

City leaders are considering designating two new historic districts in West Baltimore they say could accelerate revitalization of an area that, while once a bustling shopping district, has been largely vacant for years.

Virginia-based Moseley Architects and Maryland-based Marks Thomas Architects say they will merge.

Lights Out Baltimore aims to rescue birds that have flown into buildings, advocates for owners to turn down lights that may disrupt migratory patterns.

Howard County Public Library offering a virtual reality tour of its new Elkridge library.

Baltimore officials are pushing Port Covington for Amazon's HQ2, but one community thinks it has a better Charm City location: Old Goucher.

When Nicholas Wisniewski and a group of six other artists started the Compound in 2010, it was nothing but an abandoned forklift factory. Now, it's a sprawling

Tomas Saraceno's spider-web like installation will be suspended two stories high from the Baltimore Museum of Art's East Lobby

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Catonsville resident Ben Wainio honored his daughter, Honor Elizabeth Wainio, at a ceremony at the Flight 93 crash site in Somerset County, Pa.

This year, Lisa Snowden-McCray and I attended two days of Writers in Baltimore Schools’ Summer Writers’ Studio (aka camp) outside Frederick to work with...

Quinn Evans Architects, an award-winning architectural and planning practice, has announced that Ann Goodwin, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, and Gabrielle Rashleigh have joined Cho Benn Holback, a Quinn Evans Company. Quinn Evans Architects acquired Cho Benn Holback + Associates, located on N. Charles Street in downtown Baltimore, in May. Ann Goodwin, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, is an architect with a diverse portfolio of mixed-use, residential, office, and educational projects. She earned her master of architecture (2008) and bachelor of science in architectural studies (2007) from Louisiana Tech University. She is a member of the American Institute of Architects and the ...

Howard Comunity College president Kathleen Hetherington led the celebration on Aug. 21 alongside state and local officials, including Maryland Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford, state Sen. Gail Bates and Howard County Council members Jon Weinstein and Calvin Ball.

Plans for a new county courthouse took a step forward Aug. 17 when the county's planning board approved zoning amendments for the project's proposed location on Bendix Road in Columbia.

The Johns Hopkins Medicine Simulation Hospital opened in January at the Johns Hopkins medical campus in East Baltimore.

Architect Frank Gant dies