architecture

The richness and diversity in our creative capital are a native strength of Baltimore. Growing an equitable creative economy should be a major strategy for Baltimore's renaissance.

The city's design panel considered two proposals Thursday seeking to update the look of Baltimore's iconic Inner Harbor, but the plans met with decidedly mixed reviews.

More than 100 people celebrated the dedication of the new narthex at St. John's Lutheran Church, at 827 Leister's Church Road in Westminster, at the end of a special 9:30 a.m. service on Sunday, Dec. 13.

Architects from Grimm + Parker, the firm designing the library and a senior center on the same site in Elkridge, shared plans for both projects with community members on Wednesday. Among the library's features is a DIY Education Center, which will include a tool lending library.

The team of architects working on designs for a new library and 50+ center in Elkridge will hold two community meetings to provide updates on the project Dec. 9.

With its profound collection of books and prints dating as far back as the Renaissance, as well as its history and Neo-Grec architecture and ornamentation, the George Peabody Library is as much a museum as the Walters across the street. But for the past year, it has been at once a library, a museum, and an artist's studio. Baltimore artist Lu Zhang spent a year-long residency working in the narrow stacks of the ornate library, collecting, copying, and transferring everything around her, from the

Something's cooking on York Road. Behind the walls of a former Chevy dealership, local architect Jonathan Fishman is whipping up B-more Kitchen, a for-profit, shared membership kitchen designed to help small food manufacturers — bakers, caterers, picklers, hot sauce makers and the like — amp up production and distribute their goods more widely.

In August 2014, Cara and Luis Medeiros purchased a summer home on Gibson Island in Anne Arundel County and decided to restore the structure to what the original designer envisioned.

The Town of Bel Air and the Bel Air Economic & Community Development Commission (ECDC) held its annual Business of the Year and Archer-Bull Design Awards banquet on Thursday, November 12, 2015 at the Liriodendron Mansion, 502 West Gordon Street in Bel Air.

When Columbia's new Merriweather Park at Symphony Woods is totally built out in 2025, it will be an attraction drawing 2.5 million visitors a year.

The 113-page document lays out standards for future buildings and streetscape design along a stretch of Clarksville Pike from Guilford Road to Trotter Road. The plan, developed by the county's Department of Planning and Zoning in conjunction with architectural firm Design Collective, is the culmination of more than a year of public input and revisions.

In the historic Baltimore neighborhood of Bolton Hill, 1530 Bolton St. is part of a group of five elegant, three-story townhouses of formal Georgian-style architecture.

Plans to redevelop the boarded-up Bel Air Academy as a 32-unit, two-building apartment complex must be revamped after the Bel Air Board of Appeals voted unanimously Tuesday to deny the developer's request for variance on building height restrictions.

A city design panel sent plans for a new, six-story apartment building on the site of the former Haussner's restaurant back for another round of review Thursday, expressing dissatisfaction with the project as introduced.

Baltimore's Superblock gets one more chance

Historian Ann G. Giroux and her passion for Guilford's history

School, local officials cut ribbon on new $39.7-million facility

Nearly 350 authors will appear at the Inner Harbor this weekend. including Arizona Sen. John McCain

The newly constructed Msgr. Keesler Parish Center at St. Mary of the Mills Parish — named to honor the late Msgr. Robert Louise Keesler — dwells in harmony with the architecture on the west end of Main Street. "If you're going to build in the historic district, you have to fit in," said Ronald Jacobs, who served on the parish council almost a decade ago, when fundraising for the three-story structure was initiated and Msgr. Michael Wilson was St. Mary's pastor. St. Mary's Parish will

Following the Department of Planning and Zoning's approval of the Merriweather Post Pavilion's final development plan last week, residents gathered under the roof of the outdoor venue as project architect Jamie Pett shared the planned 10-year renovations, including a higher roof, new concessions and two-story warehouse.

B. Dixon Evander, 87, a retired medical malpractice insurance executive, died of myelodysplastic syndrome at his Hunt Valley home.

An Annapolis architect was named Wednesday as one of five finalists in a competition to design a national memorial to World War I in Washington.

Two new proposed office projects in Canton and Harbor Point presented to the city Thursday would continue the evolution of Baltimore's waterfront from an industrial port to a playground for office workers.

The nonprofit that runs Lexington Market said Tuesday it has selected an architecture firm with a history of working on tranformational projects to revamp the west-side property.

Ahsin Rasheed, 54, the chairman and chief executive officer of an architectural firm that created Belvedere Square and the Cinemark Egyptian at Arundel Mills, died of heart failure

With more than $1 billion in private investment in Towson's redevelopment since 2009 -- which includes 2,700 completed and proposed townhomes and apartments -- many are looking for the funding necessary to provide more open space in Towson to accommodate that growth.

How can the Pratt renovations better serve the public when they involve removing so many books?

One of the oldest homes in Baltimore County is at 10136 Falls Road and dates, in part, to the late 1600s. Known as Taylor's Hall, the original section is a

Following a lengthy back-and-forth over the town's public art amenity requirements for new development, the Bel Air Planning Commission approved the site plan for BMW of Bel Air's new showroom and service center on Route 1 just west of Tollgate Road, a major step in getting the project moving forward.

It has been only six years since I held a position with the county in which I worked along with talented staff then employed there to create a Design Manual and Video entitled "Design Expectations for Carroll County." We were charged by the then-commissioners and management to create a program which would encourage commercial developers into bringing fresh, appealing architecture to Carroll; breaking the franchise mold used elsewhere. Alas, it appears the program has fallen by the wayside and

Burnside Farm is an architectural gem of a property, dating to the 1860s and sitting on approximately 25 acres of century-old trees and sprawling lawns in the Greenspring Valley area of northwestern Baltimore County.

The developer that owns Merriweather Post Pavilion came one step closer to modernizing the concert venue Wednesday night.

David H. Bennett, a landscape architect with a special interest in the preservation of cultural and historic landscapes, died of cardiac arrest at his home in Washington, DC, on May 11.

Peter D. Paul, a former Baltimore architect whose versatility resulted in commissions that ranged from residential to educational and institutional projects, died May 9 of heart failure at Terwilliger Plaza, a Portland, Ore., senior citizen and retirement community. He was 82.

The Center for the Arts Foundation could get a $50,000 parking lot, if an updated version of the county budget is approved by the County Council.

Nearly a century after petroleum pioneer, conservationist and art collector John Sherwood began inviting the public into his backyard each May to see blooming tulips imported from the Netherlands, several thousand people are expected to descend on Sherwood Gardens in Guilford for the 2015 Tulip Dig on Saturday, May 23.

My classmate and her husband live in Shepherdstown, W.Va., and have joined a group that is forming a Senior Cohousing Community there. The group is now searching for an architect and partner-developer. They hope to start building next year and move in the following year.

The Downtown Partnership plans to present new designs for McKeldin Plaza to the city's design review panel this month, with a proposal that would connect the common area to the Inner Harbor, adding two grassy, sloped triangles and a curtain-like, translucent fountain and changing one of the busiest intersections in the city.

Real estate maven opens the doors to her home in The Preserve neighborhood in Ellicott City.

Alex Reid was outgrowing his home office. The military and police toughbook computers he refurbishes were piling up, and work life was seeping into the free time he wanted to spend with his family. Then came option B: build a treehouse.

More than twice as many artworks are on view now than were displayed previously

Retired architect and collector Allen C. Abend has uncovered a group of 16 little-known Baltimore women artists who painted and sketched here about a century ago.

Moise H. Goldstein Jr., a retired Johns Hopkins biomedical engineer who assisted the hearing impaired community, died of dementia complications April 9 at a Providence, R.I., nursing home. The former Mount Washington resident was 88.