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- A Baltimore architecture firm founded in 1977 by two Park School graduates and a friend has nearly doubled in size in the last two years, with its most ambitious bid for greater territory last month when it announced the expansion of its footprint to Colorado.
- Harbor 2.0 planners didn't consult local residents and businesses
- Beatty Development said Thursday it hopes to break ground early next year on its next building in Harbor Point — a roughly 18-story complex with 285 apartments.
- Ayers Saint Gross hosts 'Careers in Design' program for elementary school
- There was no magic cure to save Albert P. "Skip" Viragh Jr. from pancreatic cancer, but a $65 million gift from his foundation will help other patients suffering from that and other forms of debilitating cancers. The money will be used to help pay for construction of a patient care building at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, the medical institution announced Tuesday.
- Early designs call for a slim, angled structure at the corner of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Baltimore Street that rises 30 stories and contains roughly 300 market-rate apartments.
- Maryland legislators on Wednesday allocated $4.8 million to complete the renovation design plans for Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Central Library.
- Stoneleigh collage artist Nancy Scheinman, heads up NS Studios, a team of young designers, as they transform school settings into multisensory, imaginative spaces. The latest project, sponsored by The Children's Guild, is taking place at Monach Academy in Baltimore.
- A newly-rebuilt Maryland House travel plaza on Interstate 95 in Aberdeen will reopen to the public next week, after more than a year of construction under a $30 million public-private partnership.
- Towson University recently began design on a pair of on-campus student apartment buildings in the campus' West Village area, and plan to begin construction late next year.
- Plans to rehabilitate Inner Harbor should be aimed at local residents
- Baltimore officials unveiled a great plan to revitalize the city's best known public space; now all it needs is for the private sector to step up with funding.
- City leaders will unveil an ambitious long-term plan for the Inner Harbor Wednesday designed to restore pizazz to a once vital area that has lost cache in recent years.
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- Leake Hall, MICA's newest dorm, is going from groundbreaking to housing students in eight months.
- The Waterfront Partnership and the Greater Baltimore Committee are embarking on a comprehensive study of the Inner Harbor, aiming to sustain it as a vibrant part of the city.
- Like American jurisprudence, the University of Baltimore's new $114 million law school facility is complicated and thoughtful.
- This Canton couple celebrated with a black and white affair
- Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan will visit a new, $112 million building next month that will soon house the University of Baltimore School of Law, school officials said Monday.
- Annual Park(ing) Day aims to "reclaim your city" by creating mini-parks in curbside spaces
- Baltimore's Urban Design and Architecture Review panel on Thursday approved the master plan for a nearly 3 million-square-foot development at Harbor Point, the former Allied Signal chromium property between Harbor East and Fells Point.
- Twenty years after opening its first large residence for students, the Maryland Institute College of Art plans to build a $16.5 million addition that will greatly increase the number of undergraduates living on campus
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- Gov. Martin O'Malley's proposal for a public/private partnership to renovate and operate the state's I-95 travel plazas, which comes up for a vote Wednesday, follows the very successful model used at the Port of Baltimore.
- HMSHost Corp., a Bethesda-based travel hospitality company, filed a lawsuit Friday against state officials in an attempt to block the awarding to another company of a multimillion-dollar contract to rebuild the state's two major travel plazas on I-95.
- Towson University's new $11 million gateway off Towsontown Boulevard is nearly complete, and those involved with the project say it's a key element in setting the campus identity.
- Recent changes to Johns Hopkins University master plan were made possible by more than just one architectural firm
- Baltimore architectural firm Ayers Saint Gross has grown from eight to 130 employees in the past 30 years, a rise synonymous with its decision to specialize in designing college campuses.