Architecture

Baltimore County hires consultant to assess facilities needs

2013-05-20 19:57:48

The Baltimore County school system has hired a local architecture firm to help document its long-term school facilities needs, following a similar strategy the city school system used to generate a $2.4 billion plan and secure some of that funding from...

New election precinct created in Edgewood [50 years ago]

2013-05-20 08:00:00

As taken from the pages of The Aegis dated Thursday, May 23, 1963: The Board of Election Supervisors created a new election precinct, warranted by construction of Joppatowne and the growth in the Edgewood area. The new precinct known as Edgewood would...

Back Story: Seeking landmark status for valve house at Cross Keys

2013-05-09 15:49:04

Passersby on Falls Road may catch a quick glimpse of what looks like a misplaced limestone mausoleum sitting atop a slight grassy berm in front of the Village of Cross Keys. What they're looking at is one of three surviving Greek Revival valve houses...

No longer vacant, Baltimore home is where couple's heart is

2013-05-02 15:00:00

Jamila Ward and Lionel Jennings had been house hunting on and off for two years when their agent pointed the couple in a new direction: a formerly condemned property in a revitalized area of Baltimore. Some city neighborhoods, just years ago marked by...

Lazarus' legacy of great architecture

2013-05-02 12:00:00

Fred Lazarus has made many great contributions to Baltimore, but perhaps one of his lesser known and appreciated ones is raising the bar for high quality architectural design, as represented by the Brown Center and the Gateway student dorm building on the...

Guilford neighborhood marks 100th anniversary

2013-04-12 14:29:00

On sparkling spring days, Ann Goldman Giroux enjoys tending her garden, planting vegetables and nurturing the lush roses and rare azaleas that adorn her family's home in Guilford. Giroux, who typically plants 800 white tulips along the front walkway and...

Former Turnbull house in Guilford on annual House and Garden Pilgrimage tour

2013-04-10 06:19:00

For 32 years after noted artist Grace Turnbull died in 1976, the house that she built in Guilford in 1928 sat empty, except for a few erstwhile renters — and some squirrels in the roof. Then, in 2008, manufacturing executive Douglas Hamilton III...

Looking for ways to improve Inner Harbor

2013-04-20 16:22:00

City leaders hope that by this time next year they'll have returned from Annapolis with funds to put toward making the Inner Harbor what its original designers intended it to be — "a playground for Baltimoreans." "The city has changed so much...

Cool potential for former icehouse

2013-04-19 17:01:13

As many times as I have stood on the MARC station platform in West Baltimore, I never considered there was a fantastic, Jules Verne-like interior just across Franklin Street. I assumed the fire-damaged brick building alongside the rail tracks was just...

UB prepares to open new Law Center

2013-04-08 16:57:00

Like American jurisprudence, the University of Baltimore's new $114 million law school is complicated and thoughtful. Staircases bridge across and spiral through the 12-story building's vibrant atrium, connecting a labyrinth of classrooms and study...

Dream home: Renovated home gathers family to the farm

2013-04-18 13:16:00

When hearth and home — together with a growing family and an onsite family business — are at the center of day-to-day living, a small and dated one-story farmhouse in Ellicott City begins to burst at the seams. To keep their extended family...

Homeland property is elegant link to past

2013-04-18 12:36:00

Designed by the influential Baltimore architects Edward L. Palmer and William D. Lamdin in 1925 and built in 1928, the home at 101 Witherspoon Road is one of the premier properties in Homeland. This North Baltimore home is built of local stone with a...

Jennifer Mowen, has been named senior associate with Greenberg Farrow, an architecture, planning, engineering and development consulting firm. Mowen, of Aurora, has worked as a client manager in Greenberg Farrow�s Chicago office. She joined the firm 12 years ago.

2013-04-22 11:40:00

Steve Blye has joined Legat Architects as senior design director and associate director of health care. In the former role, Blye will lead planning efforts, collaborative design charrettes and conceptual development of a variety of faciliies.

2013-04-19 00:00:00

Chicago architectural and interior design firm TVSDesign, has added designer Lee Ann Burkhart to its Chicago office and healthcare studio. She has more than eight years' experience in designing healthcare, wellness and worship projects.

2013-04-15 09:15:00