PELLA — After months of planning, a schematic design of Pella’s new multi-million dollar indoor recreation center has been unveiled to the public. Representatives with Shive-Hattery, a design firm in Des Moines, presented a schematic design concept for the new indoor recreation center to Pella City Council at a policy […]
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The Crossville City Council has some key decisions to make as it moves forward with a planned indoor recreation center project. Key among those will be how to manage the construction process for the estimated $53 million facility and what type of pools to build and plan for. Kim Chamberlin […]
Downtown Montreal Skyline at night, from la place de la cathedrale to the edge of Griffintown. getty Several new high-end developments have come to the downtown district of Quebec’s largest city in recent years, delivering penthouse-caliber luxury to the center of a city steeped in history and tradition. In 1111 […]
(PHOTO: The Jay Heritage Center was recognized for excellence in historic preservation by New York State Parks on Thursday, December 8, 2022. Left to right: NY State Assemblyman Steve Otis, Jay Heritage Center (JHC) Executive Director Kevin Periano, JHC President Suzanne Clary, Dr. Eugene Boesch, archaeologist for the JHC garden […]
NYC Parks and the NYC Department of Design and Construction (DDC) have unveiled renderings for the first design-build project: a Staten Island recreation center by local firm ikon.5 architects. The new Mary Cali Dalton Recreation Center in Tompkinsville will bring a fitness center, basketball courts, and a multipurpose area to […]
When the Philadelphia Flower Show shifted outdoors to South Philly due to COVID-19 concerns the past two years, the temporary showgrounds at FDR Park were designed to explore how flowers and gardens can help us make peace with our spaces — and their connection to our mental health. Despite the […]
The South Oxnard Aquatics Center moved closer to its planned summer 2025 completion after a vote of the City Council Tuesday. The council approved a conceptual design in a 6-1 vote for the nearly $60 million aquatics center that includes a 50-meter competition swimming pool, instructional and recreational swimming pools, a lazy […]
Council member Gabby Basua (Photo by Chris Frost) Oxnard– The City Council, Tuesday, September 6, approved the Alternate B conceptual design of the proposed South Oxnard Aquatic Center. Council Member Gabby Basua made the motion and said after considerable debate about the pool’s size, that it would come down to […]
Growing in Illinois State University’s Horticulture Center’s vegetable garden—a living canvas of leafy greens and vibrant heirloom tomatoes—a slender, fingerlike purple pepper caught Jalen Cunningham’s artistic eye. “What’s that one?” Cunningham asked Horticulture Center Director Jessica Chambers ’93. Jalen Cunningham’s vegetable garden design. “It’s a buena mulata pepper,” Chambers said […]
This will be the eighth BSH Experience & Design Center to open in North America TWICE Staff ⋅ Published: July 26, 2022 Rendering of new Experience & Design Center in Houston. Photo: BSH BSH Home Appliances Corporation will soon be opening an all-new Experience & Design Center in Houston. Scheduled […]
The Liberty Hill Swim Center will not be opening to the public until spring 2023 after originally being set to open this month. The City Council agreed it was painful to unanimously vote to postpone the opening of the swim center to the public for the 2022 season, but due […]
Seattle isn’t going to build a shiny new community center and swimming pool at Green Lake, after all, the Parks Department says, though the City Council member for the neighborhood is taking issue with that decision. The Parks Department says it has scrapped its plan to replace Green Lake Park’s […]