Architecture/Design

MOUNAYAR: Indianapolis should rediscover public spaces

May 8, 2010
Michel Mounayar
Too few of the city's revitalization projects are connected by attractive sidewalks, streets, gardens and plazas.
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Connector bridges gap between convention center and stadiumRestricted Content

May 1, 2010
Norm Heikens
Designers of a walkway that connects the buildings are making the experience as attractive as possible in order to overcome the psychological barrier of moving from one building to another.
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Area reaches end of an era for church constructionRestricted Content

May 1, 2010
Kathleen McLaughlin
The $16.5 million worship auditorium that Northview Church in Carmel opened last month may be the last major church-related project completed in central Indiana for years. Although many projects were finished before the recession, churches, which usually pay for much of construction in cash, struggled to collect pledges.
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Engeledow Group acquires estate landscaper

March 29, 2010
Kathleen McLaughlin
Engledow Group, one of the Indianapolis area's largest landscape companies, has acquired Litchfield Landscape Co. to bolster its estates division.
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Law firm adds historic home to campusRestricted Content

February 6, 2010
Scott Olson
Plews Shadley Racher & Braun has finished a careful restoration of the Eden-Talbott House, continuing a strategy of shunning glass and steel.
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First hotel in downtown Marriott complex to open doors

February 2, 2010
Scott Olson
The Fairfield Inn & Suites on West Washington Street downtown will open Wednesday. The hotel is the first of four comprising the 1,600-room Marriott Place project to welcome guests.
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Ball State to offer new degree at downtown Indianapolis campus

October 24, 2009
 IBJ Staff
The master of urban planning degree offered downtown will use the city as an urban laboratory.
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City strengthens building-permit process

October 14, 2009
Scott Olson
The pre-permit review could add nearly three weeks to the current permitting process
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Building information modeling replacing computer-aided designRestricted Content

September 5, 2009
Scott Olson
Architects, engineers, contractors and others in the design-build industry hope building information modeling will cut waste. The technology allows more detailed viewing of projects before they move to construction.
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ZEIGLER: Downtown deserves better design

September 5, 2009
Connie Zeigler
Downtown Indianapolis has a housing problem. I am not referring to the abandoned and foreclosed homes that blight many of our neighborhoods. This is a problem of new, prominent construction projects that are out of place in our built environment.
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Ivy Tech saving facade for classroom building

August 27, 2009
Cory Schouten
Ivy Tech Community College plans to save the facade of a historic former hospital along Fall Creek Parkway and build a new 150,000-square-foot academic building behind it.
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Local contractor lands project for the president

August 3, 2009
 IBJ Staff
Indianapolis-based architectural and engineering firm RW Armstrong will provide design and project management services for the Presidential Helicopter Squadron, a 65,000-square-foot hangar complex being built at a Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va.
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Recession slows the creation of a self-contained Boone County communityRestricted Content

May 18, 2009
Kathleen McLaughlin
Creating a self-contained community on 1,700 acres of farmland could take much longer than the 15 to 20 years Duke Realty Corp. predicted.
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Flaherty selected to revitalize Barton, Lugar tower sitesRestricted Content

May 18, 2009
Locally based Flaherty & Collins Properties plans to build retail and residential space on land that surrounds two downtown public housing towers.
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Grad students dream up plans for mass transitRestricted Content

April 27, 2009
Chris O'Malley
Architecture and urban design students from Ball State have created a vision for urban renewal that is arguably more compelling than the Central Indiana Regional Transit Authority's principal, utilitarian goal of reducing northeast-side highway congestion and air pollution by running a diesel commuter train atop the old Nickel Plate Railroad corridor.
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White River trail will weave in storiesRestricted Content

March 9, 2009
NINebark, a landscaping architectural firm, is making six large storyboards so that users of the planned White River Greenway will learn about the area's industrial history.
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Tobias Theater renovation is new model for environmentally sensitive constructionRestricted Content

March 9, 2009
Sam Stall
The 600-seat Randall L. and Marianne W. Tobias Theater (nicknamed The Toby) is arguably the greenest facility of its kind in the nation.
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IMA's new design store bucks frugality trend

March 2, 2009
Kathleen McLaughlin
The Indianapolis Museum of Art's Design Center opened last October as a complement to the museum's 20th century design collection, which curator R. Craig Miller expects to grow exponentially.
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Hoosier architects need to reach out globallyRestricted Content

February 16, 2009
Drew White
Indianapolis-area architects are missing out on a wealth of outsourced design work for construction projects.
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'Green' design is sensible in era of great uncertaintyRestricted Content

February 16, 2009
Fred Green
Contrary to fears, environmentally friendly construction isn't expensive.
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U.S. Capitol Dome replica latest feat for Midwest Model MakersRestricted Content

December 15, 2008
Sam Stall
Indianapolis-based Midwest Model Makers has found big success by making very small objects — specifically, detailed architectural models of everything from buildings to golf courses to weapons systems.
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Architect recognized for 'green' effortsRestricted Content

November 24, 2008
The U.S. Green Building Council recently honored local architect Bill Brown for his contributions to sustainable design and construction.
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IndyFringe leads effort to build artists' apartmentsRestricted Content

November 10, 2008
Kathleen McLaughlin
Indy Fringe executive director Pauline Moffat and Gary Reiter, a board member of the Indianapolis Theatre Fringe Festival Inc., want to build an affordable live-work complex near Massachusetts Avenue.
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24-year-old developer tackles $30M dealRestricted Content

September 10, 2007
Cory Schouten
Jaron Garrett hasn't developed anything like the 25-story tower he's proposing. And he doesn't come close to having the financial muscle to pull off the $30 million project on his own. But Garrett is determined to sell his vision of transforming a downtown eyesore at Washington and Pennsylvania streets into a twisting glass-and-steel apartment tower.
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Dramatic facade change planned for office towerRestricted Content

April 2, 2007
Cory Schouten
The city's oldest skyscraper will get a sleek new look starting this summer, when workers are scheduled to begin installing a glass-covered curtain wall to replace a storm-scarred facade. Renovation of One Indiana Square should begin in June and continue for two years.
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