A 38-year-old construction worker died after a large object fell on him at a St. Paul job site Tuesday afternoon, according to media reports. Paramedics responded to the scene of a “traumatic injury” at Phalen Regional Park around 3 p.m., fire officials told KSTP. The man died later at an area hospital. The state Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating the workplace ... Read More

Jun. 20--SAN JOSE -- Within days, Adobe is slated to break ground on a fourth high rise that will dramatically expand the company's downtown San Jose headquarters campus, a tower that will become a gleaming new addition to the skyline of the Bay Area's largest city. "This is extremely important for the downtown," said Mark Ritchie, president of San Jose-based Ritchie Commercial, a real estate ... Read More

Foes of the massive Lincoln Yards development on Wednesday asked a judge to stop the city from spending or borrowing any money for the $6 billion project slated for 55 acres just west of Lincoln Park. The request by the public sector union-backed Grassroots Collaborative and Raise Your Hand education advocacy group is an attempt to keep the money spigot turned off while its lawsuit to toss out ... Read More

Jun. 20--The Buffalo Common Council must decide whether to designate two Frank Lloyd Wright houses as local landmarks, a State Supreme Court justice has ruled. Justice Paul Wojtaszak said the Council, by not acting on an unanimous recommendation from the Buffalo Preservation Board for designation, violated the city's preservation ordinance by not voting for approval or disapproval. The ruling ... Read More

Jun. 20--Sometime over the last few decades, city governments stopped building new city parks and passed on the task of designing, funding, and maintaining public space to nonprofits, mainly business improvement districts, independent development agencies, and civic associations. Most of the recent parks we've come to love in Philadelphia -- Dilworth, Schuylkill River Trail, Race Street Pier, ... Read More

WASHINGTON — U.S. home construction slipped a bit in May as a sharp drop in single-family construction was only partially offset by a rise in apartment building. The Commerce Department said Tuesday that construction was started at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.27 million homes and apartments, a decline of 0.9% from April when construction starts had risen a strong 6.8 %. Applications ... Read More

The announcement Monday that the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust has plans to construct a new visitor center adjacent to the Home & Studio on Chicago Avenue is big news. It will much improve the experience of tourists coming to Oak Park to see Wright's work and it will, likely, grow the number of tourists, which can be a legitimate concern of neighbors in the historic district. It will require the ... Read More

Portland State University graduate architecture students gain experience reimagining the Burnside Bridge. ------------ Within the next couple of years, Multnomah County will settle on a plan that will result in establishing the Burnside Bridge as a main regional lifeline in the case of a large-scale disaster like a Cascadian level seismic event. When planners, engineers and architects begin to ... Read More