Traffic growth spurs conversion from city-based sites to national platform Los Angeles, CA. View my complete profile Green Blogger Nominee Share This Approved Reading List 1-800-Recycling American Prospect Architecture Blog Be Green Build Blog Decoist DJC/Green Building Explore Green Building Law Grist Inhabitat National Geographic/Green Guide Remodelista The Everyday Actvist The Quirky Contractor Treehugger Blog Archive ▼ 2011 (57) ▼ March (25) The American Dream Deferred. womans worth in a mans field is all part of a days work. Greenwash/ Bullshit Free Zone. MORE >>

POM Wonderful , a business owned by Los Angeles entrepreneurs Lynda and Stewart Resnick , reportedly paid $1 million for the title sponsorship placement, with contract clauses allowing for some truly creative marketing, including the use of Spurlock’s materials to make health claims as the business takes on less-than-positive FTC (Federal Trade Commission) allegations. Of course, if you are an architectural, engineering or construction marketer, you will likely not implement any of the stunts in these scenes any time soon.  Well, maybe she is right. MORE >>

submitted to ENR New York by H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture. Best Landscape/Hardscape/Urban Development – Wilmington Waterfront Park , Wilmington/Los Angeles, Calif.; Marjorie Brown, VP/NW managing principal, HDR Architecture. I got the following news release from the folks at Engineering News Record about the contest I helped judge. It was a fascinating process. Winners will be profiled in the February 13, 2012 issue of ENR. submitted to ENR Texas & Louisiana by Traylor-Massman-Weeks LLC. submitted to ENR Southwest by Sundt Construction Inc. of State. MORE >>

Mr. Balazs said he was in discussions with manufacturers in Europe to build individual hotel units abroad and ship them to this country to assemble a boutique hotel in Los Angeles, a process that could be replicated in other cities. The challenge of making a prefabricated building architecturally innovative is part of what drives architects like James Garrison, the principal of Garrison Architects, who designed a Scandinavian-style modular apartment at an adolescent treatment center in Albion, Mich. Its green lean and mean in every great sense of the word. Is the desire? MORE >>

I often find myself seeking Modern Architecture to go beyond the glass box of walls and steel only to find myself seeking it elsewhere. Integrated into the community, a tribute to the future with a nod to the past - HL23 is mod-architecture at its best. Nostalgia Wrapped In Steel By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF Architecture is a notoriously slow profession. Since then, although he has remained a prominent academic — he is now a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles — he has done only a handful of small additions and renovations. MORE >>