Walls and Ceilings

  • Facelift: BellTell Lofts Renovation

    The timing couldn’t have been better for New York City-based development company Clipper Equity, which was in the market for a condo conversion project in Brooklyn. The NY Telephone Building immediately caught their eye.

  • Check List

    Don't fall for the most common misconceptions of the FHA design and construction requirements. Follow these 10 tips to ensure you're on the right track.

  • Dressed Up

    A historic symbol of affluence in Columbus, Ohio, is reinvented as contemporary luxury apartments.

  • Opulent Options: Residents Customize Unit Interiors

    Anticipation for blu among well-heeled Beverly Hills renters is running high. Interest has grown since November, when Galaxy Commercial Holdings dropped its construction tarps to reveal the blue glass façade of the 37-unit exclusive rental high-rise on Wilshire Boulevard just seconds from The Ivy...

  • Product Studio

  • Space-Age Chic: Republic Tower

    It was 1954, and Futurism was all the rage. Automobile designers rolled out streamlined cars with swooping tailfins and gleaming chrome; fashion designers paired astronaut-chic miniskirts with goggles; and famed architect Wallace K. Harrison designed the shimmering, aluminum-clad Republic Tower in...

  • Printers' Square Apartments

    A century ago, Printers' Square Apartments in Baltimore housed a single-engine fire station and a printing company. Built in 1906, the two-story building was known as the Guilford Avenue Fire Station. The three adjacent buildings were owned by Waverly Press, a publishing company.

  • Outside In: Building Envelopes

    The building envelope—the complex framework of materials that serves as the exterior and interior walls—is arguably the most important part of a structure. If the envelope is engineered and constructed properly, it will have a “tight” building envelope—one that is structurally sound, fire-resistant...

  • Product Studio: Building Envelopes

  • Life Line: Avenue in Charlotte, N.C.

    Avenue, a 36-story multifamily housing project in the Fourth Ward of Charlotte, N.C., has to please the living and fit in with the dead. Developer Novare Group and general contractor R. J. Griffin & Co., both in Atlanta, partnered with Charlotte-based architects Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart...