A planned two-mile relocation of Chicago's South Shore Drive, about 10 miles south of the city's downtown, is spurring a $4-billion megaproject to turn the vacant 530-acre site of a former U.S. Steel mill on Lake Michigan into a new community with nearly 14,000 housing units.

Stantec says that it has signed a letter of intent to acquire Anshen + Allen, one of North America's leading health care architectural firms with more than 200 employees and offices in San Francisco, Columbus, Boston and London.

Ian P. Tyler, a chartered accountant who now runs London-based contractor Balfour Beatty plc, admits to ?never being good? at the accounting business.

Virginia Tech architecture student Christopher Morgan has won an international competition to design the Yéle Music Studio in the Cité Soleil area of Port-au-Prince.

To many architects, Louis Kahn?s 1955 Trenton Bath House in Ewing, New Jersey, just restored by Farewell Mills Gatsch Architects (FMG), exudes everything that worked in 20th-century architecture.

Construction workplace deaths continued to decline in 2009, but the fatality rate held even with the previous year?s mark, and industry safety specialists see little sign that conditions are improving on project sites nationwide.

The Empire State Building's owner has lost his bid to stop a new skyscraper from rising in the neighborhood.

It's finally official: After months of speculation, Eli Broad announced that Diller Scofidio + Renfro will design his Broad Collection museum on Grant Avenue in Los Angeles.

This October, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute?s Museum of Art (MWPAI) in Utica, New York, will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its Philip Johnson-designed home with an exhibition commemorating the work of the illustrious Modernist and Postmodernist architect.

United Rentals Inc. and Fluor Corp. are teaming up to offer equipment, tools and logistics services for oil-and-gas owners along the Gulf Coast. Executives say the venture may later expand beyond the region.

Today?s jobs market report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics may provide a much needed spark of confidence for the U.S. economy, especially its workers and

According to North America?s four major stock market indices, equity prices have been moving sideways for almost a year. There was a spurt in April 2010, when 52-week highs were recorded, but there have been mainly double-digit percentage declines since then, taking index levels back to where they were in October-November 2009. The exception on the plus side has been the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE), which has benefited from a firming up of some commodity prices and, most recently, a takeover bid for Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan by BHP Billiton of Australia.

Although most states had marginal gains in their economic activity index in July activity was weaker or steady in enough states to keep the national economic activity index unchanged. The stall is expected to be brief since it is the aftershock from the expiration of homebuyer tax credit and the ebbing of many of the federal pump priming spending programs, says Reed Construction Data chief economist Jim Haughey.