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Architecture & Design

  • Maine Preservation honors historic rehab and preservation projects

    November 24, 2015

    The Maine Preservation honored 16 historic preservation projects throughout the state at its annual awards ceremony last week, including the Press Hotel in Portland and the Mill at Dover-Foxcroft.

    November 24, 2015

  • Maine firms win awards for engineering excellence

    November 23, 2015

    Six engineering firms in Maine received awards from the American Council of Engineering Companies of Maine for work this year.

    November 23, 2015

  • Portland documentary school, MECA continue partnership talks

    October 21, 2015

    Discussions about creating a partnership between the Maine College of Art and the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, which announced in June it would close this fall, have progressed.

    October 21, 2015

  • Harriman Architects + Engineers merges with Boston’s The Cecil Group

    Laurie Schreiber October 16, 2015

    Auburn-based Harriman Architects + Engineers has merged with The Cecil Group, a planning, design and landscape architecture firm in Boston.

    Laurie Schreiber October 16, 2015

  • Gallery expansion to be reviewed in Rockland

    September 29, 2015

    A proposal to build a five-story, $3 million building expanding the Dowling Walsh Gallery in downtown Rockland is going to the city's Planning Board tonight, the Penobscot Bay Pilot reported Monday.

    September 29, 2015

  • New England architecture firm to open Portland office

    August 13, 2015

    Lavallee Brensinger Architects, which has offices in Manchester, N.H., and Charlestown, Mass., is planning to open a Portland office this fall after having served a number of Maine clients.

    August 13, 2015

  • Architect seeks to expand Old Port block

    November 7, 2014

    The winning architect of a contest to redesign a block of Portland’s Old Port has proposed to double its footprint, add a skywalk and open space for housing, offices or hotel rooms.

    November 7, 2014

  • G·O Logic's Matt O'Malia and Alan Gibson quietly stage a 'passive house' revolution

    James McCarthy October 6, 2014

    Architect Matt O'Malia and business partner Alan Gibson have racked up a number of firsts since launching their Belfast-based architecture and building company, G·O Logic LLC, in 2008.

    James McCarthy October 6, 2014
  • Lewiston architect Gabrielle Russell helped launch Grow L+A, an effort to salvage the city's Bates Mill No. 5 for a data center and urban farming operation

    Young visionaries, veteran developer take on Bates Mill No. 5

    James McCarthy November 11, 2013

    Lewiston city officials started the year resolved to bring on the wrecking ball and finally tear down the vacant Bates Mill No. 5.

    James McCarthy November 11, 2013

  • Architects embrace new designs for memory care facilities

    Darren Fishell October 28, 2013

    Two years ago, Portland architect Evan Carroll spent nine days at the Maine Veterans' Home in Scarborough, splitting his time between the facility's dementia and rehabilitation units.

    Darren Fishell October 28, 2013

  • Maine developers lead the effort to reuse shuttered schools

    James McCarthy October 29, 2012

    The 40-year history of Avesta Housing's efforts to create affordable housing in southern Maine is neatly laid out in several rows of framed photographs hanging in the front lobby of the nonprofit's headquarters in Portland.

    James McCarthy October 29, 2012

  • Digital documents debut on historically endangered list

    August 30, 2012

    For the first time, Maine's most endangered historical assets now include digital records, according to an annual survey by the nonprofit Maine Preservation.

    August 30, 2012

  • A Biddeford architect hits upon a way to increase revenue and revive a downtown

    Derek Rice February 6, 2012

    Among the current fixtures on Main Street in Biddeford are several banks, City Hall, a theater, old standbys like Reilly's Bakery and Youlland's Jewelers, as well as newer establishments like tattoo parlors and a few restaurants that have moved in

    Derek Rice February 6, 2012

  • Historic mill coming down

    Mainebiz News Staff April 8, 2009

    Lewiston city councilors voted to stop dithering about the fate of Bates Mill No. 5, long touted as a potential convention site, and tear the building down.

    Mainebiz News Staff April 8, 2009

  • Woodward Thomsen closes doors

    Whit Richardson February 3, 2009

    Woodward Thomsen Co., the architectural millwork and construction company responsible for projects such as the renovation of the Portland Observatory, has closed its doors.

    Whit Richardson February 3, 2009

  • Devine Tarbell scooped up by Omaha co.

    Whit Richardson January 12, 2009

    An architecture and engineering firm in Omaha, Neb., has purchased Portland-based Devine Tarbell & Associates Inc.

    Whit Richardson January 12, 2009

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