Tag: architecture renovation projects

Architects 49 House Design completes a modernist office venue, developing both contemporary indoor working stations and an outdoor activity space

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Bangkok, Thailand Architects 49 House Design have created the new, modernist office building for Pine-Pacific Corporation, located between the company’s former mineral warehouse and its current headquarters.Warehouse 12 as it is known is comparable to a central connecting link that merges the various working functions together, housing offices, laboratories, a cafeteria, and meeting rooms. Τhe project has been awarded a 2021 International Architecture Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.The initial concept, inspired by an abundance of trees between the new extension and the…Continue Reading

Firm to pay accountant RM15,000 for unfinished Johor Baru house renovation

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A RENOVATION company has to pay an accountant RM15,000 for unfinished work on his home in the Johor capital. Johor Baru Consumer Claims Tribunal president Lee Chee Thim ordered the respondent to pay Phua Wei Kian in two installations – RM7,500 on March 30 and RM7,500 on April 30. Phua said he was forced to fork out extra money to hire a new contractor to finish work at his new double-storey terrace house. On May 28 last year, he signed an agreement with an interior design company-and-contractor to renovate his house in Taman Sutera Danga, Johor Baru. “The quotation was…Continue Reading

Planned renovation of the Houses of Parliament needs greater scrutiny

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The planned renovation of the Houses of Parliament has faded from the news. It’s a shame, because a proper searchlight is needed on it.Our parliamentarians live an odd life, particularly those based beyond a daily commute to Westminster – but I dare say there are compensations (Rather unhealthy ones, I suspect).Coddled by their shop steward aka Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle they have refused to move out of their Thames-side west-end club while it is stripped out and renovated, thereby saddling the tax-payers with a much higher bill as the contractors will be forced to spend a decade or…Continue Reading

Globe Theater gets funding from City of Regina to complete renovations

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Regina executive committee has found the cash to fund a $1.9 million request by the Globe Theater to complete their multi-million dollar renovation. When the renovation of the building began in 2020, the Globe budgeted just over $30 million for the project. The city originally contributed $6.6 million with the rest coming from other levels of government and private donors. According to the Globe, inflation and other market impacts have created an increase in costs of 30 per cent and a funding shortfall of over $9 million. “There are a lot of things we would have liked to have done…Continue Reading