Potted plants clog Caroline Duncan’s windowsills in Milwaukee’s Convent Hill, their leaves lush green against the grays and browns of the city below.

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Paul Snyder [email protected] Madison is sticking to its shortlist of design teams for the reconstruction of Central Library even though the project has changed and other architects have expressed interest. “Knowing now what the plan is, I think the city ...

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The 12-story west bed tower at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Wauwatosa might as well have been built in the middle of downtown Milwaukee.

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The construction team behind American Transmission Co. LLC’s new corporate headquarters and operations center had to blend two existing structures with different functions into one building.

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Towne Investments Inc. on Monday announced plans to renovate a building in Menomonee Falls and renovate it for future tenant Actuant Corp. Milwaukee-based Towne bought the property from Bemis Manufacturing Co. and will remodel the 175,000-square-foot building and construct a ...

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Sean Ryan [email protected] Milwaukee cannot ignite a redevelopment of a Menomonee Valley property without further straining the limits of the city’s 2010 budget. The city usually relies on tax-incremental financing to pay for projects that support particular developments, but the ...

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Sean Ryan [email protected] When U.S. architects reported work was picking up in March, expectations followed that the industry would be in recovery mode by now. “It looks like this recovery is going to be a bit more elusive than we ...

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The development and practice of sustainable building techniques are pressuring municipalities to keep pace with updating building codes to accommodate the changes. Ann Beier, director of Milwaukee’s Office of Environmental Sustainability, said most of the city’s commercial building code is ...

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