GRANDVILLE -- Buildings downtown and in the surrounding neighborhoods would be subject to a new design philosophy under a proposed rewrite of the zoning ordinance. An information meeting on the form-based code is set for 6-8 p.m. Tuesday at City...

India's second largest commercial vehicle manufacturer Ashok Leyland is looking to spin off its design engineering unit Defiance Technologies into a group company, Defiance Tech Ltd, an official has said.

The cup holder, in its modern automotive incarnation, is about 30 years old. It achieved industrial-design celebrity status in the 1980s, and it's been proliferating ever since.

Somerville's first community meeting regarding the Orange Line T stop at Assembly Square has residents less than pleased about a design that seems too inflexible, does not include a second head house or station nor have enough visibility to attract riders.

Powertrain designer and engineering solutions provider FEV India on Friday said, it expects to generate revenues worth Rs 60 crore over next 12 months from its new technical design centre set up in Talegaon near Pune.

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Two hotels in Myanmar have won two gold medals in an energy saving building design contest for 2009, sponsored by the ASEAN Energy Center (AEC), the local weekly Popular News reported Friday. The two winning hotels are the Shwe Intha Hotel in Inlay and Bell Hotel in Chaungtha, both of which are attractive tourist sites in the country. The medals will be presented later this month in new capital ...

OTTAWA (Jul 3, 2009) -- A Toronto architecture firm with strong ties to the University of Waterloo has won the 2009 Canada Council for the Arts Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture. RVTR will use the $50,000 prize, awarded annually to a young architect or a design firm that has completed its first building, to travel to Japan to study methods used in mass-customized prefabrication, and ...

The web has been around for well over a decade now and during that time, the field of web design has evolved quite a bit. Yet while web technology has changed at a record pace, the principles of good design largely remain the same.

Andrew J. Pawlowski, an architect with Siteline Architecture in Nevada City, has passed the demanding test for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design and is now a LEED-accredited professional.