Archive for November, 2009
International Builders Show 2010
The home building industry’s premiere event held annually this year in the city of lights: Las Vegas on January 19 – 22, 2010. One of the largest trade shows in the nation, the International Builder’s Show 2010 (IBS) continues to be huge large draw even during the current housing recession among housing industry professionals. [...]
10 Housing Energy Saving Ideas For Chicago Home Owners
Everyone is pinching pennies nowadays and the home is the largest expense a family has. Mortgage, heating, electric, insurance and maintenance costs represent up to half of some American’s cost of living expenses and any way to help reduce these costs over the long-term perks the interest of many owners of Chicago real estate. This [...]
Legendary Architect’s Building Gets Demolished
Known as the ‘Test Cell’ and mostly unknown to, if not all architecture buffs or historians, this little building is undergoing demolition on Chicago’s south side. Designed by Mies van der Rohe (or at least by someone in his architecture firm) somehow, someone with more time than architectural taste, had decided to make the case [...]
Havlicek Builders and Cabinets at Danada Collect Toys and Food for the Needy
To lend a helping hand to area residents in need this holiday season, Havlicek Builders and Cabinets at Danada Studio West are collecting toys and food through Dec, 17 at both Geneva locations. Donations of new, unopened and unwrapped toys for infants through teenagers as well as gift cards are welcome, which will be distributed [...]
Rocco Fiore & Sons Creates Multi-Leveled Outdoor Masterpiece in Glencoe
Rocco Fiore & Sons is known for tackling remarkably complex and topographically challenging landscaping jobs throughout Chicagoland. But the Libertyville-based landscape architecture, site development and management firm stepped up—literally—to a whole new level of sophistication and creativity in their approach to a distinctive residential project in Glencoe. Enlisted by a homeowner residing in an elegant [...]
