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Redevelopment of Buffalo’s downtown skyway will be done with a big assist from three Rochester-based firms. SWBR, Fisher Associates and MRB Group combined forces to create the winning entry in the state’s Aim for the Sky: The Buffalo Skyway Corridor Competition. Throughout the ...

Because it’s the 10th anniversary, the flashy Fashion Week Rochester (Oct. 14-19) had to shake things up a bit. The five-day extravaganza, which raises hundreds of thousands of dollars each year for the Center for Youth, became a six-day event, ...

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Scholarships totaling $15,000 were recently awarded to seven students by the Rochester chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA Rochester) and The Architectural Foundation of Greater Rochester (AFGR). Leah Przybylski, who attends Rochester Institute of Technology, received a $4,500 ...

The management baton is about to be passed to the next generation of leaders at LaBella Associates. Steve Metzger will succeed Sergio Esteban as CEO, Jeff Roloson will take over from Robert Healy as president and Mike Winderl slides into ...

Neighbors of the now-vacant Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School are suing the City of Rochester, the city’s manager of zoning, a developer and the school itself, claiming environmental concerns were ignored and policy violated when rezoning of the site cleared ...

Friends and former colleagues at SWBR are in mourning after the recent death of Junius “Jay” Royal Judson II, a former partner and president of the design firm. Mr. Judson was 71. Mr. Judson died on July 25 in hospice ...

Employees still hold meetings in conference rooms at Clark Patterson Lee, but that’s not really why anyone goes into this particular one. It’s been transformed into a relax station, where employees can grab a free soda, do a puzzle, play ...

Walk into the office of Partners + Napier and there’s an instant wow factor. From the bank of flat screen TVs that greet you at the doorway to the inviting belly-up-to-the-bar feel of the bistro-like kitchen and tap room; from ...

After 30 years of service, David N. Zacharias, vice president of BME Associates, will retire at the end of 2019. A 1980 graduate of Paul Smith’s College, Zacharias worked in Utah and Connecticut before accepting an offer to start a ...

For the folks at CJS Architects, the neighborhood surrounding their workplace is more than just the spot from where they design cool buildings and interiors. It’s their home. When they look out their office window on South Union Street, they ...

Residents of Highland Parkway say they will fight to derail the most recent development plans for the now-vacant Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, even though developer Angelo Ingrassia has again scaled back his project. Ingrassia has proposed construction of two ...

The neighborhood spoke and developer Angelo Ingrassia listened. Again. Ingrassia today announced his plans to again scale back the redevelopment of the former Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School property, including a reduced housing footprint and the elimination of an underground ...

When Gary Passero was running Passero Associates, the engineering and architecture firm he founded, he had a saying regarding growth. His adage: “If you’re not growing, you’re dying,” said John Caruso, the company’s current president. Passero Associates certainly is not ...

Now that much of the old Inner Loop East has been transformed, the city of Rochester has issued a request for proposals for an Inner Loop North transformation planning study. City leaders want to evaluate alternatives and advance recommendations for ...

The ingenuity and creativity of local architects is now on display in small-scale form at Midtown Commons. The design initiative was the brainchild of the Rochester chapter of the American Institute of Architects, in partnership with the city, as part ...