Tamarah Begay, Owner/CEO/Lead Architect and Project Manager at IDS + A was the first registered female Navajo architect across the globe. She was also the youngest Albuquerque-based architect and planning firm when she started the business two years agao at the age of 32. She grew up with many family members owning construction firms, which… Read more »
Library construction has contributed a steady stream of projects to the construction industry in the U.S. over the past five years with 350 new libraries built between 2008 and 2013 at a cumulative cost of $2.1 billion according to a Library Journal survey. Yet today’s library is dramatically different from the library of previous generations,… Read more »
The recent Virgin Galactic spaceflight test vehicle, VSS Enterprise crash has slowed momentum toward the inaugural launch of a Virgin Galactica rocket into suborbital space. Yet according to speakers at the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPC) meeting in Las Cruces two weeks ago, the Spaceport America facility itself has value beyond the… Read more »
Pacheco claims that Susana Martinez and the New Mexico State Legislature “get it”–that trade with Mexico represents a tremendous boon for the economy of New Mexico. Which feels good to him as he has long felt like a lone voice on the issue. Pacheco laughs that he was once referred to as a “John the… Read more »
The historic Albuquerque Rail Yards, which are in planning for redevelopment as soon as 2016, is located adjacent to Barelas, a working class community of 3,700 that will see new housing as a component of the development. When the Rail Yards were operational, they provided essential jobs to Barelas residents. The City of Albuquerque and… Read more »
