This is a specific focus of a weekly MBJ edition.
Very early in my career I was asked by some friends for some help to remodel their kitchen. I was working for a firm that specialized in commercial work at the time, and they didn’t want to touch it. So I took on my first moonlighting job. Everything was going well, and I thought the [...] [...]
John Poros came to Mississippi State University to serve two years as a visiting professor in the College of Architecture, Art & Design. That was 13 years ago and the Silver Spring, Md., native is happily ensconced as an associate professor of architecture and as director of the Carl Small Town Center. He came to [...] [...]
I have never been to a ghost town. I don’t view this as an unfortunate shortcoming of my youth; I have seen enough Westerns in my years that I get the idea. I don’t imagine that they are really ghosts towns anymore as much as they are the idea of a ghost town with souvenir [...] [...]
When most people think of factory-built manufactured housing, they likely aren’t also thinking about the potential for this to be the most affordable way to build green, energy-efficient and sustainable housing. One person who is thinking about that is Michael A. Berk, the director Mississippi State University (MSU) School of Architecture. He has been invited [...] [...]
Imitation is not only the sincerest form of flattery; it can be a profitable business opportunity for contractors and skilled laborers. Throughout the state and across the nation, old buildings are finding new life through their preservation and adaptive reuse. Prime examples of such undertakings are projects in Jackson with the Standard Life Building, the [...] [...]
That earth-shaking, rumbling sound that’s come from the John C. Stennis Space Center the last 45 years is not going away, even though the space shuttle program is all but over and the Constellation deep space exploration project died in infancy. “No matter what the architecture is going to be after the shuttle,” the rockets [...] [...]
Rocket noise that can be heard for miles around the John C. Stennis Space Center strikes a sweet note for Mississippi’s economy. The impact is estimated at $616 million annually for a region that takes in a 50-mile radius of the center tucked into the southwest corner of Mississippi near Bay St. Louis. Without the [...] [...]
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Changes to downtown Jackson are happening daily. Not all of those changes are good, though. In a city now teeming with construction projects that are adding vibrancy to the area’s rebirth, businesses’ contractors are waging battles to keep the daily changes underground from wrecking progress. The culprit: Yazoo clay, a material that is extremely expansive [...] [...]
Forget Elton John, John Glenn and even David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust. Meet James Kelly, a true-blue, red-blooded, All-American rocket man. The Corinth resident began studying rocketry and building his own model rockets when he was a junior in high school. “I really didn’t have an interest in rockets until my cousin showed me a rocket [...] [...]
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