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Archives for the ‘Work in Progress’ Category

Modernizing Messiah

Modernizing Messiah

By Linc Wonham • Mar 1st, 2010 • Category: Work in Progress

Messiah Lutheran Church held its first worship service in November 1963, the same week President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.


Rural revitalization

Rural revitalization

By Mary Beth Matzek • Feb 1st, 2010 • Category: Work in Progress

Few people consider the corner of Moorland Road and College Avenue in Muskego as a retail destination.


Rebuilding Oshkosh’s crown jewel

Rebuilding Oshkosh’s crown jewel

By Mary Beth Matzek • Jan 1st, 2010 • Category: Work in Progress

When The Boldt Co.’s work is complete on the historic Grand Opera House in Oshkosh, the company wants it to seem like the workers were never there.


Higher learning

Higher learning

By Jessica Stephen • Dec 1st, 2009 • Category: Work in Progress

Brookfield Academy students might feel like they’re on the East Coast when they enter the school’s new Patriots Hall building.


Better than the original

Better than the original

By Caley Clinton • Nov 1st, 2009 • Category: Work in Progress

It took 110 years, but the Library Reading Room at the Wisconsin Historical Society’s headquarters in Madison is finally getting the finishing touches it was originally designed to have.


Dedicated to sustainability

Dedicated to sustainability

By Mary Beth Matzek • Oct 1st, 2009 • Category: Work in Progress

US. Oil Co. Inc. is Wisconsin’s largest distributor of biofuels, and company leaders wanted to emphasize their dedication to sustainability with their new corporate headquarters in Kimberly.


Holding its own

Holding its own

By Caley Clinton • Sep 1st, 2009 • Category: Work in Progress

Madison has been flooded with hotel proposals.


Building a future from the past

Building a future from the past

By Melissa Rigney Baxter • Aug 1st, 2009 • Category: Work in Progress

Members of the Acacia Fraternity at the University of Wisconsin-Madison soon will have air conditioning at their historic home, but it comes at a cost.


In the way of progress

In the way of progress

By Susan Suleski • Jul 1st, 2009 • Category: Work in Progress

There’s only one thing standing in the way of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s new South Campus Union: a steam tunnel up to 8 feet in diameter and about 350 feet long.
CG Schmidt Inc., the construction manager on the project, needs to move the tunnel before the end of summer if the Milwaukee firm is to [...]


Functional design

Functional design

By Janine Anderson • Jun 1st, 2009 • Category: Work in Progress

MSI General Corp. took on the weight of the wire world while designing and now constructing a new manufacturing facility for Charter Wire.