Read more renovation stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/24396/renovation.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 10:24:27 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/63744/while-us-dallies-france-spends-its-stimulus.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFrance has a reputation for stifling bureaucracy and long vacations, but when it comes to stimulus spending, the country is racing ahead of the US. This summer, workers are completing massive renovation projects not just for roads and rails, but to museums and cathedrals, and royal palaces. According to the...http://www.newser.com/story/63744/while-us-dallies-france-spends-its-stimulus.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 07 Jul 2009 7:44:45 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59353/mets-new-look-lets-the-light-in.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Metropolitan Museum of Art reopens its American Wing tomorrow after a refurbishment that was “all about transparency,” its chairman says. Where benches and shrubs once constricted movement, now visitors can sit on a fountain’s edge, look out on Central Park, and ride a glass elevator “through rooms you probably...http://www.newser.com/story/59353/mets-new-look-lets-the-light-in.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 18 May 2009 12:20:08 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/54745/obamas-will-pick-up-tab-for-white-house-renovations.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBarack and Michelle Obama won’t be using the $100,000 in taxpayer cash the first family is allotted for White House renovations, New York magazine reports. Instead, they’ll fund their fix-up out of their own pockets. Which may be a good political investment, since they’ve hired Michael S. Smith, a...http://www.newser.com/story/54745/obamas-will-pick-up-tab-for-white-house-renovations.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 30 Mar 2009 7:44:22 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/51348/lincoln-centers-concert-hall-dazzles.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhile cities from LA to Copenhagen have unveiled stunning new concert halls in recent years, New York's Lincoln Center complex "seemed mired in indecision." But Alice Tully Hall, one of the center's smaller spaces, reopens to the public Sunday with a bold new design by the architects Diller Scofidio &...http://www.newser.com/story/51348/lincoln-centers-concert-hall-dazzles.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 20 Feb 2009 10:32:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/49006/ousted-thain-to-repay-12m-spent-on-office.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFormer Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain says he’ll repay the $1.2 million he spent on office renovations last year, Bloomberg reports. “The expenses were incurred over a year ago in a very different environment,” Thain wrote in a memo to Merrill execs. “They were a mistake in the light...http://www.newser.com/story/49006/ousted-thain-to-repay-12m-spent-on-office.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 26 Jan 2009 11:37:52 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/40047/friend-of-stevens-bullied-contractor-into-eating-13k-bill.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn Alaska oil exec told a carpenter working on renovations to Sen. Ted Stevens home that he would have to “eat” a final $13,393 bill, the Anchorage Daily News reports. The carpenter, Augie Paone, took the stand in Stevens’ corruption trial today in Washington, telling the court that Bill...http://www.newser.com/story/40047/friend-of-stevens-bullied-contractor-into-eating-13k-bill.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 15 Oct 2008 13:31:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/38576/alcatraz-garden-blooms-despite-years-of-neglect.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe hardened inmates on San Francisco’s Alcatraz Island had tough neighbors who endure to this day: sun-kissed geraniums, snapdragons, gazanias, and roses. Thanks to an ambitious restoration project, “The Rock” is blooming, the Sacramento Bee reports. After work began 5 years ago, gardeners discovered 145 plant varieties that survived 40...http://www.newser.com/story/38576/alcatraz-garden-blooms-despite-years-of-neglect.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 27 Sep 2008 18:41:06 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/20158/ucla-looks-to-pretty-up-pauley.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThere is no question UCLA's Pauley Pavilion needs a makeover, but Bruin Nation is in an all-out debate as to whether it just needs some Botox or whether the old girl needs a complete facelift, reports the Los Angeles Times . Changes on the table for the famed Westwood Arena range...http://www.newser.com/story/20158/ucla-looks-to-pretty-up-pauley.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 27 Feb 2008 2:37:00 CST