Arches were originally developed as a means of providing interior support to buildings, and creating doors and windows. Their use in construction permitted longer single spans built from smaller, more easily handled units, rather than from huge...

An arch is a curved structure capable of spanning a space while supporting significant weight (e.g. a doorway in a stone wall). The arch appeared in Mesopotamia, Indus Valley civilization, Egypt, Assyria, Etruria, and later refined in Ancient Rome. The...

When an executive job search firm first offered Frank Siano the opportunity to head ARC HS, he turned the position down. "I thought they were talking about Arches, the hospital helicopter transport service," Siano confesses from his office near the Central West End. But...

Shedding new light on outdoor design The town of Hillsboro, Oregon, has the Hilisboro Arch, built and installed to be an example of the town's civic pride. Until recently, hundreds of small incandescent lights located along the arch's 90-foot contours would shine...

Washington Square Park has been due to get its three-year, $16 million face-lift for several months now, with only a consensus among community groups and the Parks Department standing in the way of the groundbreaking. Last April, Community Board 2 finally weighed in on the...

One of the two trams that take visitors to the top of the Gateway Arch was out of service Sunday after a power failure trapped about 200 people for hours inside the landmark the night before.The Arch's deputy superintendent, Frank Mares, said a fuse blew...