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BD+C's 2017 Movers + Shapers

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BD+C's 2017 Movers + Shapers

A $5.5 billion investment to creat America's coolest city, Studio Gang's moment in the sun, and a creator of 'knowledge communities' make up BD+C's 2017 Movers + Shapers.


By BD+C Staff | May 10, 2017
BD+C's 2017 Movers + Shapers

Photo: Matthew McFarland, courtesy HOK

Click on each headline or image to go to the complete article for any of the three Movers + Shapers articles below.

 

Charm City's lucky charm

BD+C's 2017 Movers + Shapers Charm City's GarageCourtesy Sagamore Development.

Kevin Plank, the feisty Founder and CEO of sports apparel giant Under Armour, has two ambitious goals: to grow his company into a $10 billion brand, which would be more than double its $4.8 billion revenue in 2016, and to turn Baltimore, Under Armour’s home for nearly 20 years, into “the coolest city in America.”

 

The social connector

BD+C's 2017 Movers + Shapers Jeanne Gang

Jeanne Gang, the firm’s 53-year-old Founding Principal, who has garnered a MacArthur Fellowship and a passel of design accolades, is among a small handful of architects—and even more rarefied band of female architects—whom the press tags with the adjective “star.” 

 

Innovation Superchargers

BD+C's 2017 Movers + Shapers Triggs Mall pictureTriggs Photography, courtesy Wexford.

Later this year, the Wake Forest Innovation Quarter, a hub for biomedical research and information technology nestled in North Carolina’s Piedmont Triangle, will reopen Bailey Power Plant—an 80-year-old facility that’s been dormant for two decades—as a 110,000-sf mixed-use and entertainment space that complements the 1.6-acre Bailey Park across the street.

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Movers + Shapers: Tech takeover

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Movers + Shapers: Lean and Mean

For more than two decades, the Lean Construction Institute has been championing the efforts of a growing contingent of design and construction firms committed to the mantra of ‘continuous improvement.’

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Movers + Shapers: Automating building design

Aditazz asks why a building’s design can’t be automated the same way computer chips are made.

Movers+Shapers | Mar 13, 2018

Movers + Shapers: VR's next shift

A Stanford University startup is taking the VR industry by storm through virtual performance training and human behavioral study.

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Movers + Shapers: Monetizing R&D

Thornton Tomasetti’s CORE studio generates ideas that lead to product spinoffs.

Movers+Shapers | May 8, 2017

Movers + Shapers: Charm City's lucky charm

Under Armour’s Kevin Plank launches a $5.5 billion redevelopment to transform Baltimore into “the coolest city in America.”

Movers+Shapers | Jun 17, 2016

Hantz Woodlands brings thousands of trees to hard-pressed Detroit neighborhoods

One of the city's richest residents, John Hantz, is buying hundreds of acres of vacant property, tearing down dilapidated structures, and planting trees in the space.

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REAL ESTATE ARTIST: Theaster Gates works to revitalize African-American neighborhoods

The award-winning Chicago artist renovates properties into studios, libraries, and spaces that commemorate art and black culture.

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