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Solving Wind, Seismic Problems at One Rincon Hill

Structural engineer Ron Klemencic got more than he asked for a few years back when he was called in…

Brick Adds High Art On a Low Budget

Founded in 1969, the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University spent 35…

High School in a Hurry

One of the more compelling arguments for charter schools is their theoretical ability to…

High-Tech Hazard

The information era has filled nearly every crack and crevice of office buildings with miles…

New Tricks For Old Dogs

When the 1.6 million-sf office tower at 55 East Monroe Street in Chicago was completed in 1972…

Industry workhorses keep the lead

Advances in how structural steel and concrete are used continue to push the envelope of…

Squeeze play

Retrofitting historic structures with modern building systems can be one of the most difficult…

Conservation on the Kalahari

Geometric brick patterns on the street-facing façade of the Kalahari…

Encore

Timing is everything in the theater and performing arts, as well as in building design and…

Ecology, economics meet, generate heat

Plowing apparent green fieldsin the industrial market, a New Hampshire developer this summer…

Deep Green

Chilled beams ... Self-cleaning cement ... Preferred permitting ... Mini-wind turbines…

Second Time is A Charm: How redesigning right worked for a Chicago office building

It was early September 2001, and Chicago developer John Buck had just put the finishing…

Right-Sizing Healthcare

Perkins+Will, with Pei Partnership Architects, designed Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center…

Green Buildings + Climate Change

What AEC Professionals + Firms Can Do to Tackle'The Single Largest Issue Facing the Nation Today…

A Place For Hope: Harold Alfond Center for Cancer Care

In the stressful process of cancer treatment, sometimes peace and hope are all that patients…

Hunger Fighter

The mission statement of the Greater Chicago Food Depository, which serves more than 300,000…

Illuminating applications

If a firm designs a great building and no one notices, does it matter? Brilliant details may not be…

All the Right Moves

Now into the third year of the current economic recession, the nation's top design firms have come…

Big Tram on Campus

When students, faculty, and staff moved into seven brand new buildings clustered around a quad…

Traditional still rules the roofing market

The roofing market is saturated with new materials and construction methods. It is the old…