Campus center at Lawrence University unites nature with architecture
KSS Architects designed the $34 million, four-story, 107,000-sf center, which strives to unite natural and built environments of the university while engaging academic and recreational activities.
Casino to help revive historic racetrack in Florida
The 180,000-sf, two-story addition includes a 1,250-slot gaming floor, a poker mezzanine with 36 tables, a 90-seat casino lounge, and a 180-seat dining village.
Manhattan hotel evokes Japanese-inspired capsule design
Inspired by business class airline cabins and Japanese capsule hotels, the Yotel in New York City uses light-hued and finished materials to achieve a modern and sleek design.
Mixed-use complex features Chicony department store in Chengdu, China
The first phase of a 37-story, mixed-use complex in Chengdu, China, is complete, adding a new 111,500-sf Chicony Plaza department store to the retail community.
Freemason HQ brings centuries-old fraternity to Chicago suburb
Embodying the symbolic origins of traditional Masonic culture, the structure uses stone and brick and is set in a wooded, 16.25-acre site.
New Walter Reed medical center garners LEED Gold
The 560,000-sf, six-story America Building is the largest outpatient medical facility in the military health system.
Insulators’ union to open new HQ in Tinley Park, Ill.
The union has more than 1,200 active members and trains an average of 80 apprentice insulators a year. The new headquarters will allow the union to host more disciplines under one roof.
$21 million science center opens at the University of Puget Sound
The newly opened William T. and Gail Weyerhaeuser Center for Health and Sciences provides students and faculty with state-of-the-art technology and facilities to encourage collaboration across the sciences.
Philadelphia office building earns city’s first LEED Gold
Originally built by Skidmore Owings Merrell in 1981, the building underwent renovations in 2006, adding 721,408 gsf to the structure.
Peabody Opera House in St. Louis gets a jolt from electrical renovations
St. Louis’s historic Peabody Opera House is still clad in its original 76-year-old Art Deco façade, but electrical wiring and lighting controls throughout hallways, banquet rooms and stages are brand new.
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| Jul 5, 2011
June 2011: New Projects Portfolio
Outdated Phoenix mini-mall renovated, reopened as an upscale bistro; Massachusetts office complex uses BIM, earns LEED Gold; Ontario town hall marries tradition with modernity; Lighting design illuminates educators’ HQ; World’s highest hotel opens as the Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong; Minneapolis public works facility earns LEED Platinum; Fire-ravaged Florida church rises from the ashes in just one year
| May 18, 2011
May 2011: New Projects Portfolio
Raphael Viñoly’s serpentine-shaped building in San Francisco; Winchester gun factory now PepsiCo lab; Bronx railyard becomes shared education campus.
| Apr 13, 2011
April 2011: New Projects Portfolio
Red Bull Canada’s ultra-mod HQ; country’s first freestanding LEED parking garage; NYC’s expanded Museum of the Moving Image; and a LEED Platinum park pavilion in southern Illinois.
| Mar 11, 2011
March 2011: New Projects Portfolio
Historic McKim Mead White facility restored for Columbia University; translational research facility added to Texas Medical Center in Houston; University of Oregon’s Matthew Knight Arena opens.
| Feb 11, 2011
February 2011: New Projects Portfolio
A collection of recently completed buildings that celebrate the efforts of the entire Building Team. Projects include a former Richardson Romanesque hotel in Ohio that now houses books, not beds; a Chicago high-rise that mixes condos with classrooms; and a justice center on the Fall River (Mass.) harbor that serves up daylight.
| Jan 21, 2011
January 2011: New Projects Portfolio
Library for modern enthusiasts; historic hotel converted to residential lofts; lemur research facilities open at Duke University; Clif Bar’s new LEED Platinum headquarters, and more.