Old and new seamlessly coexist in school building post renovation
Originally built in 1931 as a gymnasium, a Spanish Colonial Revival style building at a 60-ha (150-acre) boarding school in Claremont, Calif., underwe…
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San Francisco senior building inspector pleads guilty to accepting illegal gratuities
In December 2022, a former senior official at the San Francisco's Department of Building Inspection (DBI) pleaded guilty to accepting gratuity payment…
Firm lands $100M Maine museum project after winning international design competition
LEVER Architecture, based in Portland and Los Angeles, has been selected as the design architect for the $100 million campus expansion and unification…
Architecture firm receives AIA’s highest honor
The board of directors and the strategic council of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) have bestowed Mithun with the 2023 AIA Architecture Fir…
Portland housing project opts for sustainability-first design strategies
Aimed at receiving Earth Advantage Platinum certification—based on energy efficiency, optimal land use, sensible water technology, and sustainable m…
Skanska gets $74.2M project for NYC’s Grand Central Station
Skanska, a global construction and development firm, has been selected by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to deliver circulation enhan…
Polar Park construction manager to pay $1.9M for false claims allegations
The joint venture (JV) in charge of constructing Worcester’s Polar Park baseball stadium, Massachusetts, has agreed to pay $1.9 million in response …
Fixed and operable polycarbonate windows
EXTECH offers polycarbonate window systems, ideal for a variety of architectural and industrial environments, such as schools, rail yards, athletic fa…
Cylindrical tower to create distinct landmark in South Florida
New York-based architecture and design studio ODA’s design of a mixed-use tower in South Florida’s Rio Vista neighborhood in Fort Lauderdale, reve…
Washington hotel finds creative solution in shared roof design
The design of Society Hotel Bingen in Bingen, Washington, responded to contextual factors—adaptive reuse of a former school, twenty hotel cabins, a …
