SOM Design Director Paul Danna will take part in an architect's panel and roundtable discussion hosted by the Los Angeles Headquarters Association on Thursday, March 23rd at the California Club in Los Angeles.
A top U.S. engineer has called for building codes to include limits on carbon dioxide released by the production of construction materials to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
Thanks to a structural-steel hat truss, the 10-story tower of the 240-ft-tall New United States Courthouse, Los Angeles, appears to balance on its core, hovering over the ground as if it were a sculpture on a pedestal.