This $176.4-million project, completed in a 55-month period, doubled the office-space capacity at a Rockville, Md., federal office building to accommodate 4,000 employees.
A groundbreaking ceremony was held this week for One Vanderbilt, a 1,401-ft office tower that will rise between Vanderbilt and Madison avenues and 42nd and 43rd streets.
Porcelanosa, the world-renowned manufacturer of ceramic wall and floor tiles, recently converted a landmark property in Manhattan formerly known as the Commodore Criterion building into a “white glove” retail environment.
In aiming to create a flexible, collaborative and sustainable campus for its U.S.-based headquarters, Samsung set an ambitious goal—no employee in the 10-story tower would be more than one level away from an outdoor garden space.
Empty for 30 years, the eight-story Masonic Temple in Glendale, Calif., is now a spacious, productive office workplace that balances contemporary needs, current building standards and styles with the original 20th-century Art Deco features.
Initially built in 1942 by the federal government as an assembly plant for armored vehicles, this eight-story, 525,000-sq-ft building in downtown San Francisco was transformed into modern and seismically resilient office spaces for government agencies and other tenants.