The first step in a campus-wide transformation, the construction of Vanderbilt University’s E. Bronson Ingram College—a masonry-and-stone-clad residential building featuring Victorian and collegiate Gothic architecture styles—challenged the team with its detailed aesthetic elements, starting from the top.
Paul Schwabacher stands outside NYU Langone Health’s Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Pavilion near the East River, bent over a stripe of lighter-hued concrete on the walkway that circumvents the hospital.
Developing a safety program for constructing a 1,500-megawatt generating plant atop an abandoned coal mine in northeast Pennsylvania presented Kiewit with several unique challenges.
Denny Substation doesn’t look like what you’d expect from a structure of its kind. That’s by design, due to its setting within South Lake Union, a growing area of Seattle.
As the largest public-private partnership delivered in a National Park, the $109-million expansion and renovation of the Gateway Arch Museum had to meet stringent rules on how the landscape could be altered, what materials could be used and how much the existing museum could be changed.
Designing and building one of the largest U.S. net-zero-energy commercial towers on a dense downtown campus was an exercise in “detailed coordination and innovative thinking,” a best projects judge pointed out.
The 41st Street Pedestrian Arch Bridge project team overcame the daunting task of spanning 1,470 ft over active rail lines, catenary wires and all eight lanes of Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive.