The nonprofit Latino Network’s vision for its first-ever all-encompassing home, La Plaza Esperanza, translated as “a place of hope,” looked to bring programming and people together at the east Portland site.
Boston’s first mixed-use air rights development above the Massachusetts Turnpike in more than four decades reknits the Back Bay and Fenway neighborhoods with a half-acre public park constructed directly above an active highway and MBTA rail lines.
Boston’s first all-electric public school, the 175,000-sq-ft LEED Platinum building was constructed under the city’s Green New Deal for Boston Public Schools.
Perched on a 23-acre site atop Lookout Mountain, the new Tekakapimək Contact Station invites visitors to explore the 87,563-acre Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in north-central Maine, showcasing its peaks and rivers, its night skies and wildlife.
This year, 32 projects—located in 24 countries—are recognized as exemplary examples of innovation, quality and hurdles overcome in global design and construction.
Since the late 1980s, the Irish town of Arklow, about 90 minutes south of Dublin, has struggled to build a wastewater treatment plant, but delays and setbacks slowed development of a facility.
Renovation of the iconic 1948-built Santiago Bernabéu Stadium adds a sophisticated steel louver facade and retractable roof to fully shield its playing field