The US Dept. of Veterans Affairs facility is the first agency project to include private money for construction while also using funding from available VA appropriations.
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building’s roof, designed to resemble the billowing clouds of Texas—and including 23 separate structures—proved to be this museum project’s biggest challenge.
The 1.75-million-sq-ft, 65,000-seat domed Allegiant Stadium—home to the NFL’s Las Vegas Raiders—features one of the largest cable net roofing structures in North America, and the first to be constructed in the U.S.
Little Island Park turned a former pier into a 2.4-acre public space over the Hudson River that includes 132 giant concrete pots planted with full sized trees that connect via walkways to each other and to an outdoor performance venue.
After three decades lying vacant, a 14-acre former industrial site along the harbor in East Boston is not only home to a vibrant mixed-use community, it’s setting new standards for resilient and sustainable development.
The best show on Broadway may be a $2.6-billion construction epic nearby to lift an historic brick theater into a 46-story hotel-retail tower being erected in unusually sequenced stages on one of the world's busiest corners.
Contractors in Burlingame, Calif., are wrapping up a tricky maneuver to move an historic 1940s post office approximately 120 ft from its current location to make room for the construction of an underground parking structure directly beneath the building’s footprint.