Constructed on the last available parcel of campus land, the Blackstone Residence Hall was squeezed between a major college entrance, a busy street and two existing structures, with no green space on the site.
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.
When ALDI decided to expand to the West Coast with a new regional headquarters and distribution center, the company wanted this large-scale facility to also be sustainable.
Featuring an urban vibe complementary with other community and campus structures, the three-story creative learning environment includes 25,000 sq ft of classrooms, teacher preparatory spaces, labs, a rooftop teaching garden and exposed mechanical systems, which dual-task as a teaching tool.
The original 13-story Warren Hall was the most seismically vulnerable building on the Cal State campus, and in just 12 seconds, the more than 40-year-old building and a two-story bridge connected to the main library were safely imploded.
The design and construction team on this $32-million, certified LEED Gold project faced a complex challenge of constructing a modern, state-of-the-art educational building that is also architecturally compatible with historic campus structures.
Constructed on the Spruce Goose Building Site for Howard Hughes in Playa Vista, this three-story structural steel building includes 66,000 sq ft of offices, screening and film production rooms, production facilities and a 143-space parking structure.
RSS
