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The $500-million Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will raise the curtain this September on an eye-popping museum and theater complex that honors the past, is designed to resist future seismic forces and appears to defy the laws of gravity.

J. Brett Blanton told Congress he seeks a $67-million budget increase to maintain and secure the Capitol complex.

Although it is a landmark listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Alameda High School, built in 1924, had been vacated by students since 1978 and was fully shuttered in 2012.

Building a super-slender condominium tower above New York City’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) required exemplary teamwork.

As the first Southeast U.S. building to meet strict Living Building Challenge mandates, the Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design features a host of innovations—from renewable energy systems that generated 250% more power than the 47,000-sq-ft multipurpose facility used in its first year to mass timber construction with wood salvaged or from responsibly managed forests.

In 2014, the National Basketball Association’s Golden State Warriors purchased the 780-ft by 650-ft site for a new arena because it afforded views of Mission Bay and was large enough to accommodate the team’s plans.

City's iconic 520-ft-high attraction, opened for a world's fair in 1962, gets a sweeping $100-million renovation and modernization for the next generation