Hord Coplan Macht Inc. recently completed the $65-million Engineering, Aviation, Computer and Mathematical Science Building at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
Lane says the latest AIA Architecture Billings Index shows the South region, which includes Baltimore, is in the lead nationally with increasing demand for design activity.
As an architect focusing on health-care design with the firm Francis Cauffman, Thompson sees growth in that sector due to “hospitals designing new spaces around the requirements of the Affordable Care Act, providing enhanced care for an aging population and needing to upgrade aging infrastructure.”
Debra Livingston says ABC members are excited about opportunities in the District of Columbia, particularly The Wharf development and the Capitol Riverfront district.
Only a handful of structures remain at the 3,100-acre Sparrows Point complex in Baltimore from its heyday as the world’s largest steel mill, but, at present, the site seems equally far removed from its new owners’ long-term vision of the site as a major multimodal logistics and distribution hub.