Composed of two semicircular hotel wings that spiral around an elliptical core, the 45-story Regent Emirates Pearl Hotel, located in Abu Dhabi, rises to a height of 840 ft and dominates the surrounding coastline. While visually arresting, the 1.4-million-sq-ft facility required extensive modeling and analysis to accommodate its complex geometries.
It took three and a half years to bring Yas Mall, a 2.5-million-sq-ft retail development, from design to completion. The shopping mall, which was completed in November 2014, is now one of the largest retail developments in the United Arab Emirates.
When Azerbaijan decided to build a world-class stadium in the capital city of Baku, the owners gave the design and construction team an extremely aggressive 24-month deadline.
The U.S. can now claim to host to one of the world's most innovative wind-energy research centers, thanks to a global undertaking that made Clemson University's SCE&G Energy Innovation Center a reality.
In most countries, a project to rebuild and seismically strengthen an earthquake-damaged school would not likely earn its team an international award. But with one such project in Cite Soleil, an isolated neighborhood on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, the accomplishment earns extraordinary praise for its social benefits and for the work done in a difficult environment.
Industry veterans selected the winners of the Global Best Projects Awards as the most outstanding examples of the risks and rewards — and the hurdles overcome — of designing and building internationally.
The rich history of Islamic architecture and the beauty of the region's palm trees and volcanic mountains inspired the design of the $1.2- billion Prince Mohammed Bin Abdulaziz International Airport expansion in Medina, Saudi Arabia—the first public-private aviation project and concession in the country and the Gulf region.
What might have taken months of lane closures took a fraction of that time during installation of a 2,860-ton, tied-arch cable-suspension bridge over a major highway.
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