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Industry veterans selected the winners of the 2017 Global Best Projects Awards as the most outstanding examples of the risks and rewards—and the hurdles overcome—of designing and building internationally.

Fehmi Bayramoglu remembers very well the day of Aug. 6, 2014. 

The structural restoration and strengthening of the Mar Girgis Church’s rotunda fortifies the unreinforced masonry structure against static loads and earthquakes.

Canada’s first soccer-specific stadium, originally built in 2007, was renovated with a flexible design to maintain an intimate environment while having the ability to expand for special events.

When Edwin R. Nolan, the U.S. ambassador to Suriname, held the embassy’s annual July 4 celebration this year in Paramaribo, it didn’t take place at the ambassador’s residence—where it has been held before­—but at the new embassy complex, completed less than a year earlier. 

While Nigeria’s entire 1,300-kilometer railway will be modernized, the 185-km Abuja-Kaduna project is key because it reduces worker commute times and boosts the economy in the country’s capital region, and creates a primary cargo corridor from inland to sea.

With its iconic wings that evoke a dove, the symbol of peace, the World Trade Center Transportation Hub honors those who died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks while serving New Yorkers and visitors today.