The Orange County Government Center sustained massive water damage and extensive structural damage from Hurricane Irene in 2011, resulting in its closure.
The Irish Hunger Memorial, commemorating the Irish famine and migration of 1845-1852, was designed by sculptor and artist Brian Tolle and originally opened in 2002.
While widely accepted in Europe, designers and builders in the U.S. have struggled to take full advantage of mass timber because of current limitations in prescriptive codes.
To handle the massive scale of this $1-billion, 3.8-million-sq-ft mixed-use project, the multinational and multifirm construction teams split the project into two phases designed and built concurrently.
Completed in April in New York City, this 12-story condominium building stands out with its curvaceous metal exoskeleton—fabricated in Italy—in a design that incorporates architecture, art and technology.