As part of a four-phased project for its baseball team, ACU kicked off a $15-million renovation and expansion of a 1991 stadium. The refresh introduced a home locker room with direct dugout access, a meeting room, training rooms, offices, press box, concessions and a 959-seat precast concrete seating bowl with a sun-shade canopy.
First built in 1908, Mood-Bridwell Hall is the second-oldest building at Southwestern University. The hall underwent a series of transformations over the course of its lifetime, but its last major renovation took place in 1978, shortly after the building was inducted into the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
Although it will serve as a traditional bank and office, this $25.86-million, four-story Class A office building features high-design elements woven throughout, from a curved glass curtain wall system and wood paneling to European stonework and a living plant wall.
Home to Abilene Christian University’s departments of chemistry, physics and engineering, along with the Nuclear Energy eXperimental Testing Research Alliance, this $19-million, 28,000-sq-ft facility features a ground-level research bay surrounded by 27 9-in.-thick concrete tilt-walls that extend 50 ft into the air.
When the University of Texas at Dallas wanted to consolidate its physics and space sciences departments into a single facility, it took the opportunity to build a signature gateway building to the campus.
Regarded as the most important building for Rice University for the next 100 years, the $77-million Brockman Hall for Opera required exceptional acoustical integrity and a striking European design.