In the heart of Madrid's historic area, where the Principe Pio transit station has been in operation for 125 years, finding land suitable for redevelopment is virtually impossible. Located in a residential...

August 11, 2010

Whether it's an earthquake, tornado, blackout, flood or terrorist attack, MasterCard can rest assured that its new data center will be operational, processing 26 million credit card transactions every day. Built like...

August 11, 2010


        
    
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Sustainability...

August 11, 2010

The buildings market boomed in 2000, especially in publicly funded educational, health-care and correctional facilities development in the United States. Europe also saw a surge in both government and commercial...

August 11, 2010

The modus operandi was clear. Design a dumbbell-shaped 2 million-sq.-ft. mall in the Dallas suburb of Frisco that entices shoppers to both ends while blending with the high-tech appearance of the surrounding region....

August 11, 2010

Say good-bye to the simple wooden lectern and table. Today's college students (and the laptops they bring with them to class) are forcing classroom furniture designers to keep up with technology. The Society for...

August 11, 2010

A confluence of psychographics (values and beliefs), demographics (age and income), and economics (price and value) is driving resort design, says Howard J. Wolff, SVP of hospitality specialist Wimberly Allison Tong...

August 11, 2010

New design and construction technologies are seldom used unless they can be economically justified. Private-sector building projects, in particular, have little room for technological innovation purely for the sake...

August 11, 2010

Structural engineer Ron Klemencic got more than he asked for a few years back when he was called in by architect Solomon Cordwell Buenz on its One Rincon Hill condo project in San Francisco. Klemencic, co-founder of Seattle-...

August 11, 2010