Having spent a good part of my career investigating structural failures, I've seen spectacular damage on building sites. It's the scale of the destruction, however, that distinguishes the attack on...
Of all major building projects, hospitals are unique, not just for their complexity — the vast amounts of high-tech equipment, the mountainous record-keeping systems, the maneuvering of thousands and...
The Building Team responsible for Des Moines Central Library embraced the notion of designing a simple library in the park. London architect David Chipperfield took that idea and ran with it, designing a modern,...
The Missouri Department of Natural Resources takes its role as the state's environmental steward seriously, so when it commissioned the Lewis & Clark State Office Building to serve as its base of operations, the...
Since the first application of base isolators some 23 years ago on a legal services center in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., the technology has become a popular seismic design approach throughout the West Coast. The...
The International Rescue Committee is a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing relief to victims of violence and oppression around the world. When the 75-year-old nonprofit group outgrew its headquarters...
On the central grounds of the University of Virginia, at the heart of Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village, renovation and reuse have been ongoing since the statesman laid the foundation for the first of 10...
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