After a run of nearly 50 years, the Silver Theater in Silver Spring, Md., shut its doors in 1986. It remained vacant until last April, when it reopened as the AFI Silver Theater and Cultural Center, following an...
When adult patrons enter Charlotte's new children's cultural center for the first time, the initial thought that probably comes to mind is chaos.
With virtually no...
Skylights range from utilitarian to high tech, and from strictly functional to solely decorative. However, in the ever-increasing effort to save clients money in energy costs, especially in such high-use applications...
Walker Hall, at the South Carolina School for the Deaf & Blind—the first school in the South to teach life skills to sensory-challenged children—was built in three phases, beginning in 1859 with a three-story...
Although it owes its very existence to aviation, the National Air and Space Museum was operating in restricted air space.
NASM's flagship building on the National Mall...
Old Governor's Mansion, in Milledgeville, Ga., served as headquarters for General William Sherman as he marched his Union troops to the sea in the Civil War. Eight Georgia governors lived in and governed from this...
With building owners measuring energy savings in fractions of kilowatt-hours, the last thing they want is to see those savings going, quite literally, through the roof. While a properly installed roof insulation system is the...
BD+C's annual Giants 300 list consists of U.S. firms that designed or constructed the largest volume of commercial, institutional, industrial, and multifamily residential buildings in 2007. Each spring, the editors...
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