Projects Awarded

Centerbrook Architects and Planners of Centerbrook, Conn., is design architect for a new visitor center and theater facility at the University of Nebraska's campus in Lincoln. Bahr Vermeer Haecker Architects of Lincoln is the architect of record, and Des Moines-based The Weitz Co. is general contractor for the facility, which is to be completed in late 2003. The theater portion will include two film theaters and a film archive.

Boston-based Elkus/Manfredi Architects is architect for 33 Arch Street, a 33-story office tower under construction in Boston. The 600,000-sq.-ft. building will occupy the last approved site for a major downtown office tower. The construction manager is a joint venture of Bovis Lend Lease LMB Inc. and Congress Group Construction. A fall 2003 occupancy is expected.

Atlanta-based Culpepper, McAuliffe and Meaders Inc. is the architect for a 600-room, 28-story addition that will be constructed adjacent to and on top of the 14-story Omni Hotel at CNN Center in Atlanta. Atlanta-based Beers Construction Co. is the contractor for the $100 million expansion, which is scheduled for completion in late 2003.

Nashville-based Gresham Smith & Partners is architect for a 93,000-sq.-ft., six-story School of Medicine office tower to be constructed on top of a parking deck on the campus of the University of Alabama's Birmingham campus. Birmingham-based Hoar Construction is the general contractor.