Government Buildings

Lobby of the Old Chicago Post Office, a Platinum winner in BD+C's 37th Annual Reconstruction Awards. Photo: Eric Laignel/Eric Laignel Photography, courtesy Gensler

Pictured: Arlington (Va.) Public Schools Heights Building Photo by Jim Tetro, courtesy Gilbane
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Indiana Toll Road's LEED Gold Administration and Operations Building. Photo courtesy SmithGroup
New LEED Gold facility consolidates operations for tollway authority.

Long Beach, Calif.’s new Civic Center includes the 93,500-sf Billie Jean King Main Library, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and completed in 2019. Photo: Benny Chen| Fotoworks
Federal contracts are proceeding, but states and cities are delaying, deferring, and looking fo...
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Photo courtesy UL and SPIRE Smart Building Program
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The 85,000-sf Integrated Engineering Research Center is the most important new structure on the campus of Fermilab since Wilson Hall opened almost 50 years ago. Images: Perkins and Will
Lots of natural light and hybrid labs will distinguish the new Integrated Engineering Research...
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Semans-Griswold Environmental Hall, designed by Ayers Saint Gross, is home to Washington College’s Center for Environment and Society and commands a picturesque site on the Chester River. The river is a living laboratory that provides students with an immersive experience in support of the building’s programs in environmental science and sustainability. Photo courtesy Ayers Saint Gross
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The Department of Veterans Affairs' new care center, in Omaha, Neb., offers eight primary clinics. Images: Courtesy of Leo A Daly
Clinic programming enhances patient privacy.

Denver Water's new administration building has been designed to achieve net-zero energy standards. Images: Courtesy of Stantec
The utility is showcasing a new admin building and a water reuse plan that’s a first for the st...
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The 1.5-acre Roosevelt Plaza Park in Camden, N.J., replaced a parking garage, office buildings, and ground-floor retail. Image: Cooper's Ferry Partnership
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BuroHappold’s work for the new Santa Monica (Calif.) City Services Building will help it become one of the first municipal facilities to meet the cutting-edge criteria for ILFI’s Living Building Challenge.
The engineering firm also launched a long-term partnership with ILFI.

The addition of a new visitors' center marked the reopening of the Washington Monument after three years of renovation. Images: Alan Karchmer
This is one of several landmark restoration projects underway in the nation’s capital.

Photo: David Mark from Pixabay
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All photos courtesy Harvard Jolly
Harvard Jolly designed the building.

A rendering of an Innovation Center that would be part of a larger expansion of the Port San Antonio, which has become a platform for connecting cybersecurity and digital innovations with leading global industries. Image: Port San Antonio and Gonzalez/Mogas Architects
Expansions would accommodate cybersecurity, aerospace, and defense tenants, and help commercializ...
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All renderings courtesy Weiss/Manfredi
Weiss/Manfredi is designing the project.

Fentress Architects, Michael Graves Architecture & Design, and Hensel Phelps Construction Com...
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Courtesy CoreCivic
JE Dunn will manage the design and construction of the Kansas-based facility.

Nearly a mile below ground level, Davis Cavern at the Sanford Underground Research Facility is getting an overhaul to accommodate an experiment to test a hypothesis about what makes up dark matter. Image: SURF, courtesy of LEO A DALY
This LEO A DALY-designed project makes way to produce the world’s most sensitive detector to this...
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Photo: Torben Eskerod
The C.F. Møller-designed prison’s architecture supports the inmates’ and staff’s mental and physi...
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Left out of this ongoing national debate over infrastructure are the nation’s other publ...
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The FBI’s Biometric Technology Center is designed to accommodate the future of the Bureau’s largest division, Criminal Justice Information Services. Its modular design enables a flexible and adaptable workplace
John Caulfield, Senior Editor

The U.S. Consulate in Erbil, in Iraq's Kurdistan region, will be the largest such facility in the world. Courtesy EYP.
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The Seguin Library, Photo: Dana Hoff, photo courtesy of PGAL
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The Michelle Obama Branch Library.
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Rendering courtesy of Spector Group
The center will serve as a regional training center for all Nassau County Police personnel.