Transportation & Parking Facilities
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
Fifteen examples of how parks and green spaces emerged from parking lots, garages, and underpas...
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Photo: WÖHR
The project is being built beneath an upcoming addition to the clinic.
Courtesy Pixabay
Two recent reports (October 2019) explore whether car-free downtowns really work, based on experi...
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No humans necessary. A transfer platform slides under the car's wheelbase and positions the vehicle to be parked automatically in a basement of 500 Walnut. Image: Westfalia Technologies
This is the first “palletless” system that Westfalia Technologies has installed.
Courtesy Gensler
Eight firms in total revealed concepts for the first fully considered and technically feasible Sk...
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Courtesy Raleigh Union Station.
Clearscapes and STV designed the adaptive reuse project.
Workers installed six emergency hatches and four large doors to access underground control systems from The BILCO Company along a 8.5 mile rail line currently under construction in Los Angeles.
Besides subway riders, the exit hatches also support construction workers who are working on the...
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The façade required the creation of new algorithms by Newtecnic.
Kansas City’s recent downtown economic boom can be attributed in part to the $850 million, nine-block Kansas City Power + Light District, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, and KC Streetcar, a 2.2-mile light-rail system that opened in May 2016. City of Kansas City.
In Los Angeles, the entertainment district L.A. Live is expected to benefit from the proposed exp...
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The Port of Long Beach in Southern California has engaged in terminal expansions and other infrastructure improvements to handle larger ships coming from Asia and retain its position as one of the America's top ports. Image: Pixabay
But land constraints around the terminals are pushing asset prices and rents to new highs.
Rendering courtesy of Foster + Partners
The project will create key infrastructure for the future development of the city and provide it...
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Courtesy of IBI Group
The route will connect with Toronto public transit.
If safety is the number one priority for train stations, then accessibility comes in at a close s...
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In 2014, Americans spent an average of 42 hours per year sitting in traffic jams.
Chicago's Union Station. Photo: Jazz Guy/Creative Commons.
The third-busiest station in the country needs more space.
Renderings and video courtesy Broadway Malyan. Click here to enlarge.
The $100 million “Crown of Miami” will provide visitors panoramic views, and it will glow at nigh...
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Dero's Bike Depot. Click here to enlarge.
The units accommodate short-term and long-term storage at transit stations, university campuses,...
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Hampton Roads Transit (HRT) Norfolk Transit Center, Norfolk, Virginia. ALPOLIC®/PE in SMX Silver Metallic Finish. Photographed by Chris Cunningham Photography.
Whether building architecture or catching a bus, everyone’s happy when things run right on schedu...
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A 1,200-car parking garage planned for Fairfield, Calif. Rendering courtesy Dreyfuss + Blackford Architecture. Click here to enlarge.
Artwork and patterns will be displayed on the structure’s 600-foot wide façade.
West Hollywood Parking Garage. Photo courtesy LPA Inc. Click here to enlarge.
Using robots to store and fetch parked cars will save on carbon dioxide emissions.
Perforated panels and purple photovoltaic assemblies distinguish the building from the surrounding urban concrete during the day. LED “stripes” and a glowing lantern make the facility pop at night. Photo: Chang Kim Photography. Click here to enlarge.
The Building Team for the MTA Division 13 Bus Operations and Maintenance Facility fit 12 acres’ w...
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The interior of the Oculus structure of the World Trade Venter Transportation Hub is pictured during a media tour of the site in Manhattan, New York City, March 1, 2016. Reuters/ Mike Segar
Designed to look like a dove being released from a child's hands, the Oculus structure, the hub's...
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Target Field Station, Minneapolis, Minn. Photo: ©Morgan Sheff, courtesy Perkins Eastman
BD+C's rankings of the nation's largest transit/TOD sector design and construction firms, as repo...
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Renderings: © Governor Andrew Cuomo
Governor Andrew Cuomo presented plans to turn Pennsylvania Station and the neighboring James A. F...
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This AIA CES Discovery course discusses the six elements of an EIFS wall assembly; common EIFS fa...
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Logan Airport Rental Car Center, Boston. Photo: Arnold Reinhold via Wikimedia Commons
AEC teams have found fertile ground in building or expanding consolidated rental car facilities,...
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Titled the Smart Microgrid Program, the ongoing initiative involves a network of fast and standard charging stations that allow electric cars to be charged in minutes.
The project was the first of its kind in Canada to successfully demonstrate the integration of so...
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KWS Infra is piloting a program to make roads from plastic garbage, including bags and bottles extracted from the ocean. Renderings courtesy KWS Infra
KWS Infra is piloting a program to make roads from plastic garbage, including bags and bottles ex...
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Photo: The Forest Home Garage in Ithaca, N.Y. All images courtesy of Green Parking Council.
The new program rates parking structures based on 48 elements of operation, from water reuse to b...
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Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center
The Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC) is the Grand Central Station of the...
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