Reconstruction & Renovation

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on May 05,2013

Call for Entries: 2013 Reconstruction Awards. Deadline July 19, 2013
Winners will be profiled in October 2013 issue of Building Design+Construction

on May 02,2013

Italian innovators Andrea Sesta and Daniela Galvani hope to create a worldwide database of abandoned facilities, ripe for redevelopment, with their [im]possible living internet community.

on April 19,2013

Construction crews are going to extremes to save the ornate brick façade of the Provo (Utah) Tabernacle temple, which was ravaged by a fire in December 2010.

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on May 05,2013 in Feature

Keep this tip sheet handy when preparing your Reconstruction Awards entry, as these are some items on which your project will be judged....

To maximize daylight and views for the children, alternating windows of the firs
on January 03,2013 in Feature

A bold renovation enables a small church to expand its mission on a grand scale.

The design for Joplin Interim High  took advantage of large openings, oversized
on October 05,2012 in Feature

At 5:41 p.m. CDT on Sunday, May 22, 2011, an EF5 tornado touched down in Joplin, Mo. In the next 31 minutes, the mile-wide, multiple-vortex...

In addition to achieving net-zero energy use and LEED-NC Platinum certification,
on October 05,2012 in Feature

Working with A/E firm SmithGroupJJR, DPR converted a vacant 16,533-sf one-time “adult-themed boutique” in the city’s reemerging Discovery Triangle...

The Pomeroy Senior Apartments building, in Chicago’s Bryn Mawr district. The ext
on October 05,2012 in Feature

The entire interior of the building was renovated, from the first floor lobby and common areas, to the rooftop spaces. The number of living units...

A 1953 Allis-Chalmers bulldozer in the central atrium of the Walsh Training and
on October 05,2012 in Feature

With its Building Team partners—architect Solomon Cordwell Buenz, structural engineer CS Associates, and M/E engineer McGuire Engineers—Walsh...

Formerly an open-air courtyard, the two-story grand lobby is now the centerpiece
on October 05,2012 in Feature

The recent rehabilitation of 220 Water Street transforms it from a vacant manufacturing facility to a 134-unit luxury apartment building in...

After years of neglect, the Building Team returned the lobby of the former Hotel
on October 05,2012 in Feature

In April 2010, the Building Team of Rule Joy Trammell + Rubio, Stanley D. Lindsey & Associates, Leppard Johnson & Associates, and Choate...

A former movie house, the Allen Theatre was built in 1921 to seat more than 3,00
on October 04,2012 in Feature

The $30 million project resulted in three new theatres in the existing 81,500-sf space and a 44,000-sf contiguous addition: the Allen Theatre, the...

The Building Team preserved more than 65,000 glass blocks, which, if laid end to
on October 04,2012 in Feature

Reconstruction centered on Building 91.1, a historic (1937) five-story former machine shop, with its distinctive façade of glass blocks, many of...