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Rogers stadium, Toronto. Rendering courtesy Live Nation Canada
Events Facilities

Live Nation to build open-air music venue at Toronto’s Downsview Airport

With a capacity of 50,000, Rogers Stadium will be located at YZD, the $30 billion redevelopment of the former Downsview Airport lands.
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Kay Bailey Hutchison convention center
Events Facilities

Event spaces breathe new life into cities again

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Broad + Noble, the 19-story apartment building in Philadelphia by Toll Brothers Apartment Living
Multifamily Pro+

Top 10 trends in the luxury multifamily housing market

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“The sculptural form of One High Line is a direct response to the site’s historic industrial heritage and contemporary architecture. The two towers are reshaped from top to bottom to open reciprocal views of the High Line promenade and the Hudson River,” Bjarke Ingels, founder and creative director, BIG, said in a statement. Photo: Evan Joseph, courtesy Witkoff & Access Industries
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BIG’s One High Line finally reaches completion in New York City’s West Chelsea neighborhood

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Proposal to address housing crisis calls for converting offices to micro-apartments

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Designers

Designing meaningful spaces through balance and mindfulness

Shelley Warner, Designer, Shepley Bulfinch, explores how designers can create meaningful spaces by balancing personal well-being, mindfulness, and emphasizing the importance of...
Nov. 6, 2024
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University Buildings

The evolution of academic spaces and active learning classrooms

Page Lead Academic Planner Melissa Burns, AIA, and Project Academic Planner Shayne Sobell, AIA, explore why the traditional instructional model has evolved and the space requirements...
Nov. 4, 2024
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Greenacre Park in midtown Manhattan creates a cool and shady microclimate with a pergola, honey locusts, and a misty water feature
Designers / Specifiers / Landscape Architects

Between two buildings: Design solutions to beat the summer heat

To preserve the vitality of the public realm and protect the wellbeing of their residents, cities with warm summers or year-round climates need to plan for extreme heat, just ...
Nov. 1, 2024
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Urban Planning

How early architect involvement can revolutionize a city’s capital improvement plans

Without specialized expertise, cities risk creating space plans or programs that don’t align with budgets, modern construction practices, or emerging trends.
Oct. 31, 2024

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Phase 2 of the three-building Gulch Union project in Nashville is a 357,000-sf, 29-story tower with 308 residences. Rendering: HKS
MFPRO+ News

Project financing tempers robust demand for multifamily housing

AEC Giants with multifamily practices report that the sector has been struggling over the past year, despite the high demand for housing, especially affordable products.“The lending...
Oct. 22, 2024
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K-12 Schools

Eric Dinges named CEO of PBK

PBK, a nationally recognized architectural planning and design firm headquartered in Houston, has named Eric Dinges to serve as its new Chief Executive Officer. PBK ranks #1 in...
April 11, 2024
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Giants 400

Call for surveys: 2024 Giants 400 Report

Building Design+Construction's annual Giants 400 Report ranks the nation's top architecture, architecture/engineering (AE), engineering/architecture (EA), general contractors...
March 6, 2024
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Giants 400

BD+C's Giants 400 Rankings

Every spring, the editors of Building Design+Construction survey the nation's largest architecture, engineering, and construction firms to identify the most prominent design and...
March 4, 2024

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MFPRO+ New Projects

Luxury waterfront tower in Brooklyn features East River and Manhattan skyline views

The Dupont, a 41-story high-rise luxury rental property along the Brooklyn, N.Y., waterfront, provides 20,000 sf of indoor and outdoor communal space.
Oct. 30, 2024
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Office Buildings

Editorial call for Office Building project case studies

BD+C editors are looking to feature a roundup of office building projects for 2024, including office-to-residential conversions. Deadline for submission: December 6, 2024.
Oct. 29, 2024
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Multifamily Housing

A case for mid-rise: How multifamily housing can reshape our cities

Mid-rise apartment buildings have cropped up at an increasing rate in cities across the U.S. in recent years. The reason is two-fold: mid-rise apartment buildings are a cost-effective...
Oct. 28, 2024
Adaptive reuse project Stone Mill Lofts transforms 1840s-era mill building into rental housing. Photo: The Architectural Team, Inc. (TAT)
Adaptive Reuse

Adaptive reuse project transforms 1840s-era mill building into rental housing

A recently opened multifamily property in Lawrence, Mass., is an adaptive reuse of an 1840s-era mill building. Stone Mill Lofts is one of the first all-electric mixed-income multifamily...
Oct. 22, 2024

Healthcare Facilities

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Healthcare Facilities

New surgical tower is largest addition to UNC Health campus in Chapel Hill

Construction on UNC Health’s North Carolina Surgical Hospital, the largest addition to the Chapel Hill campus since it was built in 1952, was recently completed. The seven-story...
Oct. 28, 2024
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Healthcare Facilities

7 design lessons for future-proofing academic medical centers

Academic medical centers (AMCs) are training grounds for physicians and destinations for leading-edge treatment and research. These large, integrated facilities are also incredibly...
Oct. 18, 2024
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Seismic Design

Calif. governor signs limited extension to hospital seismic retrofit mandate

Some California hospitals will have three additional years to comply with the state’s seismic retrofit mandate, after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill extending the 2030 deadline...
Oct. 17, 2024
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Healthcare Facilities

How healthcare operations inform design

Healthcare facilities are a backbone for their communities, necessary for sustaining the health and wellness of all who live there. A lot goes into creating healthcare environments...
Oct. 9, 2024

Education Facilities

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Libraries

Reasons to reinvent the Midcentury academic library

The academic library continues to transform since its inception, dating back to the 1600s when John Harvard donated hundreds of his personal books to create the Harvard University...
Oct. 30, 2024
A hammock grove is one of many wellness amenities within the Student Recreation & Wellness Center at Michigan State University, whose costs are being partly defrayed by a dedicated $340 per year student fee.
University Buildings

Recreation and wellness are bedfellows in new campus student centers

Student demands for amenities and services that address their emotional and mental wellbeing are impacting new development on college campuses that has led to recreation centers...
Oct. 15, 2024
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Higher Education

Higher education design for the first-gen college student

College is a time for aspiring students to discover their identities, develop a career pathway, and find their place in the world. The transition from living at home through high...
Oct. 14, 2024
Des Moines University Medicine and Health Sciences opens a new 88-acre campus, Photo: Michael Robinson Photography, courtesy RDG Planning & Design
University Buildings

Des Moines University Medicine and Health Sciences opens a new 88-acre campus

Des Moines University Medicine and Health Sciences has opened a new campus spanning 88 acres, over three times larger than its previous location.Designed by RDG Planning &...
Oct. 9, 2024

AEC Tech Innovation

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AEC Tech

How AI can augment the design visualization process

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming ubiquitous in our everyday lives. We see it being integrated into a wide range of products and technologies, from smartphones ...
Oct. 16, 2024
El Cosmico campground hotel, Marfa, Texas. Rendering courtesy ICON and Bjarke Ingels Group
3D Printing

3D-printed construction milestones take shape in Tennessee and Texas

Two notable 3D-printed projects mark milestones in the new construction technique of “printing” structures with specialized concrete.In Athens, Tennessee, Walmart hired Alquist...
Oct. 9, 2024
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AEC Tech Innovation

New ABC technology report examines how AI can enhance efficiency, innovation

The latest annual technology report from Associated Builders and Contractors delves into how artificial intelligence can enhance efficiency and innovation in the construction ...
Oct. 8, 2024
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AEC Tech

Publication explores how facility managers can use AI

A new guide, “Gamechanger: A Facility Manager’s Guide to Building a Relationship with AI,” provides a roadmap to understanding and using AI in the built environment.Released by...
Oct. 4, 2024

Office+Workplace

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McCann Worldgroup, London. Photo by Mark Cocksedge.
Office Buildings

3 surprises impacting the return to the office

Research often measures and confirms what we, as designers and strategists, may intuitively believe based on our experience and practice. As a researcher, I love uncovering surprises...
Oct. 21, 2024
Northglenn, a Denver suburb, opens a net zero, all-electric city hall with a mass timber structure. Photo courtesy City of Northglenn
Sustainable Design and Construction

Northglenn, a Denver suburb, opens a net zero, all-electric city hall with a mass timber structure

Northglenn, Colo., a Denver suburb, has opened the new Northglenn City Hall—a net zero, fully electric building with a mass timber structure. The 32,600-sf, $33.7 million building...
Oct. 10, 2024
San Francisco unveils guidelines to streamline office-to-residential conversions Image by Brigitte Werner from Pixabay
MFPRO+ News

San Francisco unveils guidelines to streamline office-to-residential conversions

The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection announced a series of new building code guidelines clarifying adaptive reuse code provisions and exceptions for converting...
Oct. 9, 2024
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The Changing Built Environment

Half-century real estate data shows top cities for multifamily housing, self-storage, and more

Over the last 50 years, the U.S. has changed in numerous ways. The rise in technological innovation, population growth, and the constant push for urban development are just a ...
Sept. 23, 2024

Cultural Facilities

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Cooperman Family Arts Education and Community Center. View north on Mulberry Street. © Weiss/Manfredi | Photo courtesy of NJPAC
Performing Arts Centers

The New Jersey Performing Arts Center breaks ground on $336 million redevelopment of its 12-acre campus

In Newark, N.J., the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) has broken grown on the three-year, $336 million redevelopment of its 12-acre campus.The project will provide downtown...
Oct. 21, 2024
The Delacorte Theater is undergoing a major renovation. Image: Ennead Architects
Performing Arts Centers

A famed performing arts center gets its first facelift in 25 years

The open-air Delacorte Theater in New York City’s Central Park, which since 1962 has been presenting free Shakespeare in the Park and other classical plays, has been undergoing...
Oct. 16, 2024
Studio Gang's performing arts center for Hudson Valley Shakespeare breaks ground. Rendering courtesy Studio Gang
Performing Arts Centers

Studio Gang's performing arts center for Hudson Valley Shakespeare breaks ground

A new permanent home for Hudson Valley Shakespeare, a professional non-profit theater company, recently broke ground in Garrison, N.Y. The Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center includes...
Oct. 10, 2024
North-facing view of The Sweepers by Wang Shugang at the O'Donnell Athenaeum Phase I Museum. Photo: ©Mauricio Rojas, Courtesy of UT Dallas
Museums

UT Dallas opens Morphosis-designed Crow Museum of Asian Art

In Richardson, Tex., the University of Texas at Dallas has opened a second location for the Crow Museum of Asian Art—the first of multiple buildings that will be part of a 12-...
Oct. 1, 2024

Retail Buildings

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Studio Gang completes Verde tower in San Francisco, photo copyright Jason O'Rear, courtesy Studio Gang
Mixed-Use

New mixed-use tower by Studio Gang completes first phase of San Francisco waterfront redevelopment

Construction was recently completed on Verde, a new mixed-use tower along the San Francisco waterfront, marking the end of the first phase of the Mission Rock development. Verde...
Oct. 7, 2024
Mattamy Homes and QuadReal Property Group released the final designs for The Clove, the first phase of the Cloverdale Mall redevelopment. (CNW Group/Mattamy Homes Limited)
Mixed-Use

A Toronto development will transform a 32-acre shopping center site into a mixed-use urban neighborhood

Toronto developers Mattamy Homes and QuadReal Property Group have launched The Clove, the first phase in the Cloverdale, a $6 billion multi-tower development. The project will...
Sept. 20, 2024
Alquist 3D and Walmart complete one of the nation’s largest free-standing, 3D-printed commercial structures
3D Printing

Alquist 3D and Walmart complete one of the nation’s largest free-standing, 3D-printed commercial structures

Walmart has completed one of the largest free-standing, 3D-printed commercial structures in the US. Alquist 3D printed the almost 8,000-sf, 20-foot-high addition to a Walmart ...
Sept. 17, 2024
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Retail Centers

Thinking outside the big box (store)

For over a decade now, the talk of the mall industry has been largely focused on what developers can do to fill the voids left by a steady number of big box store closures. The...
Sept. 17, 2024

Hotel Facilities

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Casinos

New luxury resort casino will be regional draw for Shreveport, Louisiana area

Live! Casino & Hotel Louisiana, the first land-based casino in the Shreveport-Bossier market, recently topped off. The $270+ project will serve as a regional destination for...
July 26, 2024
A Swiss startup devises an intelligent photovoltaic façade that tracks and moves with the sun Photo courtesy Zurich Soft Robotics
Smart Buildings

A Swiss startup devises an intelligent photovoltaic façade that tracks and moves with the sun

A Swiss startup, Zurich Soft Robotics, has devised a photovoltaic façade that tracks and moves with the sun. The company calls Solskin the first commercially available intelligent...
July 25, 2024
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Events Facilities

Raleigh to start construction on convention center expansion

The city of Raleigh, N.C., is ready to break ground on the $387.5 million expansion of its Raleigh Convention Center that will add 300,000 sf to the facility, bringing its total...
May 8, 2024
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Hotel Facilities

The U.S. hotel construction market sees record highs in the first quarter of 2024

As seen in the Q1 2024 U.S. Hotel Construction Pipeline Trend Report from Lodging Econometrics (LE), at the end of the first quarter, there are 6,065 projects with 702,990 rooms...
April 24, 2024

Sports Facilities

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Sports and Recreational Facilities

Smart stadiums: The future of sports and entertainment venues

The convergence of technology and sports has given rise to a new class of venues: smart stadiums. These digitally-enhanced and connected spaces are designed to revolutionize the...
July 15, 2024
Top 70 Sports Facility Construction Firms for 2023 photo Central Bank Center and Rupp Arena in Lexington, Ky., underwent a $300+ million multi-phased, occupied modernization and expansion
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Top 70 Sports Facility Construction Firms for 2023

AECOM, Turner Construction, Clark Group, Mortenson head BD+C's ranking of the nation's largest sports facility contractors and construction management (CM) firms for 2023, as ...
Oct. 17, 2023
Top 130 Sports Facility Architecture Firms for 2023 photo The Alabama A&M University Event Center, designed by Moody Nolan,
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Top 130 Sports Facility Architecture Firms for 2023

Populous, Gensler, HOK, and HKS head BD+C's ranking of the nation's largest sports facility architecture and architecture/engineering (AE) firms for 2023, as reported in Building...
Oct. 17, 2023
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Esports Arenas

Modular esports arena attracts more than gamers

As the esports market continues to grow to unprecedented numbers, more facilities are being developed by universities and real estate firms each year. One higher education institution...
Oct. 10, 2023

Airport Facilities

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Portland opens $2 billion mass timber expansion and renovation to its international airport. Photo: Ema Peter, courtesy ZGF
Airports

Portland opens $2 billion mass timber expansion and renovation to its international airport

This month, the Portland International Airport (PDX) main terminal expansion opened to passengers. Designed by ZGF for the Port of Portland, the one-million-sf project doubles...
Aug. 22, 2024
SOM unveils ‘branching structural’ design for new Satellite Concourse 1 at O’Hare Airport
Airports

SOM unveils ‘branching’ structural design for new Satellite Concourse 1 at O’Hare Airport

The Chicago Department of Aviation has revealed the design for Satellite Concourse 1 at O’Hare International Airport, one of the nation’s business airports.Designed by Skidmore...
June 3, 2024
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Products and Materials

Top building products for May 2024

Building Design+Construction editors bring you the top building products for the month of May. Collected across a variety of building sectors, these products block solar heat,...
May 31, 2024
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Biophilic Design

The benefits of biophilic design in the built environment

Biophilic design supports the health and wellbeing of individuals by connecting people to nature. This includes incorporating elements of the natural world into indoor environments...
May 6, 2024