Construction was recently completed on The Retail Village at Sycamore & Oak,

Retail Centers

David Adjaye-designed mass timber structure will be a business incubator for D.C.-area entrepreneurs

Construction was recently completed on The Retail Village at Sycamore & Oak, a 22,000-sf building that will serve as a business incubator for entrepreneurs, including emerging black businesses, in Washington, D.C. The facility, designed by Sir David Adjaye, the architect of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, is expected to attract retail and food concepts that originated in the community.

Performing Arts Centers

Mumbai, India’s new Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre has three performing arts venues

In Mumbai, India, the recently completed Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC) will showcase music, theater, and fine arts from India and from across the globe. Atlanta’s TVS Design served as the principal architect and interior designer of both the cultural center and the larger, adjacent Jio World Centre.

St. Vincent Health Sciences Center at St. John’s University will feature geothermal heating, cooling

University Buildings

New health sciences center at St. John’s University will feature geothermal heating, cooling

The recently topped off St. Vincent Health Sciences Center at St. John’s University in New York City will feature impressive green features including geothermal heating and cooling along with an array of rooftop solar panels. The geothermal field consists of 66 wells drilled 499 feet below ground which will help to heat and cool the 70,000 sf structure.

The New Parkland Hospital Advances Services, Sustainability, and Style

Built in 1954, the Dallas Parkland Hospital had become severely overcrowded and outdated. The…

Design Collaborative

Modernizing mental health care in emergency departments: Improving patient outcomes

In today’s mental health crisis, there is a widespread shortage of beds to handle certain populations. Patients may languish in the ED for hours or days before they can be linked to an appropriate inpatient program.

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The power of student engagement: How on-campus student housing can increase enrollment

Studies have confirmed that students are more likely to graduate when they live on campus, particularly when the on-campus experience encourages student learning and engagement, writes Design Collaborative's Nathan Woods, AIA.

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How to properly assess structural wind damage

Properly assessing wind damage can identify vulnerabilities in a building's design or construction, which could lead to future damage or loss, writes Matt Wagner, SE, Principal and Managing Director with Walter P Moore.

Walter P Moore

27 important questions about façade leakage

Walter P Moore’s Darek Brandt discusses the key questions building owners and property managers should be asking to determine the health of their building's façade.

Legat Architects

How to achieve cost-effective kindergarten classrooms

Educational architect Robin Randall shares realistic advice about the challenges of adding developmentally appropriate, play-based kindergarten classrooms while respecting budget limitations.

HOK

Office design in the era of Gen Z, AI, and the metaverse

HOK workplace and interior design experts Kay Sargent and Tom Polucci share how the hybrid office is evolving in the era of artificial intelligence, Gen Z, and the metaverse.

Shepley Bulfinch

Designing a pedestrian-focused city in downtown Phoenix

What makes a city walkable? Shepley Bulfinch's Omar Bailey, AIA, LEED AP, NOMA, believes pedestrian focused cities benefit most when they're not only easy to navigate, but also create spaces where people can live, work, and play.

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Rendering of the UCI Medical Center in Irvine, Calif., touted to be the nation's first all-electric healthcare facility. images: CO Architects

Healthcare Facilities

UC Irvine takes sustainability to new level with all-electric medical center

The University of California at Irvine (UCI) has a track record for sustainability. Its under-construction UCI Medical Center is designed, positioned, and built to preserve the nearby San Joaquin Marsh Reserve, to reduce the facility’s solar gain by 85%, and to be the first medical center in the country to operate on an all-electric central plant.

Cladding and Facade Systems

Façade innovation: University of Stuttgart tests a ‘saturated building skin’ for lessening heat islands

HydroSKIN is a façade made with textiles that stores rainwater and uses it later to cool hot building exteriors. The façade innovation consists of an external, multilayered 3D textile that acts as a water collector and evaporator.

University Buildings

Supersizing higher education: Tracking the rise of mega buildings on university campuses

Mega buildings on higher education campuses aren’t unusual. But what has been different lately is the sheer number of supersized projects that have been in the works over the last 12–15 months.

Arenas

A new communications platform aims to help sports and entertainment venues operate greener

GOAL (for Green Operations and Advanced Leadership) will give operators ways to gauge their sustainability journeys.

Special Report

Reinforced concrete fins provide shade to the 300-meter-tall National Bank of Kuwait headquarters. Photo: Nigel Young/Foster + Partners

Design Innovation Report

Reinforced concrete walls and fins stiffen and shade the National Bank of Kuwait skyscraper

When the National Bank of Kuwait first conceived its new headquarters more than a decade ago, it wanted to make a statement about passive design with a soaring tower that could withstand the extreme heat of Kuwait City, the country’s desert capital.

Design Innovation Report

Reinforced concrete walls and fins stiffen and shade the National Bank of Kuwait skyscraper

Design Innovation Report

HDR uses artificial intelligence tools to help design a vital health clinic in India

Architects from HDR worked pro bono with iKure, a technology-centric healthcare provider, to build a healthcare clinic in rural India.

Design Innovation Report

Meet The Hithe: A demountable building for transient startups

The Hithe, near London, is designed to be demountable and reusable. The 2,153-sf building provides 12 units of business incubator workspace for startups.

Multifamily Housing

Public-private partnerships crucial to central business district revitalization

Central Business Districts are under pressure to keep themselves relevant as they face competition from new, vibrant mixed-use neighborhoods emerging across the world’s largest cities.

Multifamily Housing

Minnesota expected to adopt building code that would cut energy use by 80%

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is expected to soon sign a bill that would change the state’s commercial building code so that new structures would use 80% less energy when compared to a 2004 baseline standard. The legislation aims for full implementation of the new code by 2036.

Student Housing

The power of student engagement: How on-campus student housing can increase enrollment

Urban Planning

Designing a pedestrian-focused city in downtown Phoenix

Multifamily Housing

Income-based electric bills spark debate on whether they would harm or hurt EV and heat pump adoption

Starting in 2024, the electric bills of most Californians could be based not only on how much power they use, but also on how much money they make. Those who have higher incomes would pay more; those with lower incomes would see their electric bills decline - a concept known as income-based electric bills.

Multifamily Housing

Boston’s new stretch code requires new multifamily structures to meet Passive House building requirements

Phius certifications are expected to become more common as states and cities boost green building standards. The City of Boston recently adopted Massachusetts’s so-called opt-in building code, a set of sustainability standards that goes beyond the standard state code.

Multifamily Housing

Milhaus, Gershman Partners, and Citimark close on $70 million multifamily development in Indy

Versa will bring 233 studio and one- and two-bedroom apartments to Indianapolis's $271 million, Class-A Broad Ripple Village development enterprise.

SALTO is Changing the Game in Multifamily Access Control

The future of residential electronic access control is finally here. SALTO Systems provides the…

Giants 400

Call for surveys: 2023 Giants 400 Report

The 2023 Giants 400 Report will feature more than 130 AEC firm rankings across 25 building sectors and specialty categories.

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 construction firms across 25 building sectors and specialty categories. Meet the Giants 400.

Giants 400

New Giants 400 download: Get the complete at-a-glance 2022 Giants 400 rankings in Excel

See how your architecture, engineering, or construction firm stacks up against the nation's AEC Giants. For more than 45 years, the editors of Building Design+Construction have surveyed the largest AEC firms in the U.S./Canada to create the annual Giants 400 report. This year, a record 519 firms participated in the Giants 400 report. The final report includes 137 rankings across 25 building sectors and specialty categories.

AEC Tech Innovation

Meet Diverge, Hensel Phelps' new ConTech investment company

BIM and Information Technology

What AEC professionals should know about digital twins

Sustainability

Increased focus on sustainability is good for business and attracting employees

Market Intelligence

Skanska USA's mental health trainees are identified by a Green Sticker

Communication is the key to AEC firms’ mental health programs and training

Contractors

The average U.S. contractor has 8.9 months worth of construction work in the pipeline, as of April 2023

Multifamily Housing

One out of three office buildings in largest U.S. cities are suitable for residential conversion

Project + Process Innovation

3D-printed medical center from COBOD in Saraburi, Thailand

3D Printing

World’s first 3D-printed medical center completed

AEC Tech

Utilizing computer vision, AI technology for visual jobsite tasks

Design Innovation Report

Reinforced concrete walls and fins stiffen and shade the National Bank of Kuwait skyscraper

Podcasts

• Life of an Architect Podcast

Life of an Architect Podcast Ep. 123: Interviews Just Aren’t that Hard

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Life of an Architect Podcast Ep. 122: Architecture and Artificial Intelligence

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Life of an Architect Podcast Ep. 121: Material Selection

Healthcare Facilities

Modernizing mental health care in emergency departments: Improving patient outcomes

Healthcare Facilities

High-rise cancer center delivers new model for oncology care

Atlanta’s 17-story Winship Cancer Institute at Emory Midtown features two-story communities that organize cancer care into one-stop destinations. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and May Architecture, the facility includes comprehensive oncology facilities—including inpatient beds, surgical capacity, infusion treatment, outpatient clinics, diagnostic imaging, linear accelerators, and areas for wellness, rehabilitation, and clinical research.

Healthcare Facilities

A new behavioral health facility in California targets net zero energy

Shortly before Mental Health Awareness Month in May, development and construction firm Skanska announced the topping out of California’s first behavioral health facility—and the largest in the nation—to target net zero energy. Located in Redwood City, San Mateo County, Calif., the 77,610-sf Cordilleras Health System Replacement Project is slated for completion in late 2024.

3D Printing

World’s first 3D-printed medical center completed

3D construction printing reached new heights this week as the world’s first 3D-printed medical center was completed in Thailand.

Sustainability

Let's build toward a circular economy

Eric Corey Freed, Director of Sustainability, CannonDesign, discusses the values of well-designed, regenerative buildings.

BIM and Information Technology

What AEC professionals should know about digital twins

A growing number of AEC firms and building owners are finding value in implementing digital twins to unify design, construction, and operational data.

Design Innovation Report

BD+C's 2023 Design Innovation Report

Building Design+Construction’s Design Innovation Report presents projects, spaces, and initiatives—and the AEC professionals behind them—that push the boundaries of building design. This year, we feature four novel projects and one building science innovation.

Sustainability

13 trends, technologies, and strategies to expect in 2023

Biophilic design, microgrids, and decarbonization—these are three of the trends, technologies, and strategies IMEG’s market and service leaders believe are poised to have a growing impact on the built environment.

Sponsored Content

The New Parkland Hospital Advances Services, Sustainability, and Style

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Sponsored Content

• Life of an Architect Podcast

Life of an Architect Podcast Ep. 123: Interviews Just Aren’t that Hard

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Life of an Architect Podcast Ep. 122: Architecture and Artificial Intelligence

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Life of an Architect Podcast Ep. 121: Material Selection

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