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JLL, Alston Construction, Hill International, Accenture, CDM Smith, Michael Baker International, Arup US, and WSP top Building Design+Construction's ranking of the nation's largest...
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DLR Group's Jose Sanchez, Principal & Mixed-Use Design Leader, shows how entertainment districts—when designed with empathy, flexibility, and equity—can be long-term social and...
Nov. 24, 2025
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Image courtesy Flad Architects
As neurodiversity awareness grows, Flad’s Senior Design Research Analyst Preeti Dalvie highlights how intentional design can unlock human potential.
Nov. 21, 2025
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Paying tribute to Maine's timber heritage, 100 Rock Row is the state's first CLT (cross-laminated timber) office building. It combines renewable materials, daylight, and biophilic design to reduce carbon, improve wellness, and boost productivity
Page highlights how mass timber can cut carbon, boost wellness, and speed construction—showcasing why engineered wood is reshaping modern building design.
Nov. 19, 2025
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Photo courtesy Beyer Blinder Belle
Beyer Blinder Belle shows how pragmatic sustainability can revive historic buildings, turning a neglected SRO into Columbia University’s first all-electric dorm.
Nov. 18, 2025

Giants 400 Rankings

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Jacobs, WSP, AECOM, Burns & McDonnell, Thornton Tomasetti, Jensen Hughes, Salas O'Brien, CMTA, and NV5 Global head Building Design+Construction's ranking of the nation's largest...
Nov. 24, 2025
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Arcadis North America, Stantec, Gensler, KTGY, AO, NORR, Cline, and Handel Architects top Building Design+Construction's ranking of the nation's largest apartment building and...
Nov. 11, 2025
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Image by RealStash from Pixabay
Kimley-Horn, AECOM, WSP, Salas O'Brien, LANGAN, Thornton Tomasetti, DeSimone Consulting Engineering, EXP, and IMEG top Building Design+Construction's ranking of the nation's largest...
Nov. 11, 2025
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Image by Rolando Otero from Pixabay
Suffolk, Summit Contracting Group, CBG Building Company, Clark Group, STO Building Group, The McShane Companies, JE Dunn Construction, and Swinerton top Building Design+Construction...
Nov. 11, 2025

Multifamily Pro+

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Rents declined across multifamily and build-to-rent sectors in October, with softening demand and falling absorption rates reshaping trends in major U.S. markets, according to...
Nov. 18, 2025
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State will offer money, guidance, and technical assistance.
Nov. 14, 2025
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Road Closure From Flooding. Road closed due to river flooding in neighborhood.
Redfin’s study found that high-risk counties are losing population while low-risk counties are gaining residents.
Nov. 14, 2025
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Photo © Erik Rank, courtesy BDB Construction
BDB Construction has converted a historic Holiday Inn into the world's tallest student residence, featuring 650 beds and modern amenities with phased occupancy achieved ahead ...
Nov. 12, 2025

Healthcare Facilities

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The BMO Convention Centre Expansion, designed by Stantec Architecture. Photo courtesy Stantec
BD+C's newly launched Elev8 Design Awards recognize new construction and major renovation and historic preservation projects that raise the bar for design innovation, sustainability...
Nov. 24, 2025
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Photo courtesy HGA
Designed by HGA, the project reimagines lightweight steel and wood-framed office structures—materials not typical in healthcare design—as cutting-edge medical facilities.
Nov. 20, 2025
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HOK explores the “trial-ready” hospital, where research and treatment unite to accelerate breakthroughs and redefine the future of cancer care.
Nov. 12, 2025
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Turner Construction, DPR Construction, McCarthy Holdings, Robins & Morton, STO Building Group, Whiting-Turner Contracting, Brasfield & Gorrie, and JE Dunn Construction head Building...
Oct. 27, 2025

Education Facilities

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Designed by Huckabee, the $62 million school offers a safe, light-filled, and trauma-informed space following months of community input.
Nov. 24, 2025
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Photo courtesy Mote SEA and TVS
The TVS-designed Mote Science Education Aquarium, a $130 million, 146,000-sf facility, expects to welcome 700,000 guests in its first year.
Nov. 20, 2025
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In part two of this series, Brian Halsey, Architect and Partner of RDG Planning & Design, explores how thoughtful equipment planning can help facilities integrate new technology...
Nov. 5, 2025
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From locker rooms to stadiums, colleges are repurposing, renovating, and tech-upgrading sports facilities to boost athlete performance, recruitment, and fan experience.
Nov. 3, 2025

AEC Tech Innovation

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The skilled labor crisis demands a look at new technology, says McKinsey Report.
Nov. 7, 2025
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AEC firms see improved decision-making as AI’s top benefit, but new BuiltWorlds data shows its advantages extend far beyond smarter project insights.
Nov. 4, 2025
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The world’s first large-scale, one-of-a-kind, affordable housing development using 3D printing technology, Zuri Gardens located in Houston, Texas, will print its first home on...
Oct. 29, 2025
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SMRs can help sustainably power AI data centers. AI can help design the SMRs. "It’s a symbiotic relationship that we’re excited about," according to Stantec.
Oct. 29, 2025

Office+Workplace

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Choosing to incorporate features like nature in an indoor environment requires discovery: surveying staff, analyzing space usage, understanding end users’ needs, and adapting through feedback and data
Eric Linebarger, Workplace Design Leader, Burns & McDonnell, argues that workplace design must evolve from "how many people fit" to "how well people thrive" in spaces built with...
Nov. 11, 2025
Hudson’s Detroit mixed-use development. Photo courtesy Bedrock
Hudson’s Detroit mixed-use development. Photo courtesy Bedrock
The site of the former J.L. Hudson, a Detroit department store built over a century ago, has been reimagined as Hudson’s Detroit, a $1.5 billion, 1.5 million-sf mixed-used development...
Oct. 28, 2025
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On September 5, the developer Goldenrod Companies and the GC OLINE Construction broke ground in western Fort Worth, Texas, on the eight-story Van Zandt Building, a $400 million mixed-use project designed by Holland Basham Architects that will include 100,000 sf of office space and 226 apartments.
Mixed-use projects drive building activity through third quarter of 2025.
Oct. 24, 2025
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The construction of JPMorgan Chase's new headquarters included improvements to surrounding buildings and infrastructure.
The all-electric building will be the workplace for 10,000 employees.
Oct. 21, 2025

Cultural Facilities

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The Ismaili Center’s façade and Reflecting Fountain, as seen in the evening. Photo Iwan Baan
The Center will serve as both a place of religious congregation for Shia Ismaili Muslims and a welcoming space for the wider community.
Nov. 19, 2025
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Port Wonder Children’s Museum and Nature Center, Lake Charles, La. Photo credit: CambridgeSeven
The Port Wonder Children’s Museum and Nature Center paves the way for a larger lakefront development plan in southwest Louisiana, near the Texas border.
Nov. 11, 2025
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Natural light bathes one of the performance spaces within Dartmouth College's Hopkins Center for the Arts, which has completed an extensive renovation.
The upgrades and addition are meant to encourage experimentation and spontaneity.
Nov. 3, 2025
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Photo courtesy IMEG Corp.
IMEG’s John Panek details how engineers transformed a 1926 Renaissance Revival YMCA into the modern, art-filled 21c Museum Hotel in St. Louis.
Oct. 23, 2025

Retail Buildings

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Rendering courtesy Cooper Robertson
Dead malls are becoming downtowns again—see how mixed-use design and right-sized retail are reviving community life in cities across the U.S.
Oct. 17, 2025
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Cape Coral Grove Town Center is a vibrant mixed-use project that will welcome retail shops and restaurants, boutique hotels and parks, and fresh opportunities for community programming in Cape Coral, Fla.
From premium technological experiences to “eatertainment,” these social hubs are seeing a shift that caters to the young and the lonely.
Aug. 22, 2025
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As consumers continue to navigate a world shaped by economic instability, political uncertainty, and post-pandemic fatigue, one thing is clear: the role of retail is shifting....
Aug. 8, 2025
LuLa Light Mall, Chengdu, China. Image: © MVRDV
LuLa Light Mall, Chengdu, China. Image: © MVRDV
MVRDV’s design for LuLa Light Mall, a largely open-air shopping center under construction in the developing Luxelakes Eco-City district of Chengdu, China, will be formed by a ...
June 30, 2025

Hotel Facilities

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Image by Jan Claus from Pixabay
The Yates Companies, Whiting-Turner Contracting, Suffolk, AECOM, PCL Construction Enterprises, McCarthy Holdings, Balfour Beatty US, and Swinerton top Building Design+Construction...
Oct. 8, 2025
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Photo: Pixabay
Jacobs, EXP, AECOM, IMEG, LANGAN, NV5 Global, Kimley-Horn, Jensen Hughes, and FEA Engineering Services top Building Design+Construction's ranking of the nation's largest hospitality...
Oct. 8, 2025
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Image by Автандил Цецхладзе from Pixabay
Gensler, HKS, WATG, JCJ Architecture, Steelman Partners, DLR Group, HBG Design, Stantec, Cooper Carry, and Kohn Pedersen Fox top Building Design+Construction's ranking of the ...
Oct. 8, 2025
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Courtesy HKS
The original 48,500-sf Union Pacific Depot, built in 1908, was meticulously preserved, honoring the station’s historical significance while introducing a new eight-story guestroom...
Jan. 13, 2025

Sports Facilities

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Pictured: Reggie Smith Softball Facility & Field at the University of San Diego. Photo: © Pink Media Productions, courtesy Level 10 Construction
Turner Construction, AECOM, Gilbane Building Company, Barton Malow Holdings, Whiting-Turner Contracting, Manhattan Construction Group, PCL Construction Enterprises, JE Dunn Construction...
Oct. 2, 2025
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Image by sandler482 from Pixabay
ME Engineers, Walter P Moore, Thornton Tomasetti, Henderson Engineers, LANGAN, Smith Seckman Reid, Kimley-Horn, and IMEG top Building Design+Construction's ranking of the nation...
Oct. 2, 2025
MLB's Athletics planned stadium in Las Vegas. Rendering courtesy HNTB
MLB's Athletics planned stadium in Las Vegas. Rendering courtesy HNTB
Populous, Gensler, HOK, HNTB, AECOM, Perkins&Will, HKS, PBK, Goodwyn Mills Cawood, and TVS top Building Design+Construction's ranking of the nation's largest sports and recreation...
Oct. 2, 2025
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Photo courtesy RDG Planning & Design
The rise of women's sports represents a culture-shifting movement that's redefining the landscape of athletics. Designers have the chance to create the kinds of interstitial, ...
Aug. 18, 2025

Airport Facilities

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Photo by Osman Yunus Bekcan on Unsplash
Hensel Phelps, AECOM, Turner Construction, Holder Construction, The Walsh Group, Clark Group, Swinerton, and Austin Industries top Building Design+Construction's ranking of the...
Oct. 16, 2025
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Photo by Big Dodzy on Unsplash
Jacobs, Burns & McDonnell, Arup US, Mead and Hunt, WSP, Michael Baker International, EXP, Burns Engineering, and Kimley-Horn top Building Design+Construction's ranking of the ...
Oct. 16, 2025
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Photo by Belinda Fewings on Unsplash
AECOM, Gensler, Corgan, PGAL, HOK, HNTB, Fentress Architects, and Page top Building Design+Construction's ranking of the nation's largest airport terminal and airport facility...
Oct. 16, 2025
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Photo courtesy HOK
HOK's Patrick Riddle shares key tips to consider when designing with this sustainable building material.
Oct. 13, 2025