After Occupy L.A. demonstrators camped out on the lawn surrounding Los Angeles City Hall for nearly two months, City Hall Park was in need of repair. Eight months and $1 million...
The Los Angeles Police Department’s Motor Transport Division and Main Street Parking facility needed a parking garage façade that met its practical needs, as well as the strict...
Constructed in 1897, Westlake Hall, at Bradley University, Peoria, Ill., was once the only building in the nation built specifically for horology. It seemed fitting that this ...
Region’s first platinum pre-certified building opens in busy Hong Kong luxury shopping districtLocated in Causeway Bay, one of Hong Kong’s busiest shopping districts, Hysan Place...
Complex colors and textures radiate from new flooring collectionThe new Radiance carpeting collection from Tandus Flooring is a tip-shear/loop collection that uses Sero design...
The Brick Industry Association’s 2012 Brick in Architecture Awards put the spotlight on new projects that make creative use of one of humankind’s oldest and most beloved building...
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 tornado, with winds up to 250 mph, ...
As a company, DPR Construction has a deep-seated commitment to sustainability, its employees, and the communities it serves. A couple of years ago, when the lease for its Phoenix...
Designed by Leo Steif in 1923, the Ralph J. Pomeroy Apartments sat vacant in Chicago’s historic Bryn Mawr district for six years until renovations began in 2010. Now, as part ...
Two years ago, The Walsh Group, a $4 billion construction firm that traces its roots in Chicago back to 1898, found it needed more space for a new training and conference center...
Once home to the Hanan & Son shoe factory, 220 Water Street, Brooklyn, was built in two phases: the first, in 1893, using heavy timber; the second, in 1905, with reinforced...
The historic Hotel John Marshall in Richmond, Va., was designed in 1928 by local architect Marcellus Wright and opened October 30, 1929, the day after the stock market crash that...
Cleveland’s Allen Theatre opened in 1921 as a 3,080-seat movie house. It was spared from the wrecking ball in the 1970s. In the late 1990s it underwent a renovation that reduced...
In 1986, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. began moving its production facilities out of Winston-Salem, N.C. Starting in late 2005, RJR began donating its land and buildings to the newly...
Three years ago, Steve Rice, Dave Fergus, and Mike Miller, partners in the 36-person design firm Rice Fergus Miller, bought a vacant and derelict Sears Auto store in downtown ...
Building 1500 at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla., was constructed in 1939 as an Army barracks. Over the years, it was renovated a number of times and at one time served as the...
Built in 1812, New York’s City Hall ranks among the most important historic buildings in the nation’s most populous and, some would argue, grandest city. With its elaborate furnishings...
To a large degree, building security is driven by the integration of a variety of electronic security systems. The market and engineering of these systems exploded in the post...
MySmartPlans is a relatively new software tool that uses Internet-enabled collaboration to make project-related activities transparent and ensure that current documentation is...
HMC employees give back to their communities through toy drives and fundraising efforts like CANstruction, which benefits local food banks. Employees raised $4,200 for assistance...
“We take a multifaceted approach to professional development,” says Pasqual V. Gutierrez, AIA, Director of Architecture. Among HMC’s career development programs: • IDP Forum, ...
Founded in 2009 with an initial endowment of $1.9 million, HMC’s nonprofit Designing Futures Foundation (DFF) has donated about $230,000 in its three years of existence, including...
For much of its 72-year existence, HMC Architects, a 375-employee firm headquartered in Ontario, Calif., was known chiefly for its deep roots in Southern California’s K-12 education...
Dallas mixed-use development to offer scenic living, retail optionsConstruction began recently on the first phase of Lake Highlands Town Center, a mixed-use development in northeast...
