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Evaporative cooling keeps glass atrium comfortable

Cooling a 58,000-sq.-ft. glass atrium is a challenge in itself, but doing so in a desert…

Luxury Hotel required faceted design

Goettsch Partners, Chicago, designed a new five-star, 214-room hotel for the…

Phase two under way for UNC's genetic medicine research center

The second phase of construction has begun on the 331,000-sf Genetic Medicine Building at the…

City college seeks to revitalize Chicago's Englewood neighborhood

Kennedy-King College’s new $100 million campus in Chicago’s Englewood…

Green in the Windy City: A sample of Chicago’s sustainable architecture in the works

Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art is hosting an exhibit, “Sustainable Architecture in…

Patients walk into the labyrinth at rehabilitation hospital

A circular courtyard fitted with a meditative labyrinth is the primary architectural icon of…

Historic Ritz-Carlton reopens in the Big Easy

Sixteen months after Hurricane Katrina caused heavy wind and flood damage to the Ritz-Carlton…

Caltech to get world-class astronomy and astrophysics facility

                  A tlanta-based…

Interim hospital opens in tornado-ravaged town

Just 13 months after a tornado ripped through Americus, Ga., killing two people and destroying…

ASU plans downtown Phoenix campus

Arizona State University, with an enrollment of 57,000, is planning a downtown Phoenix campus…

Hotel boom ends but remains active

The hotel construction market expanded sharply last year and is expected to stay at its…

Accident Fund Insurance to transform power plant into headquarters

Accident Fund Insurance Company of America has started to transform the Lansing (Mich.) Board…

Stimulus funding helps get NOAA project off the ground

The award-winning design for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…

News briefs

Government plans to build new embassy in Iraq. Marking the beginning of the post-Saddam…

BD+C's Robert Cassidy talks climate change with CSI, U.S. DOE

Building Design+Construction's chief editor, Robert Cassidy, warned members of the Washington…

Government buildings' gallop in 2000 slows to trot

Spending for the construction of public buildings other than educational and health facilities…

Just radiant

Software simplifies the design and pricing of radiant-heat flooring systems. Users input data about…

Massive mixed-use project under way in Vegas

Union Park, a $6 billion mixed-use center in downtown Las Vegas, will combine nine million sf…

$12 Million Rugby Facility Planned for West Point

Baker Barrios Architects of Orlando, Fla., has completed designs for a rugby training facility…

As steel rises, design team eyes interior scheme

While general contractor Holder Construction Corp., Atlanta, and its local partner Hawkins…