April 26, 2018 | Codes and Standards | Peter Fabris, Contributing Editor
ASTM International guidance supports cost-effective ways to withstand and recover from disasters.
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Reconstruction Awards
Seaholm Power Plant Redevelopment, Austin, Texas, a Gold Award winner in BD+C's Reconstruction Awards. Photo: Casey Dunn Photography
January 05, 2018 | BD+C Staff
Only projects completed or occupied between January 1, 2017 and July 13, 2018 are eligible.
Provo City Center Temple, Provo, Utah. Photo: Intellectual Reserve, Inc.
January 05, 2018 | BD+C Staff
The 2018 Reconstruction Awards recognize the best reconstructed, renovated, or remodeled projects...
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Keep this tip sheet handy when preparing your Reconstruction Awards entry, as these are some item...
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Photos: Karl Connolly Photography
December 01, 2017 | David Barista, Editorial Director
In restoring the theater, the design team employed what it calls a “rescued ruin” preservation ap...
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Photo: David Wakely
December 01, 2017 | David Barista, Editorial Director
This project involved the renovation and restoration of the 57,000-sf hall, and the construction...
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Courtesy: RXR Realty.
December 01, 2017 | David Barista, Editorial Director
To make way for new ground-floor retail and a more dramatic entrance and lobby, the team removed...
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November 30, 2017 | BD+C Staff
Provo City Center Temple, the Union Trust Building, and the General Motors Factory One are just a...
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The Log, a historic deep-energy retrofit with a 15kW PV system. The enhanced building envelope yielded a measured annual energy consumption 50% less than the national average for restaurants. Ethan Drinker Photography
November 29, 2017 | Robert Cassidy, Executive Editor
The project team conducted surveys of students, faculty, and staff to get their input.
The 2,300-sf penthouse in The Sanctuary sold for $1.5 million. The owner has exclusive access to an 85-foot-tall bell tower, the highest private view in D.C.
November 29, 2017 | Robert Cassidy, Executive Editor
The windows became The Sanctuary’s chief sales edge.
The public galleria at 195 Broadway connects Dey and Fulton Streets in Manhattan. Display boxes lining the galleria were pre-approved by the Landmarks Preservation Commission for retail signage. Photo: Allen Schindler
November 28, 2017 | Robert Cassidy, Executive Editor
The adaptation of the 45,000-sf neoclassical lobby at 195 Broadway created three retail spaces an...
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The Roosevelt Senior High School atrium is covered with 10,000 sf of electrochromic glass. Acoustical baffles, 32 feet in height, celebrate the many nationalities represented in the school’s community.
November 27, 2017 | Robert Cassidy, Executive Editor
The project team, led by architect Perkins Eastman, restored the original cupola.
The renovated entry with custom-made replica columns. The original columns were removed in the 1950s.
November 27, 2017 | Robert Cassidy, Executive Editor
The project team had to fix poor renovations made in the ’50s.
November 27, 2017 | Robert Cassidy, Executive Editor
Patient friendly: The University of Chicago Medicine Center for Care and Discovery adds 203 new beds
Strict infection control and life safety measures were implemented to protect patients on other f...
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November 27, 2017 | Robert Cassidy, Executive Editor
The automotive giant salvages the place from which it sprang, 131 years ago.
The 150-seat Lucille Pizzeria’s reclaimed wood flooring, arched windows, and 1930s-style chandeliers. The bank vault was turned into a lounge with a newly cut window, just in case the door got shut.
November 21, 2017 | Robert Cassidy, Executive Editor
The first floor features a zinc bar and an authentic Neapolitan pizza oven.
The first-floor Arts Commission Gallery. Kyle Jeffers Photography.
November 21, 2017 | Robert Cassidy, Executive Editor
The Veterans Building houses the War Memorial staff, the city’s Arts Commission, the Opera’s lear...
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The light-filled, five-story atrium connects the new addition with the existing building and provides gathering space for students. Photo: Jon Miller – Hedrich Blessing Photographers
November 20, 2017 | Robert Cassidy, Executive Editor
The two-phase project revamped an opaque, horseshoe-shaped labyrinth of seven buildings from the...
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The Grand Staircase of The Gray, a new Kimpton hotel. The original building was designed by William Le Baron Jenney, known as the father of the skyscraper. Photo: Laure Joliet
November 17, 2017 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
The Building Team restored the granite and terra cotta façade and reclaimed more than 500 double-...
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Pittsburgh’s Union Trust Building occupies an entire city block, rising to 237 feet. Two Flemish-Gothic “chapels” on the roof house the building’s mechanical components. Photo: © Robert Benson.
November 17, 2017 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
The building was in such disrepair that much of the reconstruction budget had to go toward struct...
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The gastropub at Kitchen 21 has an 85-foot-long bar with 32 beers on tap. The space can be changed from a daytime café for beachgoers, to evening fine dining, to a concert venue. Photo: Todd Mason, Halken/Mason Photography.
November 16, 2017 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
This project included the restoration of the landmark Childs Restaurant.
The project team for Cleveland’s Ohio Theatre used archived drawings and photographs like the one in the inset to create coloration and design renderings for the restoration of the lobby.
November 15, 2017 | John Caulfield, SEnior Editor
The restoration relied heavily on historic photos and drawings.
The Sealing Room is where couples are married and sealed to one another in the LDS faith. Interior finishes needed to capture purity, eternity, and love. All photos © Intellectual Reserve, Inc.
November 14, 2017 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
Parts of the tabernacle’s exterior shell were the only things that survived the blaze.
The afterschool program in the new clubhouse attracts children whose grandparents once attended PS 186. The Boys & Girls Club of Harlem partnered with Alembic Community Development and Monadnock Development on the $45.4 million project. Photo: David Sundberg / ESTO.
November 13, 2017 | Robert Cassidy, Executive Editor
Word that PS 186 might be demolished brought out the preservationists, whose letter-writing campa...
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November 16, 2016 | BD+C Staff
St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Lovejoy Wharf, and the Bay Area Metro Center are just a few of the proje...
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The rehabilitation included the restoration of the exterior masonry, porches, windows, and roofing. © 2014 Jonathan Hillyer
November 16, 2016 | BD+C Staff
The data center can scale to 24 MW. QTS prefers to retrofit rather than build new. Mark Weirda / Cultivate Studios.
November 16, 2016 | BD+C Staff
Two long-concealed vaulted ceilings in the second-floor galleries were restored. The project had to obtain with numerous regulatory approvals. Courtesy Smithsonian American Art Museum.
November 16, 2016 | BD+C Staff
The renovation restored two long-concealed vaulted ceilings in the second-floor galleries and rec...
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The Massachusetts Maritime Academy, on Cape Cod. The residential addition is behind the Mess Deck in the foreground. Ben Johnson / Shawmut Design and Construction
November 16, 2016 | BD+C Staff
The two-story “overbuild” employed block and plank construction with drag strut detailing to conn...
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