Reconstruction Awards
Kings Theatre, Brooklyn, N.Y. - Platinum Award winner, 2015. Photo: Matt Lambros Photography
The 2016 Reconstruction Awards recognize the best reconstructed, renovated, or remodeled projects...
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Intrinsic School, Chicago. 2015 Gold Award winner. Photo: Steve Hall, Hedrich Blessing
Only projects completed or occupied between January 1, 2015 and July 8, 2016 are eligible.
Millennium Lakeside Garage in Chicago. Photos: Western Specialty Contractors
Millennium Lakeside Garage, the largest underground parking facility in the U.S., hadn’t been wat...
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An earthquake and Hurricane Irene caused damage to the Washington Monument in 2011. Photos courtesy Hill International
This restoration and repair project, which was completed under budget and eight days early (despi...
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Photos: Terry Shapiro
The scope of the project included the seminary dorms, library, and chapel, all of which posed the...
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Photo: Judy Davis, Hoachlander Davis Photography.
The L’Enfant Plaza, a three-story below-grade mall, was renovated to include a new glass atrium p...
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Chris Cooper Photography/Courtesy Perkins Eastman.
The Lenox Hill Healthplex, a restoration of the Curran O’Toole Building, has glass-block walls an...
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Yale's Sterling Memorial Library. Photo: Brian Rose.
Turner Construction and Helpern Architects revived the 150-foot-long nave, which was embellished...
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The project repurposed the 16-story Gibbons Building and the 19-story Steger Building into 124 student living units with 409 beds. Photo courtesy Papageorge Haymes Partners
The renovation of three historic downtown buildings—the Gibbons and Steger Buildings and Pickwick...
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St. Louis’s Sun Theater was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Photo: Michael Kelley.
Lawrence Group and property owner TLG Beaux Arts raised $11 million to restore the 26,000-sf thea...
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Smithsonian Institution’s Arts & Industries Building, the institution’s second building, and the first to house the National Museum. Photo: Maxwell MacKenzie, Architectural Photographer.
After removing decades’ worth of unfortunate additions to expose 17 historic interior spaces for...
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Photo: Steve Hall, Hedrich Blessing.
While the existing structures were in poor condition, the Building Team preserved and restored 75...
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The Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School serves 1,300 students (pre-K to 12) at its facilities on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, near Central Park. Photos: Andrew Mohat Media
The 251-year-old NYC school was a design-build project that overcame issues like tight space and...
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A second skylight was placed above the hallmark atrium skylight; only the steel framework of the original was kept. Photo courtesy Whitney Partners.
Four years ago, Whitney Partners purchased the 253,000-sf Whitney for $3.3 million. Their mission...
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The nearly 150,000-sf Saieh Hall for Economics had to be sqeezed into tight quarters on the Hyde Park campus of the University of Chicago. Photo: Tom Rossiter.
The five-story, 100,000-sf seminary was converted into a modern education facility that would be...
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The final result of the Kings Theatre redevelopment gracefully emulates the original design by theater architects Rapp & Rapp and interior designer Harold W. Rambusch. Photo: Matt Lambros Photography
The theater, which withstood vacancy, neglect and vandalism, has been redeveloped with a goal: ba...
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