The Smithsonian Institution’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, located in the National Mall in Washington, D.C., is undergoing its largest revitalization so far, with an expansion in the exhibition space to make it receptive to dramatic increases in attendance and upgrade its sustainability.
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Williamsburg Bridge is set to undergo a revitalization aimed at improving traffic flow across the major East River crossing between Brooklyn and Manhattan. Global construction and development firm, Skanska USA, will lead the $167 million overhaul.
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Angels Landing is a mixed-use project in Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA)’s Bunker Hill area, connecting the various neighborhoods converging at this location, including the Financial District, the Historic Core, the Cultural District and Civic Center, through distinct architectural expression.
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The Hurley Building, part of the Boston Government Services Center (BGSC), is to receive a transformation into a mixed-use development, to revive the unfinished and neglected brutalist structure and improve neighborhood connections in the 2.2-ha (5.5-acre) Downtown Boston site.
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The structure of the Children’s Museum of Eau Claire (CMEC), being built in Wisconsin, utilizes responsibly sourced mass timber, with round-timber columns, joist and girder trusses replacing conventional steel and concrete, resulting in carbon sequestration worth more than 158,757 kg (350,000 lb).
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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has awarded two California projects its San Francisco section 2022 project awards: outstanding geotechnical award for YouTube’s HQ in San Bruno, and outstanding seismic retrofit award for Riverside Elementary in San Pablo.
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A global report by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has found that despite an increase in investment and worldwide success in lowering the energy intensity of buildings, the sector’s total energy consumption and CO2 emissions increased in 2021 above pre-pandemic levels.
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Denver International Airport (DEN), the U.S.’s largest airport, and one of world’s busiest, recently opened its new Concourse A-West, built to reach the goal of increasing the airport’s overall gate capacity by 30 percent, and expanding the annual traffic to the airport to 100 million within the next decade.
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New York’s American Museum of Natural History’s the Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation utilized shotcrete to evoke the Earth’s natural rock formations, in hopes of raising a sense of discovery, connection, and exploration within visitors.
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An adaptive reuse project has creatively transformed two vacant buildings at San Francisco’s 99 Missouri St. into the new showroom of the international furniture retailer, Blu Dot.
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