Firms accomplish Washington, D.C.’s first mass timber overbuild

A project at 80 M Street SE (80 M) in Washington, D.C., is the first in the city to employ the sustainable mass timber material in a three-floor expansion atop the existing building, helping keep the building operational during construction and minimizing structural strengthening interventions.

JFK Airport’s new $4.2B terminal to transform passenger experience

John F. Kennedy (JFK) International Airport’s new $4.2 billion Terminal 6 will furnish a 111,484-m2 (1.2-million-sf) space with 10 new gates—including nine wide-body gates—bright and airy check-in halls, and arrival areas for a transformed customer experience.

New tower in key Manhattan neighborhood mirrors NY’s street grid

50 Hudson Yards, a 78-story office tower covering an entire block in Manhattan’s West Side Hudson Yards neighborhood, is designed as a distinctive piece of the city, mindfully sitting within New York’s urban grid to maximize ease of movement and private access.

Connecticut’s new substation aims for sustainable generation through offshore wind

A new offshore wind substation in Wallingford, Conn., aims to help bring down the energy sector’s carbon emissions, by contributing to the U.S. federal government’s goal to achieve a clean power target of 30 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind generation capacity by 2030.

Denver Art Museum gets much-needed design revitalization

Renovating and expanding an art museum designed by a well-known Italian architect comes with its share of design challenges. For the Denver Art Museum, an institution of visual art, it was a necessary revitalization effort to better serve the increase in foot traffic, which has now grown to more...

The interior sliding door system (r)evolution

Against this backdrop, interior sliding doors—commonly used in homes to provide a seamless transition between rooms—began to appear in office settings. Bringing the sleek, slim, and stylish sliding doors into the workplace made sense from both a design and space-efficiency standpoint. Traditional swing doors can eat up valuable real estate in frequently used areas such as office rooms and collaborative workspaces.