Young Architects Worldwide Create Solutions for Urbanization in the “City Above the City” Competition
Metsä Wood’s competition has inspired architects worldwide to design wooden extensions to city centres. Entries from 40 countries proposed wooden solutions to the challenges of urbanization. Best winning designs were made to New York, Shanghai and Tampere, Finland. Architects from 40 countries created their Plan B for urbanisation using wood (Kerto® LVL – laminated veneer lumber) as the main material. The task was to design a wooden extension to an existing urban building. The entries were de...
Dewberry Receives Jurors' Special Citation Award
Dewberry was awarded a Jurors' Special Citation Award for the 2016 Metals in Construction design challenge. Designers were invited to submit their vision for recladding New York City's MetLife building (formerly known as the Pan Am building) while meeting Architecture 2030 Challenge requirements. They were asked to reimagine the building with a resource-conserving, eco-friendly enclosure—one that creates a highly efficient envelope with the lightness and transparency sought by today's office wor...
Adolfson & Peterson Construction Breaks Ground on the New UNC Campus Commons
Greeley, Colo. - Adolfson & Peterson Construction (AP), in partnership with design teams Semple Brown Design and Handprint Architecture, celebrated the groundbreaking of the new and innovative University of Northern Colorado (UNC) Campus Commons project. When complete, this 114,000-sf student recreation center will showcase the University’s world-class music and musical theatre programs. UNC’s new space will provide the University with state-of-the-art performance, rehearsal and display spac...
First University of Central Asia Campus Opens in Mountain Community of Naryn, Kyrgyz Republic
The first phase of a major international project to deliver state-of-the-art university campuses in Central Asian mountain communities was celebrated today with the inauguration of the University of Central Asia (UCA) Campus in Naryn, Kyrgyz Republic. The occasion was commemorated by senior leadership of the Kyrgyz Government and His Highness the Aga Khan. The first fully residential undergraduate university in the remote region, UCA was established to increase access to an internationally re...
China Is Leading the New Wave of Towers Rising to 500m and Beyond
China is leading the new wave of mega-tall towers, but locating services such as lifts and cooling towers within these slender giants has required some serious lateral (and vertical) thinking. The Home of Super-Tall If America was the birthplace of the skyscraper, China is undoubtedly the home of the super-tall tower. The Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitats defines a tower as ‘super-tall’ when it tops 300m. So far, 97 have been completed around the world and 36 are in China. Of t...
Ashland Center Banks on Sustainability
Ashland Center, an office building with over 20,000sf in the prestigious Third Street Historic District of Geneva, IL, is proud to be recognized as the newest IREM® Certified Sustainable Property. The building, first a grocery store in 1960 and then a community bank in 1969, was purchased by Ashland Ventures in 2014 and underwent a major renovation. The rich history of the property is still alive in the building with the interior vaults and doors and the teller drive-through window intact. Even...
Vertical House in Dallas Wins National Steel Building Design Award
Chicago, IL – A five-story residence in Dallas has earned national recognition in the 2016 Innovative Design in Engineering and Architecture with Structural Steel awards program (IDEAS2). In honor of this achievement, members of the project team will be presented with awards from the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) on Thursday, October 13. Located on one of the highest sites in the city, the vertical volume of the five-story house rises 58 ft above the surrounding landscape an...
FAA Dedicates New Traffic Control Tower at San Francisco International Airport
SAN FRANCISCO – FAA Administrator Michael Huerta joined local officials today in dedicating the new, environmentally friendly airport traffic control tower at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). Rising up in a graceful flare, the new tower is 221 feet tall. The 650 square-foot controller work area gives air traffic controllers unobstructed 235-degree views of SFO’s runways and taxiways. Under a unique partnership, the FAA and SFO shared the cost of the project. The FAA paid for th...
Strong 2016 Housing Starts Increase Demand for Superior Walls Precast Foundations
New Holland, PA - A record-setting year of double-digit growth at Superior Walls serves as an indicator that the robust housing market will continue to expand in 2017. Led by unprecedented demand for precast concrete foundation systems in markets throughout Michigan and New Jersey, the company saw escalating sales system-wide in 2016. "There are distinct pockets of new home construction --- such as in the Midwest, New Jersey and even the Pittsburgh area --- where our business is going gangbus...
Autodesk Opens New BUILD Space for the Future of Making
Autodesk has been at the forefront of the design world for more than 30 years. As we evolve beyond our deep design roots to making, the space and means to innovate are central. So today Autodesk is excited to announce the opening of its Boston-based Autodesk Building, Innovation, Learning and Design (BUILD) Space, a unique industrial workshop and innovation studio focused on the future of making things in the built environment – the places we live in, the buildings we work in, and the infras...
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June Issue 2026
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