Building Types

When it comes down to it, all buildings have things in common: the need for great design, engineering, construction, and management, when the structure is completed. Harmonizing those elements is a skill that translates to any building project you might have on your hands.

The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino is positioned to become one of South Florida's major destinations. Images: Realmotion

November 13, 2019 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor

A guitar-shaped hotel is South Florida’s latest beacon

The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood is illuminated by 2.3 million lights and l...

All renderings courtesy Sheppard Robson.

November 13, 2019 | David Malone, Associate Editor

Citicape House will feature Europe’s largest living wall

Sheppard Robson designed the project.

The addition of a new visitors' center marked the reopening of the Washington Monument after three years of renovation. Images: Alan Karchmer

November 13, 2019 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor

The Washington Monument reopens with a new visitor center

This is one of several landmark restoration projects underway in the nation’s capital.

KFC drive-thru only restaurant in Australia

All photos courtesy KFC

November 13, 2019 | David Malone, Associate Editor

World’s first drive-thru only restaurant in Australia

FRCH NELSON designed the project.

New Orleans international airport exterior curtain wall

Photos: LEO A DALY/Atkins

November 12, 2019 | David Malone, Associate Editor

$1B terminal opens at New Orleans International Airport

LEO A DALY designed the project.

All renderings courtesy MIR and Dorte Mandrup

November 11, 2019 | David Malone, Associate Editor

‘The Whale’ will be an arctic attraction 185 miles north of the Arctic Circle

Dorte Mandrup won an international competition to design the project.

Wrigley Field, looking northeast toward Lake Michigan. Two new digital scoreboards flank the traditional scoreboard whose numbers are manipulated by hand. All photos: Mark Ballogg/Ballogg Photography.

November 08, 2019 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor

2019 Reconstruction Awards: The 1060 Project at Wrigley Field

Venerable Wrigley Field is raised up in a top-to-bottom restoration that took five years to compl...

Multifamily construction market remains strong heading into 2020

“Multifamily and Senior/Assisted Living have been two of the hottest markets for proposal activity for quite some time,” says PSMJ’s Greg Hart.

November 07, 2019 | PSMJ Resources

Multifamily construction market remains strong heading into 2020

Fewer than one in 10 AEC firms doing multifamily work reported a decrease in proposal activity in...

Stowaway ground floor and first floor detail

All photos: Edmund Sumner, courtesy DSK

November 07, 2019 | David Malone, Associate Editor

New London aparthotel is made entirely from shipping containers

Doone Silver Kerr designed the project.

SCB’s first project in Seattle is a contemporary 27-story condominium tower at 615 Eighth Avenue on First Hill.

SCB’s first project in Seattle is a contemporary 27-story condominium tower at 615 Eighth Avenue on First Hill.

November 06, 2019 |

Solomon Cordwell Buenz opens Seattle office, headed by Nolan Sit

National design firm brings residential high-rise expertise to the Pacific Northwest

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Flange-mounted Isokorb Type S22 structural thermal breaks

Flange-mounted Isokorb Type S22 structural thermal breaks prevent equipment support structures from conducting heat through the heavily insulated rooftop, while providing load-bearing support equivalent to that of conventional monolithic penetrations. (NOTE: Photo taken prior to installation of the roof insulation layer.)

November 06, 2019 |

Passive House senior high-rise uses structural thermal breaks to insulate steel penetrations

Built to International Passive House standards, the Corona Senior Residence in Queens, N.Y., prev...

On the campus of University Hospital in San Antonio, construction has begun on a 12-story tower that will serve women and children patients. Rendering: ZGF and Marmon Mok

November 06, 2019 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor

A new hospital tower will serve women and children exclusively in the expanding San Antonio market

This $500 million project represents the next phase in the hospital system’s capital improvement...

All photos courtesy The collective

November 05, 2019 | David Malone, Associate Editor

The Collective Paper Factory is the co-living company’s first U.S. location

The building offers a stay model ranging from one night to 29 days.

All renderings courtesy UNC Health Care

November 05, 2019 | David Malone, Associate Editor

UNC Health Care’s Surgical Tower set to begin construction

Skanska USA will build the project in three phases.

The original Blommer factory, providing the Lindsay Heights neighborhood of Milwaukee with 41 one-bedroom units, 14 two-bedroom units, eight three-bedroom townhomes, and one four-bedroom townhome. The project won Wisconsin Green Built certification and a Milwaukee Historic Preservation Commission award. Photo: Roziel Reyes

November 04, 2019 | Robert Cassidy, Executive Editor

A historic ice cream factory now provides Milwaukee with affordable housing

Thanks to projects like this, the Lindsay Heights neighborhood is definitely on the upswing.

School of Public Policy aerial UMD campus

All renderings courtesy LEO A DALY

November 01, 2019 | David Malone, Associate Editor

Design unveiled for the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy building

LEO A DALY, in association with VJAA, designed the building.

All renderings courtesy Coldefy & Associés.

November 01, 2019 | David Malone, Associate Editor

Coldefy & Associés’ design selected for Pulse nightclub shooting memorial

The design was selected from 68 entries.

Rendering courtesy of Todd & Associates

October 31, 2019 | David Malone, Associate Editor

Soltra at SanTan Village breaks ground in Arizona

Todd & Associates designed the project.

All photos courtesy BOND

October 31, 2019 | David Malone, Associate Editor

South-West Middle School welcomes its first students

Ai3 Architects designed the project.

1000M tower, Chicago, will provide 421 condominium residences upon completion and will be the tallest such structure in the city. Rendering: © 2019. 1000 South Michigan Equities LLC.

October 30, 2019 |

James McHugh Construction breaks ground on 1000M, Michigan Avenue’s tallest tower to be

McHugh will start work on the 832-foot-tall residential 1000M tower in December 2019.

Proto’s Tech Lounge offers its numerous work-at-home residents a quiet space to get work done and host meetings or conference calls with access to extensive multimedia capabilities. All Photos: Garrett Rowland

October 30, 2019 | Mike Plotnick, Contributing Editor

Techno-magnet: Proto Kendall Square

A 22-story apartment tower is attracting grad students and millennial STEM workers from what’s ar...

Western Sydney International airport designed by COX and Zaha Hada Architects

All renderings courtesy COX/ZHA

October 30, 2019 | David Malone, Associate Editor

COX Architecture and Zaha Hadid Architects will design the Western Sydney Airport

The COX/ZHA team was selected from a field of over forty applicants.

Rendering of River Rock apartment complex, Chattanooga, Tenn.

Rendering of River Rock, a planned 163-unit apartment complex in Chattanooga, Tenn., under development by The Beach Company, Charleston, S.C. Rendering: The Beach Company

October 30, 2019 |

The Beach Company acquires land for multifamily community in Chattanooga

River Rock project will add 163 apartments near the Tennessee River in Chattanooga’s downtown riv...

The restoration of the Harlem Fire Watchtower in North Manhattan, which took two years to complete, required new cross bracing. Images: Courtesy of Thornton Tomasetti

October 29, 2019 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor

A watchtower in Harlem, once a firefighter’s lookout, is restored as a landmark

The nearly $8 million project required major structural interventions.