Building Design & Construction articles from August 2006

Building Design & Construction archives from August 2006

Visual Arts Center Will be Font Door to Campus Arts Village.
August 1, 2006... Staff The Richmond Center for Visual Arts will be the fifth and final building of Western Michigan University's Arts Village in Kalamazoo. The Richmond Center will be the "front door" for the university's art school and will unite the...

JetBlue Breaks Ground on Crew Lodge.
August 1, 2006... Staff JetBlue Airways broke ground recently at Orlando International Airport on its $24.5 million JetBlue Crew Lodge, which will be used to accommodate the airline's crewmembers who are in the Orlando area conducting training and other...

Office Condos Aim to Shorten Work Commute.
August 1, 2006... Staff To meet growing demand for professional condos in the Miami area as office rents escalate and employees seek shorter commutes, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Miller Construction began work on Monarch Professional Centre, a 74,000-sf...

Chicago Blue Cross Blue Shield to Build a 24-story Addition Atop its 33-story Headquarters.
August 1, 2006... Staff Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois will add 24 floors on the top of its existing 33-story headquarters building in Chicago to accommodate the health insurer's rapid growth. Health Care Service Corp., parent of Blue Cross and Blue...

Nokia Theatre Jump Starts L.A. Entertainment District.
August 1, 2006... Staff Construction is under way on Nokia Theatre, the first part of a new development plan that creates a downtown sports and entertainment district on 28 acres surrounding the Staples Center in Los Angeles. ELS Architecture, Berkeley,...

Texas to Get Another W.
August 1, 2006... Staff The W Dallas Victory Hotel and Residences will serve as the centerpiece of the 72-acre Victory master planned development when the 251-room, 33-story hotel (with 61 residential units) opens next month. A second tower with 83...

Another Condo Tower Under Way in the Windy City.
August 1, 2006... Staff FitzGerald Associates Architects, Chicago, designed Printers Corner, a 17-story condominium tower now under construction in Chicago's Printers Row neighborhood. Each unit of the building, developed for Winthrop Properties, Chicago,...

California Library Encourages City, School Collaboration.
August 1, 2006... Staff McCarthy Building Cos. recently broke ground on the $17 million Lincoln (Calif.) Public Library at Twelve Bridges, a joint effort among the city of Lincoln, Sierra Joint Community College, and Western Placer Unified School District....

Ultra-Luxury Condominium Going up in San Diego.
August 1, 2006... Staff Construction is under way on the 32-story mixed-use residential Sapphire Tower, which is being planned as the most luxurious condo tower in San Diego. Designed by Austin Veum Robbins Partners, San Diego, the 290,000-sf condo building...

Hospital Adapts Retail Design Principles.
August 1, 2006... Staff RTKL applied retail design principles to enhance customer service and wayfinding at the new West Chester (Ohio) Medical Center, which recently broke ground near Cincinnati. The hospital's diagnostic and treatment areas will be...

Open-air Corridor Links Stadium to Skyline.
August 1, 2006... Staff Among the most distinctive venue elements planned for the San Francisco 49ers' new 68,000-seat stadium is an open-view corridor at the north end that provides views of the surrounding community and San Francisco Bay. Other...

Church to Feature World's Largest Electrochromic Window.
August 1, 2006... Staff Church at Pinnacle Hills, located in Rogers, Ark., will house the world's largest electronically tintable window, a 6,000-sf electrochromic glass wall. The 60-foot-tall window overlooks the outdoor baptistry, a small lake, and three...

Delaware Community Developed on Waterfront.
August 1, 2006... Staff Construction work is under way on Wilmington, Del.'s first planned community to be built on the waterfront of Christina Landing. Developed by the Buccini/Pollin Group, Justison Landing will be developed over a five-year span, and...

Working on the Edge.
August 1, 2006... Staff Excavation is finished on The West Edge, a $100 million mixed-use development on 2.4 acres in Kansas City, Mo. Designed by Moshe Safdie and Associates, Somerville, Mass., the project features 203,000 sf of leasable office space, a...

Diamond in the Rockies.
August 1, 2006... By Dave Barista, Managing Editor Daniel Libeskind dreamed up something special for the expansion of the Denver Art Museum, but it took a skilled Building Team to turn his concept into a reality. Dan Kohl already knows the burning...

What Specifiers Look for in Windows and Doors.
August 1, 2006... By Jay W. Schneider, Senior Editor Product quality, energy efficiency, and durability are the most important window and door attributes, according to an exclusive survey of BD&C readers. Of course, lower prices are also welcome. ...

Bird Flu Pandemic: Have a Plan?
August 1, 2006... By Robert Cassidy, Editor-in-Chief Sorry to ruin your day, but in addition to all the usual trivia you have to deal with on the job, there's this little matter of a possible bird flu pandemic to worry about. Does your firm have a "business...

Editors' Picks.
August 1, 2006... Staff Revolving Door with Safety Sensors Staff Large-diameter automatic revolving doors are designed especially for hotel and healthcare facilities for pedestrians with luggage, wheelchairs, or strollers. Available in diameters of...

Shop Till They Drop: Retail Construction Keeps Booming.
August 1, 2006... Staff Construction spending for shopping centers of all types and sizes--from neighborhood stores to destination malls--will expand more than 40% this year, and an additional 12% in 2007. Construction spending for shopping centers is...

Multifamily Gets a Boost From Weakened Single-family Market.
August 1, 2006... Staff Multifamily construction is holding up better during the housing slowdown than single-family construction. Prospective homebuyers with marginal finances are being forced to stay in apartments as mortgage rates rise and credit...

Stalled K-12 Market Gets a Boost During 2006-07 Fiscal Year.
August 1, 2006... Staff Construction spending on K-12 public schools is expected to increase 10.9% this year, and an additional 12.1% next year. After figuring in cost inflation, real growth will be about 4% in 2006 and near 6% next year. Education...

Cost comparisons.
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Dancing Bricks.
August 1, 2006... By Hannah Schroder, Editorial Intern Architects use the ancient technique of corbelling to fashion curving, slanting brick walls that keep unwanted noise out of new buildings in California and Texas. A design team headed by RoTo...

Fashion Statement.
August 1, 2006... By Jeff Yoders, Associate Editor A suspended wall jazzes up a women's store in couture-conscious Omaha. Fashion and architecture mingle seamlessly in stylish locales like New York, Paris, Milan, and, of course, Omaha, Neb. At...

Trash to Treasure for Traveling Museum.
August 1, 2006... Hannah Schroder Most of us look at shipping containers and see -- er, shipping containers. But not the designers of the traveling Nomadic Museum. Architect Shigeru Ban, of Tokyo, and San Francisco-based Gensler used 152 shipping...

News Briefs.
August 1, 2006... Staff - Architecture, engineering firms earn highest profits in seven years. Architecture, engineering, and environmental consulting firms have earned their highest profit margins in seven years, a new report shows. ZweigWhite's newly...

Technology Eliminates Need for One-way Mirrors.
August 1, 2006... Hannah Schroder At Eastern Connecticut State University's new childhood development center, the use of observation rooms with one-way mirrors to study children's behavior has been replaced by voice- and video-capturing technology. The...

Home on the Range for Aggie Architecture School.
August 1, 2006... Hannah Schroder Sawhorses may be the closest thing to livestock riding the range at Texas A&M University's new "Architecture Ranch," a large-scale workshop on the school's Riverside Campus. When it opens this fall, the largely open...

Gensler Study Links Office Design with Worker Productivity.
August 1, 2006... Dave Barista Nearly half of corporate professionals say they would work an extra hour per day if they were provided a better work environment. And nine in ten workers believe that a healthy, productive office design leads to improved...

Clarificiation.
August 1, 2006... Staff In our July report on building information modeling ("The Merry Road to BIM," p. 70), Ghafari Associates, Dearborn, Mich., was mistakenly identified as the design architect for the Renaissance Hotel by Marriott in Boston. Ghafari was...

Products at Work.
August 1, 2006... Staff Impact-resistant Windows Keep Houston's Weather Museum Weathertight Staff When the country's first national museum dedicated to weather opened its doors in April in downtown Houston, museum officials did so with the...

Rightsizing Performing Arts Venues.
August 1, 2006... By Jeff Yoders, Associate Editor Classic design and advances in adaptability are helping Building Teams create new performance spaces that are flexible enough for any production. Back in 2002, before the Building Team working on the...

Interface modular carpet tiles.
August 1, 2006... Staff Modular carpet tiles from Interface are available in more than 150 styles and multiple sizes, from 19x19 inches to 39x39 inches. The tiles meet the industry's highest environmental standard for carpet--the Carpet and Rug Institute's...

Harvard's Leith Sharp: 'You can green your campus'.
August 1, 2006... Staff In 1998, Leith Sharp was named Young Australian of the Year, New South Wales Environment Category, for her work in establishing the Environmental Management Program at the University of New South Wales. Two years later, she...