Articles Tagged with ''renovation/restoration''

In the jobsite trailer for the $121-million renovation and expansion of the University of Virginia’s Alderman Library, Skanska project executive John Calvin points to copies of 1937 construction photos showing the 100,000-sq-ft horseshoe-shaped structure being carved into a hillside below the school’s historic Rotunda and Academical Village.

Ryan Gootee General Contractors is building a new sportsbook and poker room inside Harrah’s ahead of its rebranding as Caesars in New Orleans.

The abandoned former Cook County Hospital building was a wreck. “The term ‘fully depreciated’ was an understatement,” says Kenneth Johnston, senior project manager with Walsh Construction.

Completed in April 2021, The Ion redeveloped 190,000 sq ft of the 1939 Sears, Roebuck and Co. Building into retail, office, event and classroom space. 

The National was built in 1965 as the First National Bank Tower, then the tallest building west of the Mississippi River. After an extended vacancy, the mixed-use project added 324 high-end apartments and 218 luxury suites as part of the Thompson Hotel. 

This landmark was built in 1936 for the centennial of the Republic of Texas. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places and as a State Antiquities Landmark, the hall is one of three defining examples of Texas architecture, along with the Alamo and the Capitol.

The new corporate headquarters for the country’s largest municipally owned electric and gas utility encompasses two former AT&T buildings built in 1979 that underwent an energy-efficient renovation.

Elements from abroad were critical to the $1.6-billion conversion of the James A. Farley Post Office building into the 255,000-sq-ft Train Hall at Penn Station.

Almost 20 years after a destructive civil war, the capital of Angola still suffers from obsolete and degraded infrastructure.

Built on ruins of a synagogue originally erected nearly 670 years ago, one of the oldest synagogues in the Middle East was bombed by the French in 1800 before being rebuilt 50 years later.