This $176.4-million project, completed in a 55-month period, doubled the office-space capacity at a Rockville, Md., federal office building to accommodate 4,000 employees.
Last December, auto enthusiasts saw the made-over Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles for the first time after a $125-million renovation made the once-boxy building as striking as the hot rods and vintage cars it houses.
Not only was the Wolfgang Puck Food Court delivered under budget and ahead of schedule, but the facility was constructed inside of a busy, fully operating airport terminal, with thousands of passengers and staff passing the jobsite every day.
Empty for 30 years, the eight-story Masonic Temple in Glendale, Calif., is now a spacious, productive office workplace that balances contemporary needs, current building standards and styles with the original 20th-century Art Deco features.
The War Memorial—comprised of the Veterans Building and the Opera House, both Beaux-Arts structures built in the 1930s—houses a theater and office space.
Initially built in 1942 by the federal government as an assembly plant for armored vehicles, this eight-story, 525,000-sq-ft building in downtown San Francisco was transformed into modern and seismically resilient office spaces for government agencies and other tenants.
The project relocated the menswear and accessories sections of the flagship Barneys store at Union Square in downtown San Francisco to a more than 100-year-old building next door.
In renovating the Los Angeles Police Dept.’s Metropolitan Division Facility—built in 1966 like a bunker and associated with past department scandals—the builders say they aimed to transform the structure from its dark past into a beacon of neighborhood safety.
