Complex shoring and underpinning helped crews safely renovate the 1939 Art Deco-style University of California printing plant and build a 30,000-sq-ft addition encased in a sweeping metal skin.
Renovating the historic Nile Ritz-Carlton hotel in Cairo involved not only upgrading more than 300 guest rooms, restaurants and meeting rooms and adding a conference center, ballroom and underground parking.
The home of the Arizona State University football team will undergo several structural, facility and technological upgrades before to the start of the 2017 season.
Renovating a cultural institution and registered historic landmark is like cleaning the Mona Lisa: It requires exquisite sensitivity, technical competence, extraordinary care in execution, a tolerance for criticism and resilience in the face of surprise discoveries.
Prior to its renovation, the 100,000-sq-ft concrete structure’s repetitive open floor plates were designed to maximize efficiency, holding books first and hosting people second.
A series of complex infrastructure renovations and building system upgrades preserved the grandeur and heritage of a 100-year-old campus landmark with two subsequent mid-century additions.
To update the exterior of the occupied 12-story Tower Building, the project team replaced the existing facade with a new curtain wall system through a series of 60-ft-wide “drops.”
