With only 10% of its square footage dedicated to bookshelves, the renovation and addition to VCU’s Cabell Library is designed for the 21st-century student.
Constructing its first major building in more than a quarter century, the University of the District of Columbia set out to transform a nondescript campus filled with utilitarian, 1970s architecture.
To meld history with modernity, the $15.7-million Quirk Hotel project required the adaptive reuse of two adjacent buildings in Richmond’s art district.
A groundbreaking ceremony was held this week for One Vanderbilt, a 1,401-ft office tower that will rise between Vanderbilt and Madison avenues and 42nd and 43rd streets.
The $1.6-billion Washington State Convention Center expansion project in downtown Seattle has a new contractor and a clear path toward the start of construction in 2017, while development on the Pacific Northwest’s largest hotel continues next door.