The proposal would have created a new entertainment district in the Potomac Yards area, with an arena for Washington, D.C.’s professional basketball and hockey teams.
The NBA All-Stars played their annual exhibition game last month in Indianapolis’ Gainbridge Fieldhouse, whose $360-million, year-and-a-half-old renovation is itself an all-star in the sports and entertainment category.
Stabilizing a quarry where rockfalls threatened to crush critical infrastructure under construction demanded a meticulous approach and required workers to rappel slopes to remove loose material.
Situated centrally between 13 active operating rooms, this project’s work site proved to be its most complex challenge, says Sourabh Sinha, project manager at NJRA Architects.
The greatest hurdles for the project team on the Aston Martin Residences came from perennial issues faced by all tall buildings in Miami—soft soils and high winds.
The certificate-granting academy’s name references the Omaha Tribe, known as “the ones who go against the current,” many of whose members live on the reservation where the school is located.