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Rio de Janeiro’s 1.18-million-square-meter Rio 2016 Olympic Park— located in Barra da Tijuca, the city’s West Zone—served as the hub of South America’s first Olympiad.

Built in less than 11 months for the World Botanic Expo 2016 in Antalya, Turkey, the 114-meter-tall Antalya viewing tower will continue to serve visitors long after the event, offering panoramic views of mountain, valley and sea.

Complex geometric forms inspired by Islamic architecture create a richly textured outer skin for this four-building cultural center, which includes theaters, cinemas, concert halls and conference space.

Located in an area of high seismicity, the 25-story office tower was designed to resist an extreme earthquake with a probability of happening once in 2,500 years.

Structure and architecture are one at the 530-ft-tall Poly International Plaza, located in earthquake-prone Beijing.

“Apple stores around the world are always beautiful,” commented one of the judges reviewing the winning entry for an Apple store in the Shuncheng Mall Plaza, in Kunming, China.

A dual steel-plate composite shear-wall system, currently undergoing physical testing, has the potential to replace reinforced concrete cores in high-rise office buildings. 

Early indications are that code revisions after 1985 quake had a positive effect — when adhered to.

Manufacturers are demanding process efficiencies, lean construction, highly collaborative and flexible spaces, prefabrication and even more complex automation that makes for more difficult projects for their general contractors and construction managers.

Top contractors in the general-building sectors continue to see big bumps in revenue, especially those expanding their geographic reach.