Courtesy of Snohetta for the Golden State Warriors Snohetta remains the lead design firm for the San Francisco arena-on-a-pier but Manica Architecture has been added to the team. San Francisco’s Golden State Warriors basketball team is in the final stages of selecting an architect of record for its planned arena-on-a-pier. The team recently brought in Manica Architecture, Kansas City, Mo., to work on the "bones" of the arena and related buildings, says P.J. Johnston, a team spokesman.Architect AECOM completed its first phase of design work in the spring and is still on the project but only as a strategic advisor
Related Links: Showcase Soccer Stadium in Brazilian Capital Goes for Stylish Sustainability 49ers Use 'Integrated Bridging Design-Build' To Speed Stadium Construction Before the new $60-million San Jose Earthquakes Stadium can shake with more than 18,000 soccer fans, the construction team must finish removing all the underground World War II tank parts and factory components that were left behind by the site's previous occupants.Once used to build Bradley infantry vehicles in the 1940s, the land for the new stadium came with no as-built blueprints, says Dave Kaval, president of the San Jose Earthquakes. As a result, crews led by Milpitas, Calif.-based
Rendering Courtesy of Broad Group At 838 meters, Sky City would be the world's tallest building. Photo Copyright tobyphillipsphotography Broad Group Chairman Zhang Yue (right) gave a presentation on Sky City at the 2013 London conference of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Video by Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Full video of Zhang Yue's presentation to CTBUH's London conference in June 2013. Related Links: CTBUH's Antony Wood's Report on His Visit to Broad Group World's Tallest Building Halted Over Missing Permit (Global Times, 7-26-13) Broad Sustainable Building Website (english version) On July 20, a groundbreaking
Mike Current says he almost had a nervous breakdown in anticipation of the first lift of the site-preassembled, glass-enclosed pedestrian bridges that link CityCenterDC's 11-story office buildings across a 24-ft-wide alley.
The conventional reinforced-concrete frames of the six 11-story buildings that stand in place of the razed Washington, D.C., convention center don't hold a candle to the innovative space truss that supported the old exhibit hall's clear-span roof.
London's 224-meter-tall "Cheesegrater" building has climbed into the city's skyline over the past months, quickly becoming a new landmark in a city with quirky building names.
Photo by Nural Alam, ADPC The eight-story reinforced-concrete building near Dhaka had three illegal floors and a fourth on the way; further, it was built for a commercial occupancy but used as a factory. A rapid structural assessment of the fatal collapse of an eight-story reinforced-concrete building near Dhaka, Bangladesh, uncovered major flaws in the building’s construction and multiple causes for the April 24 disaster. The building in Savar had been turned into a garment factory. To date, there have been more than 700 fatalities. The death toll is expected to rise to 1,000.The tragedy has triggered a review of
Rendering Courtesy of MGM Resorts An open-air entertainment promenade (rendered above) is part of MGM's over $500 million in upcoming Las Vegas projects. Related Links: Caesars to Renovate Las Vegas Strip Property into $185M Boutique Hotel/Casino MGM Resorts International is spending $100 million for an open-air entertainment promenade linking two of its Las Vegas Strip properties: New York-New York and Monte Carlo.Spread across 63 acres, the project will create park-like retail and dining spaces between the resorts for greater pedestrian interaction and interstitial visitor synergy. The neighboring hotel-casinos, which comprise 5,000 rooms, will be connected by a tree-dotted plaza lined
Related Links: Ferrante Hall official web page A Conversation with the Design Team (Video, 2:22) Thanks in great measure to an 80-ft x 20-ft falsework platform that rose 50 ft from the bottom of a deep fissure in Syracuse, N.Y., Onondaga Community College will soon have its new music building and bridge its gorge, too.The design architect's idea to span a two-story building across a 200-ft-wide fissure and link the east and west sides of the State University of New York campus was music to the ears of college officials, who initially had conventional sites in mind. But crossing the
Related Links: $2.1B United Nations Renovation Complicated by Working Within Operational Campus United Nations Architectural Record: Revival of an Icon It's not always easy to be a copycat. The team that recently replaced the curtain wall of Manhattan's United Nations Secretariat Building knows that from experience.At first, the mandate from the U.N. sounded simple enough: replicate the wall so it would look exactly as it did in 1950, when the 39-story office tower opened.The original wall was designed by a team that included the Swiss-born architect Le Corbusier. The recent project, completed last June, "was basically a chance to work
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