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
Related Links: Enhancing Performance of UN Secretariat Building Curtain Wall Was No Easy Task United Nations Architectural Record: Revival of an Icon The United Nations executives leading the $2.1-billion renovation of the U.N. headquarters on Manhattan's far East Side are known for commanding military-style control over the high-profile, closely scrutinized project. The approach seems to be working.The project's leaders, charged with overhauling 2.5 million sq ft of space within an active 17-acre campus, have about one year to go on the six-year project. To date, though the work is 12% over budget, they have managed to keep a low profile
The sprint to finish Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic Park in time for the 2016 Summer Games began in February, when contractors began earthmoving work and demolition of a racetrack at the site’s center. Construction of the main facilities will start in July.
Photo by Joe Dunn/Flatiron Related Links: Best of the Best Projects 2012 Winners Entries for ENR's First Global Best Projects Competition Are Due Feb. 28 Built Above Wildly Erratic River Levels, Cable-Stayed Giant Rises Over the Flood Considered to be the longest cable-stayed span in North America, the John James Audubon Bridge now connects U.S. 61 to Louisiana Highway 1 as well as the communities of New Roads and St. Francisville, La., on the Mississippi River. Featuring a 1,583-ft-long main span, the 3,186-ft-long bridge is also the only Mississippi River crossing along the 90-mile stretch from Natchez, Miss., to Baton
Photo by Charles Uniatowski Photography The $73.9-million high school provides a technology-rich learning environment for 1,496 students. Related Links: See all of the Best of the Best Projects 2012 Winners Entries for ENR's First Global Best Projects Competition Are Due Feb. 28 Completed 5% under budget and a year ahead of the original schedule, this $73.9-million high school in Salisbury, Md. provides a technology-rich learning environment for 1,496 students. Nautical details are carried through the structure, including an art room with a canted, offset roof that evokes the sails of a clipper ship. The architect's "Main Street" concept for the
Photo by Joe Woolhead Related Links: Best of the Best Projects 2012 Winners Entries for ENR's First Global Best Projects Competition Are Due Feb. 28 Park Captures 'Magnitude Of Sheer Simplicity' The $500-million memorial gracing the World Trade Center site in New York City has an elegant design, which in some ways belies the difficulty in building it.The structure, which features two deep reflecting pools, was physically tough to construct, largely due to logistics. The access road to the site was a single, 40-ft-wide lane, and nine cranes and lifts had to be stored in a small staging area.The judges
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