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The renovation of the home of Major League Baseball’s Toronto Blue Jays had a firm six months to finish, with no extra innings.

These villas on the northern shore of the United Arab Emirates’ Jumeirah Bay island were designed to incorporate green spaces, sustainable landscaping and eco-friendly materials—setting a new standard for how future developments can reduce impact on the island’s ecological health, according to the project team.

The mixed-use development along the Nile River features two connected towers, each standing 23 stories tall, with additional below-ground-level stories housing a parking garage and shared mechanical and electrical rooms.

Cairo’s Sayyida Zainab Mosque holds great cultural significance in Egypt—which made the restoration of the building without compromising its architectural identity of great importance for the project team.

This 47-story office tower’s design was shaped by extensive environmental analysis. The building, with its tapered top and bottom, is angled parallel to the direction of the site’s prevailing winds to optimize wind resistance.

Designed with a sustainable, holistic and inclusive approach, this project—which includes Ford’s corporate office headquarters and the largest Automotive Engineering Center in Mexico—spans 19 hectares of land, much of which is a protected ecological zone.

This large and complex expansion of a biologic medicine manufacturing plant increased capacity 75% by adding three production bioreactors, each 15,400 liters, as well as associated seed reactors and expanded warehouse cold rooms, freezers and central utilities.

The team behind this 8,500-sq-m single-use, monoclonal antibody biotech production facility for animal medication needed to meet its schedule targets so the owner could meet the earliest possible product-to-market date.

With this project’s location in northern Peru being periodically impacted by intense rainfall, often inundating public roads—and the area lacking systems to adequately handle such downpours—IDOM Consulting Engineering Architecture incorporated natural rainwater collection and drainage systems into the design of Sullana Hospital.

Located in a remote and rural part of Canada’s most eastern province, this 600,000-sq-ft hospital takes an innovative approach to design, operational and environmental solutions.