Using 80-ksi steel in upper perimeter columns—a first in the U.S.—helped the design team reduce the steel by almost 20% at 320 S. Canal, a 51-floor office tower under construction in Chicago’s Loop.
When complete in spring 2023, the Brown University Performing Arts Center, located in Providence, R.I., will feature a main hall that will be transformable into five different stage and audience configurations—ranging from a 625-seat symphony orchestra hall to a 250-seat proscenium theater to an immersive surround-sound cube for media performance.
The pandemic has stalled architect Snøhetta's plans for a visitors center and exhibit hall at the storage site for 1 million seed samples covering 5,000 plant species.