Having suffered three damaging floods over the past two decades, the more than 160 homes making up the Huntington community desperately needed long-term protection from other serious events that were sure to come.
A preconstruction pivot from new construction to a renovation project led to the 15-month transformation of a 60-year-old building into a modern facility.
After more than 60 years in service, the aging superstructure of a 90-ft-long bridge that carried Interstate 476 over State Route 309 near Allentown, Pa., had reached the end of its life.
The $288-million multiphase expansion provides needed space for the hospital and flexibility to incorporate continuing advancements in medical technology and services.
The 256,000-sq-ft Central Records Complex was designed to centralize the FBI’s physical files and streamline the storage, retrieval and management of mission-critical assets by incorporating an automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS).
Built at Fort Pickett in a remote area of southern Virginia, the Foreign Affairs Security Training Center (FASTC) consolidates numerous U.S. Dept. of State facilities for hard-skills training into a single location for the first time.
One of the few hospitals designed and built by African-American physicians and architects, the 46,000-sq-ft building provided quality medical care to the city’s Black community for more than 40 years until its closure in 1985.
In an effort to modernize the Free Library of Philadelphia’s main building into a more accessible public destination, architect Moshe Safdie envisioned a design to nearly double the amount of space available to library-goers.