During a visit to the 76th floor of 3 World Trade Center, project team members showed ENR how there are places for eight corner offices, rather than the usual four per story.

CRRC MA Corp. committed in 2015 to build the 204,000-sq-ft assembly facility for Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s next-gen rail cars, although the China-owned firm had yet to land contracts with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority.

In late 2016, Long Beach, Calif., began to consider building a new pedestrian bridge to connect its convention and performing arts centers.The original idea was to have a traditional concrete, elevated sidewalk between the two structures, spanning about 600 ft.

Sited in Redwood City, Calif., adjacent to both San Francisco Bay and Oracle Corp.’s corporate campus, the 64,000-sq-ft aluminum, glass and wood-paneled Design Tech High School project benefited from the input of a trio of primary decision-makers: Oracle, the Oracle Foundation and the charter school itself.

Preserving history while marking the high-tech future, this project encompassed four historic buildings at Pier 70 in San Francisco.

It would have been enough to reimagine and build what a U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs hospital should be from the ground up.

The 30,000-sq-ft Palomar Community College District Maintenance and Operations complex in San Marcos, Calif., was built with sustainability in mind.

The LEED Silver, $64.6-million Army National Guard Readiness Center and Army Aviation Support Facility in Kankakee, Ill., is home to two aviation battalions and a medevac unit.

Due to its easement agreement with a mining company, the Minnesota Dept. of Transportation had to relocate 3.2 miles of U.S. Highway 53 in the Mesabi Iron Range in northern Minnesota to allow mining operations to continue. 

Austin is a permanent piece of the Blanton Museum of Art’s collection and is the only building designed by artist Ellsworth Kelly, who gifted the design concept to the museum in January 2015. It was Kelly’s final project before his death in December 2015.