The 250-room LEGOLAND® Hotel was designed and built to be nearly as entertaining as the rest of the neighboring LEGOLAND California Resort.

One of the state's first passive-HVAC commercial buildings, the teaching and research facility named for a winery pioneer is located on one acre of the Robert Mondavi Research campus at the University of California, Davis.

Since the mid-1990s, the two-lane road connecting U.S. Highway 1 with Santa Barbara County's Jalama Beach park had experienced excessive cracking and settlement, primarily because of a relocation in the 1960s to a site across from an old landslide.

The legendary, but aging Pauley Pavilion, home of many UCLA national champion basketball teams, required $102 million in renovations and additions.

Capable of recycling 100,000 gallons of water per day, the project diverts raw sewage from a large pipeline and treats it using a membrane bioreactor, followed by ozonation and UV irradiation so that the water can be used for irrigation and toilet flushing in nearby commercial buildings.

Built in the early 1900s near Yosemite National Park, this hydraulic earth-and-rock fill dam was in need of significant seismic upgrades.

Built in 1923 as a memorial to those Californians who died in World War I, the historic Beaux Arts stadium was in dire need of a complete renovation and seismic safety upgrades.

As the central component of LAX's Capital Improvements Program—the largest public works project in Los Angeles history—the 1.2-million-sq-ft Tom Bradley International Terminal replaces its obsolete 30-year-old predecessor structure.

A vibrant concert hall, a wind farm perched high above a Hawaii town and a sustainable winery education facility: This year's ENR California top projects certainly are a diverse group.

Thanks to this $135-million renovation, the 100-year-old Natural History Museum in Los Angeles now celebrates the scientific process and the joy of discovery rather than focusing on traditional displays.