2017

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Complex geometric forms inspired by Islamic architecture create a richly textured outer skin for this four-building cultural center, which includes theaters, cinemas, concert halls and conference space.

Located in an area of high seismicity, the 25-story office tower was designed to resist an extreme earthquake with a probability of happening once in 2,500 years.

Structure and architecture are one at the 530-ft-tall Poly International Plaza, located in earthquake-prone Beijing.

In a remote corner of western Spain, the world’s biggest concrete-arch railroad bridge awaits the arrival of tracks and signaling for the planned high-speed corridor between Madrid and Portugal’s capital, Lisbon. 

The Arenales Suspension Bridge in northwest Nicaragua now provides safe access to critical resources for a community that had been cut off from schools, markets, jobs and health care by the Esteli River, which floods for more than three months a year, making a simple walk to work or school life-threatening.

“Apple stores around the world are always beautiful,” commented one of the judges reviewing the winning entry for an Apple store in the Shuncheng Mall Plaza, in Kunming, China.

Fluor and Dow Chemical Co. relied on innovation and collaboration to bring on line a $1.5-billion ethylene production facility as the first new major ethylene facility to take advantage of the low natural-gas prices in the Gulf Coast’s shale region.