Hyatt Place Harper Court brings to Chicago's Hyde Park, home to the University of Chicago, its newest hotel in 50 years and serves as an anchor to the area's 1-million-sq-ft Harper Court, a mixed-use development built simultaneously with the $27-million facility.
Equal parts habitat, exhibit and research facility, the $26-million Simon Skjodt International Orangutan Center at the Indianapolis Zoo presented a high degree of difficulty in forming and placing concrete, in one instance due to varying radii among perimeter walls, each too large for a conventional radius-form system.
Additions and renovations for the $74.5-million Camp Randall Stadium Student-Athlete Performance Center encompassed more than 250,000 sq ft of space and involved a pair of existing facilities, McClain Field House and Camp Randall Stadium.
Construction of more than four miles of wave barrier and access road on the Green Bay lake bed served larger efforts by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to restore Cat Islands, a small chain that functioned much like coastal barrier islands, protecting shallow bays and wetlands, before being washed away in the 1970s.
The $13-million, 41,500-sq-ft Berea College Deep Green Residence Hall is among the first facilities in Kentucky to meet sustainable design's Living Building Challenge.
Locating Harry Caray's 7th Inning Stretch Restaurant and Museum on the seventh floor of Water Tower Place, one of Chicago's premier shopping destinations, required tight coordination with dozens of existing tenants, given the need to share vertical transports for delivery of materials and supplies.
The $11.2-million, 65,000-sq-ft Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare Franklin Medical Office Building was constructed in only 10 months, with work commencing in late fall and extending through the winter.
A transit station, urban park and gathering space, this multimodal transit hub links 500 commuter and light-rail trains per day while offering connections to miles of new bicycle and pedestrian trails.
Although its concrete piers and arching steel recall historic bridges of Ohio's Cuyahoga River, the $294-million, 16-span Cleveland Innerbelt Bridge also includes steel delta frames unique to the region.
Improvements to Lambeau Field, home to the National Football League's Green Bay Packers, encompassed 350,000 sq ft of new and existing space, including the addition of 7,000 seats in the south end zone, new upper-level and rooftop viewing platforms in north and south end zones, a pair of new gates, high-definition video boards and a new sound system.