This $4.2-million facility, the 300th Ronald McDonald House worldwide, serves as a home away from home for families of critically ill children in the St. Louis area, providing them with everything they might need for their stays, including a great room, playroom and reading rooms.
The $23-million renovation and expansion of Lincoln Elementary School in Cicero, Ill., was driven by a schedule that called for construction of an adjoining 71,000-sq-ft addition during the school year and extensive rehabilitation of the existing 63,000-sq-ft structure—including new mechanical, lighting, data and fire sprinkler systems—the following summer.
The $92-million Franklin County Common Pleas Courthouse in Columbus, Ohio, makes a sound case for sustainable design by incorporating elements that reduce the facility's annual energy consumption by 25% and annual water consumption by 1 million gallons, relative to the performance of more traditional courthouse buildings.
The $1.9-million SPiN Milwaukee, the third of actress Susan Sarandon's table tennis clubs, blends a clean, contemporary aesthetic with the timber structure and masonry shell of a 108-year-old former warehouse.
This elementary school's dense urban site prompted planners to locate a playground on its roof, alongside vegetative gardens that helped qualify the structure for LEED-Gold certification.
Construction of the 6,000-sq-ft Three Sixty Rooftop Bar occurred atop the 25-story Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark, with the structural engineer resolving the issue of steel reinforcement by applying a reinforcing material to the underside of an existing concrete slab.
One of the last major private developments in Chicago to be financed prior to the recession, the 42-story, 600,000-sq-ft 200 Squared at Lake and Wells houses 329 luxury apartments in an environment brimming with sustainable systems and finishes.
The $176-million, 300,000-sq-ft Wisconsin Institute for Discovery serves as a hub for interdisciplinary research, uniting scientists from a broad spectrum of disciplines while immersing them in the arts and humanities; education and outreach; and the process of interdisciplinary research itself.
Health and well-being are the stock in trade of Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield, so it should come as no surprise that the insurer's new $194-million headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa, comes equipped with ergonomic workstations, a fitness center and a restaurant that eschews sugar highs by offering low-cal pies.
This $245-million project called for reconfiguration of existing lanes, construction of additional driving lanes, reconstruction and reconfiguration of five interchanges, construction or reconstruction of 12 bridges and construction of the cable-stayed Christopher S. Bond Bridge across the Missouri River.