Items Tagged with 'Historic preservation'

Located in the heart of the future National Western Center, Denver’s 125-year-old Livestock Exchange Building is being reimagined as The Exchange.

Hidden walls and long-covered artwork were surprises complicating the $17.8-million retrofit of the historic terminal building.

After suffering from years of lack of maintenance and water intrusion from Hurricane Katrina, the Dew Drop Inn, the legendary New Orleans hotel and nightclub, which once boasted greats like Ray Charles and Little Richard, is finding new life as contractors near completion of a historic renovation before the landmark’s planned opening this fall.

Design-build team of Walsh, SOM and Murphy Group persevered through curveballs to recreate Chicago's Ellis Island as two hotels.

The daring rebuild of the dysfunctional landmark Portland Building, designed by the late Michael Graves and considered to be the building that triggered the postmodern movement in architecture, was so successful that the building team is writing a playbook for the delivery model it used, which it calls collaborative design-build, with progressive contracting.

Until last year, Cook County General Hospital sat vacant for 17 years. As redevelopment plans fizzled, graffiti from squatters began to turn up inside the 1.2-million-sq-ft building once known as Chicago’s Ellis Island.

Robert Silman, known for repairing ailing structures, died July 31. The 83-year-old structural engineer succumbed to cancer—first diagnosed in 1984.