Total construction starts rose 2% in March to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $825.3 billion, according to Dodge Data & Analytics. A solid gain in nonresidential building starts fueled the March gain, while growth in residential starts was minuscule and nonbuilding starts fell outright.
Read MoreDodge Data & Analytics (“Dodge”) and The Blue Book Building & Construction Network (“The Blue Book”) announced that they are combining their businesses in a merger. The combination will result in the Dodge | Blue Book Construction Industry Database, containing more than 10 billion data elements and comprising the most complete, up-to-date and accurate information about projects, people, firms and products in the industry.
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The Spring Hill School’s new campus in southern Sonoma County, Petaluma, California welcomed its first middle school class for the 2019-20 academic year. EXTECH/Exterior Technologies, Inc.’s skylight systems expand the school’s learning spaces beyond the building’s walls, making the most of the fresh air and sunshine. Designed by DMARC Studio and constructed by Advanced Building Solutions, the new middle school showcases a contemporary exterior and a flexible interior with capacity for up to 120 students.
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An international team of developers, contractors, architects, interior designers and art consultants have opened Perla on Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles. Perla is the first residential high rise built in the downtown Historic Core in over a century. And, because the wealth of historic buildings and development restrictions prevent new construction, it is also likely to be the only building of such height and size to rise in the neighborhood.
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Located in the heart of the city’s popular Strip District neighborhood, the Pittsburgh Produce Terminal sat vacant and ignored for decades. But today, the historic five-block structure—now rehabilitated with Acuity™ low-iron glass and Solarban® 70 glass with an Acuity™ glass interior lite—is a beacon of creativity and innovation in the Steel City.
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State Theatre is a renovation project currently in progress that was designed by the Austin/San Antonio-based firm Clayton Korte. Built on Congress Avenue next to the Paramount, Austin’s original performing arts venue, State Theatre opened as a movie palace in 1935. Today, the theatre produces a range of drama, comedy, music, dance, and spoken-word events. The development of a hotel project next door prompted a renovation to reposition the theatre as an incubator for future Paramount performers and an entry point for new audiences with Austin Theatre Alliance.
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KTGY announced today that construction is underway on Capitol Square Apartments, which will provide 103 income-restricted residential units near the Central Business District of Downtown Denver. “We live and work in this wonderful community and it is truly exciting to have a meaningful role in bringing new, high-quality affordable housing in an amenity-rich neighborhood near transit and employment,” said Terry Willis, AIA, LEED AP, a principal in KTGY’s Denver office. “Attracting both young workers and empty nesters looking for a walkable, urban home, Capitol Square features unit sizes that address the ever-increasing need for affordability in the downtown core.”
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The University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) has begun construction on a new 90,000 SFT Classroom Building designed by LMN Architects on a central site adjacent to the Library along Library Mall. The Classroom Building is designed to be a porous structure that opens at every face to welcome the university community, intertwining the life of the building with the surrounding campus and spectacular natural environment.
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Transforming Bernard Becker Medical Library into an education service and technology hub was one of the initial steps in a five-year plan by Washington University School of Medicine to better integrate its St. Louis campus. The program, called Building Campus Connections, focuses on incorporating educational services, expanding clinical space, and improving research and service facilities while building a cohesive, collaborative environment. KWK Architects took the lead role in designing renovations to Becker Library’s basement, ground floor lobby entrance, and second through seventh levels.
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The Edmonton Public Library (EPL) celebrated the grand opening of its renewed Stanley A. Milner Library on Sept. 17, 2020. The new Milner Library not only reinvented its former box-shaped structure into a flowing, angular, modern icon, but also reimagined its interior as a brighter, quieter, more inviting, innovative, public space. Supporting the EPL’s and Milner Library’s design goals, Teeple Architects selected Rockfon’s acoustic stone wool ceiling panels to contribute to the welcoming, comfortable, energy-efficient space.
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