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On a recent crisp, clear spring morning, as I approached the National Museum of the American Indian from the east, the brilliant sunlight bathed its limestone curves in variegated shades [...]

In recent years, public discussion of the role of cultural facilities in society has turned into a war of dueling spreadsheets over their economic benefits, especially when public funding for [...]

In the heart of Madrid's historic area, where the Principe Pio transit station has been in operation for 125 years, finding land suitable for redevelopment is virtually impossible. Located in [...]

If you were among the 11 million tourists to visit Baltimore this past year, chances are you took in at least one of the Charm City's Inner Harbor attractions--the National [...]

In recent years, advances in information technology have enabled nurses to move away from traditional centralized paper-charting stations to smaller decentralized stations and charting substations located closer to patient rooms. [...]

To say that the speculative office market is returning to health would be an egregious overstatement. Vacancy rates remain high--16-19% in many cities around the country--and ribbon cuttings on new [...]

More than a hundred years ago, when the ribbon was cut on North America's first subway line, in Boston (1897), and seven years later in New York, nobody cared about [...]

The General Services Administration's great architectural awakening came 10 years ago, with the implementation of its Design Excellence Program. In recent years, sustainable design has become a primary component of [...]

Nine hundred feet long and shaped like a slender, undulating S, the Information Sciences and Technology Building at Penn State University winds through the campus like a serpent, its gleaming [...]

Fewer libraries were constructed last year than in any year since 1985. But while the total number, 226--195 public and 31 academic--was down, a number of prominent and astoundingly eye-catching [...]

Installing a vegetated green roof on a building is an idea as foreign to most American building owners, architects, and contractors as the European technology upon which most such roofs [...]

Evenings along busy Tremont Street in Boston's thriving Theater District, motorists and pedestrians passing by the backstage service entryway known as Allen's Alley are treated--if at times only fleetingly--to one [...]

For Judge Walter J. Gex III, the completion last August of the Dan M. Russell, Jr. United States Courthouse complex in Gulfport, Miss., was justice long delayed. The project, which [...]

Timing is everything in the theater and performing arts, as well as in building design and construction. In Baltimore, the economic prosperity of the mid- and late-1990s made it possible [...]

A dynamic entertainment market is prompting changes in the traditional approaches to the design and construction of performing arts centers, from concert halls to venues on college campuses. Performing arts [...]

Drawing 26 million visitors in its first six months of operation last year, Tokyo's gargantuan Roppongi Hills mixed-use development may be the biggest thing to hit the city since Godzilla. [...]

Valley View Medical Center, a small rural hospital in the fast-growing southwestern corner of Utah, exemplifies what Winston Churchill meant when he said of the built environment, 'We shape our [...]

Healthcare's ultra-tech revolution, once stalled by government regulations, approvals processes, and institutional roadblocks, is propelling the healthcare field into a new era, one requiring more rigorous and thoughtful planning and [...]

Close up, amid saplings and green lawns in a courtyard enclosed by brick and vinyl-sided townhouses, you'd think you were viewing another cookie-cutter housing development anywhere in Suburbia, USA. Zoom [...]

For officials with the U.S. General Services Administration and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the New England Regional Laboratory in North Chelmsford, Mass., represented more than a new $18 million [...]

The perception that sustainable design and construction inherently contains a substantial cost premium, especially for big projects, is belied by the completion of the south campus addition to the Toyota [...]

Originally, constructed in 1904 as the training facility for the U.S. men's Olympic team, the University of Chicago's Bartlett Hall, a neo-Gothic limestone structure in the heart of the campus, [...]

The transition from 'slot box' to mega-resort marks the true arrival of Native American owned-and-operated casinos on a plane with their Las Vegas and Atlantic City counterparts. Centered on their [...]

If a classic movie could reflect the current hotel market, it wouldn't be 'Grand Hotel,' but rather 'Psycho,' whose Bates Motel was dark, foreboding, and had plenty of vacancies. More [...]

In Las Vegas, the late 1980s saw the advent of the high-end, themed mega-resort, such as the Mirage and Excalibur, accompanied by a move toward Disneyfication, with gaming operators seeking [...]

The economic boom of the 1990s fattened state coffers even as the stock market boosted endowments, enabling public and private institutions of higher learning to invest in major building renovations, [...]

An old-school wooden canoe hangs from the ceiling in the lobby o[ the main entrance of the Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F) office campus, a symbol of the active, nature-loving lifestyle [...]

A wash in the harsh sun of the Saudi Arabian desert, the gleaming 984-ft.-tall Kingdom Centre shimmers like a mirage as it towers over the Riyadh skyline. Rising from an [...]

The excitement and frenetic activity of Istanbul during the height of the Ottoman Empire five centuries ago must have been similar to that which took place only a few years [...]

Office and retail markets are taking a beating in most areas of the country. Commercial office vacancies are approaching record levels in many areas, and studies are showing that lifestyle [...]

A proliferation of specialty hospitals, predominantly cardiology, oncology, and orthopedic facilities, are adding fuel to the fire that is the red-hot healthcare market. Lured by the opportunity to escape from [...]

Thirty-five years ago, when Arthur Rosenblatt was appointed vice director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, museums were simple to understand. 'They were quiet places, lonely places,' serving mostly [...]

The era of the domed stadium was launched on April 9, 1965, when the Yankees' Mickey Mantle blasted a homer into orbit in an exhibition game before 47,876 fans assembled [...]

When it opened on the Boardwalk in 1929, the Atlantic City Convention Hall was hailed as the world's largest clear-span space under one roof. Supporting its barrel-vaulted ceiling, 10 pairs [...]

The $12.5 million renovation of an historic warehouse into a mixed-use office and retail building that opened last September in Portland, Ore., is reflective of the renewed emphasis in the [...]

San Francisco holds a special place in the national psyche, known for its beauty, romance and earth-shifting danger. But among developers and designers, it also is known for being as [...]

Too hip to be caught dead in a mall, yet in need of a one-stop shopping venue where clothes or kitchenware can be purchased, dry cleaning can be picked up, [...]

Building team's established relationship yields green industrial facility When the Steelcase furniture manufacturing company decided to build a new wood furniture facility in nearby Dutton, Mich., the Grand Rapids, Mich.-based [...]

While the trend in sports facilities is retro stadiums, parks and arenas, Denver's Invesco Field at Mile High is a departure. The new home of the NFL Broncos fulfills the [...]

Efforts by the Ontario government wine and spirits store system to reduce sales to minors and to intoxicated customers are [...]