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Reasons to reinvent the Midcentury academic library

DLR Group's Interior Design Leader Gretchen Holy, Assoc. IIDA, shares the idea that a designer's responsibility to embrace a library’s history, respect its past, and create an environment that will serve student populations for the next 100 years.




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University Buildings | Feb 18, 2022

On-campus performing arts centers and museums can be talent magnets for universities

Cultural facilities are changing the way prospective students and parents view higher education campuses.

Resiliency | LEO A DALY | Feb 15, 2022

Design strategies for resilient buildings

LEO A DALY's National Director of Engineering Kim Cowman takes a building-level look at resilient design. 

Cultural Facilities | Jan 27, 2022

Growth in content providers creates new demand for soundstage facilities

Relativity Architects' Partner Tima Bell discusses how the explosion in content providers has outpaced the availability of TV and film production soundstages in North America and Europe.

Cultural Facilities | Jan 18, 2022

A building in Times Square aspires to be a marketing and arts tool

The 580-ft TSX Broadway will have several LED signs on its exterior, and host an existing 27,000-sf theater that was hoisted 30 ft above street level. 

Cultural Facilities | Dec 16, 2021

Museums and other cultural spaces reconsider how to serve their communities

Efforts to raise capital for cultural buildings became necessary during the COVID-19 health crisis.

Giants 400 | Nov 19, 2021

2021 Cultural Facilities Giants: Top architecture, engineering, and construction firms in the U.S. cultural facilities sector

Gensler, AECOM, Buro Happold, and Arup top BD+C's rankings of the nation's largest cultural facilities sector architecture, engineering, and construction firms, as reported in the 2021 Giants 400 Report.

Cultural Facilities | Nov 19, 2021

Goettsch Partners completes Lincoln Park Zoo’s Pepper Family Wildlife Center

The project doubles the size of the previous lion habitat.

Cultural Facilities | Nov 17, 2021

Henning Larsen-designed Shaw Auditorium opens at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

The project celebrated its grand opening as part of HKUST’s thirtieth anniversary celebration.

Cultural Facilities | Oct 19, 2021

Niagara Falls is getting a bigger Welcome Center

The GWWO Architects-designed building will mostly sit on the site of the center it replaces.

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