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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.



Brick and Masonry

A journey through masonry reclad litigation

This blog post by Walter P Moore's Mallory Buckley, RRO, PE, BECxP + CxA+BE, and Bob Hancock, MBA, JD, of Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr PC, explains the importance of documentation, correspondence between parties, and supporting the claims for a Plaintiff-party, while facilitating continuous use of the facility, on construction litigation projects.


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Drew Ballensky | Jun 13, 2013

L.A.'s natural history museum completes reimagining of buildings and grounds

The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles completed a full-scale transformation this month with the opening of its new Nature Gardens and Nature Lab and the Otis Booth Pavilion with an iconic Fin Whale specimen. 

Drew Ballensky | May 31, 2013

$3 million renovation leads to rebirth of Boston hotel with new upscale identity

After a $3 million renovation, the Bulfinch Hotel in Boston has been reborn as the Boxer, a more upscale property.

Drew Ballensky | May 28, 2013

Renovated casino part of redevelopment project at Los Angeles-area racetrack

Hollywood Park racetrack in Inglewood, Calif., will soon become Hollywood Park Tomorrow, a 238-acre development project.

Drew Ballensky | May 20, 2013

Competitors vie to redevelop home of N.Y. Islanders on Long Island

Four groups are competing to redevelop the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, home of the New York…
Drew Ballensky | May 13, 2013

Maryland proposal would fund commercial green-energy retrofits

A proposed bill in the Montgomery County, Md., Council would provide an innovative way to encourage…
Drew Ballensky | May 6, 2013

Philadelphia Navy Yard building converted to energy research ‘living lab’

A 70-year-old vacant recreation building at the Navy Yard in Philadelphia will open next week as…
May 2, 2013

New web community aims to revitalize abandoned buildings

Italian innovators Andrea Sesta and Daniela Galvani hope to create a worldwide database of abandoned facilities, ripe for redevelopment, with their [im]possible living internet community.

Drew Ballensky | Apr 29, 2013

Dilapidated 22-story Cambridge, Mass. courthouse headed for mixed-use rebirth

Plans have been unveiled to convert the old Middlesex Courthouse in East Cambridge, Mass. into a…
Drew Ballensky | Apr 22, 2013

Controversy over whether Montreal’s Olympic Stadium should be preserved

The deteriorating membrane roof atop the Olympic Stadium in Montreal needs to be replaced, but some…
Apr 19, 2013

Must see: Shell of gutted church on stilts, 40 feet off the ground

Construction crews are going to extremes to save the ornate brick façade of the Provo (Utah) Tabernacle temple, which was ravaged by a fire in December 2010.

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