The Gift that Keeps Giving

Gensler’s Newport Beach Office, a dramatic repurposing of a former bank, features an innovative floor plan that encourages collaboration.

A river is being diverted through the Andes in the hope of turning arid fields in western Peru into productive farmland.

New research examines the green building market and finds opportunities for both high-performance and conventional materials.

Bordeaux, France, recently celebrated the opening of its long, tall, elegant lift bridge, which accommodates both vehicular and light-rail traffic.

The New York Public Library unveiled the new light-filled, spacious design for the 53rd Street Library last week.

The developer of a new high-speed rail system in the United Kingdom is proposing that a 9 km bored tunnel be built under Ealing and Northolt.

A pedestrian bridge has been designed to connect two districts in Lima, Peru, that are currently separated by an immense gap in the landscape.

The design of the new Shanghai Natural History Museum recalls that of classic Chinese gardens, as well as such natural shapes as a nautilus.

The Eden Project has commissioned a walkway at the canopy level of its Tropical Biome with a platform that will be modeled on the elaborate nests of weaverbirds.

A new glass-clad building will provide refreshing transparency in a city dominated by masonry structures.

The El Toro Water District, in Orange County, California, is significantly expanding its recycled water program to reduce its dependence on imported water.

The phase I remediation investigation of New York City’s Newtown Creek Superfund site is nearing completion.

A new composite building that unfolds—expanding by a factor of as much as 6.8—traces its origins to a civil engineer’s experiences as a child in Peru.

The City of Baltimore has begun to implement its Climate Action Plan, which includes reducing energy consumption, increasing transit-oriented development, and a host of other measures.

More than half of the nation’s rivers and streams are in poor condition, according to a new report from the U.S. EPA

Hartnell College, a community college just south of San José, California, is expanding the educational opportunities for its engineering and construction students by developing renewable energy sources on campus.

Contracts were awarded recently on two projects to divert flow and sediment from the Mississippi River to offset the dramatic loss of coastal wetlands in Louisiana.

The first segment of the eagerly anticipated PHX Sky Train, which gives Phoenix the distinction of having a mass transit system that extends above an airport taxiway, has opened for service.

Researchers examine an extensive ice core from the Antarctic Peninsula and find that ice melt there is greater now than at any time in the past 1,000 years.

The bladeless windmill’s developers believe their creation may offer a more palatable alternative to conventional wind turbine farms, which the Dutch public has rejected because of their operating noise, blade shadows, and aesthetics.

A nightmarish intersection of several significant highways just west of Chicago’s Loop will be reconstructed for the first time in nearly 60 years, and the improvements will benefit both commuter and freight traffic.

An innovative new apartment complex in Hamburg, Germany, employs bioreactor panels containing microscopic algae to shade the building and generate energy.

In replacing an earth-filled arch bridge that is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, designers had to consider aesthetics as well as function.

The world’s largest offshore wind farm, located in the Thames estuary off the coast of the United Kingdom, became fully operational this month.

Robin Monotti Architects’ design for a new tower in Tbilisi, Georgia, pays homage to the nation’s past and the city’s present.

The enormous truck seen in Christchurch recently was part of a research project to better quantify the soils beneath the city.

The Birmingham New Street redevelopment project, which began in 2010, has reached its halfway mark. Next week will mark the grand opening of the first half of the new concourse.

Historical Bush Stadium in Indianapolis is reborn as an apartment complex, complete with a concrete infield and a replica of the original press box.

A cluster of four museum and gallery spaces to be built on the western coast of Denmark will be nestled beneath the ground and linked to a nearby World War II bunker.

Even though U.S. women hold far fewer STEM jobs than do men, a new study suggests that girls and boys earn similar grades in math and science and that Asian-Americans outperform their peers.

A 200,000 sq ft addition to the St. Louis Art Museum maximizes the use of daylight without endangering the priceless artwork within.

The global capacity of small wind turbines is projected to grow from an estimated 89 MW in 2013 to 182 MW in 2018, according to a new report.