CityCenter in Las Vegas, the 67-acre city-within-a-city, is celebrating the opening of Veer Towers and its model homes. Designed by internationally renowned architect Helmut Jahn, Veer Towers was created as an architectural and artistic landmark on the global scene and is CityCenter’s only completely residential development. Inclined at five-degree angles, its two 37-story glass towers [...]

Nature was the inspiration for architect David Serero of the French architectural firm Serero Architects, who designed the new cultural center of Meudon-la-Forêt. The building follows the orthogonal grid of the district while developing a close connection with the ground space. The project is organized around a central nucleus created by a theater of 300 [...]

JE Berkowitz (JEB) in Pedricktown, N.J., served as the glass supplier for the expansion project of the Philadelphia Convention Center. By completion of the project, JEB will have supplied more than 70,000 square feet of heat treated PPG 5/16-inch Solarban 60 insulating glass units with special light grey silicone. The $700 million convention center, due [...]

The new Segerstrom Science Center at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, Calif., features Lamberts channel glass provided by Bendheim Wall Systems, the exclusive North American importer of the channel glass. For the $42 million building at California’s first Bible college, A.C. Martin Partners Inc. took advantage of the unique structural properties of Lamberts channel glass. [...]

Visible at night to airplanes flying to the Pensacola Gulf Coast Regional Airport, the aluminum, glass and concrete ellipse of the Cancer Center of Sacred Heart Hospital was designed as a symbol of the quality and compassion the Center brings to patients throughout Northwest Florida. The 95,430-square-foot Sacred Heart Cancer Center both consolidates and expands [...]

In just three short years an architectural and construction team consisting of some of the industry’s best players designed and built a glittering city within a city that has forever transformed the famous Las Vegas skyline. Where the old Boardwalk Casino once sat, today stands CityCenter, a 67-acre complex that is home to hotels, casinos, [...]

Houston-based Linbeck Group completed 2009’s top construction project for its work building Dallas’ new Winspear Opera House, the Associated General Contractors of America announced today. Linbeck was among 15 companies to receive Aon Build America Awards, an annual ranking of the nation’s most significant construction projects. “These are the projects that redefine communities, reinvent neighborhoods [...]

The Washington Building Congress announced that the Whiting-Turner Contracting Company will receive Craftsmanship Awards for its work on the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business Rafik B. Hariri Building. The building will receive awards for its ornamental metal and glass railing work in the Simone McDonough Atrium and Lohrfink Auditorium completed by Tate Ornamental; the [...]