The Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) has announced the winners of 2023 PCI Design awards. Three panels of jurors awarded 25 winners, including eight honorable mentions for the special buildings and transportation categories.
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In December 2022, New York City Mayor Eric Adams launched a new visioning program for Fifth Avenue—from Bryant Park at 42nd Street to Central Park at 59th Street—to transform it into a pedestrian-friendly hub, following the success of the holiday season Open Streets program.
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Originally built in 1931 as a gymnasium, a Spanish Colonial Revival style building at a 60-ha (150-acre) boarding school in Claremont, Calif., underwent a transformation, to turn into a community center, by bridging its older design elements with new contemporary additions.
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In December 2022, a former senior official at the San Francisco's Department of Building Inspection (DBI) pleaded guilty to accepting gratuity payments as rewards for approving building permits.
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LEVER Architecture, based in Portland and Los Angeles, has been selected as the design architect for the $100 million campus expansion and unification project for the Portland Museum of Art (PMA) in Maine.
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The board of directors and the strategic council of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) have bestowed Mithun with the 2023 AIA Architecture Firm Award, the highest honor from the institute recognizing a firm that has consistently produced distinguished architecture for at least a decade.
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Aimed at receiving Earth Advantage Platinum certification—based on energy efficiency, optimal land use, sensible water technology, and sustainable materials benchmarks—a housing project in Portland has incorporated cost-saving and cost-efficient methods into its design.
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Skanska, a global construction and development firm, has been selected by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to deliver circulation enhancements to the Grand Central/42nd Street station in New York City.
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The companies, part of the joint venture (JV) in charge of constructing Worcester’s Polar Park baseball stadium in Massachusetts, have agreed to pay $1.9 million in response to allegations made by the Attorney General’s office that the JV misrepresented claims to include women and minority-owned businesses as subcontractors.
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New York-based architecture and design studio ODA’s design of a mixed-use tower in South Florida’s Rio Vista neighborhood in Fort Lauderdale, reveals a sequence of stepped rounded volumes, to create a distinct masterpiece in the city’s skyline.
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