Denver has received high praise from Forbes magazine which includes Denver on its list of 15 U.S. cities with emerging downtowns. The article is highlighted by a picture of development around Union Station. Forbes says that one of the main factors businesses consider when deciding on where to relocate or expand is the available pool … Continued
Last week transportation officials in Denver made a trial run of the new West Rail Line — a 12-mile, $707-million light rail line expected to serve some 20,000 riders a day. The “W” line holds great promise for Denver’s western corridor (except, perhaps, for too much emphasis on park-and-ride facilities), but it has even greater … Continued
SOM has designed what will be Singapore’s tallest tower upon its completion in 2016. Positioned as a premier quality business and lifestyle hub, the 290-meter, 1.7-million-gross-square-foot Tanjong Pagar Centre will provide a mix of uses, comprising office, residential, retail and hospitality, in the historic Tanjong Pagar central business district. The development will be a significant … Continued
With their One World Trade Center safely crowned the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, the skyscraper overlords at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill have moved on, recently unveiling yet another record-breaker: Tanjong Pagar Centre, which will be Singapore’s tallest tower when complete in 2016. According to the project description, the skyscraper, the crown jewel in … Continued
Construction is well along on the third and final phase of the sprawling $500-million effort to transform Denver Union Station into a multimodal transportation hub for the Mountain West region. Contractors expect to finish the project in about a year. The Union Station design-build project, which stretches over 40 acres in downtown Denver’s Central Platte … Continued
The Yongsan International Business District under development in the heart of Seoul, South Korea, is an amazingly ambitious project that brings together some of the world’s top architecture and engineering firms to redevelop a nearly 140-acre site on the Han River. When complete, the center is planned to feature approximately 25 new buildings, the tallest … Continued
Stand at the corner of 17th and Wynkoop streets, in front of Denver’s Union Station, with its iconic red-neon “Travel by Train” sign and monumental windows, and you can almost imagine the depot’s glory days in the 1930s, when as many as 80 trains a day stopped here. Today, the 1914 Beaux-Arts-style station is surrounded … Continued
The Zuellig Building, a $171-million, 33-story office building in the Makati Central Business District in Manila, was the first building in the Philippines to be pre-certified Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design LEED® Gold by the U.S. Green Building Council. The building’s facade is made of double-pane, low-emissivity glass cladding with ceramic frits that appear … Continued
ArupSOM, a joint venture between U.S. engineering and consulting firm Arup and U.S. architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, said it has marked the completion of its work expanding Terminal 4 for Delta Air Lines at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York City. The new $1.2 billion terminal complex consolidates Delta’s operations … Continued
The redevelopment and expansion of Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) will include two major phases, span multiple years, and cost an estimated $1.4 billion. The massive project will transition the facility from a fully common-use terminal to a common-use terminal with Delta Air Lines as its anchor airline tenant. The $1.2 … Continued