When Connecticut Children’s Medical Center opened in Hartford in 1994, it included a three-story atrium as the central design feature of the main lobby.

When Greg Lyon assessed his firm’s exceedingly rare opportunity to design a new building in the core of Beverly Hills’ posh retail district, he knew it had to stand out for many re...

One of the original Cadillac automotive plants in Detroit is undergoing a conversion into loft apartments, an adaptive reuse of a building that played a key role in the Motor City'...

Pushing a shopping cart around a grocery store, it stands to reason that a customer wants plenty of room to walk around and take items off shelves without bumping into other custom...

Weathered bricks, industrial windows and cast-iron shutters form the exterior of Terminal Warehouse in New York, a colossal structure that for well over a century has loomed over a...

An aviation industry group projects a surge of air travel in the coming years, and one of Florida's largest airports is in the throes of getting ready.

Mark Johnson has the documents, the demand and the dirt to get moving on two new multifamily properties at Cambridge Crossing, an expansive mixed-use project directly across the Ch...

Squeezed between an Ivy League university and a river, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia needed to grow but was running out of space.

Commercial developers have flocked to downtown Detroit in recent years with new restaurants, hotels and office buildings, helping to lift the city from years of economic doldrums. ...

The Empire State Building isn’t just one of the most popular tourist attractions in Manhattan and a global symbol of New York City. It’s also a prototype of how to retrofit an olde...

The Maine coastline is known for its dozens of lightly populated islands, fishing boats, quaint towns and lighthouses. A planned development in the state's largest city would bring...

Nicole Gardner wanted an office for her Charlotte, North Carolina, law firm that didn’t look or feel like an office. After a two-year search, the firm Gardner Skelton now occupies ...

The downtown St. Louis office market, with elevated vacancy rates and at least one fully vacant tower, could use a shot in the arm. That might be coming as the local architecture f...

A large state university in Southern California received a key regulatory approval this month for the construction of a new student housing complex on campus, filling the void of a...

The Dearborn Inn, a historic hotel built by Henry Ford within a Ford Motor Co. complex near Detroit, has reopened after a two-year restoration project.

During its prime from the 1950s through the 1970s, the Howard Johnson’s hotel chain generated a cult following among design fans for its aqua blue and bright orange color scheme, A...

The great outdoors plays a big role in the business of rock quarry operator Vulcan Materials. But its headquarters provided very little visual connection to the outside.

Like many outdated office buildings, 25 Water St. in Manhattan’s Financial District wasn’t suitable for conversion to residential. The developers and architects converted it anyway...

Developers at Columbia Residential thought the Cosby Spear multifamily towers in Atlanta would be perfectly reusable buildings as modern-day housing for seniors despite being built...

The rooms were cramped and parking was tight, but architect Richard Kassab was under orders from his developer client to make no structural changes to a classic Southern California...