Built in 1914, the Lord & Taylor Building in Manhattan served as the retail giant’s flagship store for over a century and helped shape the city’s identity, including introducing Fifth Avenue as a premier shopping destination. In March 2020, Amazon purchased this landmark, transforming the department store (along with the neighboring Dreicer Building), into a modern, dynamic workplace for more than 2,000 employees. This new tech hub is known as “Hank.”
Safety is more than an obligation: it’s a mindset. At Structure Tone New York, safety also means looking out for one another, particularly during projects, resulting in minimal injuries and incidents on jobsites.
In today’s fast-paced construction landscape, persistent challenges haunt project schedules and budgets. Delays and cost overruns often arise due to fragmented communication among stakeholders, design discrepancies discovered during the construction phase, and the need for late stage change orders.
Blueprint Robotics, a Baltimore-based company that produces wood-frame construction products is planning to build a 450,000-square-foot production facility in Windsor, Connecticut, that is said to be the largest North American industrial building erected entirely of mass timber.
As the trend for more open, collaborative workplaces moves into the post-pandemic era, the feature staircase continues to add a “wow” factor to an office. But it’s also becoming more than a mere statement piece. Today, businesses use interconnecting steps as a unique design element to promote corporate culture, to encourage wellness, and to inspire collaboration and cooperation.
Going into the new year, staying on top of new tech trends is important to builders looking to maximize output and slash costs.
Inherently complex, light manufacturing project —especially in the food and beverage sector often involve highly specialized systems that demand the coordination of skilled tradespeople in power, cooling, process piping, ammonia-based refrigeration, and low-voltage controls.
Atlantic Equity Partners launched a new fund aimed at acquiring and sustainably redeveloping hospitality real estate, the company announced Wednesday.
Enormous factories are sprouting outside of this capital city. Now comes the hard part—finding people to work in them.
Design Forecast® contains the advice, research, and ideas that our clients need to know right now. These eight trends are what we see as the most important signals and key opportunities in the building industry today.
Manage a law firm for long enough and you will inevitably face the following question: what do we do with this office space?
Life sciences buildings have unique space requirements for office and laboratory areas. This combination can be an economic challenge for new construction, however, especially in urban cores. Repositioning an existing building is one way to deliver a modern workspace with a compelling backstory.