Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, announces that the Media & Learning Center (MLC) at DeAnza College has achieved LEED Platinum certification.

Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, announces that the California Polytechnic State University Recreation Center has achieved LEED Gold certification.

Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, announces that 122 Bay State Road, a home for the new administrative offices of Boston University, has received LEED Gold certification.

Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, announces that the Albert Sherman Center at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, which houses the Advanced Therapeutics biomedical research facility, has achieved LEED Gold certification.

Oak Street Lofts, a LEED Platinum-certified affordable housing community in Portland developed and owned by Avesta Housing, has been named the winner of the 19th Annual Charles L. Edson Tax Credit Excellence Awards in the category of Green Housing.

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and its Committee on the Environment (COTE) has selected 355 11th Street: The Matarozzi/Pelsinger Multi-Use Building, in San Francisco by Aidlin Darling Design as the inaugural recipient of the Top Ten Plus.

The Shanghai Tower, which is still under construction, reached 501 meters (1,643 feet) April 11, surpassing the neighboring Jin Mao Building and the World Financial Center. Shanghai Tower is now the second tallest structure in China, and will become the tallest building when it reaches completion in 2014.

Watch Dennis Poon and Richard Tomasetti discuss building trends in the 21st Century with the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.