Rush University Medical Center opened its new facility Friday morning on the Near West Side.

Manhattan’s 1930s towers captured the imagination, but the centre of gravity of tall building construction, as with wider economic activity, is shifting east, and China is the prime mover.

The Vista Xchange Integrated Civic and Cultural Hub was named one of the 11 Best Architecture Moments of 2011 by the Huffington Post.

Washington Hospital Healthcare System said Friday it’s wrapped up work on a new central utility plant, part of a estimated $300 million expansion and seismic upgrade project outlined in late 2004.

The Memorial comprises three major elements with an abundance of landscaping to integrate it with the historic cherry tree lined perimeter of the Tidal Basin.

Two Thornton Tomasetti employees – Elisabeth Malsch and Cristina Martinez – have been named as winners of the “Top 20 Under 40” for the NY Metro region.

Seoul has recently become a financial capital in Northeast Asia, and now enjoys a status similar to that of Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, and other Asian cities.

In a 30-year career with New York engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti, Brazil has led teams behind the design of more than three million square feet of high rise office space in the Times Square area alone.

At their annual meeting in Oklahoma City, OK on October 22, NCSEA announced the winners of the 2011 Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards.

ACE Mentor Program of America is proud to announce that it is one of eight recipients of the prestigious 2010 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM).

The three Zenith towers top out at 988 feet, but their wide stance and butterfly-shaped core walls shrug off blasts from storms over the China Sea.

Construction is ready to begin on the $1.2bn Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, says Adrian Smith, the lead architect. The building, to be the world’s tallest, will include a six-storey “sky palace”.