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.

Corporate Sustainability Officer Amy Hattan and Project Architect Rachel Michelin talk about Thornton Tomasetti’s approach to professional development and our green internal training program.

Thornton Tomasetti Founding Principal Charles H. Thornton, Ph.D., P.E., Hon. AIA, Hon. ASCE, NAE was among five individuals honored by the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Outstanding Projects and Leaders (OPAL) program for their lifetime achievements at a black-tie gala on March 21 in Arlington, Va.

Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York has won an Architizer A+ Awards in the entertainment category.

Carrasco International Airport has won an Architizer A+ Awards in the transportation category.

In the sleepy dusty outskirts of Jeddah, a giant is preparing to finally rise. In the Saudi Arabian desert 20 kilometres north of the ancient city, the contractors Mace and EC Harris are scheduled to start construction on April 1 of what they say will one day be the world’s tallest tower.

Building Information Modeling Manager Josh Bradshaw talks about how Thornton Tomasetti provides single-source engineering services to our clients through the use of building information modeling.

The 1.6-million-sf expansion of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md. is this month’s cover story. Managing Principal Wayne Stocks and Vice President Zach Kates discuss the structural design challenges of the 205-bed Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children’s Center and the 355-bed Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahayan Tower.

Join Joseph Burns for a look beneath the skin of this complex project: the structure and foundations and how it was constructed. He will also explain provisions for a future train station to the airport beneath the block and future residential towers along Randolph.