Thornton Tomasetti Vice President Mark Dannettel, LEED AP BD+C has been named leader of the firm’s Building Skin practice for the Pacific Rim region.

Thornton Tomasetti won two awards at the Structural Engineers Association of Metropolitan Washington’s (SEA-MW) Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards Gala on February 26, 2011 at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel in Washington, D.C.

An American firm approaches the design of its 121-story, mixed used tower now rising in Shanghai as a vertical collection of neighborhoods.

ETFE was pioneered by DuPont more than 40 years prior to its architectural debut in Europe in the early 1980s.

SEA-MW held its fifth annual awards gala at the Willard Intercontinental in Washington, DC on Saturday, February 26, 2011.

The 121-story Shanghai Tower is more than China’s next record-setting building: It’s an economic lifeline for the elite club of skyscraper builders.

Designers of the 121-story Shanghai Tower, with its record-tall composite steel-and-concrete structure, are helping craft China’s first superskyscraper building code.

With hundreds of guests and well-wishers on hand, 200 Fifth Avenue marked its 100th birthday on June 17th with a giant cake shaped in its likeness and a host of achievements to celebrate.

There was plenty of buzz (but not of the Lightyear kind) last night on the roof of 200 Fifth Ave, formerly known as the International Toy Center. L&L Holding Co., the owner of the historic property, held a party to celebrate the building’s 100th birthday and completion of a $135M renovation.

The International Toy Center always sounded like just about any child’s definition of heaven. But very few children — and not that many more grown-ups — ever got inside the two great fortresslike showroom buildings on the west side of Madison Square Park.