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.

The Stadium Business Awards has named the LIVESTRONG Sporting Park in Kansas as the world’s best sports venue over the past year.

The new Winspear Opera House in Dallas redefines the essence of an opera house for the twenty first century, breaking down barriers to make opera more accessible for a wider audience.

Sunil Gulati, head of U.S. soccer, summed up the general impression by calling it “the best stadium of its size on earth.”

The complexity of the new Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House is fully realized not just in the design and painstaking construction of its complex, one-of-a-kind components but also in the management of the process that brought it to fruition.

This nearly 800-foot-tall tower’s pleated curtain wall is more than just an intriguing design gesture.

A modern interpretation of a traditional performance venue, the design of the new Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House in Dallas, emerged from the close cooperation on the part of engineers, architects and acoustical and theatrical experts that enabled them to overcome such noise and vibration challenges as the structure’s proximity to a major freeway and its location directly beneath the flight path of a Dallas airport.

While other cities are tightening their belts, Dallas is polishing its buckle

Texas wouldn’t be the premier location when one considers a foray into the world of the arts, or at least it wouldn’t have, until now. Billed as the most significant cultural complex in America since New York’s Lincoln Centre, the $354-million Dallas Centre for the Performing Arts is set to open next month to complete the city’s 25 year vision for the 68 acre arts district.

Already rising four stories out of the ground in a concrete horseshoe, the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts’ Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House is starting to take shape.