Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, has been recognized by the American Council of Engineering Companies of New York (ACEC-NY) with two 2012 Excellence in Engineering Awards at the Council’s annual gala held on March 24.

Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, was the structural project engineer for the Pennsylvania State University Millennium Science Complex, home of the new Life and Materials Science programs for the University.

Thornton Tomasetti received Diamond and Platinum Awards for Engineering Excellence from the American Council of Engineering Companies of New York (ACEC New York) Engineering Excellence Awards for the structural design of Comcast Center in Philadelphia and Carrasco International Airport in Uruguay.

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

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

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.

When the wrecking ball came down on San Francisco’s 71-year-old Transbay Terminal bus station in December, it marked the end of an era—and the beginning of a new one. The drab concrete structure will be replaced with the long-planned Transbay Transit Center, perhaps the most ambitious transportation hub to be built in the United States in the past few decades.

While ensuring that waterproofing, vapor, wind loads and other Superdome repair needs were met, a metal-wall panel system with a structural sub-framing clip-attachment system was developed so a single wall panel can be removed from any location without disturbing the adjacent wall panels

Even during a time of dwindling capital and stalling public works projects San Francisco is moving forward with plans for a $4.2 billion transportation center that could dramatically change how the city looks and travels.

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.

Back in 2007, when the government here announced its plan for “the world’s first zero-carbon city” on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi, many Westerners dismissed it as a gimmick — a faddish follow-up to neighboring Dubai’s half-mile-high tower in the desert and archipelago of man-made islands in the shape of palm trees.

The Masdar Headquarters will be the world’s first positive-energy building, producing more energy than it consumes and surpassing the standards for LEED Platinum™ sustainable design certification.

After decades of planning, construction work on the Transbay Transit Center officially began Wednesday following a politician-heavy groundbreaking ceremony.

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.

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.

San Francisco’s ambitious $4billion Transbay Transit Center Project can now move forward following the closure of a $171 million Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan deal for the project.

Always famous yet never in the limelight, John Portman, 86, is an architect who made his stamp on the world through hotel atriums and Atlanta’s Peachtree Center.

The 194,000-square-foot facility will be a place where teaching, learning and research come together in an integrated way, with the research providing content for the curriculum and with students learning through exploration of real-world problems, according to architects Ayers/Saint/Gross of Baltimore.

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.

Located in downtown Philadelphia right above the Suburban rail station, the Comcast Center has been awarded the title of “tallest LEED certified building in the US” after earning a Gold Certification for LEED-CS (Core & Shell).

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.

Soaring 58 stories and 975 feet above downtown Philadelphia, the new Comcast Center, which was recently awarded LEED Core and Shell Gold Certification, now has the distinction of being the tallest certified green building in the United States.

An increasingly common approach to all-glass facades is to use multiple types of glass with varying performance characteristics. Such a strategy was employed by New York City–based Audrey Matlock, AIA, for the design of the Chelsea Modern, a 47-unit residential building on a tight midblock Manhattan site.

San Francisco is a world-class city, but we have always missed one thing – a real, world-class train station. That is about to change. After years of planning, we are ready to break ground on a new, multi-modal, state-of-the-art public transit facility – the Transbay Transit Center – which will connect regional bus lines, including AC Transit, with BART and Caltrain and eventually, California High Speed Rail.

The award-winning adaptive reuse of Chicago’s historic Soldier Field tackled complex geometry and steel construction innovations within a 20-month construction schedule, making it one of the NFL’s fastest built stadiums.

At a 975-foot height, Comcast Center is Philadelphia’s tallest building—a distinction that should last at least as long as the recession.

If things go according to plan, it won’t be long before Masdar City in Abu Dhabi is the undisputed pacesetter for sustainable design practices.

Masdar announced today that it has chosen Chicago architecture firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG) to design its headquarters in Abu Dhabi’s Masdar City, the world’s first zero-carbon, zero-waste city fully powered by renewable energy.

“Physically Fit,” highlights Thornton Tomasetti’s work on the Wesley Brown Field House at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. The article was co-authored by Mark Tamaro, Matthew Horne and Calvin Austin.

Thornton Tomasetti is mentioned as the structural engineer for the Shanghai Tower in their article titled “Gensler unveils China’s tallest building at Mipim”

Students and faculty at the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business have spent the last few weeks settling into a gleaming new $145 million state-of-the-art building on the Ann Arbor campus.

Singapore is three months closer to the realisation of a remarkable landmark on the island.

Architect Renzo Piano made his mark along with his partner Richard Rodgers, in the design of the renowned Pompidou Centre in Paris.

The New York Times building exemplifies the idea of transparency in reporting by wearing part of its structural frame on the outside.

Defying signs that the global economy is in a major downturn, the 2,074-foot-tall Shanghai Tower, designed by Gensler, broke ground on Friday, November 28. The mixed-use glass-and-steel tower is slated to be the tallest building in China.

Shanghai Tower, a 632-meter (2,074 foot) building designed by Gensler, a leading global architectural design firm, advances sustainable design strategies and gives prominence to public spaces.

Groundbreaking ceremonies held today marked the start of construction of the Shanghai Tower, the city’s latest super-tall building. The 632-meter building, which as things stand will be China’s tallest, was designed by global architecture firm Gensler who say they have used sustainable design strategies and have given prominence to public spaces.

Architects’ strategies for turning some of New York City’s grandest old buildings into condos are proving their worth despite an erratic housing market.

For nearly a century, the New York Times Company and its most celebrated newspaper had been headquartered in the heart of Manhattan near Times Square. But when the media giant outgrew its site and the surrounding area underwent extensive commercial redevelopment, the firm’s owners decided to construct a new headquarters building. Their goal: a structure in which the levels of technical and architectural sophistication would mirror the firm’s leading role within the media industry.

The New York Times Building in Manhattan, New York, is the best in clever and yet subtle architecture but its designers have bucked the trend and not tried for LEED accreditation, opting instead to build for user comfort. Does this bode well for skyscraper design in the 21st Century?

Not long ago, the block between 17th and 18th Streets on JFK Blvd. in downtown Philadelphia was a parking lot. But thanks to positive market conditions and an increased demand for top-tier commercial development in this vibrant office district, the site was ripe for a world-class office building.

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.

For the general public, mention of “forensics” most likely brings to mind television shows like the current CSI: Crime Scene Investigation or Quincy, M.E., popular in the late 1970s and early ’80s. For design and construction professionals, however, the word is associated with tragic collapses, such as the 1981 walkway failure at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency, or this summer’s ceiling module collapse in a tunnel that is part of Boston’s Big Dig.

The 52-story tower will have large amounts of exposed steel elements supporting an innovative curtain wall, requiring an intensive fabrication and installation effort.

With its shimmering skin of high-quality clear glass and ceramic rods that will appear to change color as light hits from different angles, the 1.6-million-sq.-ft. New York Times building has a chance to become an icon of New York City’s skyline.

Tall buildings are getting greener. Or green buildings are getting taller. Either way you slice it, the sustainability movement in the U.S. has gone large-scale and skyward, and nowhere is this more apparent than in New York City.

Bringing Chicago’s historic Soldier Field into the 21st century meant fitting a full-size, modern stadium into a 600’-wide space on a 20-month schedule.

The new football stadium at Soldier Field in Chicago is an uncannily accurate portrait of a great American city in changing times.

At a news organization, truth is the top priority. The design of a signature, headquarters property for The New York Times Co., one of the most prominent news organizations in the world, required truth as well.

Shoehorning a football field and seating bowl, complete with suites, into the horseshoe-shaped perimeter bay of a narrow venue built 80 years ago for track and field was enough to drive many toward distraction.