“The team was very thoughtful with the form of the building itself and the roof. Passengers are going to be thinking about engineering as they walk through because it’s exposed and visible to them. It means a lot to engineers to have their structures not just seen, but seen elegantly.” — Hannah Valentine, PE, Structural Steel Specialist – Los Angeles, AISC, 2024 IDEAS² Awards Judge
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A new visitor center and hotel just outside the North Gate of the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs are pretty hard to miss. The multi-planed roof design of the former conjures images of fighter jets staggered underneath each other, and the two structures are connected via a pedestrian bridge.
In the wake of 9/11, stringent security measures impacted the original visitor center on the [Air Force Academy] campus. Annual attendance waned from more than 1 million to about 250,000. The post-9/11 dynamic led to the idea of moving the visitor center outside of the academy’s North Gate.
Situated on a bluff just west of I-25, the 34,000-sq-ft center is nearing completion after the project broke ground in late 2022. Featuring a mezzanine on the first level and core and shell on the second level, the steel structure supports a metal wall panel, curtain wall and three metal panel roof systems. Schnepf says the new facility could return attendance to the pre-9/11 levels when it opens in late 2025. The exterior and structure are due for completion this spring, then the AFA will build out the interior.”
… National Guard Museum in Oklahoma City in a ceremony attended by veterans and current National Guard members on May 16.
“Today is a …
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance breaking ground on expansion
Excerpt: On May 15, Robinson will break ground on the Cleo Parker Robinson Center for Healing Arts. Set to open in September 2025, the 25,000-square-foot building will be adjacent to the historic stone church that sits at the corner of Park Avenue West and 19th Street. Imagined by Fentress Architects (designers of Denver’s snowy-peaked airport terminal and, more recently, the Denver Arts Museum’s welcome center), the new building includes a theater, reception area, rehearsal space, offices and classrooms.
… million expansion, led by design firms Hennebery Eddy and Fentress Architects. The project is the first major one in nearly two decades …
… Fentress Architects announced the commencement of the 2024 Fentress Global Challenge . Celebrating its milestone 10th year, this …
Excerpt: Communication across the trailer village and jobsite was a continuation of a fundamental theme fostered at the earliest stages of Terminal C’s design. Fentress Architects founder and principal-in-charge Curtis Fentress recalls how from the outset of the planning and design effort, the design team sought input from every facet of the airport’s existing terminal operations.
“Listening to people who operate the facility is always important,” Fentress says. “Talking with them and reviewing the design with them helped us identify ways to make things more efficient. That includes the things you don’t see as well as the importance of things like retail and making families feel comfortable as they may be waiting several hours for their flight.
… of RDU’s two passenger terminals when it opened in 2008. It was designed by a team of architects led by North Carolina native Curt …
