Completed in the mid-1920s, 140 New Montgomery Street is one of the early skyscrapers built in San Francisco. The Art Deco high-rise, originally known as the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Building, served as the headquarters for the...
With an oceanfront site and three floors of amenities, the Jade Signature brings a resort experience to residents’ everyday life. The fifty-five-story condominium building features an exposed cast-in-place structure, large expanses of glass...
The mixed-use development at 400 Folsom Street includes a fifty-five-story tower (The Avery) and two low-rise buildings designed by the executive architecture team of Office for Metropolitan Architecture and Fougeron Architecture. Together, the...
The Eddy, a new residential development, sits along the waterfront in East Boston. The property includes 258 rental units in a seventeen-story tower and four-story building. In addition to views of the downtown skyline, residents enjoy many...
The Class A office building is located at 200 North LaSalle Drive in the heart of Chicago’s Loop. The thirty-story tower features a curtain wall facade that maximizes tenant views with floor-to-ceiling glass. SGH performed a critical facade...
The Class A office building is located at 200 North LaSalle Drive in the heart of Chicago’s Loop. The thirty-story tower features a curtain wall facade that maximizes tenant views with floor-to-ceiling glass. SGH performed a critical facade...
Located on the corner of Wilshire and Crescent Heights Boulevards, the eighteen-story tower brings more than 150 apartments to the Beverly Grove neighborhood. The complex offers residents two amenity decks, a rooftop pool, ground-level retail,...
The first phase of the eighteen-acre development in Tyson’s Corner includes four new buildings and a shared podium, which extends two levels below grade. The buildings house 750 apartments, 400,000 sq ft of office space, more than 200,000...
EXO includes two high-rise residential towers with a linking building connecting them. The towers feature one of the nation’s largest applications of electrochromic glass, which responds dynamically to maximize daylight, reduce glare, and...
Topping out at twenty-six stories, Eleven 40 on South Wabash Avenue brings 320 rental apartments to Chicago’s South Loop neighborhood. The glass-clad tower sits atop a four-story podium that houses parking and ground-level retail, while...
Although the rationale for providing redundant automatic systems to manage smoke movement in tall buildings where manual fire suppression activities cannot be easily undertaken is clear, it is less clear why there is so much...
More than a century later, Boston's first skyscraper becomes the Ames hotel. More than 120 years ago, Frederick Lothrop Ames, grandson of the founder of the successful Ames Shovel Works, financed the construction of the Ames Building in...
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger has prepared two prototypical designs for a 40-story buckling-restrained braced steel-framed office building located at a generic site in Los Angeles, CA. One of these designs conforms in all respects, except height...
Abstract: Performance-based seismic design methods in the United States originated as a practical and effective means to mitigate the seismic risks posed by existing buildings and were later extended to permit development of new buildings capable...
Abstract: This paper describes the approach used to design seismic upgrades for an existing high rise, transitional masonry building in downtown San Francisco. The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. building at 138 New Montgomery is a 26- story...
Published in: Advances in Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering Volume 13, 2010, pp 125-135 Abstract: Performance-based seismic design methods in the United States originated as a...
Abstract: On Saturday, 9 March 2002 at approximately 1:45 p.m., a 100-ft long, suspended scaffold platform fell from the west face of the 100-story John Hancock Center in Chicago, dropping debris along an arc from the northwest corner of the...
Abstract: For several decades, the engineering profession has considered techniques to analyze the potential that structures could experience disproportionate collapse and to design them for greater resistance to such collapse. First interest in...
Abstract: An investigation into the fetal collapse of a scaffold platform on Chicago's John Hancock Center found that project participants failed to adequately meet their responsibilities and avert the disaster.