Walker Hall is an adaptive reuse of a 1927 building at the core of the University of California, Davis campus. The project, designed by Leddy Maytum…
Browsing: seismic retrofit
In today’s world where so many things are thrown away, there is something immeasurably gratifying about restoring historic structures from times when pride and precision trumped…
1st Place, Historic It sounds almost like a daredevil act or at least a contradiction: a building located beside a fault line, in one of the…
When Kent Royle began his tenure with Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects, Berkeley, Calif., 22 years ago, he couldn’t have anticipated the types of buildings for…
Portland, Ore., is home to more than 1,600 unreinforced masonry buildings, considered one of the most dangerous types of earthquake-vulnerable construction. The city has struggled to…
Following devastating floods of 1935, when Houston’s population was about 400,000, city leaders constructed two large reservoirs outside the city to act as detention ponds for…