Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center that located in Asheville, North Carolina, United States, was designed by Lord Aeck Sargent Architecture. The Blue Ridge Parkway is one of the first and longest rural parkways in America, winding 496 miles through scenic mountain ranges and past seemingly endless vistas. So when the National Park Service decided the area needed a destination center to orient visitors...
Designed by Gensler, Fairmont Pittsburgh is located in Pittsburgh, PA, United States. The hotel brings modern luxury intersecting Pittsburgh’s commercial and cultural corridors. The 185-room hotel celebrates the city’s industrial past and current art scene, revitalising downtown Pittsburgh. The design team’s task was to deliver an ‘exceedingly’ green hotel, showcasing...
The King’s Mill Hospital designed by Swanke Hayden Connell Architects is located in Mansfield, United Kingdom. The Diagnostic and Treatment Centre became a defining element in site arrangement, the massing and the configuration of the emerging building design. The brief for the DTC asked that we create a flexible , adaptable concept which would accommodate a vast amount of similar sized clinical...
Designed by AECOM, The Mary Catherine Bunting Center at Mercy is located in Baltimore, United States. Instead of fleeing to the suburbs, as many urban hospitals have, Mercy Medical Center brings the verdant landscape of the country garden to the city and continues a 150-year mission of providing healthcare to Baltimore’s needy. In so doing, the hospital takes green architecture to a new level –...
Located in Arizona, United States, Show Low Library was designed by Shepley Bulfinch. Striding ahead as one of the fastest-growing communities in Arizona, the city of Show Low in the White Mountains region is home to a highly fluctuating number of residents. The city’s permanent population of 8,000 is almost doubled in the seasonal months as residents from the neighbouring cities of Tuscon and Phoenix...