Development and Construction
Over time, Reston Town Center has evolved from a series of grand concepts drawn up by architects, to a few blocks of office buildings, to something very much like a successful urban neighborhood.
Washington reconnects with a long-lost love: its waterfront.
Located in Foshan, Guangdong, China, Lingnan Tiandi (LNTD) Lot 1 is the largest city-core historic preservation project in China. Lot 1 is a 13.8-acre (5.6 ha) project at the center of a larger 128-acre (52 ha) development that has revitalized the historic Chancheng District.
The Moscow Street Program reimagined more than 200 public spaces across Moscow between 2015 and 2017, ahead of the 2018 FIFA Men’s World Cup. The program, led by Strelka KB, the architecture consultancy branch of Moscow’s Strelka Institute, may be the largest infrastructure project in Russia since the Soviet era.
Over the past two decades, Washington, D.C., has undergone rapid revitalization, attracting more than 120,000 new residents and billions of dollars in private and public investment.
Developer JBG Smith is reinventing Northern Virginia’s Crystal City, a midcentury car-centric neighborhood, as the core of National Landing. It is a placemaking effort that will make Amazon’s new headquarters seem right at home.
How developers are responding to rising costs—and risks—as waterfront properties remain as desirable as ever.
Incentivized by city parking policies, private developers provide fewer parking spaces or increase density in new projects.
A new generation of innovators in commercial real estate is taking inspiration from—and even going beyond—the hospitality industry’s focus on customer service and satisfaction to invent new ways to make residential and office tenants happier.
Online video game competitions are moving out of the basement—and taking hold as the new professional sport.
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