Landow and Landow Architects designs first mass timber building for SUNY Maritime College

Bronx, NY Landow and Landow Architects has completed the William Austen Marine Education and Seamanship Center at SUNY Maritime College, a groundbreaking facility that is both an academic hub and a milestone in sustainable design.

Situated at the entrance to the college’s East River pier, home to the training ship Empire State and directly below the Throgs Neck Bridge, the center is the first building in the entire SUNY system to utilize a sustainable mass timber structural system. With this material, the design significantly reduced the amount of embodied carbon found in more commonly used concrete and steel. All structural elements are intentionally left exposed, offering students a clear view of how the innovative material functions. The building is also fully electric, underscoring SUNY Maritime’s commitment to energy efficiency and sustainability.

Sphere 2025 FIDIC Global Infrastructure Project Awards–Winner–Megaproject

FIDIC has announced the overall winners of its prestigious Project Awards for 2025 at a glittering gala dinner event held in Cape Town, South Africa on 23 September 2025.

Winners of the awards, which were presented during the 2025 FIDIC Global Infrastructure Awards Gala Dinner, sponsored by infrastructure, engineering and advisory practice, Zutari, showcase and highlight the achievements and successes of consulting engineering member firms and their clients across the globe and the important impact their construction and infrastructure projects have on social, economic and environmental quality of life around the world.

PENN 2 Redevelopment 2025 CTBUH Overall Winner–Repositioning Award

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PENN 2 Redevelopment 2025 CTBUH Overall Winner–Repositioning Award

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Sphere Casting Light on a Smart Solution

Early collaboration and integrating casting expertise into the design process from the start ensures that components align with architectural and structural goals. Having all key stakeholders from Sphere’s design-construct team, structural engineer Severud Associates, architect Populous, steel fabricator W&W | AFCO Steel, casting manufacturer Cast Connex, and erection engineer SDL, was instrumental in guaranteeing success.

Sphere awarded 2025 Ideas2 Presidential Award for Engineering Design and Construction from AISC

THE LARGEST SPHERICAL STRUCTURE IN THE WORLD is a display of groundbreaking steel innovation that has helped redefine the immersive entertainment experience. Sphere, the next-generation music and performing arts venue just east of the Strip in Las Vegas, is a 516-ft-diameter semi-spherical building rising 366 ft above ground. It encloses a bowl-shaped theater for 17,600 guests seated beneath a domed roof and a suspended media plane.

Penn2 Redevelopment awarded 2025 Ideas2 Excellence in Engineering from AISC

A MIDTOWN MANHATTAN OFFICE BUILDING needed a boost from its original 1960s form, and its steel frame lent itself to adaptation and longevity despite its age.

New steel elements incorporated at PENN 2 created a 75-ft by 450-ft addition called the Bustle that hovers 50 ft above the sidewalk on 14 dramatically sloped columns configured around an existing trainshed. Creative connections ensured the existing structure an addition do not transfer significant lateral load to each other.

CFG Bank Arena Renovation

The 60-year old CFG Bank Arena underwent a $200 million renovation that transformed the aged facility into a state-of-the-art music, sports, and entertainment venue. Originally opened in 1962, the downtown arena has been host to many events, including music, boxing, wrestling, and other sports, and is currently hosting the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) men’s and women’s basketball tournaments through 2025.

TSX – Magic on Broadway

Times Square in New York is known for many things, including its Broadway Theaters, luxurious hotels, trendy retail, great entertainment venues, and flashy billboards. In the case of TSX Broadway (1568 Broadway), the project contains all these items in one building. What makes TSX Broadway truly special is not just that it contains all the elements of Times Square in one location. How existing elements were shifted, assembled, and juxtaposed with new elements makes this Entertainment complex and hotel tower a unique structural engineering feat.

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Inside the 6 most fascinating, innovative reconstruction projects in NYC

The rat’s nest of regs that is city zoning may stymie construction, redevelopment and conversion projects — but in the hands of the right visionary architects and engineers, zoning can also produce truly innovative outcomes.  Here’s a look at some of NYC’s most fascinating extreme makeovers making their debuts right now.