California

Otis Providing Nearly 70 Units for San Francisco’s Chase Center

Mortensen/Clark has hired Otis to provide nearly 70 units to the Chase Center in San Francisco, new home of the National Basketball Association’s Golden State Warriors for the 2019-2020 season....

Mixed use is the name of the game: news from The Architect’s Newspaper.

Planners Approve 41-Story Tower The Los Angeles City Planning Commission has approved the Lake on Wilshire project, a 41-story mixed-use housing tower complex. The project, proposed by Archeon Group and...

Tall-building activity continues downtown and beyond.

29-, 49-Story Towers Form L.A. City Center New renderings have been revealed of L.A. City Center, the latest megaproject in downtown Los Angeles, The Architect’s Newspaper reported. Developed by Shenzhen...

Muni: Lack of Skilled Elevator Technicians Delaying Repairs

San Francisco’s construction boom has resulted in so much work for elevator technicians that there are not enough to handle an estimated US$71 million in elevator and escalator repairs needed...

Tallest Building West of the Mississippi Opens in L.A.

Amid a light show and parties, developers of the Wilshire Grand Center in Los Angeles celebrated the opening of the tallest building west of the Mississippi River on June 23,...

City of Angels continues to transform: news from Urbanize L.A.

66-Story Hotel/Condo Proposed Downtown A project has been submitted to the Los Angeles Planning Department for a 66-story building containing approximately 200 condominiums, 220 hotel rooms, 94,000 sq. ft. of...

L.A. continues its roll, inspections are an issue statewide, and a mixed-use structure is planned in San Francisco.

L.A.: 53-Story Convention Center Hotel Proposed TriCal Construction Inc. hopes to build a 53-story hotel across from the Los Angeles Convention Center’s South Hall at 1300 S. Figueroa Street, the...

City of Angels bustles with tall-building construction.

Biggest Construction Boom Since 1920s Underway Metropolis, a megaproject with four towers; Wilshire Grand (the West Coast’s tallest building) and Circa, a pair of 35-story luxury apartment towers: all are...

Development Would Transform L.A. Arts District

Despite size concerns, developer SunCal of Irvine, California, is proposing a major mixed-use project that includes a pair of 58-story towers in the heart of Los Angeles' Arts District at...

LAX Mod Plans Include 2.25-Mi.-Long APM Line

A US$5-billion Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) modernization is scheduled to reduce congestion, redistribute traffic and improve access to what The Daily Breeze calls “the world’s seventh-busiest airport” and “the...

Different views of the proposed tower; images courtesy of RSHP

54-Story City of London Tower Approved

FUJITEC DX CERTIFICATION RENEWED BY METI

Fujitec DX Certification Renewed by METI

EFESME PARIS ROUNDTABLE CELEBRATES 20TH ANNIVERSARY

EFESME Paris Roundtable Celebrates 20th Anniversary

Images courtesy of Aparna Constructions

Otis India to Equip Five Projects With 178 Elevators

Elevator entrance; image courtesy of NYC Housing Connect via New York YIMBY

Skyline Elevator System For New Brooklyn Residential Building