In Denmark, Dorte Mandrup Designs Exemplary Accommodations for Apprentices in the Building Trades

✕ “When we decided to create a foundation, we had to think about how to be philanthropic,” says Kristian May, director of Denmark’s Fonden for Fonden for Håndværkskollegier (FfH). “What challenges in society might we address? One of them is that not enough young people want to be educated in the manual trades.” After a […]

BOMAG’s new pneumatic tire roller

BOMAG‘s new flexible and fuel-efficient BW 18 RH pneumatic tire roller is designed to complete surface sealing in highway, interstate, and airport construction and maintenance applications.  Features on the 8-tire roller  Built to the size and sharing many of the same components as the field-tested BW 28 RH, the new BW 18 RH offers a […]

SOM’s New Terra-Cotta-Clad Headquarters for Disney Adds a Touch of Magic to Manhattan

On a full-block site, a rarity in high-density Manhattan, an enormous new corporate headquarters has risen. For its bulk, it is almost obsessively unshowy, though its oversize windows, framed in rounded extrusions of iridescent terra-cotta, reward notice along the street. Identified only as 7 Hudson Square, the 19-story Robert A. Iger Building gathers the disparate New York production […]