Los Angeles

Buro Happold, along with HOK and Parsons Brinkerhoff, are designing the major new transit center in downtown Anaheim that’s envisioned as a hub for California’s future high-speed rail network, as well as for Amtrak, commuter rail and other regional transit lines. The station will accommodate passenger arrivals, departures and transfers with supporting retail, restaurants and passenger services within the building. Buro Happold is providing MEP engineering, complete enclosure and facade rationalization, BIM modeling, energy modeling, daylighting, lighting simulation, and sustainability and LEED consultancy.

A gravity-fed waterfall and 'raintubes' that reveal the journey of water from roof to cistern, a building dashboard that displays data about water capture and reuse, and an integrated system that diverts 100% of site runoff for...

Buro Happold is pleased to congratulate our client, the Plenary Group, on their selection as preferred proponent for Colorado’s US36 Managed Lanes project. Buro Happold was appointed by the <link...

Last fall, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences unveiled its plans for the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. The announcement represented a significant step towards realizing the organization’s longstanding dream...

Parks and open public spaces are “fundamental to the life, culture, sociability, imagination and the ecological health of a city.” So landscape architect James Corner told a public audience in Santa Monica two years ago, around...

The Buro Happold and NBBJ team has won the 2013 Juror’s Favorite Award for CANstruction Los Angeles. Jurors were fascinated by the overall abstract shape, graphical use of colorful labels, and the cleanness of the landscape...

Buro Happold is honored to have been involved in the recent renovation of the California Institute of Technology, Earle M. Jorgensen Laboratory, designed by John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects.

The crossing at Atwater Park will be the first new pedestrian bridge to be built across the Los Angeles River in almost 20 years. Implemented as a public private partnership comprised of private donations, managed and built by the LA River Corporation and ultimately owned by the City, the 300 foot cable stay steel span is unique in its geometry in that the 140 foot tall pylon and cable system supporting the bridge is leaning forward over the deck structure and tensioned back to the river bank. Sited next to a major interstate highway, the strong visual dynamic of this composition gives the bridge the appearance of leaping across the river.

Built in 1945, the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science (HSSEAS) will expand its facilities with the addition of Engineering VI. Engineering VI is comprised of two phases, Phase I being the...

Located on a 93-acre site, Baylor University Football Stadium will hold 45,000 spectators, with the flexibility to expand to 55,000, and feature a bridge crossing the Brazos River connecting the stadium to the campus. In addition...

I must admit that when I was asked to submit a paper to Greenbuild 2012 in January this year, the fact that it was in San Francisco made writing it all the easier; the chance to explain <link...

Buro Happold scores two triumphant wins at the recent Institution of Structural Engineers Awards.  

Southern California's BREATHE LA organization hosted a September 6th 2012 panel meeting that underlined the importance of preserving the environment of Southern California through sustainable building initiatives. As the...

Having walked the New York High Line on a number of occasions and been lucky enough to be a part of the design team for the project, it represents for me an incredible piece of public realm that should change the way...

The use of prevailing winds as an active source of natural ventilation originated some 2,000 years ago, yet today we find the majority of office buildings blasting air conditioning to cool spaces. On two recent projects in...

The Morphosis Studio uses Monodraught® Windcatchers, the first installation of its kind in the United States. The new 11,600 square foot building is a two story open plan office space with meeting rooms, a mezzanine level...

The project is an art installation designed by the well known artist Michael Heizer and consists of a found rock artifact weighing 346 tons. The rock spans over a fifteen foot wide trench supported by concrete wall...

Designed by Quincy Jones in 1971, the original building was a three storey concrete computer laboratory in need of significant renovations before it become the new home to the Institute. Primary renovations involved removing oversized sun shades, installing high performance double paned glass, introducing a new atrium and transforming what were once offices into research laboratories. The restoration resulted in improved natural lighting and views to the outside, as well as cutting edge energy efficient research space.

The waiting game is over and the official announcement of the Los Angeles Union Station Masterplan team is public – Gruen + Grimshaw Architects will lead the once in a lifetime opportunity to re-think this incredibly important 42 acres in downtown Los Angeles. Buro Happold is very proud to be an integral part of the Masterplan design team, having also supported Moore Ruble Yudell/TEN Arquitectos/West 8, EE&K (a Perkins Eastman company), and NBBJ/Ingenhoven Architects.

I have been working for a number of years on a series of new office buildings and corporate headquarters and it's given me time to reflect on the changing workplace. One of the issues is that by the time the workplace experts get...

Traditionally, glass has been the material choice for atriums and skylights in buildings as a way to admit natural light.

Inspiring minds through nature and science Formed by the merger of three museums, the 5-storey 180,000 square foot Morphosis-designed building will serve as the new home for the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. The new museum will provide expansive space for exhibitions and educational activities, including an outdoor area, auditorium and visitor amenities.  

Providing a pivotal link between the Santa Monica Civic Center, City Hall and the Santa Monica Pier, the 7-acre Tongva Park and Ken Genser Square is part of a larger redevelopment in Santa Monica just across the...

San Francisco’s Transbay Transit Center will sit as a multi-modal transit hub linking bus, rail and light rail systems within the west coast state of California. It will provide the terminus for the future California High Speed...