2019 Giants| |CULTURAL REPORT
48 |BUILDING DESIGN+CONSTRUCTION | October 2019Other amenities include a 120-person com-
munity room, a young adult zone, an open chil-
dren’s area, a staff workroom with automated
material handling, an intergenerational living
room with a fireplace, and a mezzanine reading
balcony. And to top it all off, literally and figu-
ratively, 60 market-rate apartments are located
on the upper floors to create a brand new living
and learning community under one roof.
Similarly, the Sunset Park Branch of the
Brooklyn Public Library (slated for a December
2020 completion and designed by Magnusson
Architecture and Planning) comprises eight sto-
ries and 21,000 sf. The library encompasses
the first two and a half floors of the building,
while the remaining five and a half floors house
50 affordable residences for qualified low-
income occupants. Reading spaces, learning
spaces, and a community room are also includ-
ed in the design.LIBRARIES AREN’T THE ONLY ONES
GETTING IN THE COMMUNITY SPIRIT
But libraries aren’t the only cultural facilities
branching out and trying to offer more than has
been expected of them in the past. Spaces
for performing arts on university campuses
are beginning to adapt and embrace interdis-
ciplinary pedagogy. Take Macalester College’s
new Theater, Dance, and Classroom building,
designed by HGA, for example. Located in St.
Paul, Minn., the new building links to the adja-
cent Olin-Rice Science Center to provide both a
physical and a symbolic connection between the
arts and the sciences.
The building includes a flexible performance
space that allows for different seating and
performance configurations, a 2,400-sf dance
studio, and a smaller theater that can serve as
a black box studio. And while you will find every-
thing you would expect in a performing arts
building, the new space also includes nine flexi-
ble classrooms that serve as teaching areas for
classes ranging from the humanities to science.
The goal for performing arts spaces such
as the Theater, Dance, and Classroom build-
ing, is to break down the walls between what
were once disciplines on opposite ends of
the spectrum, allowing them to instead work
together and create a completely new learning
experience. Similar to the ideas guiding library
design, creating well-rounded cultural building
communities is of the utmost importance.
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Giants2019SOURCE: BD+C 2019 GIANTS 300 REPORTGensler .................................................................$48,866,559
Populous ...............................................................$35,280,655
DLR Group .............................................................$24,600,000
Stantec .................................................................$18,512,051
Perkins and Will .....................................................$15,698,740
Davis Brody Bond ..................................................$14,939,803
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture ..................$14,688,016
Quinn Evans Architects ...........................................$10,618,646
Cuningham Group Architecture ................................. $9,789,034
HGA .................................................................... $8,018,135CULTURAL SECTOR
ARCHITECTURE + AE FIRMS |TOP 10
Rank Company 2018 Cultural Revenue
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SOURCE: BD+C 2019 GIANTS 300 REPORTJacobs ..................................................................$93,520,000
Arup ..................................................................$24,855,685
EXP ..................................................................$16,503,000
BRPH ..................................................................$13,920,000
Thornton Tomasetti .................................................$11,624,713
AECOM .................................................................... $9,700,000
WSP USA................................................................. $9,245,773
KPFF Consulting Engineers ....................................... $7,928,463
Morrison Hershfield .................................................. $7,297,486
TLC Engineering Solutions ........................................ $5,762,001CULTURAL SECTOR
ENGINEERING + EA FIRMS |TOP 10
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SOURCE: BD+C 2019 GIANTS 300 REPORTWhiting-Turner Contracting Co., The .......................$787,951,439
Turner Construction ..............................................$385,579,075
PCL Construcrion Enterprises ................................$260,894,860
Clark Group .........................................................$252,412,465
Gilbane ...............................................................$243,292,000
Swinerton ............................................................$169,900,000
Crossland Construction ........................................$150,668,977
McCarthy .............................................................$110,921,526
STO Building Group (formerly Structure Tone) ..........$77,900,000
AECOM ..................................................................$73,700,000CULTURAL SECTOR
CONSTRUCTION + CM FIRMS |TOP 10
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10.The Sunset Park Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library,
designed by Magnusson Architecture and Planning, com-
prises eight stories and 21,000 sf. The library encompass-
es the fi rst two and a half fl oors of the building, while
the remaining fi ve and a half fl oors house 50 affordable
residences for qualifi ed low-income occupants.MAGNUSSON ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING