Foster + Partners has won a competition to modernise the Television City studio complex in Los Angeles, where programmes such as American Idol, The Price Is Right and The Twilight…

Aecom has won a five-year contract to provide environmental services for all Nasa facilities in the US. Nasa is short for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Aecom will provide…

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) has agreed to increase its investment in its Arizona site by 60%, from $41bn to $65bn, and to begin making cutting-edge 2nm chips in them. In…

Swedish contractor Skanska has signed a contract with the transport department of Washington State to replace the Portage Bay Bridge in Seattle. The $1.4bn design-and-build project will involve the erection…

South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix plans to invest almost $4bn in an advanced packaging, fabrication, and R&D facility for AI chips at Purdue University in Indiana. Its chief executive Kwak…

New York architect Diller Scofidio + Renfro has revealed its expansion of The Broad contemporary art museum in downtown Los Angeles, which it designed in 2015. The plan includes a…

Turner Construction Company has won a contract to build a $184m agriculture research building for the University of Kentucky in Lexington. The 190,000-square-foot building will contain laboratory teaching space, office…

US architect Sasaki has been selected to futureproof the winter home and desert laboratory of celebrated architect and engineer Frank Lloyd Wright. It was chosen by the Frank Lloyd Wright…

A consortium led by contractor Turner Construction has won a contract to build an engineering and science building at Case Western Reserve University, a private research faculty in Cleveland, Ohio.…

Iberdrola, the Spanish utility specialising in renewables, has announced plans to invest €41bn over the next three years, with the lion’s share to go on modernising and extending power grids…

US President Joe Biden has pledged to reopen the Port of Baltimore and replace the destroyed Francis Scott Key Bridge “as soon as humanly possible”.

Rescue teams were searching for survivors today after an out-of-control container ship struck one of the supports of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, causing its whole central…

The Honduran commission planning a railway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans presented its proposals to country delegations this week, local media report. The US, Japan, South Korea, Spain, China,…

People attending the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston this week were treated to the site of a small nuclear reactor hanging from a crane outside. The publicity stunt by nuclear-power…

Foster + Partners has unveiled its design of a $1bn “vertical creative office” for a two-acre plot on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Called “The Star” and designed for the developer…

Lunda Construction, a subsidiary of American contractor Tutor Perini, has entered the lowest bid for a bridge replacement and highway improvement project on the border between Illinois and Indiana. The…

Work has begun in the City of Sacramento on a village of 175 cabins to shelter some of California’s 181,000 homeless people. They’ll go up on Stockton Boulevard near the…

Researchers from the University of Michigan have found a way to better use the principles of origami to design structures that are relatively easy to transport, deploy and reconfigure. The…