Top 10 Big-Ticket Buildings
A list of the 10 most expensive projects under construction in the U.S.
Project: Apple Campus 2;
Cost: $2.5 billion;
Architect: Foster + Partners;
Location: Cupertino, CA
Project: Salt Lake City International Airport Terminal Redevelopment Program;
Cost: $1.8 billion;
Architect: HOK;
Location: Salt Lake City
Project: California Pacific Medical Center Van Ness and Geary Campus Hospital for Sutter Health;
Cost: $980 million;
Architect: SmithGroupJJR;
Location: San Francisco
Project: Nordstrom Tower;
Cost: $957 million;
Architect: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture;
Location: New York City
Project: New Atlanta Stadium;
Cost: $948 million;
Architects: HOK, TVSA, Goode Van Slyke Architecture, Stanley Beaman & Sears;
Location: Atlanta
Project: Comcast Innovation and Technology Center;
Cost: $931 million;
Architects: Foster + Partners, Kendall/Heaton Associates, Gensler, Daroff Design;
Location: Philadelphia
Project: MGM National Harbor Casino;
Cost: $925 million
Architects: HKS, SmithGroupJJR, Hamilton-Anderson Associates;
Location: Oxon Hill, MD
Project: High Performance Computing Center II;
Cost: $861 million;
Design-Builder: Hensel Phelps/Kiewit;
Location: Fort Meade, MD
Project: 53W53; Cost: $861 million;
Architects: Ateliers Jean Nouvel, Adamson Associates Architects, SLCE Architects, The Office of Thierry W Despont;
Location: New York City
Rendering courtesy Hayes Davidson for Hines
Project: New Stanford Hospital;
Cost: $830 million;
Architects: Rafael Vi'oly Architects, Lee, Burkhart, Liu;
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Rendering courtesy Rafael Vi'oly Architects
LIST METHODOLOGY: These projects are ranked on the basis of hard construction costs (including labor and materials, but excluding equipment, land, and design fees). Construction for these projects started between January 1, 2013, and February 28, 2015. The data were collected by Dodge Data & Analytics.
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