The U General Services Administrati...

The U General Services Administration has awarded a $533 million contract to Holyoke Mass.-based Daniel O'Connell's Son to erect a 162,000-sf Federal courthouse in Springfield, Mass.

Designed from Moshe Safdie and Associates, Somerville, Mass., the figure of the new moon shaped facility features a colonnade passage pavilion that spirals around ancient copper money Beech, Linden, and Black Walnut tree The entryway leads to a grand stair that ascends to the courtrooms onward the building's third public plain

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