Babeville and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
In 2006, singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco's successful independent music company - Righteous Babe Records opened its new headquarters in the renovated Asbury Delaware church. In addition to RBR's business offices, the former church will house a 1,200-capacity concert hall and smaller underground club for live music performances. The complex will also include office and exhibition spaces for Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, which is renowned for its exhibitions of contemporary art, film and video screenings, and presentations of live jazz, new music, and performance.

Renovation Architect: Architectural Resources
Project Completion: January 2006
Original Architect: John H. Selkirk
Original Construction Date: 1876

Frank Lloyd Wright's Rowing Boathouse
The Frank Lloyd Wright Rowing Boathouse Corporation is constructing Wright's 1905 un-built design that will serve as a functioning boathouse for the West Side Rowing Club (WSRC), the nation's largest rowing club. The Boathouse design was included in Wright's Wasmuth Portfolio of 1910 and in an exhibit twenty years later that featured eight of his greatest works. It was never constructed, until now.

Project Architect: Anthony Puttnam (FLW apprentice)
Groundbreaking: Fall 2006
Completion: Summer 2007

Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute
The new Medical Research Institute is located in the heart of downtown Buffalo's medical campus and provides new molecular biology facilities and laboratory space for the Institute, an independent non-profit biomedical research facility headed by Nobel-Laureate Herbert Hauptman.

Project Architect: Mehrdad Yazdani
Project Completion: 2005

Blue Sky Mausoleum
Blue Sky Mausoleum was originally designed for Darwin D. Martin's family. Following Wright's plans, stone and concrete terraces and a monolithic headstone have been constructed on a hillside overlooking two ponds at Forest Lawn cemetery in Buffalo.

Project Architect: Anthony Puttnam (FLW apprentice)
Project Completion: October 2004

Olmsted's Delaware Park
Three hundred and fifty acres in size, Buffalo's Delaware Park is one of the most significant parks designed by Frederick Law Olmsted - one of America's greatest landscape architects. The Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy was formed to maintain, preserve and enhance Frederick Law Olmsted-designed parks and parkways in Buffalo. The Park's restoration continues today.

Project Architects: Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux
Construction Date: 1868-1898
Restoration: Ongoing

Roycroft Inn
After an eight-year restoration process, the Roycroft Inn has returned to its original state and is once again considered one of the most beautiful buildings and interiors of the American Arts & Crafts movement. Situated in the heart of the historic Roycroft community in East Aurora, NY, the Inn celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2005.

Original Construction Date: 1905
Restoration Completion: 1995

Shea's Performing Arts Center
One of only four Tiffany-designed theatres still in existence, Shea's began life in 1926 as a grand movie palace and served for a time as a Vaudeville house before returning to its original use as a movie theater. In the 1980s, it found new life as a home for touring Broadway productions. Shea's is a member of the National Register of Historic Places and the League of Historic American Theatres. The exterior restoration of this architectural landmark was completed in 2004. The interior renovation is ongoing and is made possible by volunteers and docents from the Buffalo region.

Architect: C.W. and George L. Rapp
Original Construction Date: 1926
Restoration and Expansion: 1997 - Present.
Ongoing expansion: new marquee erected in 1995; major stage-house expansion completed in 1999; new blade sign erected in 2004.

New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, University at Buffalo
The four-story, 130,000-square-foot building located on Virginia Street is the location of state-of-the-art laboratories where scientists are exploring new treatment options and medical devices for cancer, multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease. The building exterior includes areas of red brick, zinc, glass, and white aluminum and a profusion of windows, enabling abundant sunlight to pass throughout the interior of the building. The Center of Excellence is interconnected with the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute and Roswell Park's Center for Genetics and Pharmacology, producing over 400,000 square feet of state-of-the-art research facilities which is known as the Buffalo Life Sciences Complex.

Architect: Francis Cauffman Foley Hoffmann Architects
Grand Opening: June 2, 2006

Roycroft Campus
Vast expansion and restoration projects are currently underway for the Roycroft Campus. Ten years after the $9 million dollar completion of the Roycroft Inn, which attracts over 150,000 visitors per year, the Roycroft Campus Corporation purchased the Copper Shop. The Copper Shop is the focal point of the Campus activities, showcasing works from over fifty artisans. The Copper Shop features a restored finishing room circa 1918 complete with interior cathedral ceiling and exterior masonry block walls. The Power House, originally built in 1910 and acquired by the Campus in 2005 will be rebuilt according to its original design including the 20' base of the original chimney. The completed Power House will serve as the visitor center, gift shop, classroom and special event center.

Restoration: 2005-Present