The $350 million Long Beach Civic Center is a state-of-the-art facility that provides the City and Port of Long Beach, California, with performance-based infrastructure commensurate with its size and status as a world-class shipping and logistics hub. The City wanted a revitalized civic core that was environmentally sustainable and resilient. The project was developed under a public-private partnership (PPP) with developer Plenary-Edgemoor Civic Partners and general contractor Clark Construction. The design was led by Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill (SOM) as the architect, and structural engineering was shared by Nabih Youssef Associates Structural Engineers (NYASE) and SOM.

When the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) identified a need to expand their existing Anderson Graduate School of Management (AGSM), they were presented with a clear challenge: the lack of a viable location to place a new building on a campus with limited square footage. The solution was to construct the new building entirely upon an existing parking structure adjacent to the School of Management.