This 41-story mixed-use development features 942,000 SF of built area including a 566-unit residential tower, common and amenity spaces, 58,000 SF of retail space, mechanical and support space, and six stories of above-grade parking for 724 vehicles. The tower is highlighted by undulating architectural columns at its exterior facade, evoking red sugar cane reeds that… Read More
Ulana is a mixed-use development of approximately 968,783 SF and is part of The Howard Hughes Corporation’s 60-acre Ward Village master-planned community in urban Honolulu. The project includes a 584,296 SF, 42-story residential tower and a detached 383,935 SF, 8-story parking structure with commercial space at ground level. The project is designated as reserved housing… Read More
This project is a five-story, 153,400-square-foot, 240-key hotel ideally situated in Ewa Beach. Designed to maximize both functionality and guest experience, the structure utilizes stick-built Type IIIB construction, incorporating podium elements and strategic transfer beams to create spacious, open ground-floor areas for amenities and a welcoming lobby environment. A geotechnical evaluation identified native soils consisting… Read More
Hale Kalele is a public-private partnership to transform a State-owned, underutilized urban parcel into a mixed-use development featuring a 20-story affordable rental tower, two-story Juvenile Center, and six-level parking structure. To support the project’s long-term needs durability of the tower and its units was of utmost consideration, so an all-reinforced concrete system utilizing tunnel-form construction… Read More
This multi-family high-rise is accompanied by a standalone parking structure on the former Bowl-O-Drome site in McCully in Honolulu, Hawaii. The building area is anticipated to be 316,880 SF and includes a 23-story residential tower, 5-story parking structure, 2-story townhomes, and a 1-story retail building. The tower will be concrete tunnel-form construction, the parking structure… Read More
In addition to design work on standard commercial and residential buildings, BASE also partners directly with specialty renewable energy designers and builders to provide efficient designs to large-scale installations. Designed and constructed in two phases from 2020 through 2023, the PV Canopy addition to the Airport Industrial Park in Honolulu added roughly 60,000 square feet… Read More
An Oahu landmark since 1973, Turtle Bay Resort was transformed to immerse its guests in the majestic beauty of the North Shore. The redesigned lobby, pool deck, and relocated porte cochere welcomes guests with a new arrival experience, and lobby walls were replaced with windows to create expansive views of the beaches and waves. The… Read More
This competitively awarded design-build project at the University of Hawaii at Manoa is situated on a parcel that is the former site of the Atherton YMCA with the purpose to provide an integrated, live, learn, work, innovation center. A portion of the historic Charles Atherton House will remain and house the innovation center, incubator spaces,… Read More
This 40-story, 769,931 GSF luxury residential development includes 346 one-, two- and three-bedroom units with amenities and indoor-outdoor communal spaces. In addition to being structural engineer of record, BASE also provided building code-required special inspections and material testing services. This allowed for seamless coordination between the design and construction of the primary structures. BASE also… Read More
The Wahiawa Civic Center redevelopment replaces its existing undersized facility that houses a state courthouse and two City & County of Honolulu agency divisions. The new 58,000 SF facility consists of two separate buildings: a two-story, 37,000 SF Judicial District Court building and a two-story, 21,000 SF state office complex. The state office complex will… Read More