San Francisco · 2005.0809
Chong Partners Architecture has promoted Larry Bongort, Christopher E. Wilson, and Bret Harper to associate partners. The trio will become part of the firm's senior management team with responsibility for firm governance as well as project leadership. Bongort originally joined Chong Partners as a medical planner. He is currently leading the planning for a new cancer center and medical office building for St. Joseph Health System in Orange, California. Before joining Chong Partners, Harper served as the interior design director at Ehrlich Rominger Architects in Sacramento for five years. Previously, Wilson was an architect at Lionakis Beaumont Design Group, also in Sacramento, California. Harper and Wilson are based in the firm's Sacramento office, and Bongort works from the San Francisco office.
Orlando · 2005.0808
Construction recently began on a new educational facility building for the Florida Hospital College of Health Sciences. The College, located near downtown Orlando, Florida, specializes in allied health and nursing education. HuntonBrady Architects, an Orlando architecture, planning, and interior design firm, designed the new building. The 63,500-square-foot, three-story building will be the largest on campus and is the fourth building HuntonBrady has planned for the college. Designed to complement the existing nursing building, the new facility features a sweeping curved facade. HuntonBrady’s design also includes a bookstore, cafeteria, career center, conference rooms, classrooms, labs, and faculty offices. The building is scheduled for completion in time for classes to begin in the fall of 2006.
San Diego · 2005.0808
Construction has been completed for the new 40,000-square-foot corporate headquarters of Alfa Scientific Designs, Inc. in Poway, California. Smith Consulting Architects provided programming, space planning, construction documents, and construction administration services for the $950,000 project. Rick Gunnill, Ph.D., is leading project direction for Alfa Scientific Designs, Inc. The scope of work for Smith Consulting Architects included the design of a new single-story, tilt-up building including a mezzanine level and warehouse/office space. Alfa Scientific Designs, Inc., a manufacturer of medical diagnostic kits, will also use the facility as a product assembly and distribution center. Mark Langan was the vice principal-in-charge and project architect, and Preston Ball was project manager.
San Diego · 2005.0808
Lyons Warren, a San Diego, California-based engineering and design firm, is providing structural engineering services for six new buildings totaling 84,200 square feet within Vail Ranch Towne Center, a retail shopping plaza in the Vail Ranch area of Temecula, California. Architectural design is being provided by Benson & Bohl Architects, Inc., with president Randall Bohl, AIA, providing oversight. Construction on the project is slated to begin in October. The single-story, tilt-up concrete buildings are being designed with a hybrid panelized roof, and long-span steel trusses to allow for wide column spacing. The 45- by 48-foot column grid will create an open feel while providing flexibility for future tenants.
Southampton · 2005.0805
The Board of Trustees of The Parrish Art Museum, Long Island's oldest art museum, announced its selection of Herzog & de Meuron to design a new and greatly expanded building for the Museum. The new Parrish, scheduled to open in 2009, will be constructed on a recently purchased 14-acre site, in the Village of Southampton, New York. The building will be approximately 80,000 square feet, with around 14,000 square feet of gallery space.
Chicago · 2005.0804
SmithGroup has hired Laura Zimmer, Judy DeMike, and Mark Browning for its Chicago, Illinois office. Laura Zimmer, AIA, LEED AP, NCARB, joins SmithGroup as a medical planner/architect. Formerly a senior healthcare planner and associate at the Chicago office of Perkins + Will, Zimmer has more than 20 years of experience. Judy DeMike brings to SmithGroup over 10 years of experience in the interior design industry. She will take on the leadership role of senior interior designer with the firm. DeMike previously worked as an interior designer with the Chicago firm
OWP/P. Mark Browning joins SmithGroup as information technology manager after spending 22 years with VOA Associates, Inc., where he served as a vice president/IT director.
Nagasaki · 2005.0804
George Dasic is designing a new 200,000-square-foot building for American International Group (AIG). The building will be located in the very center of Nagasaki, Japan, in the famed Nagasaki Bay. AIG's new building is to house over 2000 people with various office and relaxation facilities, some of which will operate 24 hours a day. The Nagasaki climate was an important factor in the overall design concept. Nagasaki has extremely hot summers, which led to a design that allows for openness and transparency on the east/west orientations with closeness and protection on the south side.
Oak Park · 2005.0804
Bill Conner, ASTC has formed his own theatre consulting firm, Bill Conner Associates LLC, based in Oak Park, Illinois. Conner, a professional theatre consultant since 1982, specializes in comprehensive systems planning and facility design services for assembly and performing arts programs.
New York · 2005.0803
Garrison Architects, an award-winning, international, full-service architectural firm based in Manhattan, has formally announced the creation of its Modular Design Division, to be led by veteran architect, James Garrison, president. The firm’s increased work with modular properties over the last few years, due to the growing demand for these types of residences, has led the firm to form the group specifically dedicated to these developments.
Dearborn · 2005.0803
Lord, Aeck & Sargent has designed a two-story, 46,000-square-foot addition to the University of Michigan Dearborn Engineering Building. The dominating form of the building addition is a 12,000-square-foot, two-story high-bay laboratory that will house a 30-foot pivoting radial crane, to be used in research by faculty and students in the College of Engineering and Computer Sciences (CECS) Institute for Advanced Vehicle Systems (IAVS). In addition to this lab, the building includes a two-story rectangular atrium lobby and a 210-seat high-tech seminar room/auditorium. The first floor also houses dedicated labs for transmission and gearing, ergonomics, student design, automotive electronics, and structural crash dynamics, as well as a carwash. The second floor includes two conference rooms and an advanced technology, multipurpose classroom.
Phoenix · 2005.0728
DFD CornoyerHedrick and Studio eSP celebrated the addition of new staff by hosting the first annual DFD Legamo Challenge in Phoenix, Arizona. Recent additions to the DFD corporate family include: Jill Baker, Jessica Hastings, Ben Vierck, Joan McIntire, Richard Welsh, and John Carpenter. DFD CornoyerHedrick is a 100+ person architecture and design firm, and Studio eSP is a newly created independent space-planning entity affiliated with DFD, offering space planning, interior design, and tenant improvement services to the commercial office market.
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