Chicago · 2005.1019
Lohan Anderson has announced the addition of three architects to the firm, which is based in Chicago, Illinois. John Arzarian Jr., AIA, Michael Heider, AIA, and Timothy Vacha, AIA have collaborated on projects for over 20 years. They are joining Lohan Anderson to expand the hotel design practice. Arzarian and Heider join the firm as associate principals and Vacha as a senior associate. Lohan Anderson has grown to over 30 professionals since its March 2004 founding with ten.
Minneapolis · 2005.1018
Leo A Daly Minneapolis, a national architecture and engineering firm, announces a new hire and promotion. Marcelle Hemquist has been promoted to interim director of civil engineering for the firm. With more than eight years of experience in civil engineering, Hemquist will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of the department. She has been with Leo A Daly Minneapolis since 2004. Jeremy Listerud joins Leo A Daly Minneapolis as a structural engineer. Previously with Boyle Engineering Corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Listerud specializes in concrete and steel building design.
San Bernadino · 2005.1017
Pacific Building Group has completed construction for the new two-story, 69,000-square-foot (6,400-square-meter) industrial building for Pacific Coast Steel, located on Industrial Parkway in San Bernardino, California. Smith Consulting Architects provided full architectural services for the $4.8 million build-to-suit project, with Pacific Coast Steel president Eric Benson providing oversight. The building is a high-bay concrete industrial facility featuring large, overhead running cranes for the loading and unloading of steel products during the fabrication process. The project also includes 14,800 square feet (1,300 square meters) of office space. Pete Bussett served as principal-in-charge for Smith Consulting Architects. Prime Structural Engineering was the structural engineer; Partners Planning & Engineering, civil engineer; DEC Engineers, mechanical engineer; and Kruse & Associates, electrical engineer. Alhambra Group was the landscape architect.
Indianapolis · 2005.1012
Jesiesis Tan, Bryan Sander, Joseph Thompson, Eric Weflen and Jeremy Welu have joined the architecture group at BSA LifeStructures' Indianapolis, Indiana office. Tan moved to Indianapolis from Los Angeles, where she was a designer at an architecture firm. Sander and Thompson are both returning to BSA LifeStructures after interning for the firm in 2004. Weflen and Welu received bachelor's degree in architecture from Ball State University College of Architecture and Planning. Weflen graduated cum laude and Welu was awarded the Indiana Architectural Foundation scholarship. In addition, Jonathan Badua, Andrew Fishburn, Lara Grooms and Joshua Hunter have joined BSA LifeStructures as CAD technicians in the engineering department.
Ann Arbor · 2005.1010
Ann Arbor, Michigan-based architectural firm Hobbs + Black has two new hires and a promotion. Heather Smigliani joins Hobbs + Black as a project manager. Previously, Smigliani worked at Fanning/Howey Associates, and is a registered architect, a member of NCARB, LEED Accredited, and a member of U.S. Green Building Council. Kristen A.G. Schleick, AIA, AICP has recently joined Hobbs + Black as an urban planner and project architect. Schleick joins Hobbs + Black from Luckenbach-Ziegelman Architects, and she previously worked at Zimmer Gunsul Frasca in Portland, Oregon. Lori Bliss Martens, IIDA has been promoted to Associate. Martens joined Hobbs + Black’s Ann Arbor office in 2004 and has 10 years experience in Interior Design.
Henderson · 2005.0909
Brian Healy Architects of Boston, Massachusettes, has won first place in the NEA Design competition for a cultural and performing art complex for The Mill Center for the Arts. The project budget is approximately $20 million. The site designated for the project is an entire block located near Historic Main Street in Hendersonville, North Carolina, a unique city in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Situated on the site is a historic hosiery mill dating back to 1915. Groundbreaking is planned for the first quarter of 2007. Features of the project include a state-of-the-art 1,200 seat performance theater with stage, a 250 flexible seat rehearsal and “black box” studio theater, multipurpose and divisional spaces for conferences seating up to 500, exhibition galleries and studios for arts instruction, and administration and support offices and workshops.
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