Baltimore · 2005.1025
Cara Werts has been promoted to marketing director at GWWO, Inc./Architects. Werts joined the firm in 2001 and previously served as marketing coordinator. In her new role as marketing director, Werts has overall responsibility for all aspects of proposal, interview, and award submission development, including team selection, proposal writing and coordination, presentation design, content development and coaching, and award submission writing and layout. Working closely with GWWOs principals, project management team, and director of business development and promotion, she plays a critical role in securing new design contracts for the firm.
San Diego · 2005.1024
Construction is underway for Aspen Properties new 219,000-square-foot (20,300-square-meter) Carroll Canyon Business Park, designed by Smith Consulting Architects. The project is located at Camino Ruiz and Carroll Canyon Roads, in the Mira Mesa area of San Diego, California. Lusardi Construction Company is the general contractor. Carroll Canyon Business Park encompasses 11 new two-story buildings, with 26 individual units. Units are designed for office, research and development, manufacturing, and warehouse uses, and they feature large mezzanines. The campus will provide pedestrian access to all buildings and lunch patios, as well as access to biking and hiking trails and a future light rail station. Gary Baker was the architect-designer for Smith Consulting Architects, with Carl King as project manager.
San Diego · 2005.1024
Tenant improvement construction is complete for the 52,320-square-foot (4860-square-meter) remodel of National University, located in Los Angeles, California. San Diego-based architecture firm Architects Delawie Wilkes Rodrigues Barker was responsible for design of the $3,400,000 project. New design features of the building include custom wood paneling in the lobby and presentation room, as well as new furniture and artwork. Low existing ceilings required modification of the building infrastructure to accommodate higher finished ceilings throughout the building. A new internal exit stairway was also added. Paul Schroeder served as principal-in-charge, with Jennifer Jorgensen as project manager and Luis Uzarrago providing technical support.
Orlando · 2005.1024
HuntonBrady Architects, an Orlando, Florida-based architecture, interior design, and planning firm, is pleased to announce that interior designer Kristin V. M. Brown, IIDA, has recently earned a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Accreditation from the United States Green Building Council (USGBC). Brown is one of only two interior designers in Florida who are LEED accredited, and the only interior designer to hold the certification in Central Florida. Brown serves as a project manager on education and commercial projects.
San Diego · 2005.1024
Harlan K. Tande, NCARB, AIA; Greg McClure, LEED, NCARB, AIA; and David Salud recently joined the San Diego, California-based firm of Architects Delawie Wilkes Rodrigues Barker. Tande is a 35-year veteran of the architectural design industry, and joins the firm as an architect. For 11 years prior to joining the firm, he served as a senior associate at Conwell Shonkwiler & Associates. McClure most recently served three years as an architect at Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee. A 27-year veteran in the architectural design industry, Salud joins the firm as a project manager. In his position, he is responsible for maintaining the project budget, schedule, and scope according to contract. His previous experience includes five years as a project manager at Austin Veum Robbins Partners.
Los Angeles · 2005.1024
Robert H. Timme, Dean of the USC School of Architecture, died October 20 from complications related to lung cancer. He was 60 years old. Timme, who joined USC in 1996, was a scholar and a registered architect who was a founding partner of the Houston firm of Taft Architects. He was a specialist in architectural design and history, and a noted lecturer on color theory and garden history. Among Timme's built work are the award-winning Hendley Building in Galveston, Texas, the YWCA Masterson Branch in Houston, Texas, and the Talbot House in Nevis, West Indies.
Indianapolis · 2005.1024
Jonathan Geels has joined BSA LifeStructures as a landscape architect at its Indianapolis, Indiana office. Geels, a former BSA LifeStructures design intern, graduated from the Ball State University Business Fellowship program with a degree in landscape architecture. He is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Irvine · 2005.1021
Ground has been broken for 7950 West Sunset, a 183-unit mixed-use housing and retail development on Sunset Boulevard that was designed by the Los Angeles and Irvine, California firm of TCA (Thomas P. Cox: Architects, Inc.) The project has five stories of residential over ground-level retail and four levels of underground parking. It is one of the first mixed-use projects built under the city's new RAS-4 zoning that encourages mixed-use development in transitional urban areas. The project will offer one and two-bedroom apartments, as well as studio units. TCA's design team on this project included Thom Cox, AIA, David Smith, AIA, John Brooks, AIA, Bryan Stadler, AIA, Rai Quintana and Paul Medel. Other key consultants include Faulkner Design Group, the project's interior designer, HRP LanDesign, landscape architects, and Fuscoe Engineering, civil engineers.
Richmond · 2005.1020
Cornerstone Architects has completed a new cardiology facility for Medical Associates of Central Virginia. The building, with basement space for future expansion, is master planned on an 8-acre (3.2-hectare) site for long-range growth. Program includes clinical space for 16 Cardiologists and 8 Nurse Practitioners, with full diagnostics on site. Translucent skylights, window walls, and indirect lighting are used throughout to provide diffuse light quality to both public and clinical spaces. The main design features include a grand waiting room with a high ceiling of exposed curved glue-lam beams and wood deck, with expansive views through the glass curtain walls along the perimeter. The circulation spine or main concourse features a plaster barrel vault ceiling with skylights, and a glass block floor to allow light to the lower level.
New York · 2005.1019
Hudson River Park's Clinton Cove, located in the northernmost segment of the Hudson River Park in New York, New York, and designed by Dattner Architects and MKW + Associates, is now open to the public. Features include the new granite esplanade, lighting, furnishings, and bulkhead railing, as well as new shade trees, flowering trees, shrubs, and perennials that line the park paths and help to create one of the larger open green spaces in Hudson River Park. Special features along the river include a new "get down" - a platform that steps down from the bulkhead and allows park visitors closer access to the river, and a public boathouse for nonmotorized craft.
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