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Rio Rancho · 2005.1101
Design firm Dekker/Perich/Sabatini and Rio Rancho Public Schools of Rio Rancho, New Mexico announce the opening of Maggie M. Cordova & Ernest Stapleton Elementary schools. Ernest Stapleton Elementary replaces an existing school campus located on a nearby site that was made up entirely of metal modular buildings. Maggie M. Cordova Elementary is an entirely new school that was designed to accommodate students living in a rapidly growing area of the city. Each of the 76,000-square-foot (7,060-square-meter) schools accommodates 800 students and will help support the increased growth in the Rio Rancho area.

Minneapolis · 2005.1101
KKE Architects, Inc., headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with offices in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Pasadena and Irvine, California, announced today that Simon Y. Park, AIA has joined the firm as director of operations in its Pasadena office, and Kris Irwin has joined KKE Architects as senior interior designer in its Las Vegas office. Park comes to KKE from Gensler and will be responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of KKE's office in Pasadena. Before joining KKE, Park served as associate architect for Gensler and facilitated a variety of projects in Southern California. Irwin brings over ten years of extensive space planning, interior design, tenant improvement and comprehensive project management expertise to the firm. Previously, Irwin served as an interior designer/project manager and space planner for several companies.

Hendersonville · 2005.1101
Correction: In a recent People & Places column ArchitectureWeek erroneously reported that Pugh + Scarpa and Eskew + Dumez + Ripple were collaborating on the new Mill Center for the Arts in Hendersonville, North Carolina. The two firms were selected in an open two-stage competition to compete as one of three finalists in the competition. Brian Healy Architects won the competition.

San Diego · 2005.1031
McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. has construction 80 percent complete for the North Park Parking Structure, an approximately $7 million, 149,000-square-foot (13840-square-meter) parking facility, located on the corner of 30th Street and North Park Way in San Diego, California. Bud Fischer is the manager of NPW2930, LLC, the owner and developer of the project, and Irvine, California-based International Parking Design is the architect. Scheduled to open in January 2006, the parking facility will accommodate 388 vehicles on six levels, and include more than 14,500 square feet (1350 square meters) of retail space on the first floor. The exterior facade design was performed by Austin Veum Robbins Partners.

San Diego · 2005.1031
Smith Consulting Architects has design underway for Biltmore Ocean View Hills, an 87,750-square-foot (8150-square-meter) office, manufacturing, and warehouse campus, located in the Otay Mesa area of San Diego, California. Smith Consulting Architects was retained by Thomas Smith of Biltmore Holdings LLC, developer of the project. The scope of work for Smith Consulting Architects involves design of six tilt-up concrete shell buildings, ranging in size from 11,200 to 20,360 square feet (1040 to 1890 square meters). Construction is scheduled to begin in January 2006. Scott Cairns is the vice president-in-charge for Smith Consulting Architects, with Carl King serving as project manager.

New Haven · 2005.1028
Cesar Pelli & Associates has changed its name to Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects to recognize the growth in the roles of two partners, Fred Clarke and Rafael Pelli. In addition, six associate principals, William Butler, Mitchell Hirsch, Gregg Jones, Mariko Masuoka, Lawrence Ng, and Mark Shoemaker, have now become stockholders and full principals in the firm with corresponding authority and responsibilities.

Dallas · 2005.1027
Donald R. DeBord Jr., AIA, and Jeffrey Davenport have been promoted to sector leaders for RTKL's Healthcare and Science & Technology sectors, respectively. Don Debord, vice president, will lead the Healthcare Sector from the firm's Dallas, Texas office; Jeffrey Davenport, vice president, will spearhead the Science & Technology Sector from RTKL's Washington, D.C. office.

Washington, D.C. · 2005.1025
Russell Perry, AIA, LEED AP, has joined the Washington, D.C. office of SmithGroup. Perry comes to SmithGroup after 11 years at William McDonough + Partners, in Charlottesville, Virginia. In 1994, he joined William McDonough and Chris Hays as the founding partners of the firm, and in 2001 he became WM+P's first LEED accredited professional. Perry's sustainable design experience at WM+P has resulted in significant projects around the world, including in England, China, Mexico, and The Netherlands. Perry currently serves as a member of the U.S. Green Building Council's committee that is writing the new LEED 3.0 Core and Shell Standard.

Ticonderoga · 2005.1009
Fort Ticonderoga broke ground today for the Deborah Clarke Mars Education Center, designed by Tonetti Associates Architects of New York City. When completed, the LEED-certified "green" building will recreate the last of the major original Fort structures to be rebuilt. Years of research in primary documents and at historic sites of French origin in North America, as well as on-site archaeology, will result in the exterior of the Education Center being the most accurate reconstruction possible of the 1756 magasin du Roi (or King's warehouse). The Mars Education Center will house a modern, year-round, state-of-the-art learning environment featuring an interactive exhibit space for changing exhibits from the Fort's vast collection of 18th-century objects and archives, four learning laboratories, a multipurpose gallery, and a 180-person auditorium.

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