New York · 2006.0124
Justin M. Chang, R.A. and Khalil R. Eldana have been promoted to associates at the Thornton-Tomasetti Group in New York, New York. Chang joined the firm in 2003 and currently serves as a project architect for several assignments. Most recently, he manages the construction of the near-complete Johns Hopkins South of Orleans Expansion Project for the New York Office of the firm's LZA Associates Division. Eldana specializes in roof assessment, window reparation, and general building restorations, and brings more than 18 years of experience in structural facade evaluation. Eldana joined the New York City office of Thornton-Tomasetti Group in 2004 and is responsible for managing exterior building envelope restoration projects.
Baltimore · 2006.0124
The Board of Directors at GWWO, Inc./Architects has named Alan E Reed, AIA, LEED AP president of the Baltimore, Maryland-based architectural firm. Reed has worked for the firm since its inception in 1991 and serves as principal in charge of design. Reed takes over the helm from founding principal Phillip W. Worrall, AIA, LEED AP, who continues with the firm as vice president and as chairman of the board. Current projects for which Reed is design principal include new visitor and exhibition facilities at George Washington’s Mount Vernon in Mount Vernon, Virginia and the new Irvine Nature Center facilities to be constructed in Owings Mills, Maryland. In related management changes, Paul L. Hume, AIA, LEED AP and Mark A. Lapointe, AIA, were named associate principals. Both Hume and Lapointe have worked at GWWO for over a decade.
Dallas · 2006.0124
Corgan Associates, Inc. hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for its new corporate headquarters in Dallas, Texas' West End district. Corgan's building marks the first new construction project in this historic area in more than 10 years. The firm will be the sole occupants of a three-story, 60,000 square-foot (5,575 square-meter) building located at 401 N. Houston St., initially housing 235 professionals with future expansion capacity to 325. Corgan's new building will be Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified and will include many environmentally sustainable, energy-conserving features including daylighting shelves, sophisticated energy management controls, rainwater collection, sunshades, and recycled building materials. Occupancy is expected in January 2007. Turner Construction of Dallas is the general contractor for the project.
Los Angeles · 2006.0124
Johnson Fain, an architecture, urban design and planning, and interiors firm, received 12 design awards in 2005. While the firm's Southern California projects are the focus of most of the awards, included among the dozen was a recent win for an international urban design competition in China for the Sichuan province Chengdu, dubbed "China's Paris" by Marco Polo. Johnson Fain has a number of projects on the boards including nine major mixed-use projects in urban Southern California cities that will contain more than 6,000 housing units and approximately 500,000 square feet (46,450 square meters) of retail and service space including the new Ballpark Village in San Diego, and Figueroa/Central in Los Angeles, California. Currently in development are new buildings and campus planning for Amgen and Genentech, and the 300-acre (120-hectare) American Indian Cultural Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
City of Coachella · 2006.0123
Construction has been completed on the WWCOT-designed Valle del Sol Elementary School in the City of Coachella, California, south of Palm Springs and opened on January 3, 2006 as scheduled. The new K-6 elementary school was developed from a prototype classroom "POD" concept WWCOT created for the Coachella Valley Unified School District's Saul Martinez Elementary School, a K-6 school, which originally opened in 2000. Housing 900 students, Valle del Sol contains six PODs, each with five to six classrooms and a separate building for four kindergarten classes. All PODs directly connect by landscaped walkways to an auditorium/cafeteria building that also serves as a multipurpose room, and administration/ library building. The design has been shown to help districts and schools improve test scores, according to WWCOT principal-in-Charge Pam Touschner, AIA.
Dayton · 2006.0119
New York-based Lee H. Skolnick Architecture + Design Partnership is lead architect for the new $30 million state-of-the-art ‘Aileron’ Center for Entrepreneurial Education project, which recently broke ground near Dayton, Ohio. The new 60,000 square-foot (5,575 square-meter) facility, named after the mechanical part of an airplane wing that guides an aircraft, ‘Aileron’ reflects founder and chair Clay Mathile’s desire to provide guidance and support to area organizations. The new center will incorporate the Aileron theme most explicitly through an aerodynamic roofline. Located 20 minutes outside Dayton, the Aileron facility is slated to open in late 2007.
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