West Palm Beach · 2006.0911
West Palm Beach-based STH Architectural Group, Inc. is designing a prototype science teaching building for Florida's community college system. The design combines chemistry, biology, anatomy, and physics laboratories in a 52,000-square-foot (4,800-square-meter) building. The prototype will be applied at five community college campuses. Two of the facilities will also include nursing programs; one will include an additional 40,000 square feet (3,700 square meters) of biotechnology lab space. Bob Thomas is the project manager for STH.
Princeton · 2006.0911
Princeton University has selected Spanish architect and Harvard professor Rafael Moneo, winner of the 1996 Pritzker Prize, to design new neuroscience and psychology buildings on its campus in Princeton, New Jersey. The two multistory buildings will be connected, totaling about 200,000 square feet (18,600 square meters). Both will feature classrooms, laboratories, offices, and meeting rooms. Currently a parking lot, the project site is adjacent to a natural area, in a developing natural sciences "neighborhood." The construction schedule has yet to be determined.
Milwaukee · 2006.0909
The new Discovery World at Pier Wisconsin complex has opened on the Lake Michigan waterfront in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Designed by local architect Jim Shields of HGA (Hammel, Green and Abrahamson), the facility is an understated neighbor to the Milwaukee Art Museum, the 2001 expansion of which was designed by Santiago Calatrava. The structure, comprising a rectangular box and cylindrical building connected by a breezeway, houses aquariums, theaters, 120,000 square feet (11,000 square meters) of exhibit space, and the Pilot House, which provides 360-degree views of the lake and city. The grounds include a promenade, a garage-rooftop park, fishing access, a public boat landing, and a re-created historic schooner.
Nashville · 2006.0909
The $120 million Schermerhorn Symphony Center, the new home of the Nashville Symphony, has opened in Nashville, Tennessee. The four-story, 197,000-square-foot (18,300-square-meter) facility is essentially neoclassical in design, with columns flanking its entrance and a 125-foot (38-meter) colonnade enclosing a garden and cafe. Granite and marble accent the limestone facade. The center's interior incorporates iconography of music and Nashville. The 1,872-seat concert hall is one of few in the United States to feature natural light through 30 special soundproof windows. Collaborators on the project included the architect, David M. Schwarz/ Architectural Services of Washington, D.C.; the architect of record, Earl Swensson Associates, Inc., of Nashville; the consulting architect, Hastings Architecture Associates, LLC, of Nashville; acoustician Akustiks, LLC, of Norwalk, Connecticut; theater planner Fisher Dachs Associates of New York City; and landscape architect Hawkins Partners, Inc., of Nashville.
Macon · 2006.0908
Construction continues on the new Munroe Science Center at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia. Atlanta-based Lord, Aeck & Sargent is the lead architect for the three-story building, which will have a classical facade to blend with existing campus architecture. The center is scheduled to open in fall 2007.
Washington, D.C. · 2006.0908
Michael DeBernard, AIA, has joined the Washington, D.C., office of international architecture, planning, engineering, and interior design firm Leo A Daly as corporate international director. DeBernard has over 30 years of experience in management and design of large, international transportation, institutional, and commercial projects. He was previously director of operations for NBBJ's aviation and transportation practice, for HOK's aviation practice, and for DMJM H&N's general architectural practice. DeBernard's portfolio includes the $300 million Moscow City Transport Terminal Project, for which he was principal-in-charge and project manager, and the new $950 million American Airlines Terminal at JFK International Airport in New York.
Iowa City · 2006.0908
The University of Iowa has dedicated Art Building West, a new $21.5 million building for its School of Art and Art History. The 69,000-square-foot (6,400-square-meter) building houses classrooms, studios, gallery space, offices, a new art library, a cafe, and an auditorium. Steven Holl Architects of New York City designed the building, with Herbert Lewis Kruse Blunck Architecture of Des Moines, to blend with its setting. Its exterior steel panels will weather visibly, gradually approaching the red color of the nearby existing art building as they oxidize. The library wing extends over a pond, with views of the adjacent limestone bluff. North light in the art studios is diffused with folded concrete ceiling planks.
San Francisco · 2006.0906
Page & Turnbull, a historic preservation specialty firm based in San Francisco, California, has hired two new associate principals: Ruth Todd, AIA, AICP, LEED AP, and John Lesak, AIA, LEED AP. Todd was previously associate university architect at Stanford University, where she participated in over 200 land and buildings projects, nearly half involving historic structures. She has also taught architectural design process at Stanford. Todd works in Page & Turnbull's San Francisco office. Lesak is heading up a new Los Angeles office. He worked most recently at Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates as a senior associate. Lesak has an interdisciplinary background in engineering and materials science and specializes in the evaluation and restoration of historic buildings and their construction assemblies.
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