Seattle · 2007.0123
Kate Diamond, FAIA, has joined the Seattle, Washington, office of architecture firm NBBJ as a principal. Diamond has over 30 years of experience designing governmental, institutional, and commercial projects, with expertise in complex urban projects. She will serve as a design lead for commercial practice, and will also provide strategic direction to NBBJ's Los Angeles, California, office. Diamond comes to NBBJ after almost five years as the design principal and lead designer for the Los Angeles office of RNL. Previously she served as principal, sole proprietor, and lead designer for her own Los Angeles-based practice, Siegel Diamond Architecture, one of the largest wholly women-owned architectural partnerships in the United States at the time. Some of Diamond's notable projects include the LAX Air Traffic Control Tower and the Fontana Library, Resource Technology Center and Civic Auditorium. Her design of the joint U.S. and Canadian Port of Entry at Sweetgrass, Montana, and Coutts, Alberta, was the first port of entry for the U.S. and Canada to receive LEED certification and was later honored with a GSA Sustainable Design Award.
Foxborough · 2007.0122
Architecture firm Kaestle Boos Associates, Inc. has promoted senior associate Dan Tavares, AIA, CSI, CDT, to principal in the firm's Foxborough, Massachusetts, office. Tavares has over 20 years of experience in architecture, with a speciality in educational and municipal facilities. Since joining the firm in 1999, he has focused on staff professional development and has overseen the Foxborough office. Tavares will continue to contribute to the overall management of the firm.
San Diego · 2007.0121
The expanded campus of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego has opened in downtown San Diego, California, facing the museum's existing galleries. Architect Richard Gluckman of New York City firm Gluckman Mayner Architects designed both the renovation of the 1915 Santa Fe Depot baggage building and a new three-story structure. The expansion adds 30,000 square feet (2,800 square meters) of indoor exhibit and office space, plus new outdoor exhibit space and an artist-in-residence studio. Gluckman worked with architect Milford Wayne Donaldson, FAIA, now California State Historic Preservation Officer, on the historic preservation aspects of renovating the Spanish Mission-Colonial Revival style baggage building. Many original features were preserved or recreated, including the brick-and-stucco exterior, hand-formed Spanish clay roof tiles, globe light fixtures, and wooden storefront with historic glass. The adjoining three-story addition features a facade of corrugated metal panels, channel glass, and aluminum storefront windows that provide panoramic views toward the city and bay.
Dallas · 2007.0119
Construction is underway on the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, an 80,300-square-foot (7,500-square-meter) multiform theatre facility that will be part of the Dallas (Texas) Center for the Performing Arts complex. The 600-seat theater will provide a new state-of-the-art home for the Dallas Theater Center, Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Anita N. Martinez Ballet Folklorico, and other performing arts organizations. Collaborating on the design are Pritzker Prize-winning architect Rem Koolhaas and his firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and Joshua Prince-Ramus and his firm, Ramus-Ella Architects (REX) of New York City. The vertically organized theater will be a significant departure from typical theater design, with the main performance chamber at ground level and support spaces located above and below. The builder for the project is McCarthy Building Companies. Scheduled to open in 2009, the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts will comprise several venues connected by an urban park, completing the long-planned Dallas Arts District.
Atlanta · 2007.0119
Walter Broner, RA, CSI, has joined the Atlanta, Georgia, office of Lord, Aeck & Sargent as a principal in the firm's science studio. Broner has over 27 years of experience, specializing in laboratory planning and design, including academic and pharmaceutical research laboratories, animal facilities, and clinical laboratories. His expertise also includes technical coordination, building code review, and project management. Broner joins the firm from the Princeton, New Jersey, office of Hillier Architecture. He spent 17 years with Hillier, most recently as an associate principal. Among the most notable of the academic facilities for which he served as laboratory planner or project architect were the Princeton University Materials Science Research Laboratory; the New York University Center for Comparative Functional Genomics; and the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, a 230,000-square-foot (21,400-square-meter) building that is about to begin construction. Broner also led the team that evaluated existing facilities at Yale University’s Science Hill, part of a master plan for all science buildings at the university.
Moorpark · 2007.0118
A new $8.8 million child development center has opened on the campus of Moorpark College in Moorpark, California. The 12,400-square-foot (1,200-square-meter) facility comprises five preschool classrooms with observation rooms, a large play yard, and two college classrooms for child-development instruction. Spencer/ Hoskins associates of Altadena designed the project. JCM Group, a Heery International company, provided construction management services.
Atlanta · 2007.0117
Stephanie Kirkpatrick, IIDA, has returned to Atlanta, Georgia-based firm Niles Bolton Associates as a principal. Kirkpatrick led the interior design department for the firm from 1993 to 1997. In the interim, she worked with a division of American InterContinental University and then started Kirkpatrick Consulting Group. Her previous design projects include Delta Air Lines Crown Rooms and facilities for Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Institute and the Georgia Institute of Technology. In her new position, Kirkpatrick will assist with interior design, firm-wide branding, and business development.
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