Indianapolis · 2007.0501
Construction is underway in Indianapolis, Indiana, on a new $52 million simulation center to be operated jointly by Indiana University and Clarian Health. The Indianapolis office of BSA LifeStructures is performing architectural and engineering services for the building, and the Indianapolis office of Maregatti Interiors is performing interior design. IU/Fairbanks Hall–The Clarian Education and Resource Center will include a skills learning area and simulation areas, including an operating room, emergency room, patient care room, obstetrical rooms, intensive care unit rooms and debriefing rooms, and other classrooms. The six-story,182,000-square-foot (16,900-square-meter) facility is scheduled to open in summer 2008 in the life sciences quadrant on the east side of the city's Central Canal.
San Francisco · 2007.0501
The San Francisco, California, office of SMWM has hired Gerry Tierney, AIA, LEED AP, as director of its housing practice. The firm has also named three principals and senior associates as practice leaders. Tierney has 30 years of experience on housing types ranging from market-rate to workforce housing. He was previously a principal at Kava Massih Architects of Berkeley and San Francisco, where he directed such projects such as The Sierra at Jack London Square in Oakland.
SMWM associate principal John Long, AIA, LEED AP, has been named education practice leader. Long has managed such prominent academic projects as the recently opened San Francisco Conservatory of Music, master plans for the University of San Francisco and the University of Washington, and the Center for Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University. He has been with SMWM since 1987.
Associate principal Prakash Pinto, AIA, LEED AP, has been named leader of the SMWM's urban design and planning practice. Pinto has focused on public-private partnerships for academic, institutional, and developer clients, including the East Baltimore Community Master Plan and large-scale land use plans and design guidelines for the Port of Los Angeles, the City of San Diego, and the City of San Jose. He has been with SMWM since 2001.
Senior associate Andrew Wolfram, AIA, LEED AP, has been named leader of the preservation and adaptive reuse practice. He was project architect for the $50 million renovation of the landmark San Francisco Ferry Building, and is currently directing the renovation of the historic Hearst Memorial Gymnasium for the University of California, Berkeley, and the conversion of the historic Presidio Public Health Service Hospital into market rate apartments. Wolfram has been with SMWM since 1999.
Hollywood · 2007.0430
Construction is underway on the ArtsPark at Young Circle, a new public art project in Hollywood, Florida. Margi Nothard and her architecture and urban design firm, Glavovic Studio, Inc., of Fort Lauderdale, designed the ten-acre (four-hectare) project, which comprises multiple activity spaces, including the Grove, a place designed for sedate activity; a highly interactive children’s play area; and a central plaza. The Visual Arts Pavilion will house professional artist studios and art classes. A performing arts pavilion is also planned.
The park features an integrated, site-specific artwork, "Millennium Springs," by Japanese artist Ritsuko Taho in collaboration with Nothard. The piece consists of a long, narrow fountain with jets of water that shoot into the air in synchrony with energy wave patterns measured in one of five massive baobob trees located in Young Circle, with striped walkway designs linking the fountain to the baobob tree.
Oakland · 2007.0429
On April 29, 2007, a section of freeway ramp collapsed in Oakland, California, after a gas tank truck crashed from one freeway ramp down onto another and then burst into flames. The ramp is part of the "MacArthur Maze," a collection of interchanges connecting nearby freeways with the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge. The collapse is believed to have been caused by weakening of the ramp's steel support structure by the heat of the fire. The driver of the truck was injured; no other injuries have been reported.
Incheon · 2007.0426
Construction is underway on the Convention Center Hotel in Incheon, South Korea. The New York City office of Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum (HOK) designed the 25-story tower with the goal of it being the first LEED-Certified hotel in Korea. The hotel is part of a group of buildings that will also include the Convention Center, a 65-story mixed-use residential and office tower, the Northeast Asia Trade Tower; and a retail mall. The buildings will be connected through a series of plazas and open landscaped areas, as well as a single below-grade parking structure spanning the entire area. Completion of the hotel is expected in 2009.
The buildings are part of a three million-square-foot (280,000-square-meter) project for which HOK New York is the design architect, located around Central Park in the 1,500-acre (610-hectare) New Songdo City, a $25 billion master-planned international business district developed by Gale International and POSCO E&C. Three additional mixed-use towers are scheduled to begin construction in May 2007 and to be completed in 2009.
London, United Kingdom-based engineering firm Arup is handling the structural and curtainwall design for the HOK New York project. Dong Il Architects & Engineers is the Korean associate architect for residential work on the towers and BAUM Architects, Engineers & Consultants of Seoul is the associate architect for the first hotel. New York City-based firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Architects created the master plan for New Songdo City.
Rosemont · 2007.0426
Opus North Corporation, a design-build development firm based in Rosemont, Illinois, has promoted Terry Helland, AIA, to director of architecture for Opus Architects & Engineers in the firm's north region. Since joining Opus in 2005, Helland has worked on projects for clients such as the U.S. General Services Administration and Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was previously a project architect and manager for the Minneapolis office of Hammel, Green and Abrahamson (HGA), where his projects included the Illinois State University Performing Arts Center and corporate headquarters for General Mills.
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