Denver · 2007.0627
San Francisco, California-based IA Interior Architects has promoted Richard Smith to principal in the firm's Denver, Colorado, office. IA has also promoted Denver employees Andrew J. Patapoff, AIA, and Chad A. Wentz to senior associate.
Fernandina Beach · 2007.0625
Construction continues on "The Trio," a small residential enclave in Fernandina Beach on Amelia Island, Florida. Moser Design Group of Habersham, South Carolina, and Julie Sanford of Fernandina Beach designed the three cottages, part of the larger Amelia Park Development. Common design elements include expansive front porches, metal roofs, and light exterior colors. Construction is expected to be complete by the end of 2007.
Herning · 2007.0625
Ground has been broken for the Herning Center of the Arts in Herning, Denmark. The 60,000-square-foot (5,600-square-meter) facility will house the Herning Art Museum, Ensemble MidtVest, and Socle du Monde, with permanent and temporary exhibition galleries, a 150-seat auditorium, music rehearsal rooms, a restaurant, a media library, and administrative offices for the three entities.
Steven Holl Architects of New York City designed the single-level, curved-roof building to resemble a collection of shirtsleeves when viewed from above, taking a stylistic cue from a nearby 1960s building that houses part of the art collection — a former shirt factory shaped like a shirt collar. Continuing the fabric theme, a textile mesh will be used to texture the white concrete walls. All gallery spaces will be simple and rectangular, with lightweight, moveable interior partitions. On the interior, the shape of the roof will be emphasized with a simple white-plaster finish.
Sustainable features include a geothermal HVAC system, gray-water recycling, and daylighting. The project will also transform the flat site with a new 130,000-square-foot (12,000-square-meter) landscape of grass mounds and pools to conceal parking and service areas. Completion is expected by the beginning of 2009.
Phoenix · 2007.0625
Omniplan, a full-service architecture, interior architecture, and planning firm, has promoted project manager Michelle Ray, AIA, LEED AP, to associate principal of its Phoenix, Arizona, office. In 2005 Ray spearheaded the opening of the Phoenix office with her husband, John Tran, AIA, LEED AP, after 10 years in the firm's Dallas, Texas, office. She has been involved in such retail and academic projects as the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center's biomedical research facility in Dallas, and SanTan Village, a master-planned urban village in Gilbert, Arizona.
New York · 2007.0623
The Garden of Science has opened at the New York Hall of Science Playground in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Queens, New York City. BKSK Architects LLP of New York designed the $2.7 million, 30,000-square-foot (2,800-square-meter) expansion with Lee Weintraub Landscape Architecture of Yonkers. Landscape is the organizing element for the interactive garden playground aimed at preschoolers, which incorporates a variety of structures, paths, water, and other features to encourage discovery of fundamental principles of physics, ecology, and architecture. BKSK partner Joan Krevlin was lead designer for the project, which received the 2002 Award for Design from the New York City Art Commission.
San Francisco · 2007.0622
Architecture, engineering, and planning firm Cannon Design has appointed Carl Hampson, AIA, to the position of vice president in its San Francisco, California, office. Hampson has over 15 years of experience in planning and design for healthcare and research, including as senior designer in the healthcare studio of SmithGroup. He is currently serving as lead designer for a new 176,000-square-foot (16,400-square-meter) Pima County psychiatric hospital and recovery center in Tucson, Arizona.
Princeton · 2007.0619
United Kingdom-based RMJM and Princeton, New Jersey-based Hillier have merged. With offices in 16 cities in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, the combined entity will offer services in architecture, interior design, master planning, urban design, historic preservation, arts consulting, land planning, landscape design, graphics, and computer visualization. In North America, the firm will be branded as RMJM Hillier and form the North American business of the RMJM Group, with offices in Princeton; New York City; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Washington, D.C.
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