EwingCole has revealed its design for a new cancer treatment center at Pocono Medical Center in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Image: EwingCole Extra Large Image

Horsens · 2010.0217
The Vitus Bering Innovation Park was recently completed at University College Vitus Bering Denmark in Horsens. Aarhus, Denmark-based C.F. Møller Architects designed the 8,000-square-meter (86,000-square-foot) project and also served as landscape architect.

The business startup and teaching facility stands on a brick base, relating to existing buildings, with facades of glazing that create the impression of a spiral pattern. The basic floor plan of the building is a simple and flexible layout. Inside the atrium, the main staircase of green fiber cement runs in a spiral form between the stories, leading to common meeting facilities and a roof terrace with a view of the Horsens Fjord. The atrium is capped by a diagonally split roof plane with circular skylights.

The office complex was recently classified as "low-energy class 1," which means that its energy efficiency is twice that of the minimum required by Danish building regulations. The project features highly insulating windows and extra insulation on all of the building's external surfaces. The engineer on the project was Grontmij/ Carl Bro, and the contractor was Pihl & Søn A/S.

Philadelphia · 2010.0216
At Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Terminals D and E have reopened after a renovation and expansion designed by DDI Architects, PC of Philadelphia, in association with Odell Associates. The $300 million project included the addition of a new four-story, 210,000-square-foot (20,000-square-meter) connector building between the terminals. DDI affiliate firm Daroff Design Inc performed interior design.

The terminal expansion project began shortly after the attacks of September 11, 2001 to enhance security operations and facilitate the screening process. The revamped D/E terminal now offers a new centralized and expanded security checkpoint, including 14 screening lanes, along with offices, 23 new ticket counter positions, ample public circulation areas, and dozens of new retail and food outlets. The expanded Terminal E features a rotunda-style hammerhead form with three new gates for Southwest Airlines.

The Philadelphia-based project team also included O'Donnell and Naccarato, Brinjac Engineering, Urban Engineers, Synterra, WF Design Group, Gilbane Building Co, McKissack Group, and Robert C. Henry, P.E., facilities manager for Southwest Airlines Co.

Vancouver · 2010.0216
The Vancouver Convention Centre West has received LEED Canada Platinum certification from the Canada Green Building Council. The facility was designed by LMN Architects of Seattle, Washington, with Vancouver firms Musson Cattell Mackey Partnership (MCM) and DA Architects & Planners as architects of record. It features a range of sustainable features, including a six-acre (2.4-hectare) planted roof. The venue is currently serving as the broadcast media center for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.

Another Olympics-related facility, the Vancouver Olympic Village, has received LEED for Neighborhood Development stage 2 Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. The 1,100-unit village is located in the 80-acre (32-hectare) Southeast False Creek development. The project was master-planned by Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden (HBBH), with VIA Architecture and PWL Partnership, all of Vancouver.

Prior to certification, LEED Gold ratings had been expected for both projects.

Yountville · 2010.0215
Bardessono, a high-end inn and spa in Yountville, California, has received LEED Platinum certification. Hospitality design firm WATG provided complete architectural design services for the 62-room project, located on a 4.9-acre (two-hectare) site in Napa Valley.

Sustainable features include geothermal heating and cooling, low-E glass, photovoltaic panels, automatically controlled exterior blinds, fluorescent and LED lighting, water-conserving plumbing fixtures, a permeable entrance road, and drought-resistant landscaping. The boutique inn includes a spa with four treatment rooms, a 75-foot- (23-meter-) long rooftop infinity pool, a restaurant, and meeting space. Cello-Maudru was the general contractor and Ecotope was the mechanical engineer.

Philadelphia · 2010.0215
A new recreation center at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is set to open this month. Sasaki Associates of Watertown, Massachusetts, served as architect, designer, and landscape architect for the three-story, 84,000-square-foot (7,800-square-meter) facility, which wraps around and connects to the existing Daskalakis Athletic Center. Materials include concrete, metal panels, slate and porcelain tile, all specified for their durability and low maintenance. "Green" features include a white roof and a rainwater collection, treatment, and reuse system. Philadelphia-based EwingCole provided structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, life safety, and fire protection engineering, as well as lighting design and construction administration services. The athletic center extension and transformation project cost an estimated $41.6 million.

Dover · 2010.0211
The new student center complex has been dedicated at Delaware State University in Dover, Delaware. Holzman Moss Bottino Architecture (formerly Holzman Moss Architecture) designed the $45.4 million, 156,600-square-foot (14,550-square-meter) quad, which comprises the recently completed student center and wellness center; the athletic strength and conditioning center, completed in 2007; and an outdoor courtyard. The buildings feature double-height glass curtain-wall facades, high ceilings, and a bold interior color scheme.

Show Low · 2010.0211
Construction continues on the new Show Low Public Library in Show Low, Arizona. Designed by merzproject of Phoenix, now a studio of Shepley Bulfinch, the library features a combination of masonry and laminated-timber construction that alludes to traditional wood barns and lodges in the White Mountains.

A 150-foot- (46-meter-) long clerestory window brings daylight into the main hall. The building's sustainable features include low-VOC and recycled-content finishes, high-efficiency plumbing and mechanical equipment, and regional materials, such as Arizona stone. Merzproject also developed the interior concept and performed space planning for the new library. The primary structure was recently finalized, and the library is expected to open in early summer 2010.

The library anchors a new town hub. The building entry is aligned in a direct axis with the entry to the City Hall, for which merzproject designed a renovation slated for completion in late 2010.

Norfolk · 2010.0211
Norfolk, Virginia-based multidisciplinary firm Clark Nexsen has named Walter E. Cole, RLA, ASLA, APA, LEED AP, director of planning. Cole has over 26 years of experience in planning, design, and project management, specializing in projects that result in built public spaces.

Novato · 2010.0210
Construction has been completed on the Novato City Hall Historic Rehabilitation Project in Novato, California. Interactive Resources of Point Richmond, California, served as architect and structural engineer on the project, which included adaptive reuse of a 111-year-old church building for use as a council chamber, meeting space, and event center.

The church was moved about 12 feet (four meters), and a new lobby was added to connect the structure to an adjacent building, which was rehabilitated. The project incorporates a number of sustainable features, including waterless urinals, onsite stormwater management, drought-tolerant landscaping, recycled-content and low-VOC materials and finishes, and roof shingles with integrated photovoltaic cells.

Andrew Butt, AIA, LEED AP, served as project manager and designer for Interactive Resources, and Tom Butt, FAIA, LEED AP, served as principal-in-charge. The project team also included Winzler & Kelly, mechanical and electrical engineering; Vallier Design, landscape design; RGDL, acoustical and audiovisual; and City of Novato, civil engineering.

East Stroudsburg · 2010.0208
EwingCole, a Philadelphia-based architecture, engineering, and design firm, has revealed its design for a new cancer center (rendered above) at Pocono Medical Center in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. The two-story, 59,000-square-foot (5,500-square-meter) facility will consolidate and provide additional space for services currently offered at the Dale and Frances Hughes Cancer Center. Pocono Medical Center is an acute-care hospital and part of the Pocono Health System.

Los Angeles · 2010.0205
Helen Watts and Mark Bryant have joined the Los Angeles, California, office of IA Interior Architects as managing director and design director, respectively. Both join IA from Epstein in Los Angeles. Watts served as senior vice president/ managing principal there, and brings over 25 years of management experience to IA. Bryant served as senior vice president/ design director at Epstein, and was previously a regional design director with Gensler.

Houston · 2010.0204
The Houston office of educational architecture firm SHW Group has completed its design for the new Gloria Marshall Elementary School for the Spring Independent School District in Houston and the adjacent area of Spring, Texas. The two story, 105,000-square-foot (9,750-square-meter) facility is expected to earn LEED Gold certification, and has already been accepted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to receive an Energy Star rating.

The building will be rectangular, oriented with long sides facing north and south. The design ensures ample daylighting, which is expected to allow artificial lighting to be kept off in classrooms 75 percent of the time. Other sustainable features include a geothermal heating and cooling system that students can monitor through a web-based interface, a reflective white roof, an onsite wind turbine and roof-mounted photovoltaic cells, and an underground rainwater cistern. Energy use is expected to be at least 25 percent lower than required by the current code.

The school is currently under construction and expected to open in August 2010.

Boston · 2010.0203
Emerson College's Paramount Center, located in the Midtown Cultural District of Boston, Massachusetts, has reached substantial completion. Elkus Manfredi Architects of Boston designed the nine-story mixed-use project, which included renovation of the art deco-style Paramount Theatre (1932) and construction of a new building on the site of the former Arcade Building.

The 1,700-seat movie theater was reconfigured into a 590-seat venue for live performances. Related program elements include a 170-seat film-screening room, a black-box theater, rehearsal studios, practice rooms, classrooms, and faculty offices. The upper four floors of the complex will provide 60,000 square feet (5,600 square meters) of new dormitory space for housing 260 students. The complex also includes new space for a ground-level tenant restaurant and a lower-level student cafeteria.

The Cambridge, Massachusetts, office of Acentech Inc. consulted on the acoustic design, and Bond of Everett, Massachusetts, served as construction manager. Other project team members included Auerbach Pollock Friedlander, theater consulting and sound, video, and communications systems; R. G. Vanderweil Engineers, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection engineering; Ammann & Whitney Consulting Engineers, structural engineering; Cline Bettridge Bernstein, lighting design; Nitsch Engineering, civil engineering; and Haley & Aldrich, geotechnical engineering.

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