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Denver, CO (PRWEB) January 30, 2014
KSQ Architects announces the opening of a fourth office location near downtown Denver. This new office is in response to a growing client base in the state of Colorado, where KSQ is currently working on student housing and dining at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and recently completed the Kittredge Complex student housing project at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
We view our Denver office as a commitment to architecture in the state of Colorado and as a doorway to KSQs growth in the West, says David W. Short, KSQ Principal and Director.
Founded in 1988, KSQ Architects is a full-service architectural firm that specializes in collegiate life, K-12, and multi-family housing facilities throughout the U.S. The firm offers programming, planning, architectural and interior design services.
Leading the firms Denver office is KSQ Principal Shannon Meyer. Ms. Meyer joined KSQ in 2005, and since 2010 has served as KSQs Director of interior design. She leads a team of 14 interior designers on projects nationwide and provides leadership in business development efforts.
Im looking forward to building KSQs presence in Denver and throughout the state, says Ms. Meyer. Its an honor to build the KSQ family here, and Colorado has a great talent pool of architects and designers.
KSQs Denver office is at 910 Santa Fe Drive in Nine10Artsa LEED-designed 24,000 SF urban, redevelopment community that incorporates the concepts of community enhancement and green building practices. KSQs approach is based on a belief that all buildings should be responsible to the environment. KSQ LEED Accredited Professionals incorporate sustainable design principles into every assignmentbelieving each building should create a positive human environment while meeting the clients functional needs and cost expectations.
KSQ has been named one of the Best Firms to Work For and the #29 Hot Firm out of 100 by Zweig White. KSQ is also a Top 300 Design Firm by Architectural Record. In addition to the new Denver office, KSQ has offices in White Plains, NY, Tulsa, OK, and Grapevine, TX.
ABOUT KSQ ARCHITECTS With offices in offices in Colorado, New York, Oklahoma, and Texas, KSQ Architects is a full-service architectural firm providing programming, planning, architectural and interior design services. The firm specializes in collegiate life, K-12 and multi-family housing facilities. KSQ has completed projects nationwide on more than 50 campuses totaling $1 billion in construction.
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The New Jersey Chapter and Region of the American Institute of Architects announced that Belleville resident Robert Cozzarelli has begun a three-year term as regional director. Cozzarelli was installed during AIA-NJs annual awards gala at Shadowbrook in Shrewsbury.
Cozzarelli
Cozzarelli is a principal of Rutherford-based Bertone Cozzarelli Healthcare Architects and Cozzarelli Cirminiello Architects, which has more than 30 years of experience in the design of nursing homes, hospitals and other health-related facilities. He is an award-winning architect and planner who also specializes in the areas of education, recreation, institutional and residential design for federal, state, municipal and private-sector clients.
A 28-year member of AIA, Cozzarelli has served the organization in many capacities including 2004 AIA-NJ state president. In 2009, Cozzarelli was honored as AIA-NJ Architect of the Year. In 2008, NJIT alumni honored Cozzarelli with an Honor Roll Medallion for exemplifying leadership in architecture, planning and design. In 2005, Distinguished Service honors were bestowed on Cozzarelli from AIA-NJ. He founded the organizations popular CANstruction event, for which he served as committee chair from 1999 - 2002. In 2011, Cozzarelli was honored with a Unico Millie Grazie Award for his Pro-Bono services throughout the state. In 2010, he was honored as Columbus Day and Heritage Celebration Italian-American Man-of-the-Year.
Cozzarelli is a member of the AIA Newark and Suburban Architects, one of AIA-NJs six local Sections, for which he has also served as president.
He earned his bachelor of architecture degree from the New Jersey Institute of Technology School of Architecture and is licensed to practice architecture in several states.
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Architects tapped to tweak design
By M.E. Jones
Correspondent
HARVARD -- The proposed Town Hall renovation project that for a time seemed at risk of withering on the vine has been reinvigorated, even reinvented, with a downsized wish list and a recent mandate set by the selectmen to move forward based on the current design but with an "acceptable" price tag. That is, about $2.4 million, which is the balance left from the $3.9 million Town Meeting appropriated for the job in 2012.
From their ongoing discussions, the selectmen's vision now is a back-to- basics version of the existing design townspeople have come to know over the last couple years but leaving out some of the pricier components. For example, the addition and HVAC system will remain in place, with repairs. And instead of gutting the interior of the 19th-century building to create an entirely new look, the new floor plan will be functional but less ambitious, moving all offices downstairs and leaving the second floor pretty much as is, gracious front staircase and all, adding a lift for access.
Selectmen as THBC
Selectmen assumed the mantle of de facto building committee in November, 2013 after voters resoundingly rejected a bid to up the original bankroll by another $1 million to cover a sudden, unexpected spike in the construction cost estimate.
Acting under new marching orders, selectmen discussed next steps with a jeweler's eye to cost control.
With summarized outcomes from those forums in hand, the selectmen discussed the matter again at their Jan. 7 meeting. All things considered, they agreed it was time to talk to the architects - LLB, of Rhode Island - about a design fix.
Citing the contract, Chairman Marie Sobalvarro suggested at the time that there might be no additional cost to taper the design to fit the budget, but even if the architects charged an added fee, money in the schematic design budget should cover it, she said.
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Brookfield, WI (Sports Network) - Former president and fellow of the American Society of Golf Course Architects, Larry Packard, has died.
Packard, who was also known as the "Father of the modern ASGCA", was 101 years old.
He started his career as a golf course architect in the 1940s with Robert Bruce Harris, who was one of the founders of the ASGCA, before starting his own firm in 1954.
Packard was president of the ASGCA from 1970-71 and was one of the first architects to address environmental concerns for golf courses, advocating the use of effluent for course irrigation.
"Larry Packard was a pioneer in the game of golf," ASGCA president Rick Robbins said. "Those who influenced his work date back to the 1800s, and the courses Larry designed still stand today and will for decades. Those who play the game will be positively impacted by Larry Packard for generations to come."
Packard had worked on more than 600 golf courses in North America, including Innisbrook Golf and Country Club in Palm Harbor, Fla., Turnberry Country Club in Crystal Lake, Ill., Lake Barrington Shores in Barrington, Ill. and Countryside Country Club in Clearwater, Fla.
He also designed and renovated golf courses in Egypt, Guatemala, South Korea and Venezuela.
Jackson Hole, Wyoming (PRWEB) January 29, 2014
The recently completed EarthWall II residence in Squirrel, Idaho, marks Jackson Hole-based Ward + Blake Architects third-ever application of its EarthWall construction technique, patented by Ward + Blake Principal Tom Ward. Ward + Blake Architects was recently named 2013 Firm of the Year by the six-state AIA Western Mountain Region, partly in honor of innovations such as EarthWall, which combines age-old rammed earth construction with modern post-tensioning. Because the Jackson Hole architecture firm is constantly striving to find new applications for its seismically stable and sustainable construction technique, this project also featured in a new book of Ward + Blakes architecture, In the Shadows of the Tetons is particularly meaningful.
Its amazing to think that the owners originally envisioned a Tuscan villa for the site, says Tom Ward. When we started pushing our environmentally responsive design approach, they loved the idea so much that we ended up literally using the soil in the walls.
The reinforced EarthWall concept won Ward + Blake Architects a Newton Foundation research grant. When the method held up in university tests as the first seismically stable rammed earth wall, a patent for the construction method soon followed and architect Ward put his theories to a real-world test with the construction of his own 3,000-square-foot Jackson Hole home overlooking the Snake River. The idea was further tested when Ward presented his ground-breaking construction technique to a skeptical county design review board, winning approval to use it in the county-funded Teton County Childcare Center.
Ward and his fellow Ward + Blake Principal Mitch Blake found a further residential application with the recently completed EarthWall II Residence, where the earthen walls help to reinforce the horizontality of the homes low-slung design. As extravagantly spare as its high plains setting, the EarthWall II residence is literally grounded on its 160-acre Idaho site with rammed earth walls and a sod roof that invoke the historic context of the sod homes known as soddies built by early settlers.
While the innovative EarthWall rammed earth construction method has been embraced in the Rocky Mountain West, winning the firm a host of awards, Wards interest continues to be in its international application.
"The thing that is exciting to me," Ward says, "is the potential for worldwide application of this process. Perhaps if the Earthwall process is one day adopted in developing nations, it will save not only homes from collapsing, but lives as well."
Working with a congregation in Honduras, Ward designed a rectory where locally-sourced materials and local labor could be combined with post-tensioning to provide a low-cost, seismically stable facility. Likewise, Ward has been in discussions with a Sudanese developer about the application of his socially-oriented construction technique for affordable housing.
Uniting 20th-century post-tensioned steel technology with ancient rammed earth construction, Wards design technique combines low embodied energy and high thermal mass for a seismically stable building thats eco-friendly and socially responsible.
Established in 1996, Ward + Blake Architects was built on a distinctive vision: to be provocative in thought, flexible in nature and disciplined in execution. The firm regularly earns recognition for architecture that is sensitive to its environment and successfully integrated with its surroundings. Ward + Blake creates buildings that are tactile, modern, bio-climatically responsible, honestly expressed, technologically sound and artfully crafted.
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Poulsbo, WA (PRWEB) January 28, 2014
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A group of urban planners and architects will descend upon Rio Vista over four days next month to examine the Delta hamlet's resources and challenges and provide growth, planning, transportation and economic development guidance for the future.
The upcoming visit makes Rio Vista the first East Bay city to receive help from the American Institute of Architect's Communities by Design program based in Washington, D.C. As one of a few cities nationwide selected for the Regional Urban Design Assistance Team project this year, Rio Vista will host the team of land use experts, transportation planners, urban designers, planning directors, historic preservationists, architects and economic development resources from Feb. 27 to March 3.
"We would like to see Highway 12 upgraded. Our waterfront needs development and our downtown needs revitalization. They will put together an achievable project for Rio Vista" RioVision Steering Committee member MaryEllen Lamothe said. "It benefits everybody. There is no place to go but up and forward. It has been stagnant for awhile."
Since community input is an integral part of the process and this is a grass-roots effort, Rio Vista residents are encouraged to attend a Feb. 28 town hall meeting at 6 p.m. in the D.H. White School auditorium. Residents will be asked for their honest feedback on the future development of their community, according to RioVision Steering Committee leader Dave Falk.
"Members of the community who haven't been involved in the past are getting involved," he said. "We need a broad range of citizens to give input on what should be done."
Lamothe noted that this visit cost between $35,000 and $40,000 for the team's trip expenses, but the community has been supportive with the donation of meals and lodging for the team members. All of the team members are working pro-bono on this intensive study.
"The community has really rallied around it," Lamothe said. "So many people are so supportive."
The team of planners and architects will focus their efforts on the primary concerns of Rio Vista and work in a downtown work space. Architectural students from Sacramento's Cosumnes River College will help by producing detailed plans of the project findings.
"It is not going to require a lot of city resources. It is going to use a lot of community resources," Falk said. "There is a follow-up plan and they come back and monitor us in the next year. They aren't just going to do this and walk away as planners. They are going to help implement it and be part of the solution."
Falk added that some of the suggested changes may take place in a few years, while others may take more than 20 years to come to fruition. Funding sources will be identified and could include federal grants and redevelopment funding.
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Special visitors next month to impact Rio Vista's future
A group of urban planners and architects will descend upon Rio Vista over four days next month to examine the Delta hamlet's resources and challenges and provide growth, planning, transportation and economic development guidance for the future.
The upcoming visit makes Rio Vista the first city in the region to receive help from the American Institute of Architect's Communities by Design program based in Washington, D.C. As one of a few cities nationwide selected for the Regional Urban Design Assistance Team project this year, Rio Vista will host the team of land use experts, transportation planners, urban designers, planning directors, historic preservationists, architects and economic development resources from Feb. 27 to March 3.
"We would like to see Highway 12 upgraded. Our waterfront needs development and our downtown needs revitalization. They will put together an achievable project for Rio Vista," RioVision Steering Committee member MaryEllen Lamothe said. "It benefits everybody. There is no place to go but up and forward. It has been stagnant for awhile."
Since community input is an integral part of the process and this is a grass-roots effort, Rio Vista residents are encouraged to attend a Feb. 28 town hall meeting at 6 p.m. in the D.H. White School auditorium. Residents will be asked for their honest feedback on the future development of their community, according to RioVision Steering Committee leader Dave Falk.
"Members of the community who haven't been involved in the past are getting involved," he said. "We need a broad range of citizens to give input on what should be done."
Lamothe noted that this visit cost between $35,000 and $40,000 for the team's trip expenses, but the community has been supportive with the donation of meals and lodging for the team members. All of the team members are working pro-bono on this intensive study.
"The community has really rallied around it," Lamothe said. "So many people are so supportive."
The team of planners and architects will focus their efforts on the primary concerns of Rio Vista and work in a downtown work space. Architectural students from Sacramento's Cosumnes River College will help by producing detailed plans of the project findings.
"It is not going to require a lot of city resources. It is going to use a lot of community resources," Falk said. "There is a follow-up plan and they come back and monitor us in the next year. They aren't just going to do this and walk away as planners. They are going to help implement it and be part of the solution."
Falk added that some of the suggested changes may take place in a few years, while others may take more than 20 years to come to fruition. Funding sources will be identified and could include federal grants and redevelopment funding.
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Rio Vista to get urban planning guidance