Architecture

NEW YORK, NY—Leading corporate space planning and interior design firm MKDA has completed an innovative office environment, design lab and showroom for the world’s leading home furnishings company, Springs Global. The newly formed Brazilian-American company relocated from Midtown Manhattan to 32,000 square feet on the fourth and fifth floors at 110 Fifth Avenue, a McKim, Mead and White building.
 

NEW YORK, NY—HLW International, one of the world’s leading multidisciplinary design firms with practices in architecture, planning, interior design and engineering, announced the expansion of the firm’s Discovery practice with the addition of Scott Francisco, who joins HLW’s New York office as Director of Discovery.

BROOKLYN, NY—80 Metropolitan, Williamsburg’s award winning condominium, has opened a model and commenced sales of nine individual townhouses, a unique component in a community of 114 loft homes.  All of the three-bedroom, two-and-a-half bath townhouses include individual bluestone front stoops; private, grassed backyards with ipe wood decks; second floor

NEW YORK, NY–It is estimated that every construction project carries roughly 10% of over-budget costs due to problems emanating from Coordination of Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) systems. The use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) or Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) tools addresses this challenge while improving profitability and cutting the time required from design to project delivery. 

WAYLAND, MA—gkkworks, one of California's largest planning, design, and construction firms, has acquired the construction unit of New York-based Syska Hennessy Group, Inc., one of America's largest multi-disciplined engineering companies. The expanded integrated design and construction firm will have combined revenues exceeding $200 million, over 300 employees, and a national, diversified business with significant government and private sector clients.

NEW YORK, NY—Somerset Partners’ 1801 K Street, NW, Washington, D.C., a formerly nondescript,  class-B office building that has been transformed into one of the District’s most modern, attractive and energy-efficient commercial buildings, has been named best building in the “renovation” category by the Washington Business Journal.

BROOKLYN, NY—Scarano Architect, PLLC, one of New York City’s most prolific architecture firms, is hosting its seventh annual summer internship program.  Over a three-month period, architectural design students attending Pratt Institute, New York Institute of Technology, City College of New York, Rhode Island School of Design, Clemson University and several international schools will gain invaluable on-the-job training under the tutelage of renowned award-winning architect Robert M. Scarano, Jr., AIA, FARA, ALA and the Scarano Architect design team.

NEW YORK, NY–New World Home and Hearst Magazines announce a partnership for the Country Living Collection of historically inspired “country” modular homes that feature USGBC LEED® certification. The announcement was made jointly by Tyler Schmetterer, co-founder and chief marketing officer of New World Home, and Glen Ellen Brown, vice president, Hearst Brand Development, a unit of Hearst magazines that publishes Country Living. 

NEW YORK, NY—The New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects awarded the Downtown Alliance’s Five Principles for Greenwich South a 2010 New York Chapter Urban Design Merit Award on Tuesday. The study suggests ways to turn the 23 blocks between Battery Park and the World Trade Center near Greenwich Street into the lynchpin for a thriving, round-the-clock “Lower West Side,” and presents a vision for revitalizing and reconnecting the community with nearby creative hubs.

TRENTON, NJ—Donald T. Fram, AIA, chief architect, and Robert I. Davidson, FAIA, chief architect retired, both of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's engineering department's design division, were recently named as winners in the New Jersey chapter of the American Institute of Architects' (AIA-NJ) 2009 Design Awards.