Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates recently completed schematic design for the Lincoln Highway Experience, a new museum and visitors center that will celebrate the first road in the U.S. that stretched from coast to coast.
If Rip Van Winkle, AIA, awoke today with no knowledge of the near collapse of the economy last year, and he decided to start catching up on news of the profession by checking architectural record’s Top 250 Firms list, he might be skeptical of the rumors that we’re in one.
A glance at past recessions gives us good reasons to be optimistic today. The U.S. construction industry is so intertwined with the well-being of the economy as a whole that even a hiccup in one can quickly cause nausea in the other. Consider that in 2006 there were $689 billion worth of construction starts. By the end of last year, that number dropped by $134 billion. When so much money is pulled off the table, the repercussions bounce around the globe. Architects make up a tiny part of this massive food chain, but that doesn’t matter if you have been
If you wanted to settle in a fine place that is safe, secure, and filled with friendly people, you could hardly do better than Greensburg, a town on the plains of southwest Kansas, where one’s sense of well-being can be threatened by little other than occasional bursts of severe weather.
What a ride it’s been. The total revenue of Architectural Record's Top 150 Architecture Firms surged in 2007, even as the AIA’s Architectural Billings Index (ABI) for March dropped to 39.7, its lowest level since the institute began tracking architects’ invoices in 1995.
This Firm Award winner's long-range plan led to a successful research-based culture James Timberlake, FAIA, has often described his firm, KieranTimberlake Associates (KTA), as a tortoise. “We’ve not done things fast,” he says. And although it is almost 25 years old, until the past six or seven years, the firm did its work “in relative obscurity.” Timberlake’s partner, Stephen Kieran, FAIA, agrees. “One of the things about being located in Philadelphia is that you can work there for a long time and never get noticed.” But, he says, it was during those early years they developed the culture that made
Project Specs Liberty Memorial and National World War I Museum Kansas City, Missouri ASAI Architecture << Return to article the People Architecture, interiors, landscape: ASAI Architecture Stephen Abend, FAIA Crichton Singleton, FAIA Consultants: Bob D. Campbell & Co. (structural) W.L. Cassell Associates (m/e/p); SK Design Group (civil) Ralph Appelbaum Associates (exhibits) John G. Waite & Associates (preservation) Architectural and Historical Research (history) Yarnell Associates (lighting); Acoustical Design Group Contractors: J.E. Dunn Construction Turner Construction the Products Indiana limestone: Evans Limestone Waterproofing: American Hydrotech Elevators: Otis Elevators Skylights: Super Sky Products Steel windows: Hope’s Windows Roofing: Carlisle Roofing
Project Specs The Gary Comer Youth Center Chicago, Illinois John Ronan Architects << Return to article the People Architect John Ronan Architect 320 W. Ohio Street 4e Chicago IL 60610 phone 312.951.6600 fax 312.951.6544 jrarch.com see * for architects) John Ronan, AIA* (Lead Designer and Principal-in-Charge) Evan Menk LEED AP and Brian Malady (Project Architects), Yasushi Koakutsu, Oscar Kang, Brad Kelley, Micah Land, Nageshwar Rao (Project Team) Interior designer: John Ronan Architects Engineer(s): Arup (Structural) CCJM Engineers (MEP) Terra Engineering (Civil) Consultant(s) Landscape: Peter Lindsay Schaudt Landscape Architecture Lighting: Charter Sills Acoustical: Kirkegaard Associates Other: Cini-Little International (Food Service), db