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Excellence in public design that supports your mission
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Introduction ― 4 Selected Projects ― 10 Our Team ― 58
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― Federal Government
We know what it means to take pride in your work Federal buildings have a unique place in our cities and our culture. They must be practical and symbolic, inspiring and functional. That’s why we work to understand the life of the people who will fill their halls, the important work they do, and where and how they spend their time. Through this understanding, we create inspiring spaces that offer high performance, beauty and meaning. Together, we can create buildings and spaces that serve the community while evolving to meet future needs.
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Federal Government
Our government portfolio reflects our beliefs
Sustainability
Innovation
Community
As a collective, we share a deep
We know that when design
We work closely with you to
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principles are applied to
design the perfect space that
and social responsibility, which
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connects your organization and
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work, and culture. Each of
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and distinct in identity. Whether
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safeguarding citizens in our
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national spirit on The Mall in
generations. We are committed
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Washington, we work with you
to continuing the legacy of
discoveries and insights.
to create architecture that is about the people it serves.
outstanding public architecture that is aligned with our core values and design mission.
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Selected Projects
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Department of Homeland Security United States Coast Guard Headquarters Washington, DC Client: General Services Administration Size: 1.2 million square feet (111,483 square meters) 150,000 square feet (Phase 1B) (13,935 square meters) Completion Date: 2013 Sustainability: LEED NC GoldÂŽ Awards: Distinguished Building Award, AIA, Chicago Chapter, 2015 Washington Building Congress, Craftsmanship Award (Phase 1B), 2014
― WHAT IT IS
The building houses the Coast Guard’s 3,700 employees and includes a multipurpose room, the USCG Clinic and executive suites with command center.
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United States Coast Guard Headquarters
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Third largest green roof in the world, storm water runoff is reduced by 47% of predevelopment level.
Fermilab, Department of Energy Integrated Engineering Research Center Batavia, Illinois Client: Fermilab Size: 84,000 square feet (7,804 square meters) Completion Date: 2022 Sustainability: Guiding Principles for Sustainable Federal Buildings compliant
― WHAT IT IS
A collaborative environment of laboratory and offices spaces to allow scientists and engineers to work together. 14
The IERC collocates engineering and technical staff in the laboratory’s central campus, which is where most of Fermilab’s scientific community is located.
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― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
We are designing with an eye on adaptability and developing five or six different types of spaces that will support a variety of scientific requirements.
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↑ The building allows scientists and engineers to work together to advance the Fermilab mission.
← The new center will be a major addition to the Fermilab site and will expand the complex of buildings surrounding Wilson Hall — a 16-story high-rise and Fermilab’s main office building that was built nearly five decades ago.
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National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) Manhattan, Kansas
Client: Department of Homeland Security Size: 708,000 square feet (65,775 square meters) Completion Date: 2021
― WHAT IT IS
A state-of-the-art biosafety facility that will enable the U.S. to conduct research, develop vaccines and anti-virals, and provide enhanced diagnostic capabilities. 18
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National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF)
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
NBAF is the first tornadoresistant high containment facility in the world.
The only high containment facility in the world designed to be tornado-resistant up to an EF-5 tornado and winds of 230mph.
“The NBAF will be a key component in our joint effort with USDA to advance research, which is critical to the security of our nation’s food supply and agricultural economy. This critical step also heightens our focus on recently initiated efforts to develop strategic partnerships with both private and public entities in the animal health arena to better leverage the research capabilities of the NBAF once it is operational.” Secretary Dr. Reginald Brothers, Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate
Porter Neuroscience Research Center, Phase II Bethesda, Maryland Client: National Institutes of Health (NIH) Size: 320,000 square feet (29,729 square meters) Completion Date: 2014 Sustainability: LEED GoldÂŽ, Three Green Globes Rating Awards: Design Honor Award, Over 100,000 SF, IIDA, Mid-Atlantic Chapter, 2015 Award of Excellence, Notable Green Project, U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), National Capital Region, 2015
― WHAT IT IS
This building co-locates researchers from ten NIH institutes who were previously isolated from one another.
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Porter Neuroscience Research Center, Phase II
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Porter houses one of the largest MRI devices in the world, at a magnetic strength of 18 Tesla.
← The PNRC launched a bold initiative by combining these research institutes in order to increase the pace of discovery in neuroscience and understanding of the human brain. Over 800 scientists in 85 laboratories are all located here.
→ In addition to solar panels and green roofs, this building is the first to incorporate closed-circuit loop geothermal heat pumps to remove heat loads from the labs and reduce the carbon footprint. Ultimately, the design is 25 percent more energyefficient than a traditional lab building.
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Porter Neuroscience Research Center, Phase II
The Porter building is a “game changer,” said NIDCD Scientific Director Andrew Griffith. “The layout is one of the best I have ever seen,” he said. “It both figuratively and literally removes walls between groups.”
Calexico West Land Port of Entry Calexico, California Client: General Services Administration Size: 106,600 square feet( buildings) (9,848 square meters); 153,800 square feet (canopies)) (14,288 square meters) Completion Date: 2017 Awards: P/A Award, Architect Magazine, 2013
― WHAT IT IS
The project will safely and efficiently process pedestrians and vehicles that cross the border, and accommodate increased traffic flows well into the future.
NIH Building 10, E-Wing Renovation Bethesda, Maryland Client: National Institutes of Health (NIH) Size: 250,000 square feet (23,226 square meters) Completion Date: 2021 Sustainability: LEED Silver ®
― WHAT IT IS
A complex totaling more than 1 million square feet on the NIH campus, Building 10 is the world’s largest clinical research hospital. 30
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Building 10, E-Wing Renovation
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This conversion is spread over 15 floors in the center of the original 1939 building. The new framework will include clinical program areas, research labs, support spaces, teaching facilities, offices, and building maintenance.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
This building has had a major impact on research and outcomes for national health.
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Shyh Wang Hall Berkeley, California Client: Department of Energy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Size: 149,000 square feet (13,843 square meters) Completion Date: 2015 Sustainability: LEED GoldÂŽ
― WHAT IT IS
A high-performance computing and office facility that provides a collaborative work space for faculty, students, and research staff.
Ernest Orlando Lawrence began his lab over 80 years ago by gathering scientists, mathematicians, and engineers to work toward finding answers to the biggest experimental questions of the day. That legacy and inspiration laid the foundation for Berkeley Lab’s success and its latter 13 Nobel Prizes.
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Shyh Wang Hall
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Named after Shyh Wang, who performed pioneering work in semiconductor research, the building houses one of the world’s leading supercomputer centers.
Federal Reserve Building Seattle, Washington Client: Martin Selig Real Estate Size: 225,700 square feet (20,968 square meters) Completion Date: 2020
― WHAT IT IS
This stunning revitalization includes the rehabilitation of the former Federal Reserve Bank building and addition of seven floors of office space.
The project extends the life of the historic building by bringing systems up to current seismic and energy codes and create an addition that is compatible with the historic structure and differentiated in accordance with the Secretary of the Interior’s standards for rehabilitation and preservation.
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National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center Frederick, Maryland Client: Department of Homeland Security Size: 160,000 square feet (14,864 square meters) Completion Date: 2010 Awards: Mega Project Excellence in Construction Award, Associated Building and Contractors- Metro Washington and Virginia Chapters, 2009
― WHAT IT IS
Home to a leading Federal agency for bioforensic analysis from investigations of biocrime and terrorism.
The work at this facility surveys intelligence, analyzes bioforensic threats, and reacts to emergencies.
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National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
“Facility design is brilliant, knocked my socks off.” Maureen McCarthy, Director, Office of Research and Development, DHS
→ Created quietly a few months after the anthrax attacks, the NBACC was intended to be the principal outpost to handle agents such as Anthrax and Ebola virus.
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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Washington, DC Client: General Services Administration Size: 400,000 square feet (37,161 square meters) Completion Date: 2017, Construction Documentation completed. Sustainability: LEED GoldÂŽ tracking
― WHAT IT IS
This design utilizes more efficient workplace space standards to increase utilization, collaboration, and workplace functionality for the future.
Accomplishing an efficient design was a challenge due to the unique size and shape of the building floorplate and the irregular perimeter of the building. The design team worked through many options to determine the most efficient and effective solution to provide a mix of open and private workspaces.
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Executive Office Of The President (EOP) Office Of Administration (OA) Washington, D.C. Client: General Services Administration Size: 53,000 square feet (4,924 square meters) Completion Date: 2013
― WHAT IT IS
The relocation and consolidation reduced the footprint from 176 squre feet per person to 114 square feet per person, saving approximately $800,000 in annual lease costs.
Former Walter Reed Army Medical Center Reuse Plan Washington, DC Client: Government of the District of Columbia Size: 66 Acres (2,874,960 square feet, 267,092 square meters) Completion Date: 2010 Awards: Award for Outstanding Neighborhood or Small Area Plan, National Capital Area Chapter of the American Planning Association, 2012
― WHAT IT IS
A master plan to transform 66-acres of Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s former campus into a lively, sustainable, mixed-use development. 48
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Former Walter Reed Army Medical Center Reuse Plan
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The plan recommends adaptive reuse of 550,000 square feet of historic buildings and the development of approximately 2.55 million SF of new buildings.
The parcel was declared surplus federal property by the Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC), requiring the DC Local Redevelopment Authority (LRA) create a long-term reuse plan for the property. Â
Galveston National Laboratory Galveston, Texas Client: The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Size: 194,000 square feet (18,023 square meters) Completion Date: 2008
― WHAT IT IS
This prominent biocontainment research facility provides much needed laboratory space for researchers from around the United States.
St. Elizabeth’s West Campus Washington, DC Client: General Services Administration Size: 3.8 million square feet (353,031 square meters) campus; 138,000 square feet (12,821 square meters) buildings Completion Date: 2008 Ongoing
― WHAT IT IS
A multi-billion dollar transformation of an underutilized 176-acre campus on the National Register of Historic Places.
The design team repurposed and restored six buildings of varying sizes and uses to create functional support spaces for the Perkins and Will-designed U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters building, while simultaneously maintaining the integrity of each structure’s historic appearance.
St. Elizabeth’s West Campus ― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
St. Elizabeth’s is the largest ongoing adaptive reuse/ preservation project in the U.S. and the largest construction project in GSA history.
Support spaces created include an auditorium, administrative offices, full-service cafeteria, conference center, credit union, chapel, fitness facility, training facility, media center and retail space. We refurbished and designed a series of five new gatehouses to create a new secured perimeter around the entire 3.8 million square foot campus.
Our Team
Manuel Cadrecha
Jane Cameron
Alex Clinton
Casey Jones
Tom Kasznia
Jim Levin
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Since 1935, we’ve believed that design has the power to make the world a better, more beautiful place.
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That’s why clients and communities on nearly every continent partner with us to design healthy, happy places in which to live, learn, work, play, and heal. We’re passionate about human-centered design, and committed to creating a positive impact in people’s lives through sustainability, resilience, well-being, diversity, inclusion, and research. In fact, Fast Company named us one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies in Architecture. Our global team of 2,700 creatives and critical thinkers provides integrated services in architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, and more. Our partners include Danish architects Schmidt Hammer Lassen; retail strategy and design consultancy Portland; sustainable transportation planning consultancy Nelson\Nygaard; and luxury hospitality design firm Pierre-Yves Rochon (PYR).
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