Delgado Update

The School of Nursing and Allied Health should be complete by February!

Metal House Update

Looking great. Can’t wait to see the metal and wood skin on the Metal House

AIA Central States Architectural Honor Award

Excited to be recognized with the AIA Central States Architectural Honor Award for the Central West End Metrolink Station Renovation. Super cool!

Special Thanks to the Architecture Team: John Burse, Jen Wilkins, Jake Banton, and Greg Keppel and many many others.

Photography-BENJAMIN SCHERLISS

Biofilia: Architecture in the Trees

I visited two projects last week Magnolia Speech School and Delgado School of Nursing in Jackson MS and New Orleans respectively. But both projects shared something in common: TREES…more specifically both projects place spaces within the trees and use trees to compliment the architecture blurring interior and exterior spaces. Pretty cool

The Magnolia Speech School Library that we call the “Treehouse”

Delgado Nursing School in the Oaks

Framed views from the interior of the oak trees

Blast from the Past 4.0

owp/p Solarvoltaic Kiosks (2003?). Render featured in Architecture Record.

Andrew Gilles, Trung Le, Tony Halawith

Blast From the Past Volume 1.0

In 2004? I went to Beijing, China solo to supervise the production of Architectural Design Competition Submission. So many stories. …Truly a once in a lifetime experience. owp/p Bjorn Halsen Designer.

Me and my main man in China, Ray, on the Great Wall

Archive 3- Rochelle High School

My first project right out of school at owp/p, I took it from SD through CA. I learned more doing this project than any other experience I have had in architecture. Thanks to Ron Harrison, Trung Le, and Wendy Watts for the mentorship along the way.

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Not Winning Vol. 2

As Architects we pour a lot of time and design energy into interviews and pursuits…and most of the time we don’t win. The disappointment is real, but I’m still very proud of the ideas that were generated from the process. This is the second installment of not winning.

It was an honor to be short-listed with a such a world renown institution. These are (4) concepts for Residence Halls. Part of the program was creating a connection to the top of the hill on this very interesting site. The winning firm was a big name in the design world…and one who I personally look to for inspiration.

Lamar Johnson Collaborative did the Landscape Design on these concepts.

Archive 2

Chicagoland Jewish High School

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Archive 1

Time for some new projects, so I’ll be sending some oldies but goodies out to pasture. Farewell USGBC Design Competition…a great example of the power of engineering and design collaboration, boasting the use of iterative Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) modeling in 2003, a project and process truly ahead of its time.

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not winning. vol. 1

As Architects we pour a lot of time and design energy into interviews and pursuits…and most of the time we don’t win. The disappointment is real, but I’m still very proud of the ideas that were generated from the process. So I’d like to share some of these in this first installment of “not winning vol 1”

Below are three schemes from a Residence Hall Renovation pursuit at the University of Kansas:

Design- Andrew Gilles / MMA

Landscape Design- Forum

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