SAN FRANCISCO, June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- San Francisco and Miami-based SB Architects is pleased to announce that the firm has enhanced its growing practice with three key team members: Jonathan Wyman, Vice President Strategy & Development; Vito Vanoni, Vice President Technical Services; and Eric Leung, Director of Asian Business Development. All three are pillars of the firm's success and key elements of its future growth.

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Jon Wyman re-joins the firm with nearly two decades of leadership experience in the design industry. As the firm's Vice President, Strategy & Development, he will play a pivotal role in directing the firm's business development efforts, while also helping to chart new strategic directions for the firm. Well-known in the industry for his depth of knowledge and understanding of development and design, Jon will help shape the strategic vision critical for the long-term success of the practice.

A long-standing member of the SB Architects team, Vito Vanoni has been promoted to Vice President, Technical Services. With over two decades of experience and nearly a decade with SB Architects Vito provides the foundation for the technical leadership and full-service project delivery in the firm's San Francisco office. An effective leader and a voice for sound design principles, Vito epitomizes the firm's emphasis on growing talented staff from within the organization and attention to detail in its design practice.

Eric Leung, who joins the firm as Director of Asian Business Development, heads the firm's first China office, leading the charge as the firm continues to build upon its significant existing design practice throughout Asia. Eric brings to the firm extensive experience in both the hospitality development and design industries.

In over 50 years of design practice, SB Architects has built a project portfolio that spans the globe. The firm regularly competes with some of the largest architecture firms in the world, yet it has continued to maintain a hands-on, boutique practice, driven by collaboration, teamwork and individual client relationships.

"As a design firm, our value lies in the talent and passion of our people," says Scott Lee. "I am extremely excited about our international team, our expanding practice and our prospects for the future."

SB Architects maintains a long-standing reputation for excellence in the planning and design of large-scale, multi-phased projects, working collaboratively with developers and consultant teams in all parts of the world. The firm's portfolio of work includes projects throughout the United States, in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean, Asia and the Middle East. The firm is fully committed to sustainable design. Leading by example, all four of the firm's principals are LEED Accredited Professionals, as is nearly a third of its staff. Known for site-sensitive, contextually appropriate design, SB Architects has received over 200 awards for design excellence in over a half-century of continuous practice.

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Fearing the planned $195 million sports arena near McCormick Place could be an architectural missed-shot, McPier officials today announced they have redrafted the search for architects in hopes of getting a better design for the project.

Jim Reilly, CEO of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authoritythe agency commonly nicknamed "McPier"said the original request for qualifications for architects was "pretty specific to firms who had experience with sports facilities." McPier's original conceptual drawings of the project appear with this post. The peak-roofed building in the center of the above image represents the arena.

Reilly said the new pitch is aimed at also getting top-drawer architects who have never designed sports facilities, but would be willing to team with firms that have.

"The Jeanne Gangs of the worldand I don't mean to point to her specifically," Reilly said, referencing the MacArthur Fellow whose firm, Studio Gang, designed Aqua Tower at Columbus and Randolph. "This way, some well-known or up-and-coming designer with no arena experience can apply. And in Phase 2 [of the process] they can team up with someone who does know that. That's our hope."

But can potentially better architecture make the project go down easier among critics who believe the 10,000-seat areana is a bad fit for the area? The center, which will also contain meeting spaces and will also be home to the DePaul Blue Demon basketball program, is planned for an area bounded by 21st Street, Indiana Avenue, Cermak Road, and Prairie Avenue?

"It's a tall order to come up with a design that can accommodate everything they want to accommodate," said Tina Feldstein, president of the Prairie District Neighborhood Alliance, a group that opposes the stadium. "It's a bad deal, period. No matter which way you slice it or dice it."

Reilly said designing the stadium in a relatively small site near a residential neighborhood could be a tricky enterprise.

"While I don't agree with the neighbors who just don't want [us] to build, I do agree with them that the typical arena has blank walls," Reilly said. "We don't want a blank wall...."

Under the plan, architects would submit their qualifications and experience to McPier officials. The agency, with the help of advisors, would select three to five finalists who would each receive a $50,000 stipend to submit detailed design concepts in a second phase. The winner would be picked by late August. McPier used a similar tact last year to select a design firm in charge of renovating Navy Pier. James Corner Field Operations won the bid and the competition drew proposals from world-class architects such as Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid and Chicago's SOM.

Reilly said he wasn't sure if the stadium would attract architects of that caliber, "but that is our hope."

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They would also be preparing a report to submit to the state government and the local authorities, said state Umno liaison committee chairman Datuk Zainal Abidin Osman.

"Although the building is now under a third owner, we are lucky to be able to find the first professionals who had worked on the building.

"They were contacted and they had also visited the building. They will soon get the technical report ready so we believe it is best to let them proceed and not politicise this incident further," he told reporters here this afternoon in the building.

Zainal Abidin also said an Australian wind consultant was also hired to ensure that the building could withstand strong winds and Menara Umno was winner of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects' 'Intelligent Building' award in 1998.

He also clarified again that Penang Umno was only renting two floors in the building, and was never the owner.

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CARLISLE, MA--(Marketwired - Jun 18, 2013) - Ganek Architects, Inc., an award-winning architecture firm with broad experience in historical, commercial and residential projects, today announced that they are the recipients of the 2013 Paul Tsongas Award for Historic Preservation projects. "The Tsongas Awards honor those who make historic preservation projects happen," states James W. Igoe, President of Preservation Massachusetts, a statewide non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the Commonwealth's historic and cultural heritage."Ganek Architects exemplifies the skill, creativity and pragmatic approach required to maintain the integrity of these historical sites, and make the vision a reality."

"These historic structures were once the life blood of New England," says Barry Ganek, AIA, LEED AP, CEO of Ganek Architects, Inc."It is deeply satisfying to restore them to the urban fabric; to take something that was desolate and forsaken and turn it into something that is vibrant and fully alive once again.That is what Ganek Architects is passionate about and why the recognition that this award brings means so much to us."

Barry Ganek also cites the firm's developer-centric design philosophy as a key to the success of historical renewal projects. "Just as form follows function, the bottom line is also an element of design.There is no reason why a project cannot be functional, beautiful and affordable all at the same time." "Design should be optimized to support the bottom line, not as a constraint, but as a parameter," agrees Ganek Architects' Senior Associate, Michael Wade."This philosophy has been central to making historical restoration projects workable for the developers who rely on us."

For more information about Ganek Architects, Inc, please visit http://www.ganekarchitects.com or call 978.371.9001

About Ganek Architects, Inc. Ganek Architects, Inc designs to the goals and needs of our partner developers. We always remain conscious of and responsive to their pro forma and timelines. We believe that the bottom line is a design element, not a constraint.We apply this philosophy to historic, commercial, residential, religious, municipal and industrial projects. Ganek Architects employs state of the art technology including Building Information Modeling (BIM), LEED expertise and advanced CAD to deliver value and precision to all projects.

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Home remodelers understand the concept of improving original foundations with more modern elements. Using this same approachbut with chemistryresearchers in the University of Pittsburgh's Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences have designed a family of materials that could make drug delivery, gas storage, and gas transport more efficient and at a lower cost. The findings were reported in the latest issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS).

The recent work builds upon Pitt Associate Professor of Chemistry Nathaniel Rosi's earlier research published last year in Nature Communications detailing a new class of metal-organic frameworkscrystalline compounds consisting of metal vertices and organic linkers that form porous structures. Last year, Rosi and his team created one of the most porous materials known at the time by changing the size of the vertex (the metal cluster) rather than the length of the organic linkers. Now, in JACS, he and his team have extended those linkers, demonstrating a family of materials even more porousa property necessary for more efficient gas storage.

"We like to think of ourselves as chemical architects," said Rosi, principal investigator of the project. "Our approach always starts with thinking about structure and, in particular, how we can design and manipulate structure. Here, we demonstrate one of the most porous families of metal-organic frameworks known."

Rosi likens his work to that of a builder remodeling a child's chair. As the child grows taller, the legs of the chair become too short. Because the owner likes the structure and integrity of the chair, the owner decides to lengthen its legs instead of purchasing a new one. This is what Rosi and his team have done with their frameworks: they have used one material as a structural blueprint and replaced another element (the organic linkers) to prepare more porous materials.

In addition to their utility for gas storage, these porous materials could be critical for low-cost industrial separationswhen one molecule is separated from another batch of molecules for purification purposes. The petrochemical industry has numerous high-value (and high-cost) separations used to isolate important chemicals involved with oil refining. Some of these separations could benefit from the use of porous materials as filters, said Rosi. Likewise, he notes that the pore size for his class of materials would be particularly useful for separating nanoparticles. Porosity also can affect the efficiency of pharmaceutical delivery into the human body.

An important metric for evaluating the porosity of a material is its pore volume. In Rosi's demonstration, three of these materials have pore volumes exceeding 4 cubic centimeters per gram (cc/g). For perspective, only one other metal-organic framework has a pore volume above this amount, with most others having volumes below 3 cc/g.

"Pore volume is a measure of how empty or vacant a material ishow much space in the material isn't filled," said Rosi. "When the pore openings are large, and the pore volume is large, it opens up the possibility of using the material as a scaffold to precisely organize and position biomolecules or nanoparticles in space."

Rosi and his team are currently investigating high-porous and low-density materials to be used as scaffolds for organizing large molecules and nanoparticles into functional materials.

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WIDESPREAD DEMOLITION: There's no urban context. It's hard to design a building on an empty site in a largely demolished street. The Forte Health building on Kilmore St.

Widespread demolition, beefed up structural requirements and strict planning rules have dictated how new Christchurch buildings look, says a leading local architect.

Designs for new Christchurch buildings often attract a negative reaction, with many complaining they are unimaginative glass boxes.

Canterbury chairman of the New Zealand Institute of Architects David Hill said it was not a surprising response.

"Change is easier to handle when it's small and gradual, but of course the change to the fabric of our city has been big and sudden."

New structural codes, the loss of hundreds of buildings and the new city plan all influence a building's final shape, he said.

"The changes since the earthquakes have been very dramatic. It has been very sudden and it will take people time to get used to it. It is a big change."

He said it was hard to design a building for an empty site in a largely demolished street.

"At this stage, some of these buildings are the first off the rank and you are building the first piece of a street. Instead of replacing a rotten tooth, you are building the first tooth.

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WIDESPREAD DEMOLITION: There's no urban context. It's hard to design a building on an empty site in a largely demolished street. The Forte Health building on Kilmore St.

Widespread demolition, beefed up structural requirements and strict planning rules have dictated how new Christchurch buildings look, says a leading local architect.

Designs for new Christchurch buildings often attract a negative reaction, with many complaining they are unimaginative glass boxes.

Canterbury chairman of the New Zealand Institute of Architects David Hill said it was not a surprising response.

"Change is easier to handle when it's small and gradual, but of course the change to the fabric of our city has been big and sudden."

New structural codes, the loss of hundreds of buildings and the new city plan all influence a building's final shape, he said.

"The changes since the earthquakes have been very dramatic. It has been very sudden and it will take people time to get used to it. It is a big change."

He said it was hard to design a building for an empty site in a largely demolished street.

"At this stage, some of these buildings are the first off the rank and you are building the first piece of a street. Instead of replacing a rotten tooth, you are building the first tooth.

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