WATERTOWN, Mass., May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- BlueMetal Architects today announces the appointment of twenty-five-year professional services industry veteran Frank Murphy as the Company's new Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Murphy will oversee BlueMetal's daily business operations including Delivery, Finance and Human Resources.

Mr. Murphy joins BlueMetal from Microsoft, where he spent nineteen years in roles ranging from leading large professional services practices to managing global relationships with Microsoft's most strategic clients. Prior to joining Microsoft, Mr. Murphy spent several years managing professional services practices at companies including Oracle and Verity.

"Jobs are easy to find, but careers are difficult to find," said Mr. Murphy. "We aim to be the place where the smartest, most passionate and results-oriented experts in the marketplace crave to work. We're creating an environment where employees can have fun, be motivated, innovate, and get exposure to a wide array of ideas and expertise. We want BlueMetal to be the last job they ever need to have."

His strategic goals for the coming year include operational innovations to support BlueMetal's rapid growth. In addition, Mr. Murphy plans to increase the focus on RedMetal, a sister company of BlueMetal focused on product development. "A lot of people working within companies today aren't comfortable leaving their jobs to become entrepreneurs, but they have great ideas. RedMetal provides an outlet for these innovators to launch companies. We empower our people to bring their ideas to market in an accelerated manner, taking advantage of all the skills we've employed in bringing BlueMetal to market."

Since its 2010 launch, the company has created 70 new jobs, expanded to three locations, spun off a software company, CollabFactory, and delivered successful projects to numerous companies including several on the Fortune 500 list.

"I'm pleased that BlueMetal already enjoys an outstanding reputation in the marketplace, and I hope to use my twenty-five years of experience to further establish and enhance the brand, and create velocity in the markets we're in. I look forward to working with the BlueMetal team to bring all the success we've had in Boston, Chicago, and New York to new markets over the next few years."

Mr. Murphy has a BS degree in Finance and Economics from Boston College, and earned his MBA from Rutgers University. He will be based at the company's New York office.

Media Contact: Sadalit Van Buren, BlueMetal Architects, (617) 431-5752, svanburen@bluemetal.com

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Nike on Monday named ZGF Architects as its architecture firm for the World Headquarters expansion project.

ZGF's selection breaks the hold that TVA Architects and its head, Robert Thompson, has had on the sprawling campus near Beaverton.

ZGF and TVA have had something of a competition for design business with the footwear and apparel company and its co-founder Phil Knight.

ZGF, formerly known as Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects, designed the John E. Jaqua Academic Learning Center at University of Oregon as well as the Athletic Medicine Center in the university's Casanova Center. TVA and Thompson designed the Matthew Knight Arena on the UO campus, the Ford Alumni Center on the campus, the Nike Air Hangar in Hillsboro, Nike Portland (retail), Nike Santa Monica (retail), and the most recent capital project on the Nike campus, the C. Vivian Stringer Child Development Center.

Boora Architects of Portland, on the other hand, designed the Knight Management Center at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business,

Nike also announced that Hoffman Construction would be the primary construction partner for the expansion project and Gerding Edlen would handle project management.

Former Oregonian reporter Jeff Manning profiled Thompson for the newspaper in advance of the Matt Knight Arena's opening in January 2011.

Thompson told Manning that the Nike World Headquarters campus was his proudest achievement, "due to the staggering complexity of literally designing a city from the ground up. We designed everything from the buildings to the furniture, the light fixtures right down to the napkins used in the restaurants."

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Mainline Information Systems today announced that it has the largest number of accreditations from the International Enterprise Architect Institute, Inc. (iEAi) of any Value Added Reseller (VAR) in the United States after 10 of its solution architects recently achieved certification. The iEAi is a vendor - and technology-neutral consortium focused on strengthening the enterprise architecture discipline.

All too often resellers are focused on the transaction, regardless of the customer's problem and desired outcome, said Jeff Dobbelaere, vice president of technical sales support for Mainline. Only when the enterprise is fully understood can technology be correctly applied to ensure a customer's needs are being satisfied.

Mainlines investment in certified enterprise architects reflects our commitment to provide the best resources to our clients and continuing education to our employees, added Dobbelaere. Our team has been trained to look at a customer's environment from the perspective of the business requirements and to have more meaningful conversations about ways to design their business processes for efficiency and competitiveness.

Our clients demand alignment from IT to enable the organization to adapt rapidly to their changing and highly competitive environment, said Ritchie Schlette, managing principal and certified enterprise architect for Mainline. Mainline uses an Enterprise Architecture framework based on EA3 developed by Dr. Scott Bernard. This framework and its methods are a quintessential cornerstone to success because it facilitates the alignment of the clients technology, business and strategy.

About Mainline Information Systems, Inc.

Mainline, headquartered in Tallahassee, Fla., is an information technology solutions and IT consulting firm and has more than 500 employees nationwide. Mainline has received many industry accolades, including VMware Global Desktop Virtualization Partner of the Year, Red Hat North American Partner of the Year, multiple IBM Leadership Awards and an HP Virtualization Elite partner designation. Mainline provides solutions throughout the United States, Puerto Rico and Brazil. The company may be reached by phone at 850-219-5000 and on the Internet at http://www.mainline.com

About International EA Institute, Inc.

The International EA Institute, Inc. is a non-profit corporation working for strengthening the enterprise architecture discipline. The Enterprise Architecture course series, originally developed by Scott A. Bernard, PhD,and IBM, teaches the knowledge and skills needed to successfully implement an Enterprise Architecture initiative in the public or private sector.

Based in USA and Denmark, EAi was originally founded by Scott Bernard and John Gotze as a platform for their continued collaboration around developing and consolidating enterprise architecture as a metadiscipline for enterprises around the world.

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Wilkus Architects - BIM - Anytime Fitness Walkthrough
This is a virtual walkthrough of an Anytime Fitness BIM Model generated in Archicad, then exported to BIMx.

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Larsen Dye Associates Architects was named a Southwest South Central Regional Finalist for the U.S Chamber of Commerce DREAM BIG Small Business of the Year...

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TWO architects who openly savaged designs released for James Packer's Barangaroo casino worked on construction and redesign of competitor The Star casino.

Joe Agius, the NSW president of the Australian Institute of Architects, who said the design could have belonged in "Dubai" and described Mr Packer's comparison to the Opera House as "ludicrous and offensive" in The Sydney Morning Herald admitted he was employed on "alterations and additions" worth $140 million in construction costs on The Star's $750 million design. Phillip Cox, Mr Agius's partner at Cox Richardson Architects, who also criticised the Crown proposals as "a bit Macau", helped build the original Star building.

Last Friday The Daily Telegraph revealed designs by three leading overseas architects for the building. Mr Agius was forced to admit yesterday that he had done work for The Star, as had his company Cox Richardson, but said it was no longer a client: "This is irrelevant to my comments. Those comments were made in my (position) as NSW chapter president of the Australian Institute of Architects."A spokeswoman for Cox Richardson referred all inquiries about comments made by Mr Cox, who is overseas, to Mr Agius.

Executive vice-president of Mr Packer's company Crown, Todd Nisbet, said last week's unveiling of the three designs was the culmination of months of work by some of the world's best architects to give Sydney a building it could be proud of.

A government panel is to decide whether to give approval to Mr Packer's Barangaroo high-rollers casino as part of the government's "unsolicited proposals" process this month.

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IT WAS an extra-special convention for most Cebuano architects who attended the 39th United Architects of the Philippines (UAP) National Convention in Manila last month.

UAP Sugbu Chapter president Buck Richnold Sia was one of the 20 speakers who were tasked to deliver continuing professional development lectures to close to 2,000 delegates from all over the country. The young architect, who was recently included in BluPrint Magazines 20 Outstanding Filipino Designers Under 40, talked about his firm and practice.

The convention also saw the elevation of another Cebuano architect, Nestor Liston, to the UAPs prestigious College of Fellows. Almost a hundred delegates from Cebus five UAP Chapters (Cebu, Rajah Humabon, Datu Lapu Lapu, Sugbu and Cebu-Leon Kilat) joined the different functions and of course, the fellowship parties that highlighted each convention day.

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Denise Scott Brown in Las Vegas around 1966. She co-wrote the seminal book "Learning from Las Vegas."

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Editor's note: Marika Shioiri-Clark is the principal of SOSHL Studio, an international design consultancy, based in Cleveland. John Cary is the founder of PublicInterestDesign.org, a website focused on design and social change based in Brooklyn, New York.

(CNN) -- An online campaign has started to right a 22-year-old wrong committed against legendary architect Denise Scott Brown. She and Robert Venturi, her partner and husband, have designed iconic buildings together for 40 years -- yet she was excluded when Venturi was awarded the highest honor in architecture in 1991, the Pritzker Prize.

The cause has created an unusual outcry across the architecture profession. Started by two young women active in the Women In Design club at Harvard University, the Change.org campaign has generated more than 11,000 signatures, nine of whom are Pritzker winners. It's a worthy cause, and reflects the dismissive attitude toward women in architecture even today.

Architect Zaha Hadid, one of only two women who have won the Pritzer Prize, stands in front of the Riverside Museum she designed for Glasgow, Scotland.

Endowed by the Pritzker Family, the $100,000 prize has twice been awarded to pairs of architects, both times at the request of the individual to whom the award was originally intended to go. With only one exception, however, female partners have consistently been overlooked. Just last year, Chinese architect Wang Shu was honored without his partner and wife, Lu Wenyu. Only two women have won the Pritzker Prize in its 34 year history.

Since 1991, Venturi has repeatedly insisted that Scott Brown was an equal collaborator and should share the honor with him. It's not a hard case to make: Scott Brown co-wrote the highly influential book "Learning from Las Vegas" in 1972, and has been widely known and appreciated in the field.

Scott Brown described Venturi as being "as brave as you could possibly expect him to be" in his support. Still, they decided "we could not afford to pass up the Pritzker Prize for the sake of our fledgling firm." She is calling for a ceremony to recognize her contributions to the firm's work, which includes the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London and the Vanna Venturi house.

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Chicago's former main post office The former main Chicago post office that spans the Congress Expressway, at 433 W. Van Buren St. is being auctioned off. The 14-story, 77-year-old building has been vacant since 1995 when the Postal Service moved to a new building on Harrison Street. Since then, ideas floated for the space have included a casino, a water park and an auto mall. (Tribune photo by Antonio Perez /July 8, 2009)

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Architects for the British developer who owns Chicago's old post office building say they have a new proposal for the structure that will be ready for presentation to the city's Plan Commission in June.

The developer, Bill Davies, unveiled a massive redevelopment plan in 2011 that he promised would transform the area around the old post office, which straddles Congress Parkway, into an "urban mecca" of five residential, office and hotel towers.

The latest proposal is more modest, calling for retail shops on the first three floors of the nine-story building and residential space above that. Davies also wants to construct a 100-story building with residential and hotel space on land between the old post office and the Chicago River.

The plans include a new, high-tech parking structure on a site just to the west of the old post office.

"You'll come to the elevator, push a button, and a robot will go and get your car," said Joseph Antunovich, president of Antunovich Associates, the architecture, planning and interior design firm working on the project.

The architects met Friday morning with city fire officials to discuss fire safety related to the preliminary proposal, a Fire Department official said. Antunovich said the building has improved sprinkler standpipes and has started running its 11 exhaust fans 24 hours a day.

Under a federal agreement with Amtrak and Union Station, the owner of the old post office is required to keep its ventilation system running constantly to suck out diesel exhaust from nearby Union Station.

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The commercial architects and design specialists at OTJ Architects have seen first-hand how a green workplace can not only save companies money, but also help retain and attract employees. Feedback from organizations show they are shifting toward a healthy atmosphere that accommodates all types of employees with goals of helping the environment, while also reducing operational costs and enabling employees to be more productive.

OTJs architectural firm findings are affirmed by a study conducted by the American Journal of Public Health claiming there were reductions in absenteeism and affected work hours as a result of perceived improvements in health in the workplace. In addition, employees said they saw a positive effect on their productivity when working within a green environment.

Organizations want to do what is right for the environment and are seeing that there are a lot of additional bonuses when doing so, said Lance Jaccard, Partner at OTJ Architects. A company that invests in this green market research knows that their brand will successfully stand out from their competitors because as consumers become more aware of their environmental impact, businesses find it financially damaging to continue irresponsible business practices.

The architect consultants at OTJ Architects have put together examples of how a sustainable workplace design can benefit businesses of all sizes:

According to an additional report by FacilitiesNet, there are links between green building and the productivity of staff. The report concluded that the number of work hours affected by depression and stress decreased by 30 percent when companies transition to green work environments.

Greening your workplace makes sense financially when you end up saving money in the long run every year. Cutting energy, waste and water can mean a 60 percent decrease in utility spending saving that money for more important business operation plans. Energy efficiency bills go down, and employee retention and efficiency goes up, says Jaccard.

About OTJ Architects OTJ Architects is a well-respected national architecture and interior architecture design firm that has successfully completed thousands of projects throughout the country. Founded in 1990, OTJ is comprised of five studios headquartered in Washington, DC, with more than 60 architects and designers, many of whom are LEED Accredited Professionals. OTJ is registered in 37 states and is able to consult in all 50 states. The responsive architecture and interior architecture consultants create effective environments through listening, understanding and tailored design. These designs focus on helping clients enhance collaboration, company branding and employee recruitment and retention. OTJs design teams provide clients with personalized attention to create workplace solutions that reflect their unique, individual needs. For more information visit http://www.otj.com/.

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