Angela Peckham (she/her) is a Design Management Director in Studio Gang’s Chicago office with experience in cultural and educational projects, including extensive management and coordination of teams for projects from design concept to construction administration. Since joining Studio Gang in 2006, Angela has worked on projects at many scales, including the Arkansas Arts Center, Writers
Matt Kuba is an Associate Principal and the Midwest Regional Façade Engineering practice leader for Thornton Tomasetti. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin, he spent 8.5 years producing structural calculation reports and shop drawings for glazing contractors, before joining TT as a Façade Consultant. Matt specializes in structural analysis, finite element modeling and thermal
Brian Ruiter has been with Shildan Group for over 3 years as Midwest Sales Manager and has worked on custom projects throughout the Midwest. Brian was involved with the recently completed Sentry Insurance office in Stevens Point Wisconsin where Shildan supplied the unique terracotta Fabrik® and also the country’s largest terracotta rainscreen panels at 10
Brandon Dake, FAIA grew up on a small farm in the sleepy town of Cuba, Missouri. After high school, he pursued an architecture degree at Kansas State University and began his career at a small firm in St. Louis. When he moved to Springfield in 1997, he met Andrew Wells and they immediately hit it
Jeff Heymann, Vice President, Business Development has over thirty five years of experience in the facade and glass industry. A Western New York native, Jeff attended Case Western Reserve University and has a BA from SUNY Buffalo. After college Jeff worked in the architectural glass and façade systems business business development and operations roles in
Interested in the craft of architecture and the applications of digital design, Lucas Tryggestad specializes in designing and realizing technically complex building systems. A native of Illinois, Lucas draws upon his Midwestern roots, as well as a global portfolio spanning five continents, to apply his contextual knowledge to projects both locally and abroad. His project
Paulina Szpiech is an Associate with BuroHappold and leads the firm’s Midwest Facade Consultancy efforts. With a creative and multidisciplinary approach, Paulina focuses on solutions which meet architect’s and client’s goals. Recognizing the impact façade systems carry in lowering buildings’ embodied and operational carbon, she believes that implementing sustainability goals is a critical parameter throughout
Architect moss Design Location Buchanan, Michigan Completion Date 2019 Structural Engineer Rockey Structures General Contractor Holladay Construction Group Window Systems Tubelite Structural Insulated Panels Thermocore Truss Manufacturer Big C Lumber Light Fixtures Halo, Lithonia, Kichler Plumbing Fixtures: American Standard Evoking the rural Midwest’s industrial architectural vernacular, moss Design’s River Saint Joe Brewery is a contemporary
Resting in the Great Plains on the outskirts of Lawrence, Kansas, sits Capitol Hall Federal Building, the most recent addition to the University of Kansas’s School of Business. The building, designed by Gensler’s Chicago office and Kansas-based firm GastingerWalker&, is a response to the university’s growing enrollment and consolidates lecture halls from across campus. The massing of the project
Since rezoning under the tenure of Michael Bloomberg, Downtown Brooklyn has undergone a tremendous transformation from a relatively low-slung commercial district to a burgeoning neighborhood defined by row upon row of residential towers. 11 Hoyt, located on the southern boundary of the district, is another addition to the area set to be completed in 2020. The tower,
On September 27, The Architect’s Newspaper is returning to the Great Lakes for the sixth time to host Facades+ Chicago. The city is no stranger to architectural innovation, pioneering steel-frame construction, and the curtain walled skyscraper. The conference is, in effect, an appraisal of the most recent projects and research that keep Chicago ahead of the curve in architectural
Architectural preservation is often cast as a zero-sum game; historic structures are either painstakingly maintained or demolished in favor of contemporary development. Arrowstreet’s Congress Square, a 530,000-square-foot project in Boston’s Financial District, provides an alternative solution for this quandary with the restoration and consolidation of an entire block of historic structures that integrates a contemporary glass addition with a fiberglass-reinforced plastic (FRP)
The Summit Technology Academy of the Missouri Innovation Campus, designed by Gould Evans, is a new education facility focused on bridging the gap between the workplace and the classroom. The building houses an innovative educational program developed by the University of Central Missouri, the local Lee’s Summit School District, and area industry participants. The collaborative nature of
The Speed Art Museum, located in Louisville, Kentucky is the state’s oldest and largest art museum; it is a major cultural repository for the region. wHY Architecture’s concept to carefully and precisely intervene on the existing museum, described by the firm as “acupuncture architecture,” set the project apart from other proposals solicited by the