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This new main library for the City of Alameda, California, expresses the basic order of historic elements and applies them in a manner that is consistent with current technologies. The Library's front façade is organized as a three bay colonnade that relates to the City Hall and Old Post Office entrances and enhances the civic nature of Oak Street. Large windows with bays allow library users expansive views of their surroundings. A small walled garden forms a backdrop for the Children's Story Room and the Public Meeting Rooms. The Alameda Library is scheduled for completion in 2005.
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Jan. 7, 2003
Portland Aerial Transportation, Inc. Names National Jurors
The new members, all prominent in their field, join three local leaders to judge tram competition.
PORTLAND, ORE. - The board of Portland Aerial Transportation, Inc. (PATI) completed today the six-member jury that will judge the design competition for the North Macadam - Marquam Hill aerial tram project. The three national jurors announced today will work with three local jurors to select the firm that will design Portland's aerial tram.
The three national jurors are Frano Violich, partner in Boston-based Kennedy Violich Architects; Charles Hoberman, a New York City-based engineer and designer known for his "Hoberman Sphere" and the grand arch at the Summer Olympics in Australia; and Walter Hood, a landscape architect and faculty member of the College of Environmental Design at the University of California at Berkeley.
"We are extremely pleased to have assembled a jury that brings both worldwide design expertise and experience working with issues of local importance," said Pat LaCrosse, president of the PATI board. "Given the tram's proximity to the Willamette River and Terwilliger Park, we are particularly proud of the jury's experience working to meld transportation development with stewardship of the environment."
About the Six-Member Jury
Frano Violich - Kennedy Violich (National Juror)
Along with partner Sheila Kennedy, Frano Violich is part of the Boston-based practice, Kennedy Violich Architects, a young office that has garnered national attention not only for its award-winning designs, but for its active research agenda. With interests ranging in scale from materials science to urban infrastructure, Kennedy Violich is one of a handful of firms re-writing the rules of architectural practice in this country: they not only design buildings, but the materials that make the buildings as well.
Charles Hoberman (National Juror)
Charles Hoberman is a New York City-based engineer and industrial designer who's complex yet whimsical "Hoberman Sphere" has captured the imagination of everyone from President Clinton to the 7 year-old next door. The spheres unfold from dense, tangled masses into lightweight-yet remarkably strong-expositions of mechanical and structural engineering. He has also created unfolding structures at a much larger scale, including a grand arch at the Summer Olympics in Australia. While he focuses on engineering solutions to problems, he is equally interested in the artistic interpretation of those solutions.
Walter Hood (National Juror)
Walter Hood is a landscape architect based in Berkeley, Calif., where he is also a member of the faculty of the College of Environmental Design at the University of California. Hood specializes in urban landscapes that draw upon the city as context, rather than the more traditional practice of importing and modifying rural precedents. Walter Hood lectures widely and has been published extensively in leading professional journals.
Diana Goldschmidt (Local Juror)
Diana Goldschmidt is a management consultant. She is currently consulting with a nuclear energy generating utility on completion costs, required technology upgrades, commercial viability of incomplete nuclear plants and alternative operating and ownership structures for existing nuclear plants. She also is consulting with several venture capital investors and boards on business plans, capitalization requirements, turnaround strategies, and corporate dissolution.
In 1998-99, Ms. Goldschmidt was retained to manage the 57,000-student Portland public school system during its 10-month search for a permanent superintendent. Goldschmidt is the former senior vice president of operations for Pacific Telecom, where she directed its six operating divisions. Previously, Goldschmidt was the senior operations executive officer for Pacific Power & Light Company, serving the states of Oregon, California, Washington, Montana and Idaho.
Goldschmidt was a public utility commissioner for four years, the executive director and chief lobbyist for a Pacific Northwest electric utility trade organization, and has testified before Congress, state legislatures and numerous state public utility commissions. She is currently a member of the Oregon Investment Council, on the board of Oregon Ballet Theatre, Key Bank Advisory Board and the Graduate School of Business of Portland State University. Goldschmidt is an honors graduate of Trinity College with a B.A. degree in Government and the University of Alaska with an M.A. in Public Administration and Labor Relations.
Robert Frasca - ZGF Architects (Local Juror)
Robert Frasca has been Partner-in-Charge of Design for ZGF Architects since 1966. His portfolio includes a number of award-winning medical and laboratory research facilities in academic settings, and his sensitivity to designing buildings that fit within the existing environment can be seen on research, corporate and university campuses across the country.
Mr. Frasca has been commended for the importance he places on designing buildings that represent the intrinsic values of the people who will occupy them; that "build community" within a facility or institution and respect, even heal, the place or fabric of which they become a part. Mr. Frasca is currently designing facilities for such notable clients as OHSU, Duke University, the National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Department of State. Based on a portfolio of work under his direction, ZGF was honored with the prestigious AIA Architecture Firm Award in 1991. Additional tributes to Mr. Frasca's service within the industry and the community include the Watzek Award for Contributions to the Enrichment of the State of Oregon, and the Community Leader of the Year Award from the City of Portland.
Thomas Hacker - Thomas Hacker Architects Inc. (Local Juror)
Thomas Hacker Architects Inc. (Local Juror) Thomas Hacker is a founding principal of Thomas Hacker Architects Inc., a firm nationally recognized for the design of libraries, museums, performing arts facilities and higher education buildings. Mr. Hacker was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and worked in the office of Louis I. Kahn. He has lectured extensively throughout the United States and served on design juries for many public projects, including work for the General Services Administration. A book of his work, by the art and architecture publisher l'ARCA, of Milan, Italy, was released in May 2002
Mr. Hacker's current and recent work includes a new theater for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; the Urban Center at Portland State University; the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center; the Beaverton City Library; The High Desert Museum; the three-building Signature Project, the new Howard Center for the Social Sciences and the renovation of the Albany Quadrangle, all for Lewis & Clark College; the Penrose Memorial Library and the Reid Campus Center for Whitman College, a new academic building for the University of California, Merced; a new main library for the City of Alameda, California; a new Humanities Facility and Arts Division Area Plan for the University of California, Santa Cruz; the Center for the Visual Arts at Southern Oregon University; the Bend Public Library; branch library projects for the City of San Francisco; and 13 branch libraries for Multnomah County Library.
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http://www.thomashacker.com/library.html
This new main library for the City of Alameda, California, expresses the basic order of historic elements and applies them in a manner that is consistent with current technologies. The Library's front façade is organized as a three bay colonnade that relates to the City Hall and Old Post Office entrances and enhances the civic nature of Oak Street. Large windows with bays allow library users expansive views of their surroundings. A small walled garden forms a backdrop for the Children's Story Room and the Public Meeting Rooms. The Alameda Library is scheduled for completion in 2005.
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Jan. 7, 2003
Portland Aerial Transportation, Inc. Names National Jurors
The new members, all prominent in their field, join three local leaders to judge tram competition.
PORTLAND, ORE. - The board of Portland Aerial Transportation, Inc. (PATI) completed today the six-member jury that will judge the design competition for the North Macadam - Marquam Hill aerial tram project. The three national jurors announced today will work with three local jurors to select the firm that will design Portland's aerial tram.
The three national jurors are Frano Violich, partner in Boston-based Kennedy Violich Architects; Charles Hoberman, a New York City-based engineer and designer known for his "Hoberman Sphere" and the grand arch at the Summer Olympics in Australia; and Walter Hood, a landscape architect and faculty member of the College of Environmental Design at the University of California at Berkeley.
"We are extremely pleased to have assembled a jury that brings both worldwide design expertise and experience working with issues of local importance," said Pat LaCrosse, president of the PATI board. "Given the tram's proximity to the Willamette River and Terwilliger Park, we are particularly proud of the jury's experience working to meld transportation development with stewardship of the environment."
About the Six-Member Jury
Frano Violich - Kennedy Violich (National Juror)
Along with partner Sheila Kennedy, Frano Violich is part of the Boston-based practice, Kennedy Violich Architects, a young office that has garnered national attention not only for its award-winning designs, but for its active research agenda. With interests ranging in scale from materials science to urban infrastructure, Kennedy Violich is one of a handful of firms re-writing the rules of architectural practice in this country: they not only design buildings, but the materials that make the buildings as well.
Charles Hoberman (National Juror)
Charles Hoberman is a New York City-based engineer and industrial designer who's complex yet whimsical "Hoberman Sphere" has captured the imagination of everyone from President Clinton to the 7 year-old next door. The spheres unfold from dense, tangled masses into lightweight-yet remarkably strong-expositions of mechanical and structural engineering. He has also created unfolding structures at a much larger scale, including a grand arch at the Summer Olympics in Australia. While he focuses on engineering solutions to problems, he is equally interested in the artistic interpretation of those solutions.
Walter Hood (National Juror)
Walter Hood is a landscape architect based in Berkeley, Calif., where he is also a member of the faculty of the College of Environmental Design at the University of California. Hood specializes in urban landscapes that draw upon the city as context, rather than the more traditional practice of importing and modifying rural precedents. Walter Hood lectures widely and has been published extensively in leading professional journals.
Diana Goldschmidt (Local Juror)
Diana Goldschmidt is a management consultant. She is currently consulting with a nuclear energy generating utility on completion costs, required technology upgrades, commercial viability of incomplete nuclear plants and alternative operating and ownership structures for existing nuclear plants. She also is consulting with several venture capital investors and boards on business plans, capitalization requirements, turnaround strategies, and corporate dissolution.
In 1998-99, Ms. Goldschmidt was retained to manage the 57,000-student Portland public school system during its 10-month search for a permanent superintendent. Goldschmidt is the former senior vice president of operations for Pacific Telecom, where she directed its six operating divisions. Previously, Goldschmidt was the senior operations executive officer for Pacific Power & Light Company, serving the states of Oregon, California, Washington, Montana and Idaho.
Goldschmidt was a public utility commissioner for four years, the executive director and chief lobbyist for a Pacific Northwest electric utility trade organization, and has testified before Congress, state legislatures and numerous state public utility commissions. She is currently a member of the Oregon Investment Council, on the board of Oregon Ballet Theatre, Key Bank Advisory Board and the Graduate School of Business of Portland State University. Goldschmidt is an honors graduate of Trinity College with a B.A. degree in Government and the University of Alaska with an M.A. in Public Administration and Labor Relations.
Robert Frasca - ZGF Architects (Local Juror)
Robert Frasca has been Partner-in-Charge of Design for ZGF Architects since 1966. His portfolio includes a number of award-winning medical and laboratory research facilities in academic settings, and his sensitivity to designing buildings that fit within the existing environment can be seen on research, corporate and university campuses across the country.
Mr. Frasca has been commended for the importance he places on designing buildings that represent the intrinsic values of the people who will occupy them; that "build community" within a facility or institution and respect, even heal, the place or fabric of which they become a part. Mr. Frasca is currently designing facilities for such notable clients as OHSU, Duke University, the National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Department of State. Based on a portfolio of work under his direction, ZGF was honored with the prestigious AIA Architecture Firm Award in 1991. Additional tributes to Mr. Frasca's service within the industry and the community include the Watzek Award for Contributions to the Enrichment of the State of Oregon, and the Community Leader of the Year Award from the City of Portland.
Thomas Hacker - Thomas Hacker Architects Inc. (Local Juror)
Thomas Hacker Architects Inc. (Local Juror) Thomas Hacker is a founding principal of Thomas Hacker Architects Inc., a firm nationally recognized for the design of libraries, museums, performing arts facilities and higher education buildings. Mr. Hacker was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and worked in the office of Louis I. Kahn. He has lectured extensively throughout the United States and served on design juries for many public projects, including work for the General Services Administration. A book of his work, by the art and architecture publisher l'ARCA, of Milan, Italy, was released in May 2002
Mr. Hacker's current and recent work includes a new theater for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; the Urban Center at Portland State University; the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center; the Beaverton City Library; The High Desert Museum; the three-building Signature Project, the new Howard Center for the Social Sciences and the renovation of the Albany Quadrangle, all for Lewis & Clark College; the Penrose Memorial Library and the Reid Campus Center for Whitman College, a new academic building for the University of California, Merced; a new main library for the City of Alameda, California; a new Humanities Facility and Arts Division Area Plan for the University of California, Santa Cruz; the Center for the Visual Arts at Southern Oregon University; the Bend Public Library; branch library projects for the City of San Francisco; and 13 branch libraries for Multnomah County Library.
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