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BBH Design Joins EwingCole

Combining National Expertise Across Markets To Deliver The Best Planning, Design, And Delivery To Clients

BBH Design is joining EwingCole, one of the nation’s leading architecture, engineering, and interior design firms. BBH Design is an innovative, research-informed architecture practice that provides planning, architecture, and design research services to the regions most respected education, healthcare, and science organizations. This strategic initiative leverages EwingCole’s national network and resources with BBH Design’s regional industry expertise to deliver an unparalleled experience to clients. “BBH Design’s team provides added leadership and expertise in many of the industries EwingCole serves,” said Mark Hebden, EwingCole’s President. “EwingCole and BBH Design share a strong focus on cultivating client relationships and being recognized as trusted advisors. We look forward to combining our resources, building on our current success, and expanding into new markets.”

“By joining EwingCole, a firm whose culture aligns with ours, we are able to draw on their talent to increase the services we provide our clients,” said BBH Design’s CoFounders and Managing Principals Rich Beale and Douglas Hall. “EwingCole’s broad areas of expertise will not only enhance our regional presence, but it will also expand the types of clients we serve.”

The combining of firms shapes the future of EwingCole by providing a platform to better serve existing clients in the region, allowing for further expansion into the southeastern United States. In addition, BBH Design’s research team has developed new visualization tools that examine the relationships between occupants and how they operate within their built environment. These tools can be utilized by current and future […]

EwingCole Named Winner of the 5th Annual Healthcare Interior Design Competition

 

 

 

 

 

 

EwingCole, one of the nation’s leading architecture, engineering, and interior design firms, is pleased to announce that it has been named a winner of the International Interior Design Association’s 5th annual IIDA Healthcare Interior Design Competition. This competition honors and celebrates outstanding originality and excellence in the design and furnishings of healthcare interior spaces. EwingCole was recognized in the category of Community/Academic/Teaching Hospitals, for Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.

“The winners of this year’s IIDA Healthcare Interior Design Competition created exceptionally designed environments that are positively impacting the well-being of the patients treated in these facilities as well as their families and those who work there. With more research showing the link between design and positive patient outcomes, these designers are making a tremendous impact on the healthcare industry,” said IIDA Executive Vice President and CEO Cheryl S. Durst, Hon. FIIDA, LEED AP.

The jury panel reviewing this year’s competition included Michelle Clark, IIDA, RID, LEED AP (Senior Associate, Rees Associates Inc.); Suzen L. Heeley (Executive Director, Design + Construction, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center); and Lisa Herriott, IIDA, LEED AP ID+C (Interior Designer, Project Manager, UW Medicine | Harborview Medical Center).

Ownership. Energy. Place.

A New York square foot is often as cramped as a New York minute is fast.

In a New York square foot each element, finish and surface needs to do double duty.  Sometimes triple duty.

The owner asks: how much program can we eek out of this floor plate, and how few dollars can we spend to get there?

The designer asks: can we achieve our client’s goals AND deliver a space that packs a visual punch?

A few smart strategies helped us create a highly functional office space for Memorial Sloan Kettering; one that can flex to accommodate staff changes and also has lots of visual character.

A lively color palette energizes the open work areas. To extend the height of the space, we opted to expose sprinkler piping, use pendant mounted light fixtures and paint the surfaces white. The exterior wall is left uncluttered, to maximize daylight. Using the floor as an opportunity to provide a dramatic “ground,” we worked with Shaw Contract Group’s Hexagon Collection to create a custom installation pattern to define different zones in the space.

Located on two floors of a converted 8 level parking structure in downtown Manhattan, each 3,500 sf space accommodates 32 people in unassigned benching workstations and up to an additional 6 staff in a large, shared manager office. Each floor also has a small conference room, copy/storage area, and individual lockers for computers and personal items. The height and configuration of the lockers also serves as an informal meeting space and coffee bar.

As a New York City-sized […]

Writing on The Wall

A few weeks back a question came in from a designer in our New York office; she was looking for recommendations on good writable wall surface options. Like so many products in our industry, this is a specialty segment that has evolved and improved over the last decade and the options for its use continues to expand.

Walltalkers, a division of Koroseal, introduced dry erase wallcoverings over 20 years ago to remedy the disadvantages of traditional marker boards. They continue to offer several products that give you the look of a whiteboard including magnetic capabilities and projection surfaces.

Development of painted applications came next and these have gone though the most evolution as a product. Painted applications now include low VOC options, and a clear top coat (think “nail polish top coat”) that can be applied to virtually any surface. A few sources for paint products in this category are Sherwin Williams, Wink from Wolf Gordon, FUZE from MDC, and Idea Paint, which was my first introduction to this product.

Here are a few tips that we’ve learned over the years to help ensure a successful application and a happy client.

If you are using true whiteboard paint- Are all the walls in the space going to be white? How will the end-users know which one is ok to write on? Maybe the other walls get some art so you can differentiate which is which.

Similarly, if you are using the clear top-coat on a colored wall or on a veneer- think about how the users will […]

Reinventing Our Communities: Transforming Our Economies

Learn how local and regional economies can be drivers of inclusive growth. Join the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and cosponsors to explore leading-edge strategies and dialogue with top experts on ways to transform our economies by connecting people, place, and capital. Register for Reinventing Our Communities: Transforming Our Economies, September 21–23, 2016 at the Hilton Philadelphia at Penn’s Landing.

EwingCole Wins Five Illumination Awards of Merit

EwingCole is pleased to announce that five projects received national awards of merit from the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA). The projects are:

Johnson & Johnson Innovation, JLABS, San Francisco, CA
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Harrison, NY
SUNY Upstate Cancer Center, Syracuse, NY
Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
The Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History, West Wing Renewal, Washington, DC

“As designers, we use light to enhance the architectural story,” said Angela Matchica, LC, PE, LEED AP, EwingCole’s director of lighting design. ”Lighting is an integral component of design with the ability to transform the static into kinetic.”

The Illuminating Engineering Society creates the premier lighting community dedicated to promoting the art and science of quality lighting to its members, allied professional organizations, and the public. Its more than 8,000 members are manufacturers, lighting designers, architects, contractors, educators, and those working in affiliated fields, all dedicated to improving the lighted environment.

EwingCole’s Andy Jarvis, Saul Jabbawy, & Mary Frazier Discuss the Evolution of Designing Lean Facilities with Health Facilities Management

Andy Jarvis, EwingCole’s Healthcare practice leader, discusses the evolution of lean design along with Saul Jabbawy and Mary Frazier.

Today’s freestanding ambulatory care facilities range from storefront clinics to specialty care centers. “Health systems are building more sophisticated buildings offsite. They’re not just doctors’ offices,” says Andy Jarvis, AIA, LEED AP, principal and health care design practice leader at EwingCole, Philadelphia. “The idea, of course, strategically, is to take more and more complex care away from the acute care hospital.” This allows the hospital to focus on the most advanced cases.

Check out more in April’s cover story of Health Facilities Management!

EwingCole Wins First Place Interior Design Award

EwingCole received a 2016 First Place Interior Design Award in the healthcare category, given by the American Society of Interior Design, Pennsylvania East Chapter for its design of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Specialty Care and Ambulatory Surgery Center located in King of Prussia, Pa. This prestigious competition recognizes excellence in commercial and residential interior design.

Designed to create an environment that children and teenagers can find to be fresh and interesting, the 135,000 square foot Center demonstrates CHOP’s leadership in providing high quality, convenient care closer to patients’ homes. The light and colors, visually and emotionally stimulating and accessible to all ages and cultures, create an uplifting environment supportive of the healing process.

The award was presented in Philadelphia on April 8 at the Interior Design Awards gala at Union Trust.  Saul Jabbawy and Colleen Harrington, EwingCole’s director of design and director of healthcare interior design respectively, were on hand to receive the award.

EwingCole Project Nominated for Architizer 2016 A+ Awards

The EwingCole designed CHOP Ambulatory Care Center has been selected as a Finalist in the Architizer A+ Awards, an annual competition celebrating the year’s best architecture and products, for the Plus Categories | Concepts: Architecture +Branding category. As a Finalist, our work is amongst a handful in the world for that category, and is competing for the two most sought-after awards: The Architizer A+ Jury Award and the Architizer A+ Popular Choice Award. Each category of the Architizer A+ Awards is open to public voting to determine the People’s Choice Award. Public voting closes on April 1 and winners will be announced April 12.

Vote for this project here!

 

EwingCole Design of St. Christopher’s Center for the Urban Child Featured in Interior Design and Health Facilities Management Magazines

EwingCole is pleased that The Center for the Urban Child was named Interior Design Magazine’s Best of Year. This 30,000 square foot Center is the newest addition to Tenet Healthcare Corporation, St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children and offers an innovative approach to pediatric healthcare. This project is also the featured in the March issue of Health Facilities Management.