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>>> who's doing what, where in the design industry

BY NORA BURBA TRULSSON

The Phoenix office of Leo A. Daly has announced the completion of an Arizona project and construction of a New Mexico project. The firm provided architectural and interior design services for the recently opened Radisson Fort McDowell Resort, a five-story, 248-room AAA Four-Diamond property located on the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation outside Fountain Hills, Arizona. The hotel and conference center, sited adjacent to an existing casino property, frames views of nearby mountains and pays homage to Yavapai culture via building materials, artwork, viewing terraces and water features. Highlighting the project is a 12-foot metal basket sculpture by artist Gordon Mischke at the porte-cochère, referencing the tribe's basket-weaving tradition.

Leo A. Daly's Radisson Fort McDowell Resort.

In Santa Fe, New Mexico, Leo A. Daly is working with Conron & Woods Architects of Santa Fe on construction of the Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA) headquarters. The 35,000-square-foot project, to be completed later this year, includes a lobby, office space, public meeting rooms, a training room, bicycle storage areas, IT support and multiple courtyards. The PERA project is expected to receive LEED Silver certification for its rammed-earth walls, water and energy efficiency, alternative transportation considerations and use of recycled materials.

Leo A. Daly's Public Employees Retirement Association headquarters.

DPA Architects, Inc. of Scottsdale, Arizona has completed Plaza Leyenda, a 71,000-square-foot office condominium complex in north Scottsdale. The contemporary one- and two-story buildings, accented with stone, are linked by an angular landscape. The firm also recently completed a Z Tejas restaurant in Austin, Texas.

Plaza Leyenda by DPA Architects, Inc.

4240 Architecture of Denver has completed The Arrabelle at Vail Square in Vail, Colorado. The mixed-use, $160 million, 2.3-acre project for Vail Resorts Development Company includes a 36-room hotel and conference center, condominiums and retail spaces arranged in a pedestrian-friendly village layout. The 540,000-square-foot complex also includes a skier services center, mountain operations facilities and a seasonal ice-skating rink. The 4240 design team visited European cities such as Salzburg and Prague for the project's design vocabulary.

Architectural Alliance, Inc. of Phoenix recently completed an umpire room/restroom structure for the City of Avondale, Arizona's newest park, Festival Fields. Highlighted by a butterfly roof, the indoor/outdoor structure includes storage and an electrical facility for the park's sports complex. The firm is also working on a 22,603-square-foot addition to the Phoenix headquarters of the Riggs Companies, a contracting company. The addition uses a palette of exposed concrete, steel and glass.

Architectural Alliance, Inc.'s park structure.

Riggs Companies addition by Architectural Alliance, Inc.

Boise, Idaho–based CSHQA, an architectural and engineering firm, has received LEED Silver certification for its Wild Oats supermarket project at Boulder, Colorado's 29th Street Mall. The certification was part of a new retail pilot certification program; the store was the first supermarket in the program. CSHQA played a key role in construction administration, LEED documentation and coordination for the implementation of the tenant improvement build-out of the interiors, including mechanical, electrical, plumbing and product refrigeration.

In other CSHQA news, Bob Fetterly, P.E., FpE, has been elected as an associate stockholder. Fetterly is a mechanical and fire-protection engineer. His current projects include the Idaho state capitol.

Davis Partnership Architects, a Denver architectural, land planning, interior design and landscape architecture firm, has promoted 10 employees to associates and senior associates. Joe Lear, David Daniel, Fred Pax, Chris Klein, John Worgan and Cheryl Dornak have been named associates. Jim Parker, Curtis Cox, Janette Ray and Steve Haave have been named senior associates. The firm also has a branch office in Edwards, Colorado.

Tucson, Arizona architect Susan Schaefer Kliman, Ph.D., AIA, has re-established Klimatic Architecture, an architectural firm specializing in sustainable design. Kliman, most recently a partner in Bright/Kliman Architects, had previously operated Klimatic Architecture from 1998 to 2005. She has a bachelor's in architecture from Cornell University, a master's from the University of Arizona and a doctorate in arid lands resource science, also from the University of Arizona.

Peter M. Koliopoulos, AIA, principal of Scottsdale-based Circle West Architects, has been named president of the Arizona State University College of Design Council for Design Excellence. The council is the advisory board to the dean of ASU's College of Design and supports the annual Design Excellence Dinner, a fundraising event. Koliopoulos' firm is noted for its award-winning commercial and residential projects.

Elements of Design, a Scottsdale interior design studio owned by Lina Quintero, has partnered with AKA Green, an eco-friendly building-supply firm, also in Scottsdale, to offer green product alternatives for residential interior design. Quintero had her interior design showroom relit with compact fluorescent lights and will feature tile and countertops made from recycled materials, renewable flooring materials and sustainable furnishings.

Tufenkian Carpets will open a 4,627-square-foot showroom at the Las Vegas Design Center sometime this year. The showroom will cater to hospitality, contract and residential markets and will feature a variety of carpet styles. The Designers' Reserve collection will feature pieces by Barbara Barry, Clodagh, Kevin Walz, Vincente Wolfe and James Tufenkian himself.

Trappings, an accessories and furniture showroom at the Arizona Design Center in Scottsdale, has formed a partnership with Del Baker, formerly of Phoenix Lamps, to offer lamp and chandelier wiring and repairs. The showroom now also has the capability to convert containers and art objects into lamps.

The Alter Group, developer of the Arizona Design Center in Scottsdale, has retained Design Management Company to identify new tenants for the 34,000-square-foot design center, as well as prospects for a new building at the complex, scheduled to break ground later this year. Lloyd Princeton is president and CEO of Design Management Company, a business-management practice based in New York and Los Angeles devoted to the home furnishings, architectural and interior design industries.