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Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd., a leading global real-estate company headquartered in Tokyo, signed an agreement with Bvlgari Hotels & Resorts to open Japan’s first Bvlgari Hotel in the large-scale, mixed-use development planned for the Tokyo Station area.

Pickard Chilton is pleased to announce Rachel Howlett AIA as the recipient of the 2018 Pickard Chilton Traveling Fellowship.

Principal Anthony Markese reflects on the evolution of 1144 Fifteenth and Denver's market in the Colorado Real Estate Journal.

A gleaming, faceted gem has risen in downtown Denver and its arrival has been impossible to miss. As you move around the city, its shape changes, its skin shifts from reflective to translucent, and its unique roofline transforms from mirroring the foothills to the crown of a diamond.

The 2017 Design-Build Project/Team Awards showcase design-build best practices and celebrate the achievements of owners and design-build teams in ten categories across the spectrum of horizontal and vertical construction.

While Manhattan landlords are only beginning to explore new functions for entrances and lobby spaces, with some adding a cafe or tenant-only lounge space, owners in other cities such as Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Oklahoma City have gone further, turning private ground-floor spaces into public gat

At the invitation of noted Japanese architect, Kengo Kuma, William Chilton presented a lecture to graduate and undergraduate architecture students as well as guests, and members of AIA Japan at the University of Tokyo on the evening of 28 September. Previous lecturers include Fumihiko Maki, Peter Eisenman, and Rem Koolhaas.

Entitled Making: Place + Craft + Community, the lecture was based on the premise that architecture is fundamentally the art of making and within the design and construction continuum, architects, are making place, making craft, and, ultimately, making community. 

Now downtown Tampa is getting an overdue waterfront district facelift—a $3 billion mega development called “Water Street.” Tampa's skyline is set to break out, as its downtown footprint will double.

The "Woman of Achievement" award is given annually to a candidate who has at least 15 years of experience in the industry, has demonstrably achieved excellence in her field, is dedicated to the advancement of women in the A/E/C field, and serves as a good role model.

The Northwestern Mutual Tower sweeps around the bend at the end of Wisconsin Avenue. The arc of the building gathers momentum as it veers to the sidewalk of North Prospect Avenue. ​This has to be one of the most dynamic architectural encounters for the pedestrian in Milwaukee.

Hines, the privately-owned real-estate investment firm with a presence in 189 cities in 20 countries, will build a 45-story tower with 600,000 square feet of Class A office space at 110 NE 10th St. in downtown Miami.

Several blocks east of Pike Place Market, the 38-story 2+U is one of the buzzworthy towers rising in the downtown core.

The Minnesota Senate Building recognized by DBIA-UMR as 2017 Project of the Year and recipient of Design-Build Excellence Award in the category of Government Buildings.

A co-panelist at the Construction Institute’s “Women in the Industry - Our past, our present, our future” panel, Nancy Clayton offered unique insight to the discussion and presented a forward thinking outlook for the AEC profession.

Principal Anthony Markese FAIA has been elevated to The College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects.

After six years of planning, the Remscheid City Council has approved the development plan and urban development contract with McArthurGlen for the construction of the Designer Outlet Centre in the district of Lennep.

609 Main, a 1,050,000-square-foot trophy tower that Hines is developing in downtown Houston, is set to deliver in January 2017.

Hines' million-square-foot skyscraper under construction in downtown Houston has hit the halfway mark for leasing. The Houston-based company revealed details of a lease with United Airlines to occupy eight floors in the building at Main and Texas Avenue.

The urban development arm of Hillwood, in partnership with the Perot family, has released plans for a new 350,000-square-foot office tower along Turtle Creek. The 16-story building will sit across the street from the new Hillwood headquarters and Perot family offices.

The ExxonMobil campus makes quite an impression from 350 feet in the air, as seen here in these Houston Chronicle photographs taken during a recent helicopter tour of the area.

Pickard Chilton is proud to announce the promotion of Jonathan Aprati AIA, LEED AP; Michael Hensley AIA, LEED AP BD+C; and Seung Hwan Namgoong AIA, LEED AP BD+C to Associate.  Further augmenting the firm’s next generation of leadership, these three architects were recognized for their commitment to design excellence, dedication to client service, and mentorship.  Exemplifying professionalism, technical and design expertise, and leadership, they have consistently distinguished themselves for key contributions to their projects as well as the success and growth of the studio.

United Airlines is the latest tenant to announce plans to lease space in a 48-story office high-rise going up on Main Street in downtown Houston.

Chicago-based Gibsons Restaurant Group plans to open a restaurant in River Point, a 52-story office tower under construction along the west bank of the river at 444 W. Lake St., the company confirmed.

The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies highlights new buildings and urban planning projects that continue Chicago’s rich tradition of leading contemporary design.

Ten real estate developments have been selected as winners of the 2015 Urban Land Institute (ULI) Global Awards for Excellence, widely recognized as one of the land use industry’s most prestigious award programs.

Eaton House, Dublin, Ireland wins AIA Connecticut 2015 Design Award.

We all know the complaints: too many architects routinely accept fees for projects they know won't pencil out.

Today’s contemporary global economy forces architecture, urban planning and design to confront the complex mechanisms of finance and economics.

When you speak to architect Jon Pickard of New Haven, Conn.–based firm Pickard Chilton, the future becomes as solid as a skyscraper.

Next week, Skanska USA Commercial Development will show its plans for a large downtown office/retail development called 2&U to a city of Seattle board.

The 52-story office tower is ideally located in Chicago’s downtown West Loop on the edge of the Chicago River. Featuring a 1.5 acre plaza and river walk, an advanced fitness center and a formal restaurant, River Point will create unparalleled work space in Chicago.

Innovation almost never happens in isolation. In business, especially, innovative ideas are usually the result of multiple brains hard at work. Consider the work of Steven Johnson.

Following a ‘design hack-a-thon’, Connecticut-based Pickard Chilton was selected from seven competing firms to lead the design process, having suggested a contextual form that resonated with original vision of Skanska and the Samis Foundation.

Skanska USA has signed a deal to lease a downtown block owned by the Samis Foundation and develop an office tower at Second Avenue and University Street.

When the leadership at Exxon Mobil Corp. decided to create a corporate campus for thousands of employees north of Houston, one goal was paramount: collaboration.

In proximity to LoDo and Denver’s CBD, 1144 Fifteenth Street is a forty-storey office tower comprising twenty-seven floors of Class-A office space atop a thirteen-storey podium.

In presentations to the National Association of Real Estate Editors in Houston, Hines executives used Devon Energy’s iconic skyscraper as an exemplar. It’s iconic form has re-energized, re-urbanized downtown and is just the kind of thing millennials might find appealing.

Gazing out their office windows across the street from Yale University, Pickard Chilton principals found the inspiration to design Exxon Mobil's corporate campus.

Chicago has two new tall buildings—River Point at 444 Lake Street and 150 N. Riverside—going up right next door to one another near lots of positives: prime Chicago River frontage, the Wacker Drive employment base, West Loop hot spots and commuter train stations.

Ivanhoé Cambridge and co-investor and developer Hines, announced today that DLA Piper has signed a lease to relocate its Chicago office to River Point in Chicago's West Loop area, a building designed by Pickard Chilton.

Owned by KBS REIT II and managed by Hines, 300 North LaSalle has earned Platinum and Gold LEED certifications from the U.S. Green Building Council – Platinum for Existing Buildings and Gold for its Core & Shell.

KBS REIT II, along with Hines, the international real estate firm, announced that 300 North LaSalle has won the TOBY (The Outstanding Building of the Year) Earth Award from the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) of Chicago.

The Phoenix office of Hines announced today that 24th at Camelback II has achieved Platinum certification under the US Green Building Council’s LEED for Existing Buildings (EB) Rating System. The property is the first LEED EB Platinum, and most efficient, multi-tenant property in Arizona.

Northwestern Mutual today unveiled the design of its new 32-story office tower and common space in downtown Milwaukee.

Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. has just unveiled designs for its glassy, 32-story office tower that it says will “reshape Milwaukee’s skyline.” Pickard Chilton of New Haven, Conn. is designing the $450 million project.

The new Exxon Mobil Corp. headquarters, rising on 385 acres north of downtown Houston, is one of the largest construction projects in the United States. The corporate campus will be composed of 20 low-rise buildings arranged around landscaped paths and quadrangles.

Seldom do skyscrapers succeed simultaneously on the skyline and at the curbstone.

Pickard Chilton’s design of the Devon Energy Center was recently recognized with an Architectural Record Good Design is Good Business Award of Excellence. It is one of the twelve winning entries that highlight companies and organizations that implement design to further business strategies.

An architectural competition examined how demographic changes will affect how we work in the future, and how buildings must adapt. The competition entitled The Office Building of the Future, sponsored by NAIOP, engaged the nation’s top architectural firms on the topic.

Devon Energy Center is featured on FOX Sports for its use of LED lights to show support for Oklahoma City Thunder NBA team.

Building owner KBS REIT II and Hines, the international real estate firm, announced that 300 North LaSalle has received Platinum certification under USGBC’s LEED for Existing Buildings. The tower previously received LEED Core & Shell Gold certification.

In conjunction with the Designing Relationships exhibition of the firm’s work in the College of Design’s Gallery 181, Jon Pickard will present how the relationships the firm builds with people are translated into the form of its buildings and will offer insights gleaned from working with a global

Northwestern Mutual officials have not strayed far beyond the simple description of “iconic” for the design of their planned downtown office. The development will be an at least $300 million, 30-story office tower to replace Northwestern Mutual’s downtown building.

In conjunction with the exhibition of the firms work in the School of Architecture gallery, William Chilton will present how the relationships the firm builds with people are translated into the form of its buildings and will offer insights gleaned from working with a global and culturally divers

The iconic Devon Tower, the 20th largest building in the US, serves as a monument to security innovation. Rising high above downtown Oklahoma City, a 50-story skyscraper towering at a record height of early 850 feel, stands as a testament to a city's past and future.

Hines is marketing 350 North Fifth, a 20-story office tower near Target Field in Minneapolis designed by Pickard Chilton.

In February 2012, a team of multidisciplined professionals stepped into this stream of futuristic imaginings and discussed and identified trends, advances and opportunities for potential incorporation into the design of an Office Building of the Future for the year 2030 as part of a national comp

This exhibition represents an overview of the firm's national and international work as well as its research into super tall high-rises and the office building of the future in 2030.

NAIOP, the Commercial Real Estate Development Association, has selected Pickard Chilton as a winner of the "Office Building of the Future" national design competition.

Encouraged by reports of job creation and companies announcing plans to move back downtown, developers here have introduced plans for half a dozen new office towers in the Loop central business district.

More than 20 years after the last major high-rise building was completed in downtown Houston, the Bayou city skyline welcomes BG Group Place at 811 Main Street. 

This 46-story tower was completed in downtown Houston in early 2011, just four years after initial design studies began. The building was certified as LEED Platinum for Core and Shell the first such certification in Texas.

Pickard Chilton stands out as a firm that has captured the imagination of clients seeking modern, soaring designs and expansive places to house their organizations both in the United States and abroad.

The second phase of the massive Eighth Avenue Place downtown office development is moving forward.

The New England chapter of the American Institute of Architects has announced that Pickard Chilton has won a Special Citation for Excellence in Architecture for the firm's design of BG Group Place in Houston, Texas.

The Connecticut Chapter of the American Institute of Architects announced that Pickard Chilton has won two awards: a Design Award for the ConocoPhillips West Campus in Houston, Texas, and an Unbuilt Design Award for the Iskandar Investment Headquarters in Nusajaya, Malaysia.

AMES, IA - Thomas Leslie, an internationally recognized expert on the history of technology and architecture, has been named the first holder of the Pickard Chilton Professorship in Architecture in the Iowa State University College of Design.

The Design Futures Council (DFC) has announced that Pickard Chilton Principal William D Chilton FAIA, RIBA has been named one of the Council s fifteen 2011 Senior Fellows.

New Haven, CT-based, Pickard Chilton said today it planned and designed ExxonMobil s new office campus that will be developed in north Houston, Texas.

The Phoenix office of Hines announced today that 24th at Camelback II has received Silver certification under the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED for Core & Shell rating system.

Jon Pickard FAIA, RIBA and William Chilton FAIA, RIBA have established the first endowed faculty position in the College of Design, the Pickard Chilton Professorship in Architecture to support the Iowa State faculty who are leaders in the advancement of architectural education.

Pickard Chilton's 300 North LaSalle is among twenty developments from the Americas that have been selected as finalists in this year s Urban Land Institute's (ULI) Awards for Excellence: The Americas competition, widely recognized as the land use industry s most prestigious recognition program.

Hines and Pickard Chilton have been awarded a 2011 Architectural Record Good Design is Good Business Award of Excellence for 300 North LaSalle in Chicago.

Glamorous women were sipping flutes of champagne. Influential businessmen in expensive suits chatted about the market. A red carpet was rolled out on the sidewalk and beacons shot blue beams of light across downtown Houston.

Jon Pickard FAIA, has been elected to The College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects. 

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) New England chapter has announced that New Haven, Connecticut-based Pickard Chilton has won an Honor Award for Design Excellence for the firm s design of Wells Fargo Financial in Des Moines, Iowa.

The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design have announced that Pickard Chilton has won two 2010 Green Good Design Awards for the firm s design of the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) Headqua

The Houston office of Hines, the international real estate firm, announced today that MainPlace in downtown Houston, the firm's newest green skyscraper, has been pre-certified at the Platinum level under the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED for Core & Shell rating system.

The Houston skyline is the most impressive in the nation. A few other American cities have taller buildings. And in terms of pure bulk, New York City certainly has a greater mass of office space.

Hines, the international real estate firm, announced today the structural completion of the 46-story, 972,000-square-foot office tower, MainPlace, located at 811 Main Street in downtown Houston. Faсade installation, interior construction and mechanical work continues.

Some firms are, indeed, winning new work. Pickard Chilton, for instance, announced recently that the New Haven, Conn.-based partnership has been commissioned to design a world headquarters for Eaton Corp. on a 53-acre site in suburban Cleveland.

Representatives of Eaton Corp. and the Richard E. Jacobs Group showed several images of the manufacturer's planned corporate headquarters during a City Council meeting Monday night.

A look at four new branches of the W Hotel have opened up in Hollywood, Atlanta, and the New York Area.

William D. Chilton FAIA has been elected to The College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects.

In 2006 Hines, the international real estate firm, announced plans to develop a second office building at one of the most dynamic corners in Phoenix, 24th Street and Camelback Road.

Most companies have shelved expansion plans until the economy recovers but not the Devon Energy Corporation, one of the country's biggest independent energy companies.

The Chicago Architecture Foundation s recognized six patrons for the annual Patron of the Year awards held today at the University Club of Chicago. 

Jon Pickard, architect of the Pinnacle at Symphony Place, has designed or collaborated on some of the world s most recognized buildings. The Business Journal asked him about his work and the potential effects of the recession on future design.

Jon Pickard, AIA, Principal of Pickard Chilton, will be the keynote speaker at the American Institute of Architects Central Oklahoma Chapter 2009 Honor Awards Luncheon.