SHCA celebrates 100th anniversary.Swanke Hayden Connell Architects (SHCA SHCA Swanke Hayden Connell Architects SHCA Siberian Husky Club of America SHCA Society for Healthcare Consumer Advocacy SHCA Short-Hop Channel Allocation ) is celebrating its 100th anniversary as a design industry-leading organization. Since the firm's founding in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of in 1906, SHCA has grown nationally and internationally by providing consistent innovation and leadership. Today, the firm operates offices in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , London, Paris, Moscow, Istanbul, Sheffield, Miami and Washington DC providing services in four core areas of practice: architecture, interior design, master planning, and historic preservation Historic preservation is the act of maintaining and repairing existing historic materials and the retention of a property's form as it has evolved over time. When considering the United States Department of Interior's interpretation: "Preservation calls for the existing form, , working with a variety of corporate and institutional clients. The firm's prolonged success and sterling reputation has been accomplished through comprehensive knowledge and dedicated to the finest architectural design; an uncommon reliance on clients' programmatic requirements; and meticulous attention to detail. The creation in 1906 of the architectural partnership of Walker & Gillette by Alexander Stewart Walker and Leon Narcisse Gillette signified the emergence of what would become one of the most prolific firms to practice during the first half of the 20th century in New York. Eight short years after its beginning, the firm would be featured in The Architectural Record, April 1914 issue, titled Variety in Architectural Practice, Some Works of Walker & Gillette. During the 1930s and early 1940s, the firm won commissions for numerous major New York institutions, including American Express, Manufacturers Trust and Bank of Manhattan. An international practice was launched with work on projects in Cuba, Argentina, Panama and France. Walker & Poor was formed in 1945, with Alfred Easton Poor a principal and Albert Homer Swanke an associate. Commissions over the next decade included the extension of the East Front of the U.S. Capitol, the James Madison Memorial Library in Washington DC, and the U.S. Customs Court Customs Court n. a federal court established (1926) to hear appeals from decisions of customs officials on classification of merchandise, duty rates, and interpretation of customs laws. In turn its decisions can be appealed to the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals. and Federal Office Buildings in Foley Square in New York. Major commercial projects over the next 20 years included interiors for the original McGraw-Hill headquarters on 42nd Street in New York and its new building in Rockefeller Center, under the direction of Albert Homer Swanke. Poor Swanke & Partners was formed in 1972. Richard S. Hayden and Edward S. Connell joined the firm, along with Richard A. Carlson. In 1975, the partnership went through its last name change to become Swanke Hayden Connell & Partners, operating under the trade name Swanke Hayden Connell Architects. Under the direction of Richard Seth Hayden, SHCA enterd an era of unprecedented growth. Working on numerous headquarters projects in New York in the mid-1980s--American Express, Dow Jones, R.J. Reynolds. New building commissions were received for Trump Tower, Americas Tower, and building modernization of One New York Plaza One New York Plaza is an office building in New York City, built in 1969, and is located at the intersection of South and Whitehall Streets (). It is the southernmost of all Manhattan skyscrapers. in New York; Sabanaci Center in Istanbul; Winchester House, Wren House and Spitalfields Market Master Plan in London; with interior design projects in New York completed for Smith Barney, and Bertelsmann headquarters. The defining project for the firm's historic preservation practice was undoubtedly the restoration of the Statue of Liberty Statue of Liberty great symbolic structure in New York harbor. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 284] See : America Statue of Liberty perhaps the most famous monument to independence. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 284] See : Freedom , completed in 1986. During the 1990's with geographic expansion already under way, an office was opened in Istanbul, SHCA also began to broaden its areas of practice through acquisition. The acquisition of Taylor Clark Architects in New York and George Trew Dunn in London brought the firm into healthcare design. Additional offices were opened in Paris, Sheffield and most recently Moscow. At the turn of the century, new building and major modernization project commissions were received for Mutual of America Mutual of America Life Insurance Company, also referred to as Mutual of America is a Fortune 1000 mutual company based in New York, New York. Founded in 1945, it is ranked on the Forbes 500 list as the 10th largest insurance company in the United States. Headquarters, the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY FDNY Fire Department New York (New York City, NY, USA) FDNY Fort Drum, New York (US Army) ) Headquarters, and the Randalls Island Fire Training Academy for FDNY, all in New York; the IsBank headquarters building complex (three towers) and Tekfen Tower in Istanbul; and Merrill Lynch and Deutsch Bank London headquarters buildings in London. Commissions for IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and Reuters Headquarters, JP Morgan Chase private banking offices and Sotheby's Auction House were some of the interior design projects completed. Today, SHCA's diverse portfolio continues to grow. Current projects include a 4.5 million square feet master plan for a mixed-use center, inclusive of five separate office buildings and a 600,000 s/f retail center; a new 75-story mix-use building with retail, office and residential components, both in Moscow; the Office of Emergency Management in New York City; interior fit-outs for Moody's Corporation, Royal Bank of Canada Bank of Canada Canada's central bank, established under the Bank of Canada Act (1934). It was founded during the Great Depression to regulate credit and currency. The Bank acts as the Canadian government's fiscal agent and has the sole right to issue paper money. and JPMorgan Chase; an award winning restoration of the West Virginia State Capitol The West Virginia State Capitol is the state capitol building of the U.S. state of West Virginia. Housing the West Virginia Legislature, it is located in the state capital of Charleston overlooking the Kanawha River. The building was completed in 1932. Dome and the $500 million Central Nottinghamshire Hospital in central England. The future, under the leadership of recently appointed CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , David Hughes, will see continued international expansion, as well as additional office locations within the United States, to better serve clients expanding geographical needs. |
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