April 8, 2026

LMN

Smith

Nicol

DuHamel

da Costa

LMN has promoted Leonardo da Costa, Jennifer DuHamel, Mark Nicol, and Robert Smith to associate partner.

With more than 25 years of experience, the past 15 focused on LMN's convention center projects, da Costa has played a key role in projects including the Seattle Convention Center Summit Building, the Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland and Civic Core, and the Austin Convention Center Redevelopment. Originally from Rio de Janeiro, da Costa brings an international perspective.

DuHamel brings 21 years of architectural experience and programming expertise to a range of project types. Her projects include the Computing and Data Science Building at Stanford University, the Center for Energy Innovation at the University of Missouri, the Undergraduate Academic Building at UC Berkeley, the Forest Trailhead at Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo, and a major new aquarium facility in the Midwest.

Nicol is a designer with 17 years of experience spanning private mixed-use development and public higher education projects. His experience includes 1001 Office Towers in Bellevue; the Computer Design, Research, and Learning Center at the University of Illinois Chicago; and Steven S. Wymer Hall for the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Smith has 25 years of national and international experience working on high-performance buildings and integrated project delivery. His recent experience includes the Undergraduate Academic Building at UC Berkeley, Founders Hall for the University of Washington's Foster School of Business, and the Edward J. Minskoff Pavilion for Michigan State University's Eli Broad College of Business.