Dec 30, 1998

Urban design competition

Phyllis Lambert, founding director and chair of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) has announced the creation of an international competition to encourage innovative contributions to the design of cities. Offering a prize of $100,000 U.S., the competition will be held every three years, focusing each time on a different site in one of the world's major cities. The jury will meet in New York City in February to select five competitors, and projects will be submitted and judged by July 1999. Participants will be asked to envision dynamic future developments for the West Side of Manhattan, a tangle of railyards and traffic tunnels roadways and subways, overpasses and underpasses between the Hudson River and Eighth Avenue and between 30th Street and 34th Street.

Dec 23, 1998

Callison

Robert J. Tindall has been named president of Callison Architecture. The firm has also named Judy E. Peterson chief financial officer. Tindall has served in various leadership roles with the firm for 22 years and as chief operating officer since 1996, and has been principal for nine years. He will continue leadership of the firm's work in the retail industry through active participation on selected projects, marketing and professional involvement in such organizations as the Urban Land Institute and the International Council of Shopping Centers. Peterson has been serving as director of finance for the past several years. Callison is one of the largest design firms in the U.S., with 313 design professionals and a total staff of 400. Current clients include Nordstrom, Eddie Bauer, TrizecHahn, Westcor, Simon Properties Group, Hewlett-Packard, Starwood Hotels, Sisters of Providence and Seibu Department Stores of Japan.

NBBJ

Timothy Johnson, Richard H. Clarke and Richard Keating have joined NBBJ as design principals. Prior to joining NBBJ, Johnson was with Ellerbe Beckett, and his most recent work includes the New York State Psychiatric Institute, a 365,000-square-foot psychiatric research facility just completed on a prominent site along the Hudson River in Manhattan. Johnson was also the principal founder of ARC-NYC, where he focused on the high-rise development market in Southeast Asia and Indonesia. Most recently, Clarke was vice president and design director for Leo A. Daly. He has also worked for Gwathmey Siegel & Associates and Kohn Pedersen Fox. His projects include John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington D.C., and Airport City in Berlin.

Dec 22, 1998

Plenum

Plenum Communications, Inc. announced that Larry H. Dale was approved by the shareholders as a new member of the board of directors. Plenum Communications Inc. is the parent company of Lenders Interactive Online Network (LION). LION provides wholesale mortgage rate, fee and program information to mortgage brokers nationwide.