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ROSEMANN
NAMED TO MULTI-HOUSING NEWS’ “THE 21 CLUB”
Multi-Housing News has picked Rosemann & Associates for “The
21 Club,” its list of the country’s top 21 architecture firms that
design multiple housing communities. Rosemann & Associates was one
of only two Midwest firms selected for this honor.
According to the monthly publication, “While there are hundreds
of firms around the country that design multi-housing communities,
a select few stand apart from the pack in terms of their influence
and the respect they’ve earned from both developers and their Architect
peers.”
Rosemann & Associates’ recent, multi-housing projects:
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Waterways of Lake Saint Louis, Lake Saint Louis, Mo.,
344 units (Phase I), two-story luxury apartments;
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Paul Brown Lofts, St. Louis: 222 units, loft renovation
of 80-year-old office building located in Post Office
Square District, features include two-level apartments;
interior parking garage; a rooftop exercise room; outdoor
pool; and first-floor commercial space;
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Near Southside Redevelopment, Hope IV Project, St. Louis,
new and renovated multi-family housing with single-family
homes;
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Ridgeview Heights, Kansas City, Mo., 191 units, affordable
housing renovation and revitalization project, received
HUD’s “Best Practice Award for Outstanding
Design.”
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AMLI at Cambridge Square: Overland Park, Kan., 408-unit
luxury apartments;
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Whole Neighborhood Revitalization,
Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., 84-unit military housing project
encompassing 42 duplexes on three separate sites. The
Army’s objective was to build neighborhoods that
resemble a suburban subdivision or small town, rather
than traditional military housing.
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CONTEMPORARY
ART IN ST. LOUIS MAKES NEWS AGAIN
The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts and the Contemporary Art Museum
continue to receive acclaim. The Pulitzer and the Contemporary Art
Museum of St. Louis were both featured in the Monday, October 27
issue of The Financial Times of London. The article, “ARTS:
An Artistic Oasis in the Heart of Downtown,” shines an international
spotlight on these two unique cultural institutions at Washington
and Spring Streets in Grand Center. Reporter Caroline Daniel quotes
New Yorker Magazine, which called the two-year-old Pulitzer
building “the most important building in St. Louis since an early
skyscraper built in 1891.”
In describing the Contemporary Art Museum, Daniel notes, “One of
its sides, built right to the edge of the street, is a long curve,
constructed of concrete and glass. Anyone walking by, or driving
along the street, can see exactly what is inside. It is a space
that invites you in.”
I.D. 50 PICKS CASSILY FOR MISSOURI
To celebrate its 50th year in publication, I.D., The International
Design Magazine, profiled 50 designers to represent each of
the American states. This group includes designers who work in architecture,
crafts, fashion, graphics, interactive design and products.
For Missouri, I.D. selected City Museum’s Robert Cassily
Jr. Using ideas from dozens of different artisans and designers,
City Museum has a unique aspect that appealed to I.D.’s selection
team.
A trained sculptor, real estate speculator and owner of a company
that builds animal sculptures for parks, Cassily bought the former
International Shoe Co. building in 1993. Though purchased as a tax
write-off, Cassily began tinkering with the 75,000-square-foot space.
According to I.D., about two million adults and children
have enjoyed the various rooms and activities since the building
opened to the public as City Museum in 1997. Visitors can explore
an undersea-themed cavernous area, crawl through giant barrels,
marvel at concrete dinosaurs, climb a serpentine staircase or marvel
at ideas in other nooks and crannies of the museum.
Cassily, who continues to serve as creative director of City Museum,
also owns half of the museum. The privately funded attraction turns
a profit, as well, through admission fees and facilities rental
for special events. He told I.D. that the museum “teaches
irony; we subvert every normal building material, turning every
last thing into something else, something wonderful.”
EIGHT BI-STATE REGION COMPANIES RECOGNIZED
ON INC. 500 LIST
Eight Missouri and Illinois businesses in the St. Louis have been
listed as among Inc. Magazine’s, Inc. 500 ranking of the
fastest-growing private companies in the country.
The Gateway region’s highest listed company was Advanced Business
Fulfillment of Earth City at #23. Other fast-growing regional businesses
included:
# 32 Pangea, Chesterfield, Mo.;
# 313 K & Company, Parkville, Mo.;
# 373 Maverick Technologies, Columbia,
Ill.;
# 377 Heartland Dental Care, Effingham,
Ill.;
# 387 Socket Internet; Columbia, Mo.;
# 439 StaffOne, Woodridge, Ill;
# 495 S2Tech, Chesterfield, Mo.
To be eligible for the 2003 Inc. 500, companies had to be
independent and privately held through their fiscal year 2002, have
had at least $200,000 in sales in the base year of 1998, and their
2002 sales had to exceed 2001 sales. Inc. verifies all information
using tax forms and financial statements from certified public accountants
and by conducting interviews with company officials.
BLACK ENTERPRISE MAGAZINE RECOGNIZES
ST. LOUIS ATTORNEY
Armstrong Teasdale Partner and RCGA Board General Counsel Steve
Cousins has been named one of the nation’s top black lawyers in
the November issue of Black Enterprise Magazine. The magazine
consulted America’s premier law schools and legal scholars, as well
as the country’s major local organizations to create their inaugural
list of high-powered African American attorneys.
STEVE
COUSINS
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Criteria for selection to this top echelon of nationwide attorneys
included practicing partner or shareholder status at a major law
firm, service as general counsel at a major corporation, or position
held as a top-ranking legal officer at a nonprofit organization.
All winners had also garnered reputations as leaders or had an average
win rate as high as 95 percent.
Cousins is the founder and chair of Armstrong Teasdale’s Financial
Restructuring, Reorganization and Bankruptcy Practice. He has been
involved in numerous corporation reorganizations, and he served
as counsel for the City of St. Louis in the TWA Chapter 11 case,
and is counsel to the City regarding litigation over the expansion
of Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.
HOK-DESIGNED MUSEUM EXPANSION IN LONDON
EARNS BUSINESS WEEK / ARCHITECTURAL RECORD AWARD
The innovative and results-driven design of Darwin Centre Phase
One at The Natural History Museum in London has earned HOK its third
recognition in the Business Week/Architectural Record global
awards program. The 7th annual awards were presented November 6
at a gala banquet at the Rainbow Room in New York.
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An
interior look at HOK’s Darwin Centre Phase One at
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Darwin Centre was one of 10 recipients of the award, which recognizes
successful client/architect collaboration to achieve strategic goals.
The distinguished jury included Brad Cloepfil, founder of Allied
Works Architecture in Portland; Sam Farber, founder of COPCO and
OXO; Jose Oncina, general manager for worldwide real estate at Microsoft;
Rich Varda, vice president for design, architecture and engineering
at Target Stores; Marion Weiss of Weiss/Manfredi Architects; and
Karen Stein, editorial director of Phaidon Press, among others.
Winners are featured in both Business Week and Architectural
Record magazines. Completed in 2002, the £30 million ($50 million)
project provides a new home for more than 22 million zoological
specimens and laboratories for 100 scientists. The design team pursued
innovative strategies to achieve a high-performance building while
ensuring a controlled and safe environment for the delicate and
irreplaceable specimens.
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An
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Representing the first phase of The Natural History Museum’s most
significant development since it opened in 1881, Darwin Centre offers
visitors rare, behind-the-scenes access to the work and people of
the museum.
Since opening in September 2002, Darwin Centre has achieved tangible
results:
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The number of visitors to The Natural History Museum increased
122 percent in October 2002 (when compared to October
2001) and has continued to significantly outperform expectations.
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The new facility allows public access to about 30 percent
of the museum’s total collection, compared with only
one percent that was previously accessible.
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Total value of grant income increased 18 percent for the
year ending March 2003 (compared with the year ending
March 1999). The number of new grants increased 35 percent
during the same period. The museum has experienced increases
in site-wide revenue, on-site functions, visiting scientists
and web visitors.
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“The Darwin
Centre has been a true partnership where both the museum and HOK
encouraged technical innovation within a design ethos of lasting
civic architecture,” says Larry Malcic, director of design, HOK
International. “The facility promotes research and exhibits its
results in an atmosphere of dignified utility that has visual clarity,
intellectual rigor and technical consistency.”
Sponsored by The American Institute of Architects (AIA), the Business
Week/Architectural Record Awards recognize exemplary collaboration
between client/architect building teams who use architectural design
solutions to achieve strategic goals.
CHASE PARK PLAZA, ST. LOUIS EARNS
CONDE NAST OUTSTANDING CITY HOTEL AWARD
Conde Nast Johansens, the internationally acclaimed publisher of
hotel guides recently named The Chase Park Plaza as the winner of
its 2004 North America & Caribbean Most Outstanding City Hotel
Award.
The Chase Park Plaza was nominated for the North America & Caribbean
Most Outstanding City Hotel Award based on input from the Conde
Nast Johansens North American team of inspectors and comments received
from the users of its guides.
In presenting the award, Lesley O’Malley-Keyes, Conde Nast Johansens
vice president and publishing director, said, “The Chase Park Plaza,
the Grand Dame of St. Louis, with its fabulous art deco chandeliers
and marble halls has never looked better and is an excellent choice
for the 2004 North America & Caribbean Most Outstanding Hotel
Award.”
The Conde Nast Johansens Recommended Hotel Guides are the most comprehensive
illustrated reference to independently owned, annually inspected
hotels throughout North America, Great Britain and Europe. Conde
Nast Publications, a wholly owned subsidiary of Advance Publications
and Conde Nast International, also publishes 72 magazines around
the world, including Vogue, Conde Nast Traveler, House & Garden,
Architectural Digest, The New Yorker, GQ, Tatler, Vanity Fair, Brides,
Glamour and Wired.
HR PUBLICATION HONORS LATHROP & GAGE’S
VIDEO TRAINING
Human Resources Executive magazine named the “Work Place
Training Series” videos created by HROI, L.L.C. (Human Resources—Return
on Investment), a wholly owned subsidiary of Lathrop & Gage L.C.,
as one of the “Top Training Products of the Year.” The video series
was one of seven honorees receiving this distinction. The video
series offers three training videos designed to educate managers
and employees on workplace obligations and regulations.
According to Shelly Freeman, president of HROI, “We created both
Alphabet Soup & Other Legal Issues and It’s a Fine Line: Anti-harassment
Training for Managers to simplify legal issues governing the
workplace and explain complicated matters so managers can better
understand the law and how it relates to their day-to-day management
of employees.”
She also explained, “The Anti-harassment Training for Employees
video is designed to educate non-managers about their company’s
expectations of how they should behave, how they should expect to
be treated and what to do if those expectations are not being met.”
Among the comments from the editors regarding the training series,
the judges said, “The simple, straightforward approach Shelly Freeman
takes with her audience in these videos seems the perfect match
for the subject matter. The narration and dramatizations successfully
break down the complexities of workplace law and make them easy
to digest.”
“One employee accusation, threat or challenge can hurt employee
morale throughout an organization and result in expensive litigation,”
says Freeman. “In the video series we weave vignettes, examples
and stories throughout the hard-hitting information to create an
insightful and fun learning experience while tackling complicated
issues.”
Other top training products were:
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Managing Difficult Conversations, by Harvard Business
School Publishing;
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Lotus Learning Management System, by IBM;
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Coaching with Confidence, by SkillSoft PLC;
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Mission Control, by Mission Control Productivity
Inc.;
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Instant Advice E-Learning Solution, by Ninth House
Inc.; and
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RoboDemo eLearning Edition, by eHelp Corp.
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