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BY DESIGN
A GUIDE TO ARCHITECTS
IN THE ST. LOUIS REGION
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ACI/Boland Inc.
(314) 991-9993
www.aci-boland.com
In July 2005, ACI/Boland Inc. celebrated its 30th year of offering architectural, planning and interior design services. The firm works nationally, but focuses on serving the Midwest with offices in St. Louis and Grandview, Mo., and Leawood, Kan. Bob Boland founded the firm in
St. Louis and later merged with an architectural firm in Kansas City. ACI/Boland specializes in commercial, health care, education, senior living and public sector work. Its portfolio includes the Forsyth Centre office building in Clayton, the MCI/WorldCom Corporate Headquarters in
St. Louis, City Place One in Creve Coeur, and Meramec Bluffs Retirement Community in
St. Louis County.
Forsyth Centre - ACI/Borland Inc.
Arcturis
(314) 206-7100
www.arcturis.com
Arcturis, with 90 employees, has been pleasing clients since 1977 with five areas of expertise: Planning, such as the Great Rivers Greenway Master Plan, linking 1,200 square miles of greenway in St. Louis and St. Louis County with parks. Also Baret Haven in Winghaven; Architecture, such as the National Information Solution Cooperatives in Lake St. Louis; Interiors - Smurfit Stone Office Place in City Place VI; Facilities - Arcturis President Patricia Whitaker says they provide onsite people to help clients and supplement their facility staff; and Technology. Whitaker adds, “We help our clients track where their people and resources are, and where they have space available. We help them forecast their space needs for a few years out so they can lease space if they are going to build a new building.”
Sanford-Brown College,
Collinsville, ILL. - Arcturis
Cannon Design
(314) 241-6250
www.cannondesign.com
Established in New York in 1945, Cannon Design has grown into an international presence with approximately 700 employees in 14 offices across North America and Canada. In 1980, Cannon acquired The Drake Partnership in St. Louis and now has 80 employees here. The firm offers architectural, engineering, land planning and interior design services and specializes in health care, research and sports facilities in the St. Louis area. Cannon is currently working on a new 206,000-square-foot research facility at Saint Louis University near the intersection of Chouteau Avenue and Grand Boulevard. Also in the works are projects for BJC HealthCare’s north campus,
St. Anthony’s Medical Center in South County, and the Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis.
Saint Louis University Research Building - Cannon Design
Christner Inc.
(314) 725-2927
www.christnerinc.com
A design firm with 40 years’ experience, Christner has integrated disciplines to grow from architecture and architectural planning to include landscape architecture, interior design, urban and strategic facility planning. “We approach every assignment with a heightened attention to our clients as a business strategy and this may be with a client who may not look like a business,” President and CEO John Reeve says, giving The Jewel Box renovation as an example.
Health care comprises 75 to 80 percent of Christner’s clients. Projects include the $50 million patient care wing at Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital, a $100 million Emergency Department and the first phase of a 48-suite Operating Room at Barnes Jewish Hospital, and a $150 million heart center at St. John’s Mercy Hospital. Other projects include the Sophie M. Sachs Butterfly House and Education Center and the Missouri Botanical Gardens Temperate House.
St. John's Mercy Medical Center,
David C. Pratt Cancer Center - Christner Inc.
The Durrant Group
(314) 576-2021
www.durrant.com
Founded in Boscobel, Wis., in 1933 by Joe Durrant, the Durrant Group developed roots in
St. Louis when it merged with Kenneth Balk & Associates in 2000. The firm now has thirteen offices in Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Colorado, Arizona, Minnesota and Hawaii. The
St. Louis office offers a full range of engineering and architectural services, specializing in health care and justice facilities. Durrant is ranked No. 243 on Engineering News-Record’s 2005 list of the Top 500 Design Firms.
Forum Studio Inc.
(314) 429-1010
www.forumstudio.com
A subsidiary of Clayco Construction Co.
since 1999, Forum Studio Inc. works with developers and clients with tight schedules and fixed budgets who need sensible, cost-effective, well-designed buildings. Managing Principal Christopher Cedergreen says that it is not so much building styles “as it is the client types who usually have tight schedules and fixed budgets.”
The firm specializes in hotels, commercial, retail/entertainment complexes, and warehouses. Their diverse portfolio includes a 35-story high rise residential tower in Orlando, Fla., the Baltimore Ravens Headquarters in Baltimore, Md., City Place VI in Creve Coeur, Mo., the Cortex Building in the Central West End, and the new Annex Lofts in the Washington Street Historic District in Downtown St. Louis. They will also be building the headquarters for the Fluor Corporation in Dallas, Texas.
Experitec - Forum Studio Inc.
Hastings & Chivetta Architects Inc.
(314) 863-5717
www.hastingschivetta.com
Hastings & Chivetta is an architecture and interior design firm that specializes in creating academic, sports, municipal and commercial/ civic facilities. The firm is well known for its recreational center work and is currently ranked No. 8 by industry magazine Engineering-News Record in the sports category and No. 4 by World Architec-ture Magazine in the sport leisure architecture category. The firm’s portfolio includes the historic renovation and expansion of the University of Missouri-Columbia’s Rothwell Gymnasium and Brewer Field House. Completed in July 2005, the $37.2 million renovation is the largest recreation project in the history of Missouri higher education and one of the top five in the country. Locally, the firm teamed up with Roland Design for the renovation and addition at Missouri Athletic Club-West in Town and Country, Mo., and has also worked for Lindenwood University and Fontbonne University.
Missouri Athletic Club-West Expansion/Renovation - Hastings & Chivetta Architects Inc.
Health, Education + Research Association (HERA)
(314) 289-9202
www.herainc.com
The Health, Education + Research Association (HERA) has found a great niche in architectural work: The firm designs research laboratories for government agencies, corporations, universities and other clients that need research
facilities. Principal Janet Baum co-founded the firm nine years ago with fellow architect Laurie Sperling after spending
30 years in the field of laboratory design. Since the Sept. 11 attacks catapulted bioterrorism into the spotlight, HERA has designed an increasing number of biosafety labs across the country. The firm is currently serving as the forensic lab design consultant for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for New York City’s new $63 million forensic biology laboratory. HERA’s local projects include a police forensic lab for the city of St. Louis and a new biomedical research building for Saint Louis University.
St. Louis Police Department Crime Lab - Health, Education + Research Association
Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum Inc.
(314) 421-2000
www.hok.com
Founded in 1955 by George Hellmuth, Gyo Obata & George Kassabaum, HOK began as a 24-member firm designing schools. Now, with 22 locations and 1,850 employees worldwide, it is the largest United States architectural firm, and in the top three architectural engineering
firms globally. The St. Louis office employs 250 people. Vice-chairman and Managing Principal
Clark Davis says about a third of HOK’s work comes from outside the U.S. “While much is served internationally, some of it is served from our United States offices as well.”
Obata says, “Our main goal is to do innovative design. When we get a client, we try to understand what their requirements are and try to come up with an innovative design that meets their needs and budgets.”
Their sport group, Sport+Venue+Event, based in Kansas City, Mo. did the conceptual design for the new Cardinal Baseball Stadium, with HOK’s home office completing the design and technical work. The group recently learned that it would be designing both the New York Mets and New York Yankees baseball stadiums. Among HOK’s many outstanding projects are the Main terminal and East terminal at Lambert Field, Nidus Center, one of the first LEED-certified projects in this area, the Thomas Eagleton Court House, The Living World at the Saint Louis Zoo, and the Lincoln Museum and Library in Springfield, Mo.
Old National Bank in Evansville, Ind. - Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum Inc.
Holleran Duitsman Architects Inc.
(636) 449-1175
www.hdai.com
Founded in 1986, HDA started by designing office buildings and corporate office parks for real estate developers, and then expanded to warehousing, retail, and interiors not only in St. Louis but also throughout the country. In working with developers, HDA created an approach on developing and thinking through their design to deliver the client’s vision. “Devel-opers are budget conscious,’ Mark Duitsman says. “We understand that there are budgets to be worked with and there is value engineering. We have to make constant decisions about where to spend money on design elements and being creative about how you use those elements. We also work closely with contractors through the design process. When we
finish, we have a project that exhibits a timeless design and is within budget.”
HDA local projects include Gundaker Commercial Group Corporate Headquarters, Westar Corporation Corporate Headquarters, Bommarito Automotive Group, Magna Bank in Brentwood, Mo., and the recently completed $10 million Anheuser-Busch office building.
They currently have over 1.5 million square feet of work out of town. They are registered in 28 states and have designed projects from coast-to-coast.
Maryville 520 - Holleran Duitsman Architects Inc.
Wm. B. Ittner Inc.
(314) 421-3542
www.ittnerarchitects.com
Since 1899, Wm. B. Ittner Inc. has served as a leader in school planning and has designed more than 3,000 projects. The firm provides a complete package of services for educational facilities, including architectural design, interior design, master planning, furniture procurement, feasibility studies and bond issue campaigns. Ittner’s portfolio includes Otto & Della Seabaugh Polytechnic Facility at Southeast Missouri State University; Triad High School in Troy, Ill.; St. Louis Community College’s new West County Campus building; Central Junior High in Belleville, Ill.; Chapel/ Fine Arts facility at Missouri Baptist University; and the city of Richmond Heights’ public safety facility.
Missouri Baptist University, Pillsbury Chapel/Dale Williams Fine Arts Center - Wm. B. Ittner Inc.
Kiku Obata & Company
(314) 361-3110
www.kikuobata.com
Founded in 1977, this firm has grown to 30 people and gained fame as an international design firm. Kiku Obata says they are best known for “breathing life into new products, brands and places.” They are also known for integrating architecture interiors, lighting and graphics. “It’s about the user,” she says. “We view ourselves as a business partner for the company we work for where design is part of the business strategy. Each project is unique to me and each one has its own design limitation. You take all that together and look at every aspect of what that experience is to the consumer, whether it’s a product, a letterhead system or an entire store, shopping mall or retail district.”
Obata’s projects include the Pageant Theater, Washington Avenue Loft District Streetscape, and St. Louis Mills. Internationally, she just completed the Xanadu Shopping and Entertainment Center in Madrid, Spain. Prototypes for Barnes & Noble Book Stores, Starbuck’s and Papyrus are also in their portfolio. “We’re also working on the new St. Louis Cardinals ball field,” she says. “Which I love, since I’m a big sports fan!”
Xanadu Shopping & Entertainment Center in Madrid, Spain - Kiku Obata & Company
Kuhlmann design Group Inc.
(314) 434-8898
www.kdginc.com
Kuhlman design Group Inc. is a full-service firm that offers architecture, interior design, engineering, planning and programming, project management, construction administration, land surveying and transportation design. Founded in St. Louis in 1974, the firm now has approximately 100 employees in St. Louis and Belleville, Ill. Kuhlman design Group specializes in commercial, hospitality, municipal, financial, educational, entertainment and supermarket facilities. The firm also employs 30 to 35 engineers in a comprehensive engineering department and has a dedicated department for road work. Kuhlman designed the Gateway Grizzlie’s GMC Stadium in Sauget, Ill., which recently won the 2005 Ball Park of the Year award for originality by the Digital Ball Parks Museum.
Gateway Grizzlie's GMC Stadium - Kuhlmann Design Group Inc.
Langton Associates
(314) 721-6667
www.langtonassociates.com
Founded in 1990, Langton Associates is a design service firm, dedicated to the creation of interior and exterior functional space. Staff capabilities are balanced between planning, architecture, and interior design. Services cover all phases from programming through construction administration. Programming studies and needs assessment surveys are emphasized as valuable
pre-design tools establishing efficient and economical spaces to meet both short-term and
long-term goals. Projects include educational,
residential, library, religious, office, commercial, and civic facilities. The staff has developed award-winning projects and competition-winning designs.
The staff has experience in a wide range of projects including master planning for a multi-billion
dollar company to simple building additions. However great or small the design, the project is undertaken with sensitivity to schedule and budget. A limited budget is no excuse for a poor design, nor is a limitless budget an excuse for extravagance.
Loretto Hall, Webster University - Langton Associates
The Lawrence Group
(314) 231-5700
www.thelawrencegroup.com
Founded in 1983, The Lawrence Group offers design services for health care, housing,
commercial, civic, and radio and television broadcast facilities. Retail furniture sales, town planning and construction management are offered alongside architectural/interior design fare. The Lawrence Group is currently working on the “green” renovation of the Security Building, an 11-story, Romanesque-style structure that will house the firm’s
headquarters. On the same block, the firm is transforming the 19-story Marquette Building into a multi-use facility with 119 condos and apartments, as well as ground-floor commercial and retail space. Also in the works is Market at McKnight, a redevelopment project that will create a mix of residential, retail, commercial and specialty shop space at the intersection of Manchester and McKnight in Rock Hill, Mo.
Niche - The Lawrence Group
Oculus Inc.
(314) 367-6100
www.oculusinc.com
With an office in St. Louis and an office in Dallas, Oculus specializes in commercial architecture with a focus on larger corporations and institutional projects. Founded in 1994, the firm employs approximately 30 people. Lisa Bell-Reim says the firm stresses using advanced technology tools for improving services. “We are big parametric and building model users which is the next stage of architectural tools that firms will be adopting.”
Oculus projects include branch bank design for Bank of America, retail for Cingular Wireless, multiple practices at the Center for Advance Medicine, and working with the St. Louis School District in planning their headquarters.
Oculus Inc. is also certified as a Women-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE) with Reim
as president.
North & Clybourn Banking Center, Chicago Ill. - Oculus Inc.
Ottolino Winters Huebner
(314) 721-4050
www.owh-inc.com
In 1996, principals Rick Ottolino, Robert Winters, and Mary Huebner purchased the St. Louis office of Stone Marraccini Patterson and formed Ottolino Winters Huebner. Today, the firm offers planning, architecture and interior design to clients looking for health care, research and corporate facilities. Sixty to eighty percent of the firm’s work is in the health care industry, and the majority of that work is renovation. The firm’s portfolio includes multiple projects for Barnes Jewish Hospital, a cardio vascular unit master plan and a strategic campus plan for Missouri Baptist Medical Center, a new oncology center at Barnes Jewish Hospital-St. Peters, and the relocation and consolidation of Mercy Health System’s corporate offices.
Mercy Medical Center, Mercy Health System of Kansas - Ottolino Winters Huebner
Peckham Guyton
Albers & Viets Inc.
(314) 231-7318
www.pgav.com
Peckham Guyton Albers & Viets Inc. (PGAV) is a professional services firm with offices in
St. Louis and Kansas City. With approximately 110 persons including 38 licensed architects committed to fulfilling their client’s vision through creative and technical innovation, PGAV provides services in three areas of expertise: destination consulting, architecture, and urban consulting. Over the past 40 years, PGAV has used their vast experience in assisting many of America’s most prominent institutional, governmental, corporate, and commercial clients with a wide variety of successful attraction developments, both large and small. Their clients include Busch Gardens, The Audubon Nature Institute, National Geographic, Bass Pro Shops, The Hoover Dam, Discovery Cove, the Niagara Parks Commission, The National Aviary, The Georgia Aquarium, The St. Louis Arch, Sea World Adventure Parks, and Universal Studios. More than 50 million people each year attend destinations planned by PGAV.
Saint Louis Zoo's Penguin and Puffin Coast - Peckham Guyton Albers & Viets Inc.
Thomas Roof Inc. Architects
(314) 726-9990
www.triarchitects.com
TRI is approaching its 16th year of doing business in the St. Louis area. Thomas Roof says while some architects tend to get “pigeon-holed,” TRI has a diverse portfolio to “insulate us from volatility within a given market. By having a studio format, it allows us to have specialists within the firm that address each particular market type.”
TRI specializes in commercial projects, specifically office retail and automotive facilities. They also design educational, industrial, hospitality (hotels and restaurants), and institutional interiors. Projects include Chesterfield Commons, Arrowpoint Elementary in Hazelwood School District, Hodge Elementary School in the Fox School District, and Central Elementary School in Francis Howell School District. They also served as a consulting architect for the Plaza in Clayton.
Hodge Elementary School - Thomas Roof Inc. Architects
Rosemann & Associates P.C.
(314) 298-1448
www.rosemann.com
Rosemann & Associates is an architectural design and consulting services firm with nearly 30 years of architectural experience. They are respected for their approach to developing solutions for investment properties including historic, multi-family, student housing, senior living and mixed use development both renovation and new construction. Clients also benefit from the firm’s unique expertise in obtaining tax credits and other development incentives. Rosemann & Associates is also known for designing innovative spaces that respond to the neighborhood and historical context of an individual building. Current projects include The Paul Brown Apartments, Near Southside Redevelopment, Windows Lofts, Waterways of Lake St. Louis, Lucas Lofts, Westgate Lofts, Lofts at 1635 Washington, Bee Hat, Packard Lofts and Lafayette Walk Town Homes. Rosemann has offices in Kansas City, Mo. and Overland Park, Kan. as well as St. Louis.
Rosemann Design Studio - Rosemann & Associates P.C.
Saint Louis Design Alliance Inc.
(314) 863-1313
www.stlda.com
Saint Louis Design Alliance Inc. provides architectural and interior design services nationally. Established in 1977, the firm has an emphasis on serving religious and
not-for-profit clients. It also maintains a significant practice encompassing both individual homeowners and well-known local developers. Recent significant projects include The Crossing Church in Columbia, Calvary Church in St. Peters and multi-million dollar efforts for the Friendship Villages of St. Louis County and Lutheran Senior Services. Other projects include
the Loop Living Condos for Saaman Corporation in University City and the eight-story Residence Inn for Mullenix Hospitality located at highway 40 and Jefferson in mid-town St. Louis. With a staff of 18 overseen by principals David Mastin and Jeff Mugg, St. Louis Design Alliance is able to maintain project schedules without a cumbersome management structure.
Calvary Church - Saint Louis Design Alliance Inc.
TAO + LEE Associates Inc.
(314) 446-0885
www.taolee.com
TAO + LEE Associates is an award-winning
St. Louis-based design firm founded in 1995 providing architectural, interiors, planning and creative design services for
a variety of project types, sizes and
applications. The firm’s founders and principals, Peter Tao and Helen Lee, have extensive experience in the design of commercial
developments; housing/residential complexes, single-family residences and hospitality related projects located both domestically and
internationally. Both principals are hands on and involved from the design process through
construction and always involved with the client. Some of those clients include the Anheuser-Busch Companies, BARcelona Restaurant, Briner Electric Company, Crazy Bowls & Wraps Restaurants, A.G. Edwards, St. Louis Galleria, Trattoria Marcella, The University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis University, Washington University, and Worldways Children’s Museum. The signature of a TAO + LEE project is simplicity.
BARcelona Restaurant - TAO + LEE Associates Inc.
Trivers Associates
(314) 241-2900
www.trivers.com
Trivers Associates is an architecture, planning, urban design, and interiors firm, founded in 1975 and comprised of five specialized Design Studios–historic, housing, education, institutional and health care. These firms-within-the-firm provide targeted design expertise and extensive practical experience related to specific project types. The firm focuses on rebuilding cities, including historic preservation, housing, schools and institutional facilities in urban areas of
St. Louis and in cities around the country. Current projects include The Old Post Office in
St. Louis, San Antonio Post Office-Courthouse, Southern Illinois University Grand and Wall Apartments in Carbondale, Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine Advanced Care Wing in Alton, Washington University Wilson Hall, Center of Creative Arts (COCA), Norwood Hills Country Club and the American Cancer Society Hope Lodge in Philadelphia.
Six North Apartments - Trivers Associates
Turf Visions Inc.
(618) 692-9510
www.turfvisions.com
Turf Visions specializes in custom designing and installing the most advanced synthetic turfs in the industry for golf courses, home putting greens, sports fields, playgrounds and lawns, and residential and commercial property. These turfs have the feel of natural bent grass and require no water, no chemicals and virtually no maintenance. Turf Visions’ uses the same greens, tees, fairways and roughs that PGA pros have installed at their own homes, training facilities and golf courses. The specialized artificial turf and infill systems used in athletic fields meet the highest safety and quality standards for sports fields of any kind including football, soccer, lacrosse, field hockey, tennis and bocce. And the synthetic turf play areas are not only as beautiful as
a manicured lawn, but absorb impact so
children won’t.
Backyard synthetic turf chipping and putting green - Turf Visions Inc.
Vinci L.L.C.
(314) 351-7456
www.vincico.com
Established in 2004, Vinci L.L.C. is a growing architectural illustration business with local and regional corporate clients. It specializes in the convincing portrayal of construction underway via a series of aerial renderings.
It also provides standard architectural renderings, master plan diagrams, campus maps, Microsoft PowerPoint presentation environments and shows, and construction illustrations. Vinci’s illustrations find application as visual aids for construction and design progress reviews, facility master planning, public relations, and fundraising. Vinci also converts schematics, construction schedules, and construction logistics notes into photo-realistic depictions of construction underway to illustrate your company’s construction strategy. Vinci’s founder and president, Michael Thomas DeVlieger, is a Missouri-registered architect with ten years’ experience and is an award-winning architectural illustrator.
Walters Golf Management
(800) 896-0575 (636) 896-0550
www.waltersgolfmanagement.com
Walters Golf Management specializes in the management and design of golf courses. Their Turn-Key Management service provides operational oversight and expertise as well as coordination of accounting, payroll, financial reporting and human resources administration. They also provide consulting services for golf course owners that want to manage their course, but need professional direction and expertise.
Although golf course management is their primary function, golf course design is also part of Walters Golf Management services with 75 percent of the golf courses in their portfolio built from the ground up including some of the finest in the Midwest. Their success stems from their development model that allows for efficient and cost effective golf course development. The key ingredient is formulating a realistic budget and then maintaining through select vendors, cost controls that allow the client to receive everything desired and more.
Gateway National Golf Links - Walters Golf Management
Over 16,000 St. Louisans work in architectural & engineering firms, contributing almost $1 billion to the region’s gross product. These professionals
provide valuable technical services for the region’s households, business, and governments. They also import dollars into the region, because they frequently export their services by working on design projects elsewhere in the country and world. Those imported dollars also benefit the region, because the average architect in St. Louis is paid over $63,000. That’s a lot of disposable income, much of which is spent at local retail, restaurant, and other businesses.
-Bryan Bezold, RCGA Director of Research and Chief Economist
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