Colorado Real Estate Journal - June 17, 2015
-Design Workshop, an international landscape architecture, planning and urban design firm, promoted six employees to associate, including two in the Denver office. Anna Cawrse began her career at the firm’s Denver office in 2012 after graduation from Harvard Graduate School of Design. Since joining the firm, Cawrse has been involved with and led projects that tackle urban design and site design such as Post Oak Boulevard in Houston, Sun Valley Master Plan in Denver and Dominion Bridge in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Joshua Brooks also was promoted at Design Workshop. Brooks worked on projects that include the design and planning of the P Street Corridor in Lincoln, Nebraska; Triangle Plaza and 15th Street Plaza in Denver; Oukaimeden New Town in Central Morocco; and, most recently, in the Interstate 70 Corridor Reconstruction. He has a bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture and a minor in environmental planning from the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University. -Humphries Poli Architects named two new principals/ shareholders at the firm and three new associates. Ryan Wallace, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, architect, was promoted to principal. Wallace has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado Boulder and a master’s degree in architecture from the University of Colorado Denver. He joined the firm in 2004 and brings an understanding of sustainable design principles that aids in the firm’s execution of responsible buildings and will help HPA continue the exploration of new technologies to improve the design process. Also promoted to principal was architect Jane Crisler, AIA, LEED AP. Crisler has contributed to the firm’s success by building a portfolio of K-12 projects complemented by an expertise of historic preservation projects. She received her master’s degree in architecture from the University of Colorado Denver after earning a Bachelor of Arts in historic preservation from University of Mary Washington. Prior to joining HPA, Crisler spent 10 years with the federal Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, collaborating on historic properties of national significance. She joined HPA in 2005. Named associate at the firm were Martha Runkle, LEED GA, Nate Huyler, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, and Eric Doner, LEED GA. Runkle, marketing manager, is responsible for the creation of the firm’s responses to proposals, graphic design initiatives, maintenance of various social media platforms and related business development efforts. She has a Bachelor of Science degree from Villanova University and joined the firm in 2011 after relocating from Philadelphia, where she served as the marketing coordinator at a national urban design and landscape architecture firm. Huyler, an architect, specializes in the field of sustainability. He received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Syracuse University and is a registered architect in Colorado. Prior to joining HPA, he collaborated with several Denver area firms in the creation of a notable portfolio of sustainable projects. He joined the firm in 2013. He will provide leadership of the firm’s sustainability practice as the director of sustainability, overseeing the creation of project goals and parameters for all projects. Doner has been part of the growth of the firm’s multifamily housing practice and in the implementation of digital design tools in its practice. Prior to joining HPA, Doner received his Master of Architecture degree from the University of Colorado Denver after earning a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Colorado State University. -Kristoffer Kenton, AIA, NCARD, LEED AP, was named Galloway’s newest partner. Kenton has more than 17 years of experience with an expansive range of project types, including mixed-use, retail, master planning, office, industrial and largescale parking facilities, as well as a variety of commercial uses with construction budgets ranging from $50,000 to $350 million. Kenton, director of architecture for the planning, architecture and engineering firm, has grown Galloway’s architecture department since joining the firm in 2014. -Brett Jacques was named associate at Van Meter Williams Pollack, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Jacques joined the architecture and urban planning firm in 2005, and as a designer, project manager and project architect, he has been involved in every phase of built projects designed by the Denver office, including 7133 West Virginia apartments at Belmar and the Botanica Eastbridge in Stapleton. As an architect, he oversees multifamily urban housing projects from schematic design through construction administration. Currently, he’s working on Morrison Place, a seven-building, 197-unit affordable housing development in Denver; iUnit, a 40-unit modular housing project in Denver; and Park Place Olde Town, a 153-unit, market-rate rental project in Arvada. He earned a bachelor’s degree in architecture at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. -RNL recently promoted Ryan Dawson, AIA, and Matt Shawaker to associate principals. Sean Feeney, AIA, LEED AP; Merina Irfano; Sarah McGarry, IIDA, LEED AP ID+C; Rene Stremel, NCIDQ, LEED AP ID+C; and Tony Thornton, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, have been promoted to senior associates. Jonathan Flager, RA, NCARB; David Korell; Brian Milnick, RA; Emily Richards, IIDA, LEED AP ID+C; Michael Robichaud, RA, LEED AP BD+C; Ian Roth, AIA, LEED AP; and Molly Weismantel, LEED AP BD+C, were named associates at the full-service design firm. Dawson has been a member of RNL since 2004. He has a diverse range of computer design, illustration and presentation skills. His work includes office buildings, hotels, mixed-use, commercial, high-rise residential, and administration-operationsmaintenance complexes for municipal utilities, public works and transportation clients. Currently Dawson is working on the Denver Water Campus redevelopment project. Shawaker is an urban designer in the firm’s Urban Design/ Landscape Architecture Studio. He has more than 15 years of experience in the planning and urban design of sustainable mixed-use, community infill and development projects. He has led projects beginning with master planning and entitlements, through the detailed design of streetscapes and public spaces. His recent projects include the St. Anthony Central Campus Redevelopment Master Plan and the Brighton Boulevard Streetscape Revitalization Study. -Stuart Coppedge, AIA, was elected 2016-2017 treasurer of the American Institute of Architects. Coppedge has held numerous AIA leadership roles, beginning in 2005, when he served as AIA Colorado South president, then AIA Colorado treasurer, AIA Colorado president and AIA Western Mountain Region secretary. He then represented the six-state WMR from 2012 to 2014 as a member of the AIA National board of directors, serving on the finance and audit committee as well as leading a select nationwide group focused on cultural transformation within the AIA. Coppedge is a principal at RTA Architects, an architecture, planning and interior design firm based in Colorado Springs. -Rowland+Broughton Architecture added four new team members to its studios in Aspen and Denver. Carol Way Cisco, Allied ASID, LEED AP ID+C, joined as senior interior designer in Aspen, Chelsea Lawrence as interior designer in Denver, Nicholas Massman, LEED GA, as architectural designer in Aspen and Timothy C. Owen as architectural designer in Aspen. Cisco, relocating from Illinois, most recently was principal of Signature interiors + studio. Prior to that, she spent 20-plus years as director of interior design for an international design-build team, during which time she personally designed and project managed 40 designbuild hospitality, residential and commercial projects. She also founded Designing for Veterans, a nonprofit focused on aiding wounded heroes. She spent her undergraduate years at the University of Northern California and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in interior design from the Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago. Lawrence most recently worked at Davis Partnership Architects on projects including Ptarmigan Place at Cherry Creek, LoHi Multi Family Residence and the Denver West Corporate Campus. She graduated magna cum laude from Colorado State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in interior design with a concentration in construction management. Massman joined the Aspen studio, where a position designed to provide professional direction and mentorship was created specifically for him. Most recently, he worked at Poss Architecture + Planning in Aspen. Before that, he garnered experience in restaurant, office, retail, military, public works, mixed-use, transportation, urban planning, religious and entertainment fields during several years as architect II at Black & Veatch Federal Services Division in Virginia. He received his Master of Architecture from Kansas State University with a concentration in sustainability and urban planning. Owen brings his Revit skills to the Aspen studio to further the firm’s technological capabilities. Most recently, he worked at Poss Architecture + Planning, where he assisted in Revit training and standards review. Owen is a graduate of Virginia Tech, earning a Master of Architecture degree and a bachelor’s degree in geography with a concentration in geospatial and environmental analysis. He also received construction experience with the Rural Studio Outreach Program in Newbern, Alabama, and Layne’s Carpentry in Avondale, Pennsylvania.