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GP’s first Denver project, 1900 Lawrence | Denver, Colorado, led by Riverside Investment & Development Company, is nearing completion! Designed to provide seamless connections between indoor and outdoor spaces throughout, the building features a stepped massing that helps facilitate this integration. The shifts in the building open a total of 11 private tenant terraces, and a tenant lounge on Level 7 leads to a larger communal amenity terrace that features views of the Front Range, Coors Field and Skyline Park. The building lobby is designed as an extension of the outdoor space, with a highly transparent glass façade that makes the interior and exterior spaces read as one. The back of the lobby features a full-height, folded travertine wall, which resembles the nearby mountains.

GP recently celebrated the official groundbreaking for the Taichung High-Speed Rail Mixed-Use Center. Conveniently located at the nexus of a highway, metro and high-speed rail lines along the west coast of Taiwan, the expansive site of this 400,000-square-meter mixed-use development is just southwest of the city of Taichung. The 15-hectare project site features a D-One retail and entertainment center, designed by Benoy, along with two towers by GP.   Designed to complement the overall TOD complex, the two towers are integrated with the retail and entertainment center. A five-star hotel sits atop the retail center to the north, elongated in the direction of highway traffic, with a large central atrium overlooking the retail rooftop circulation. A multitenant office tower rises on the southeast corner of the site, closer to commuter rail lines. Like the hotel, a language of wrapping vertical piers frames a structure of diagonal bronze, bracing against seismic loads, and relating to interior atria and green space. The tower design was inspired by the verticality of bamboo forests and the horizontal steps of terraced, agricultural hillsides. Together these concepts speak to the lush green mountains of Taiwan and were the point of departure for the linear and vegetated facades.

Two GP projects were honored as 2024 CREDAWARD winners at a formal ceremony held on July 7. Earning a Gold Award in the Comprehensive Commercial Project category, China Resources Qianhai Center is a mixed-use complex in Shenzhen China, that covers 6.18 hectares and includes five towers totaling nearly 472,000 square meters. Receiving a Silver Award in the same category, Conrad Shenzhen is a new 300-key luxury hotel that features cascading amenity floors and landscaped roof gardens along its western side, oriented to provide views of the adjacent green belt and Qianhai Bay. The China Real Estate & Design Award (CREDAWARD) program was started in 2014, dedicated to recognizing outstanding projects from the perspectives of both real estate and design. See the full list of winners on the CREDAWARD website: https://lnkd.in/gG2FeqsN. 

Last week, GP principal Erik Harris, AIA NCARB, served as the chair and emcee for the Chicago Committee on High-Rise Buildings (CCHRB) 2024 Scholarship Seminar on Façade Design, Material Research and Embodied Carbon, which was held at the Aon Center Auditorium. GP’s John Campbell, AIA, and Katie Maciejko, AIA, LEED AP, WELL AP, CDT, presented the case study “Build Better: Façade Design and Embodied Carbon,” with other speakers sharing a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the thinking and approaches in the rapidly evolving field of Sustainability, with an emphasis on tall buildings.

GP is a proud sponsor of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) 2024 International Conference, taking place in London and Paris on September 23–27. This year’s theme, New or Renew, explores the choice between new buildings and cities, or the adaptation of the existing for the sake of environmental, economic and social sustainability. GP Partner and Design Director Paul De Santis, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, is serving as a juror for the Future Project Award category, and Principal Vladimir Andrejevic, AIA, will present Alcove Nashville, an Award of Excellence recipient in the Best Tall Building 100-199 meters category. #NewOrRenew

Alcove Nashville, GP’s first project in Nashville, Tennessee, was honored with an Award of Excellence in the Best Tall Building 100-199 meters category, as part of the 2024 CTBUH Awards. Sponsored by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), the annual awards program recognizes extraordinary contributions to the advancement of tall buildings and the urban environment. Projects, innovations and practices are recognized in more than 20 categories and subcategories, including best tall building, urban habitat, innovation, repositioning, construction and structure, among others. Alcove is positioned on a prime site in downtown Nashville, adjacent to the 17-acre, Amazon-anchored Nashville Yards development. The new 34-story, 419-foot-tall apartment tower includes 356 units. The building features such amenities as a fitness room, rooftop game room, two pools and several communal alcoves. GP designed the building as well as the interiors. The building is composed as a series of stacked, shifted cubes organized in pairs on four levels. The unique arrangement opens up inner sections of the building and allows for unique views and alcoves. The tower footprint maximizes the site, with the building providing 32 studios, 224 one-bedroom units and 100 two-bedroom units. Two second-floor units have adjoining, private outdoor terraces. The building façade uses an intricate window wall featuring two varying shades of glazed metal panels, which frame floor-to-ceiling glass for each unit. The project will be presented as part of the CTBUH International Conference taking place in London this September, and a full list of this year’s honorees can be found on the CTBUH website: https://lnkd.in/eWHAgPFN.

Congratulations to Alcove Nashville, which recently received the ULI Nashville Excellence in Development Award! The ULI Nashville awards showcase projects that are outstanding in terms of architecture, financial success and land use, as well as their impact on the community. Special congratulations to developer Giarratana for creating this new landmark in Nashville, along with the entire project team!

On May 16, GP participated in the 41st annual JPMorgan Chase & Co. Corporate Challenge – the world's largest corporate running event – with the Chicago race taking place along the lakefront in Grant Park. This year, there were 15 GP colleagues who ran the 3.5-mile race, and the firm placed 3rd among all architecture and engineering groups. The race benefited Hope Chicago, which is a new multigenerational economic mobility initiative focused on enhancing the future of Chicago’s students, families and communities through debt-free higher education completion at scale. Congratulations to all who participated!

GP proudly support’s this year’s ACE Mentor Chicago “Team One” students who recently presented their final project at Illinois Institute of Technology. The students “Shoreline Design” challenge lasted 17 weeks, in which they developed a hypothetical master plan for a sensitive waterfront area with a rising sea level risk. An enormous thank you to the entire ACE Mentor program, the student participants and our fellow “Team One” mentors, including GP staff Ryan Hergott, John Campbell, Elizabeth Schneider, AIA, CWA, and Marcus McLin, CDT, along with Stantec, Sargent & Lundy, and Valenti, who gave their time and commitment to support such an important cause. This year, ACE Mentor Chicago handed out awards including $156,000 in college scholarships to graduating seniors, 37 full-time, paid summer internships, 3 externships, 20 spots in Construction Camp, 26 spots in the Design Build Workshop, and 4 spots in college architecture + engineering summer camps from University of Illinois Chicago, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign + Illinois Institute of Technology.

Engineering News-Record recently featured a construction update on Brookfield Zoo Chicago’s Tropical Forests exhibit, designed by Goettsch Partners, along with in-depth interviews with the project team. The new exhibit will include four outdoor areas that, along with a new Gorilla Conservation Center, will encompass just over 3 acres. The outdoor exhibit will feature habitats for two gorilla groups: a family unit and a bachelor group made up of adult and adolescent males. There will also be separate spaces for orangutans and South American monkeys. To read the full story, see https://lnkd.in/gdBuvrfw.