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EwingCole is an American integrated architecture, engineering, interior design and planning firm founded in 1961 as Alexander Ewing[1] & Associates.[2] Headquartered in Philadelphia, with offices in Charlotte, North Carolina, Irvine, California, New York City, New York, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Raleigh, North Carolina, the firm provides services for project types including academic, corporate, cultural, government, healthcare, science + technology and sports & entertainment. They have worked on projects across the United States and internationally in countries such as Afghanistan, Germany and Japan.
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States or America, is a country composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions. At 3.8 million square miles, the United States is the world's third or fourth largest country by total area and is slightly smaller than the entire continent of Europe's 3.9 million square miles. With a population of over 327 million people, the U.S. is the third most populous country. The capital is Washington, D.C., and the largest city by population is New York City. Forty-eight states and the capital's federal district are contiguous in North America between Canada and Mexico. The State of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east and across the Bering Strait from Russia to the west. The State of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U.S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, stretching across nine official time zones. The extremely diverse geography, climate, and wildlife of the United States make it one of the world's 17 megadiverse countries.
Architecture is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing buildings or any other structures. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols and as works of art. Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements.
Engineering is the application of knowledge in the form of science, mathematics, and empirical evidence, to the innovation, design, construction, operation and maintenance of structures, machines, materials, devices, systems, processes, and organizations. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of applied mathematics, applied science, and types of application. See glossary of engineering.
In 1958, the George M. Ewing[3] Co.[4] was retained by Rohm and Haas (since 2009 a subsidiary of Dow Chemical Company) to design the expansion and renovation of their corporate headquarters in Philadelphia. George Ewing’s son, Alexander, a partner in his father’s firm, was assigned to the project; Rohm and Haas designated their in-house architect, Stanley Cole,[5] to serve as professional aide to the management committee overseeing the project.
Rohm and Haas Company is a manufacturer of speciality chemicals for end use markets such as building and construction, electronic devices, packaging, household and personal care products. Headquartered in Philadelphia, the company is organised into three business groups of Specialty Materials, Performance Materials and Electronic Materials, and also has two stand-alone businesses of Powder Coatings and Salt. Formerly a Fortune 500 Company, Rohm and Haas employs more than 17,000 people in 27 countries, with its last sales revenue reported as an independent company at US$8.9 billion. Dow Chemical Company bought Rohm and Haas for $15 billion in 2009.
The Dow Chemical Company, commonly referred to as Dow, was an American multinational chemical corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan, United States, and the predecessor of the merged company DowDuPont. In 2017, prior to the merger, it was the second-largest chemical manufacturer in the world by revenue and the third-largest chemical company in the world by market capitalization. It ranked second in the world by chemical production in 2014.
Stanley M. Cole was an American architect and principal of the EwingCole architectural firm. Cole was the chief architect and designer of Citizens Bank Park, which opened on April 3, 2004, as the home of the Philadelphia Phillies.
During the early stages of design, however, it became clear that the existing site near Washington Square would not satisfy the company’s needs. Rohm and Haas worked with the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority to exchange their existing property for a key site on Independence Mall just across 6th Street from the Liberty Bell. The exchange was beneficial to the city as well as to Rohm and Haas because the project ignited the subsequent further development of the Mall.[6]
The Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority, with the legal name of "Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority", was created by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Urban Redevelopment Law of 1945. It is known locally as "the PRA." Until the Fall of 2011 it was known as the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia (RDA).
Independence Mall is a three-block section of Independence National Historical Park (INHP) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It lies directly north of Independence Hall, and is bounded by Chestnut, Race, 5th and 6th Streets. The south block is called the First Block, the middle block is called the Second Block, and the north block is called the Third Block.
The Liberty Bell is an iconic symbol of American independence, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Once placed in the steeple of the Pennsylvania State House, the bell today is located in the Liberty Bell Center in Independence National Historical Park. The bell was commissioned in 1752 by the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly from the London firm of Lester and Pack, and was cast with the lettering "Proclaim LIBERTY Throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants Thereof", a Biblical reference from the Book of Leviticus (25:10). The bell first cracked when rung after its arrival in Philadelphia, and was twice recast by local workmen John Pass and John Stow, whose last names appear on the bell. In its early years the bell was used to summon lawmakers to legislative sessions and to alert citizens about public meetings and proclamations.
In order to ease City Art Commission approval for design on such a prominent site, Stanley recommended adding renowned architect Pietro Belluschi to the team as design consultant. The resulting design was lauded for its respect to the nearby park and historic buildings; Philadelphia's city planners praised the Rohm and Haas Corporate Headquarters as a standard for all redevelopment buildings.[7] (The experience was so successful that the Belluschi, Ewing and Cole collaborated again in the late 1960s[8] on the University Lutheran Center;[9] in the early 1970s, Belluschi, then a consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank in Washington, DC, recommended EwingCole for the design of the new headquarters of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
Pietro Belluschi was an Italian architect, a leader of the Modern Movement in architecture, and was responsible for the design of over 1,000 buildings.
The Rohm and Haas Corporate Headquarters in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States was built as the headquarters for the former chemical manufacturing company Rohm and Haas. Completed in 1964, the building was the first private investment for the urban renewal of the Independence Mall area. Only two blocks from Independence Hall the building, designed by Pietro Belluschi and George M. Ewing Co., was lauded for its respect to the nearby park and historical buildings. Philadelphia's city planners praised the Rohm and Haas Corporate Headquarters as a standard for all redevelopment buildings.
A Federal Reserve Bank is a regional bank of the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States. There are twelve in total, one for each of the twelve Federal Reserve Districts that were created by the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. The banks are jointly responsible for implementing the monetary policy set forth by the Federal Open Market Committee, and are divided as follows:
Stanley Cole served as project manager until the completion of the Rohm and Haas project, when he joined Alexander Ewing & Associates. Cole, Michael P. Erdman[10] and Joseph P. Eubank[11] became partners in 1970, and the firm was renamed Ewing Cole Erdman & Eubank.[12] By 1979, Robert Cherry[13] and Robert Parsky[14] had succeeded Erdman and Eubank in Ewing Cole Cherry Parsky;[15] this partnership continued until 1992, when Parsky’s departure resulted in Ewing Cole Cherry.[16] In 1993, M. Paul Brott[17] (who had worked in the Washington, DC office of the George M. Ewing Company from 1960–1978, rising to the level of partner) became Chairman and CEO of Ewing Cole Cherry Brott.[18] Following the death of Paul Brott and the departure of Bob Cherry, the firm emerged in 2003 as EwingCole.
Growth and expansion
EwingCole, in the interest of serving federal government clients, opened its Washington, DC office in 1995.[19] In 2002, the firm added an office in Irvine, CA.[20]
In 2009, Robert D. Lynn Associates (RDLA)[21] combined with EwingCole. A 40-person firm, RDLA brought a portfolio of healthcare projects which complemented EwingCole’s own healthcare design experience.[22][23]
John Gerbner, AIA, became President and COO of EwingCole in 2005.[26]
S. Mark Hebden, AIA, LEED AP, succeeded Gerbner as President in 2011.[27]
In 2017, the firm transitioned to a three-person leadership team: Jared Loos, PE, AIA; Robert McConnell, AIA, and Keith Fallon, RA. [28]
Focus on sustainability
EwingCole’s integrates sustainable design into all aspects of its work, including conservation of natural resources, renewable energy, and land-use planning. Many of the company's projects are LEED rated or certified.
EwingCole led the development of the US Navy’s first sustainable facility in 1998. Their efforts in designing Federal projects positioned for LEED-certified accreditation crosses all areas of practice and continues through the development of net zero energy facilities.
EwingCole's work has been recognized by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and other industry organizations for their designs in entertainment, healthcare, higher education, corporate and commercial sectors.
Notable designs
A number of EwingCole works and clients have received national recognition. In 2015, the White House announced that the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center's Charles McC. Mathias Laboratory was one of eight recipients to receive the GreenGov Presidential Award.[29] President Obama cited Geisinger Health System as a model for healthcare reform in the early stages of his efforts to pass the Affordable Care Act.[30]
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