The short month of February created long-term impact for our clients. Below are highlights of HGA projects reaching new milestones.
Award
Marlboro Music’s Reich Hall was selected as a winner of Architect Magazine’s annual Architecture and Interior Design Awards. The awards honor outstanding commercial architecture and interior design that inspires joy and fosters community growth. With over 200 entries worldwide, 19 winners were selected in the categories of Honors, Merit, and Honorable Mentions. Reich Hall was selected as a Merit winner in the Cultural category. With a design inspired by a Cape Cod cottage, Reich Hall captures the spirit of Marlboro in the Vermont Green Mountains. Born of necessity with an aesthetic of restraint, this simple gabled form is closely tied to Marlboro’s identity and served as the project’s design template. The building’s small footprint, sloped roofs, compact volumes, and local materials reinforce its place within the lush rolling hills and streams. Read the full award story here.
Groundbreaking
HGA took part in a groundbreaking ceremony for the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center Child, Adolescent, and Adult Behavioral Health Services Center in San Jose. The new center will offer world-class behavioral health facilities for multi-generational patients in a safe and therapeutic environment. The center will consolidate behavioral health services and offer expanded services to meet the growing demand for behavioral health care for Santa Clara County residents and surrounding communities. Key spaces within the complex will include an inpatient behavioral health hospital, outpatient urgent care for minors and adults, emergency psychiatric services with separate secured ambulance entry bays and treatment spaces for minors and adults, and a shared pharmacy. The new facility is expected to be complete in Fall of 2025. Read groundbreaking press release here.
Recently Photographed
During the pandemic, the owner of Tandem, a restaurant designed by HGA in 2016, turned her space into a food kitchen providing thousands of meals to those in need in historically marginalized neighborhoods in Milwaukee. After two years, she decided to take a break and turned the restaurant over to a well-known BIPOC entrepreneur. The new owner, Rosetta, previously cooked and served soul food from her home, just a block away. HGA engaged with Rosetta to modify and rebrand the space to fit her vision for the new 1700 Pull Up restaurant. A new color scheme supplemented the extensive historic wood and mosaic tile floor, from the original construction in 1893. New banquette seating, light fixtures and ceiling fans helped to upgrade the space. The most notable change was the replacement of the existing bar top, for a more comfortable dining experience. View more images here.
Evolve Church worked with HGA to convert a former furniture store into their new place of worship in Milwaukee. The project was initially set to include a large sanctuary and open space for the community to gather. The scope was expanded first when Evolve decided to add a children’s wing, dance studio, and a large indoor play area, and again when the church opted to turn the coffee station into a large coffee shop to serve as a training tool for job creation. The design features cost effective building products used in creative ways, such as acoustical ceiling clouds, angled to moderate the offset nature of the floor plan. In the central open space, light fixtures form a cross on the floor, drawing visitors to the sanctuary’s entrance. A similar chevron pattern appears in wood cladding at the main entrance and the entrance to the sanctuary. View more images here.
Completed Projects
HGA recently completed a renovation of the MRI Suite at South Shore Hospital—a leading provider of emergency, acute, and outpatient care in Southeastern Massachusetts. The new suite includes two MRIs and was designed to enhance the patient experience and improve staff satisfaction, while replacing aging equipment to allow for a projected increase in patient volume. Designed during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, our team worked closely with hospital leaders to implement strategies that improve patient and staff safety. The reception area incorporates glass screens and was designed to accommodate spaced-out seating for patients. The new suite increases employee efficiency while supporting the staff’s needs for respite and rejuvenation. See the project overview here.
People’s Center Clinics & Services, a community-based healthcare organization, worked with HGA to remodel their clinic to better serve the Riverside community in Minneapolis. The four-story building, built in the early 1900’s, once housed an elementary school, a veterinary clinic, more recently, a theater space and a family practice clinic. The project includes walk-in, dental, mental health, and family practice clinics with specialists in pediatric care and Women’s Health. Improvements were made to the waiting and reception spaces, existing staff spaces and exam rooms. New spaces were added for staff teaming areas, lab spaces, medication rooms, a prayer room, a staff break area with a mother’s room, a call center, executive offices, and a board room. Creative touches were added with wall graphics and art from the local community to add vibrancy to the interiors. See the project overview here.
Dohmen Company Foundation relocated their headquarters to the Bronzeville neighborhood of Milwaukee to create a unified front, advocating for food equity and preventing diet-related disease in the area they serve. The Foundation worked with HGA to transform a historic building into a space to welcome the community, serve as a productive workplace, and improve the health of their clients and the neighborhood. Completed in October 2022, the restoration brought back the original character of the building through reproduction of the fenestrations, restoration of the floors, and exposing and highlighting hidden iron work. Skylights were added to maximize access to daylight and offices were positioned for equal access to shared spaces. The first floor includes a demonstration kitchen, an exercise room, exam rooms, and flexible and open community space.
About HGA
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