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Originally Posted by vexxed82
Ha, see this was my original thought. So if Gang dreams/draws up the initial design, and the engineering firms figure out the math to make it a reality - I'm just curious when/how bKL comes into the picture. I'm sure they work well together seeing as though bKL is in Gang's building and in an office next to Magellan.
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Ok…I'll take a stab at this:
The tasks performed by architects and/or other members of a design team multiple and varied. Most simply a design team is composed of Architects and Engineers. Just as the Engineering team is broken up into structural engineers/mechanical engineers/civil engineers (and so on), the architectural team can similarly be broken up into parts. Sometimes on a project you will hear them referred to as Design Architects and Technical Architects or sometimes Design Architect and Architect of Record. The “of Record” part is mostly tied to who is actually on the permitting documents and dealing with all that hell.
Design Architects, obviously, focus more on design elements for a new project. This is probably the classic perception of what an architect does.
But on a Design Team, the Architects are basically the team leaders. They do most of the interfacing with the client/owner. They compile/coordinate/review all other disciplines drawings with the architecture and each other. They deal with permitting the building architecturally and help to pull together the engineering needs for permits as well. They have a large roll in construction, interfacing with the contractor, reviewing submittals and coordinating submittal reviews that the engineers have to do...etc. There is alot more, but you get the idea.
So basically the design work is done by the Design Studio, but alot of the managing and coordination work is done by a different team architecturally. This can be done in the same firm, if its big enough, but in the case of a Star-chitect usually their firm is not large enough to have all the people and expertise to take a project from Design Development all the way to opening day. My guess is that, since bKL has done alot of work in this area and with Magellean, they will be doing the project management/permitting/coordination on the project supported by Gangs team for vision and design.
The RAMSA building in streeterville is like this with GREC as AOR. The Modern Wing was like this with Renzo Piano working with Interactive...etc.
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