Forum Studio and Mayer Hasbani – Mixed-Use Buildings

MIXED-USE BUILDINGS

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FORUM STUDIO AND MAYER HASBANI ARE PROUD TO ANNOUNCE A STRATEGIC ALLIANCE, ROOTED IN A SET OF SHARED VALUES, COMPLEMENTARY DESIGN APPROACH, AND A LONG AND FRUITFUL FRIENDSHIP.

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By collaborating across borders and disciplines, our partnership will deliver compelling and iconic architecture to commercial clients in Latin America and beyond.

Forum Studio is a full-service architecture firm distinguished by its thoughtful and rigorous approach to contemporary design challenges. The firm’s leaders have worked with some of the world’s top corporate clients on complex and critical projects, from headquarters that transform the operations of Fortune 500 brands to flexible workplaces that support the ambitions of emerging entrepreneurs. Regardless of scale, Forum Studio conducts in-depth marketplace research and design discovery that leads to unique, right-sized solutions. Recognized by multiple awards and publications, Forum Studio is among the world’s leading design experts.

In Mayer Hasbani, Forum Studio has found a likeminded partner. Founded by a prominent Mexico City-based architect and development expert, the firm quickly established a reputation for innovative, high-quality work. Its portfolio of residential and commercial work features bold design, inventive materiality, and a commitment to delivering value to the end-user. Additionally, given its history of working in the region, Mayer Hasbani has gained remarkable insight into developing, designing, and building projects in Latin America.

Together, Forum Studio and Mayer Hasbani are uniquely suited to work in the exciting, dynamic Latin American marketplace. Clients will benefit from a seamless partnership, with the leadership of both firms focused on client service and a straightforward process. The firms’ leaders have already collaborated formally and informally on major work throughout Mexico. Now, with an exclusive alliance, the firms will leverage their combined experience to design signature projects in collaboration with the region’s most discerning clients.

Jay Longo President, Forum Studio

Jennifer Park Principal, Forum Studio

Mayer Hasbani Partner, Mayer Hasbani

Arturo Perez Rivera Partner, Mayer Hasbani

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ORGANIZATION The Forum Studio and Mayer Hasbani strategic alliance has deep expertise and experience in delivering complex projects throughout the world. The leadership team of Jay Longo, Mayer Hasbani, Jennifer Park, and Arturo Perez Rivera work in close collaboration, sharing client communication, architectural design, and project management responsibilities.

Meyer Hasbani lends valuable insight into local market conditions, policy issues, and executional and operational context. Forum Studio leads research and design efforts based on a thorough understanding of global industry trends, innovative design and fabrication processes, and the needs of complex commercial clients.

Forum Studio

Global expertise

Mayer Hasbani

Local professional

PROCESS The Forum Studio and Meyer Hasbani strategic alliance has a seamless creative process which leverages the team’s global expertise, local knowledge, and technology to research, conceive, and deliver world-class design. The leadership team will remain intimately involved in all stages of the process.

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Design

Construction

Forum Studio is a next-generation design practice that harnesses the power of innovation and collaboration to solve complex challenges.

We serve a diverse range of national and international clients, leveraging our expertise in architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, urban planning and engineering.

MAYER HASBANI is a young firm that creates functional, aesthetic and innovative spaces that address our clients’ needs at the same time their stimulating design helps enhance quality-of-life.

Reflection as well as rigorous architectural and urban analysis— executed before any project is undertaken—are key elements of our work process. We are interested in establishing a dialogue with the environments into which our work is situated, to place it into context and discover its corresponding integrated design solutions.

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INNOVATIVE THINKING

a family of experts At Forum Studio, we provide responsive, responsible and respected architectural, interiors, landscape architecture, urban design, and planning solutions for our clients by creating great environments for their customers and communities.

Design thinking Forum Studio delivers more than a building. Rather, the exploratory process, marked by thoughtful research and creative insights, produces tangible value for the client.

Investment in experimentation Forum Studio is continually searching for new and better materials, processes, and partnerships. It experiments with fabrication techniques and prototypes multiple solutions throughout the design process.

Advanced technology Forum Studio embraces technology in the office and in the field. It develops custom applications and incorporates practices from other disciplines in order to improve knowledge-sharing, ensure efficiency, and expedite delivery.

Collaboration Working with colleagues from across the Clayco family, Forum Studio accesses a wide range of expertise in real estate, engineering, construction, materials science, and other disciplines.

Additionally, Forum Studio collaborates widely with technologists, visual artists, biologists, anthropologists and others who bring a fresh perspective to design.

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landscape architecture

sustainability

BIM

urban design

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INNOVATIVE THINKING

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across continents, across scales From boutique showrooms to high-rise headquarters, from pocket parks to regional masterplans, from the smallest detail to the grandest vision, Forum Studio’s design responds to every scale.

Forum Studio’s full-service, integrated approach ensures that a right-sized design solution addresses the unique challenges of every project.

Left A masterplan for approximately 4080 hectares of land in Quizanga, a town on the outskirts of Recife, Brazil

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EXPERT APPROACH

Forum Integrated Thinking

We founded our design firm to be that single forum that would bring together all of the capabilities of the master builder in a collaborative, creative, and inclusive process. We convene the needed expertise, when it is needed, at our table.

Beyond the disciplines of Architecture and Interior Design, our team boasts world-class talent in Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning & Design.

Further, we regularly partner with experts, from economists to biologists, to expand our capabilities and benefits to our clients. Forum Studio is where trust creates the time and space for innovation.

architecture

interior architecture

landscape architecture

urban planning & design

Programming

Interior Architecture

Site Design

Mixed-Use Development

Functional Planning

Programming

Campus Design

Town Centers

Site Integration

Space Planning

Urban Parks + Public Spaces

Conceptual Design

Workplace Strategy

Greenways + Waterfronts

Sustainability Systems

Change Management

Parks + Trails

Urban Revitalization

Value Design

Sustainability Systems

Plazas + Public Spaces

Brownfield Development

Building Systems Technologies

Tenant Improvements

Green Roofs

Design Guidelines

Facility Management

Sculptures + Memorials

Construction Documents

Interior Systems Technologies

Restorative Gardens

Visioning + Strategic Planning

BIM + VDC

Plazas + Streetscapes

Acoustic + Lighting Design

Storm Water Strategies

Building Representation

FF&E Procurement

Ecosystem Restoration

Regional + Community Planning

Commissioning

Interiors Representation

Product Design

Master Planning

Post Occupancy Evaluation

Post-Occupancy Evaluation

Campus Planning Site Planning + Design Regulatory Agency Approval Public Engagement Portfolio Optimization

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Sustainability is an integral part of how we practice. Embracing the principles of green design, we have established an active program that helps to educate our clients about the value of sustainably designed and built facilities, including the pursuit of LEED certification.

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE GROUP

BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING

Quality control and consistency are traditional hallmarks of design and construction’s best practices. With our focus on next practices, we are integrating an experienced cadre of planners, architects, and engineers, who know how to maximize construction quality and minimize costs, into our team of holistic problem solvers.

BIM is but one of several powerful programs within the Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) toolbox.

More than simply a 3D representation of project and a phenomenal storehouse of building information, BIM technology facilitates the collaboration that is essential for integrated project delivery.

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OUR PERSPECTIVE

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the nature of cities CHIP CRAWFORD

CHIP CRAWFORD SENIOR PRINCIPAL

Looking back, it was interesting that throughout recent election years, in debate after debate, the most impactful asset we have—our cities—has not been a topic on any candidate’s agenda. On the other hand, at the CEO’s for Cities conference held in Boston, Ed Glaeser, professor of economics at Harvard, gave an amazing talk about the impact of cities on the development of human capital, our most optimistic driver of innovation, and ultimately our economic destiny. There seems to be no learning substitute for bumping into one another and sharing what we know. Density does matter, and clearly the greater the density, the more opportunities for innovation.

As a landscape architect and urban designer, this is where I live. I see the role of cities as the ultimate convener, the reason why and how people from all walks of life come together and collectively share their experiences, and achieve great things. Still I wonder where is nature in this equation? It seems so short sighted to skip the ‘Motherof-all-mentors’. I would argue that the density or connectivity to nature, is just as much a catalyst of innovation as human density (and then some!). Innovation is not just a human-to-human benefit. There is as much, if not more, to learn from interaction with the natural systems in our cities and nature’s 3.8 billion years of managing complexity.

...connectivity to nature, is just as much a catalyst of innovation as human density... one of our biggest project teams including professionals from all disciplines, with a biomimicry strategist to evaluate our current designs through nature’s design lens. What came out of the session was the profound realization that we can be doing so much more to leverage synergies, optimize the complex systems instead of maximizing them, and better integrate our work into the natural genius of the place. All it took was just a slight shift in perspective to open a world of new opportunities for this project and our client.

Our work with Bimimicry 3.8 has taught us that we have it all right here at our fingertips.

We have these amazing places, our cities.

We have access to incredible information about them. And we have 3.8 billion years of nature’s wisdom in solving the very same challenges that we face. So we’ve set our sights to achieve a new level of urbanism that recognizes both the benefits of human interaction, as well as the incredible benefits of nature’s genius.

The solutions to building great cities are right here, all around us.

At Forum Studio, we’ve been focused on how we can better design for the new realities of the ways people live, work, and play. Taking cues from nature’s genius is our next big thing. Most recently, we convened

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FORUM EXPERIENCE

600 Washington Avenue OFFICE BUILDING

A combination of a new office tower lobby, and primary entry reoriented to front on Washington Avenue with new exterior cladding, repositions this mixed-use redevelopment in the revitalized Mercantile Exchange District.

LOCATION ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI SIZE RETAIL/LOBBY 100,000 SF GARAGE 360,000 SF SERVICES PROVIDED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE

Occupying a full city block in the city center, this project is the new eastern anchor of the burgeoning downtown commercial and residential neighborhood. The urban-focused design reorients the 25-floor, Class-A corporate tower to Washington Avenue with an expanded entry and lobby gallery. The base also includes doubleheight, street-front retail and open-air public plazas. The exterior faรงades were completely redesigned with combinations of colored and fritted glass, metal panels, and stone. Triple-story, vertical gardens and sculpture walks are incorporated to enhance the outdoor plazas.

Using sustainable design principles, the building strategy includes retaining eighty percent of the existing structure. The lobby finishes include Calacatta Oro and Amora blue marble, wood, and terrazzo.

The attached mixed-use parking garage/retail center is a redevelopment of an existing urban mall providing 750 parking spaces and 85,000 SF of street-level retail, including redesigned exterior faรงades.

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Park East URBAN MIXED-USE RESIDENTIAL BUILDING

This building was the first high-rise residential tower built in St. Louis in over 25 years.

LOCATION ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI SIZE 250,000 SF 90 UNITS, 24 STORIES 10,000 SF RETAIL 140-CAR PARKING GARAGE SERVICES PROVIDED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

This building is located in the heart of the Central West End, adjacent to Forest Park, Washington and St. Louis Universities, as well as the BJC & Washington University Medical Center.

A growing demand for quality condominiums successfully resulted in this 90-unit, 24-story tower. The base of the tower accommodates the building services, street-oriented retail and secure parking for the homeowners.

An expressed ground level for the lobby and shop fronts transitions to precast limestone and concrete panels that wrap the podium element and respond to the historic context of adjacent buildings, which was great concern to homeowners and city planners in this important historic district. The podium then transitions to an all-glass clad tower sheathed in a light green tinted glass that responds to the plan configuration and the building step backs at various building levels.

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Center on Halsted COMMUNITY CENTER AND RETAIL

Mixed-use community center emphasizes inclusivity and openness.

LOCATION CHICAGO, ILLINOIS SIZE 180,000 SF SERVICES PROVIDED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

The Chicago-area GLBT (Gays, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender) community is one of the best organized in the country. When it was time to replace its aging Horizons Community Center, Chicago’s GLBT leadership saw it as a dual opportunity: First, to build a co-working space for as many as 40 different service organizations that tend to the needs of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.

Second, to cater to the needs of the entire neighborhood, regardless of an individual’s sexual preference, by bringing in a gourmet grocer.

The result is the Center on Halsted. The 180,000-square-foot project is essentially new construction that also restores the façade of a historic brick building. Whole Foods Market occupies the portion of the project defined by the historic brick, while the Center on Halsted uses the corner to maximize its street-level presence.

The corner first-floor lobby is shared by both the Center on Halsted and Whole Foods. The space offers a safe and unlabeled environment to eat and learn. Second and third floors are used by The Center on Halsted for its tenants, services and programs. The center also houses an entertainment venue, café, technology center, gymnasium and community gathering spaces.

The Center on Halsted has earned a LEED Silver rating, for items such as, reclaiming rainwater through a rainwater harvesting system, reusing the historic façade and salvaged bricks from the structure for the hearth, installing green roof gardens, using natural ventilation, and harvesting daylight.

PROJECT COMPLETED WHILE AT A PREVIOUS FIRM

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The Maxwell CANAL AND ROOSEVELT RETAIL DEVELOPMENT

The Maxwell, featuring retail space and residential units, will enhance an area that has been a retail way of life for more than 120 years.

LOCATION CHICAGO, ILLINOIS SIZE 600,000 SF SERVICES PROVIDED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

Maxwell is the name of a street that hosted Chicago’s most famous outdoor bazaar where, for more than 100 years, the city’s newest immigrant population set up booths to sell their wares and earn an honest living. Though the original site of that marketplace is gone, this mixed-use, retail-and-residential center draws its inspiration from the original Maxwell market.

The design provides for a two-story, 600,000-square-foot retail center fronting Canal and Taylor streets on four acres in south Chicago. The retail space forms a base that wraps and hides a large parking garage in the rear of the property On top of the retail and garage space is a horizontal high-rise with 800 residential units divided among four separate wings. Because of the site’s large acreage, this horizontal high-rise can stretch across a greater area and accommodate the same number of apartments that a typical 30-story tower might. Each wing has city views and access to gardens and amenity spaces, including communal gardens, a pool, fire and barbecue pit, and lawn.

Environmental and energy provisions of the project position it for a LEED silver rating from the USGBC.

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1750 Euclid STUDENT RESIDENTIAL

“The upside is that the apartments will add another strong burst of life to Euclid Avenue and provide a strong sense of linkage between PlayhouseSquare, the city’s theater district, and Cleveland State, just to the east.”

STEVEN LITT CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER

LOCATION CLEVELAND, OHIO SIZE 340,000 SF 8 STORIES 1.5 ACRE DEVELOPMENT 217 UNITS | 509 BEDS 234-CAR PARKING STRUCTURE SERVICES PROVIDED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

1750 Euclid is strategically located directly across from the green quad of Cleveland State’s main campus.

The eight-story residential building unites three parcels along the full block of east 18th between Prospect and Euclid streets in downtown Cleveland. The building is organized about the perimeter of the site creating two private outdoor amenity plazas. An 8,000 square foot passive landscaped plaza is located at the grade level. A 8,500 sq/ft pool and activity deck is located above the structured parking deck at level 5.

The exterior of the building is clad with glass Brick masonry, and fiber cement panels. The Massing, materials and finishes have been selected to re-introduce the urban scale and architectural vocabulary of the neighboring playhouse square arts district.

The building includes 217 residential suites with a double cheight lobby, a fitness center, lounge, Café, study areas and a 234 car secured private garage. Each of the one, two, three and four bedroom suites include a living room, kitchen, washer/dryer and a private bath for each bedroom.

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MAYER HASBANI EXPERIENCE

Adamant I MIXED-USE HIGH RISE

“An emblematic construction composed by a tower of concrete and glass, that allows and promotes the creation of a community orientated to enriching the life of the inhabitants.”

LOCATION ANGELOPOLIS, PUEBLA SIZE 20,000 SQUARE METERS 175 LOFTS COMMERCIAL SPACE SERVICES PROVIDED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

A pioneering and innovative project, Adamant Tower is a luxurious development, featuring 30 levels of residential apartments and a shopping area.

The Adamant Tower has 175 apartments, none of which cross views of each other, and each balcony has a unique view.

The human scale is, to our understanding, the best measurement of architecture, and in particular when the scale can be articulated with great heights and spaces. Under this perspective, the interaction with a tower means it’s a challenge.

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TRANSFORMATIVE DESIGN FOR A CHANGING WORLD Forum Studio’s holistic approach extends beyond the narrow boundaries of a project. Economic development, the environment, finance and politics—these issues inform complex projects as profoundly as the program. Our work engages the full spectrum of stakeholder concerns to create designs that maximize the potential for transformation.

Every project has far-reaching impact on the users of the space, the community and the environment. We bring a sense of urgency along with our experience as we work with our clients to realize their visions of a better, more fulfilling future for their company, their campus or their city.

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WHAT WILL BE YOUR LEGACY? Your challenges are our inspiration. Our energies are focused on the opportunity to create meaningful, effective, and enduring new environments. Working together we can help you achieve your goals and make your mark.

We look forward to being part of your vision.

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