IBI Group Architectural Design Excellence Residential & Hospitality Collection Selected Works
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Our Firm Global Intelligence. Local Knowledge. Established in 1974, IBI Group has grown both organically and strategically through company acquisitions. Today, the firm has offices located across North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. IBI Group creates innovative and responsive solutions for our clients in the public and private sectors. The firm is a multi-disciplinary organization offering professional services in four areas of practice: • Residential High-Rise • Mixed-Use Buildings • Hospitality • Affordable Housing • Hotels • Renovatoins & Conversions • Zoning & Feasibility Studies • Virtual Reality • Renderings & Animation IBI Group’s global offices work together as a virtual studio. This enables efficient communication with team members regardless of their physical location. The system enables our firm to commit to the best, appropriate staff on each project. Our company then has the ability to use all resources around the clock during any time in the world. The firm draws from a broad range of expertise that is tailored to each of our individual client’s needs. Our diverse group of staff successfully collaborate by integrating knowledge of master plans, community plans, transportation plans, landscape, systems, and building design.
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At IBI Group we make cities. People give them life.
Tribeca Pointe
New York, New York Developer: Rockrose Development 357,000 GSF
20 Pine
New York, New York Developer: Boymelgreen Development 680,000 GSF In association with: Armani Casa
Liberty Towers
Jersey City, New Jersey Developer: Fisher Development Associates 648 Residential Units
The Fitzroy
New York, New York Developer: JDS Development Group/ Largo Developer Builder In association with: Roman and Williams
Avora at Port Imperial
Weehawken, New Jersey Developer: Landsea Holdings Corporation 450,000 GSF
Avora at Port Imperial
Weehawken, New Jersey Developer: Landsea Holdings Corporation 450,000 GSF
Avora at Port Imperial
Weehawken, New Jersey Developer: Landsea Holdings Corporation 450,000 GSF
Crystal Point
Jersey City, New Jersey Developer: Fisher Development Associates 477,000 GSF In Association with: Craig Fisher Architects
The Berkeley
Brooklyn, New York Developer: Largo Developer Builder/ Westbrook Partners
Avonova
New York, New York Developer: Avenue Capital Group
88 Scott St
Toronto, Ontario Developer: Concert Properties Ltd 600,000 GSF
Ritz Carlton Hotel & Residences Toronto, Ontario Developer: Graywood Developments Ltd 700,000 GSF
In Association with: Kohn Pederson Fox (KPF)
Four Seasons Private Residences
Toronto, Ontario Developer: Menkes Developments/ Lifetime Development 1,000,000 GSF In Association with: Architects Alliance
One Burrard Place
Vancouver, British Columbia Developer: Reliance Holdings Ltd/ Jim Pattison Developments Ltd
King Blue
Toronto, Ontario Developer: Greenland Group 730,000 GSF
Maple Leaf Square
Toronto, Ontario Developer: H&R Properties/ Lanterra Developments/Cadillac Fairview/ Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment 1,800,000 GSF
Hotel Georgia Private Residences Vancouver, British Columbia Developer: Delta Land Development Ltd/ Hotel Georgia Developments Inc
One Pacific
Vancouver, British Columbia Developer: Concord Pacific Group Inc 350,000 GSF
Carina & Callisto
Vancouver, British Columbia Developer: Detla Land Development 244,117 GSF
About IBI Group From high-rises to industrial buildings, schools to state-of-the-art hospitals, transit stations to highways, airports to toll systems, bike lanes to parks, we design every aspect of a truly integrated city for people to live, work, and play.
We organize our expertise into three sectors: Intelligence: systems design and software development. Buildings: building architecture, interior design, building engineering (mechanical, structural, electrical).
Infrastructure: planning, urban design, landscape architecture, transportation, and civil engineering.
IBI Group has long recognized the value of integrating these disciplines to ensure a holistic approach toward creating innovative and responsive solutions for our clients in both the public and private sectors. The collaborative nature of our practice allows the firm to effectively address the complexities inherent in the development of sustainable environments.
IBI Group works to positively shape the cities of the future: Established, in 1974, IBI Group has grown over the years both organically and through strategic acquisitions. Today the firm has 63 offices located across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and now has approximately 2,400 professionals. IBI Group professionals employ a broad and sophisticated knowledge base that spans urban design and planning, building and landscape architecture, engineering, advanced transportation management and traffic systems, real estate analysis, communications specializations, and software development. IBI Group provides a full service of architectural/ design capability across North America, Europe and the Middle East. The firm has designed and supervised construction of a wide variety of building types including municipal and corporate offices, schools, colleges and universities, hospitals, LRT/BRT stations, and mixed-use developments, high-rise and residential towers, hotels, as well as single-use structures for specific clients. We combine solid design fundamentals with vision, and a clear understanding of business practice and economic considerations.
Collaboration is the key to our success IBI Group’s offices work together as global ‘virtual studios’, utilizing a variety of collaborative technologies including video conferencing, intranet portals and computer networks, facilitating efficient communication among team members regardless of their physical location. This system enables the firm to commit the best and most appropriate staff to each project and utilize all resources around the clock and around the world.
Our Values At IBI Group, we are very proud of the values that shape our people and our organization. Values are the operating philosophy at our firm and guide our behavior for how we interact with colleagues and clients. They are not just words on a page, images on a screen, or clichéd slogans to preach rather than practice. They define who we are and how we behave.
Innovation, and Community Involvement:
The values guiding IBI Group are Integrity, Excellence, Partnership,
Integrity is our ethical foundation as a professional services firm. We strive at all times to conduct ourselves with integrity, honesty, and respect. Excellence describes our approach to our work: we reach for excellence and high achievement in everything we do. Partnership describes how we work. We embrace partnerships with our clients and with each other, and strive to create the best teams and the best outcomes. Innovation is woven into our DNA as a design and technology firm. We pursue new ideas, embrace technology, and bring creativity to our work. Community involvement is how we honour our responsibilities to the various communities where we work and live. We believe in contributing as volunteers, donors, and citizens. We support individual and corporate efforts to make the world a bet-
Worldwide Strength IBI Group Interiors has developed a new business model that allows it to respond to the needs of its clients, from large multi-location organizations to small single-location businesses. Our clients benefit from an efficient delivery model that is Strategic, Collaborative and Integrated. Strategic The broad menu of services that are available to our clients allows a single-source relationship with a company that understands and manages the design process in a response to an established mandate. By being able to respond to multiple project needs under one umbrella, IBI Group can provide a faster, focused response. Collaborative IBI Group’s offices work together as global ‘virtual studios’ utilizing a variety of collaborative technologies including video conferencing, intranet portals and computer networks, enabling the efficient communication among team members regardless of their physical location. This system enables the firm to commit the best and most appropriate staff to each project and utilize all resources around the clock and around the world. Integrated IBI Group shares sophisticated infrastructure, information technology, and extensive resources, ensuring the benefits of high quality support services. The solid financial viability of the organization gives our clients an assurance that we will be able to provide ongoing service. IBI Group services its clients across the USA and Canada with a fully integrated team of design professionals. This strategy ensures consistency and continuity of service to clients of all sizes from coast to coast. Teams across the country bring together the organization’s combined experience and abilities in support of their clients’ needs. Clients select from a broad list of services that are delivered either locally or nationally through one of IBI Groups’ North American locations.
Corporate Interiors Group The majority of our corporate projects involve the establishment of new workplace standards that support corporate goals and evolving work processes. The success of our process is dependent on excellent communication with you the client. The majority of our corporate projects involve the establishment of new workplace standards that support corporate goals and evolving work processes. The success of our process is dependent on excellent communication with you the client. Our goals include: • • • •
Improved workplace efficiencies Improved communication between groups Improved employee satisfaction, attraction and retention Strengthened corporate brand
Our methodology is customized based on your desired outcome. It could include observational analysis, interviews, questionnaires and surveys. That together with extensive benchmark knowledge of similar companies and industries. In the past couple of years we have developed and implemented new workplace standards for several of our clients based across USA and Canada. Some of the key elements include: • • •
Universal office and workstation sizes Demountable walls Workstations customized with accessories and amenities to specific work processes (no one size fits all solution)
The goal of our Interiors team is to create work environments where the human spirit thrives. We are a fully integrated group that includes interior designers, architects, landscape architects, graphic designers, and technical specialists. Our breadth of experience includes corporate commercial, institution, education, healthcare, and hospitality projects.
We create innovative design solutions that respond to clients’ evolving vision and corporate culture. Our group works with clients to understand corporate philosophy and end goals. That understanding drives our design solution to successfully inspire and integrate people, technology, and work processes. Our breadth of experience has expanded from corporate commercial office design to also include institutional, educational, healthcare and hospitality design. Our design team creates innovative design solutions that respond to clients’ evolving vision and corporate culture. When you hire us, our primary goal is to deliver a work environment in which change and the human spirit thrive. Our team works with you to understand your corporate philosophy, goals. That understanding drives our design solution to successfully inspire and integrate people, technology and work processes. Our firm divides services into 3 main areas of expertise. The services provided in each become a menu from which clients can create a solution custom tailored to their individual needs.
Strategic Planning Our strategic design process helps our clients make more informed decisions, use space more efficiently, improve business processes, lower occupancy costs and/or leverage real estate investments. Our customized strategy involves tactics such as observational analysis, interviews, gaming and charrettes, combined with benchmark standards and an in-depth knowledge of workplace design. By asking questions such as “What are the influences that shape your office environment?” or “How should design respond to technology change?” we help our clients develop design standards that improve the way the business operates. From the commencement of each engagement we would work towards (1) Fully understanding our client and objectives within the context of the project, and (2) Ensuring that the deliverables will fully satisfy these requirements.
Design We view good design as a valuable business tool that can increase employee and operational efficiencies and satisfaction and support business goals. We believe sustainable design is an integral part of the solution and we are committed to producing responsible environments and high performance designs. We strive to create smart, business supported solutions with a high degree of design innovation and creativity. We deliver an airtight set of construction documents to ensure effective use of our clients’ time and financial resources. Project Management Our Project Management process will track and manage three key aspects: schedule scope and budget throughout the life of the project. We believe that sound project management promotes an attitude that everyone involved in the project must share work collaboratively, agree on and respect project priorities, commit to schedules and follow up responsibly. We employ the following techniques to ensure your project is articulated efficiently to meet your quality and cost objectives: Involvement of senior staff throughout the project; Scheduling of regular consultant meetings; Full participation of the client throughout the process; Peer review of our documents prior to tender; and Use of full reporting to the project.
Technical Capabilities Architectural Capabilities Zoning Law & Feasibility Studies Facilities planning Building Evaluations Building programming and design Facility mapping Space utilization Site selection Code conformance Accessibility / ADA evaluations Historic Rehabilitation & preservation Interior Design Capabilities Space planning Material, Color, and Finish selection Furniture Selections Planning studies Change Management Virtual Reality Renderings Mechanical Capabilities HVAC DDC systems Air handling and distribution Indoor air quality Central plant chilled water and hot water distribution Boilers and chillers Dehumidification Clean Room Design Electrical Capabilities Power Distribution Interior and exterior lighting systems Primary and standby power systems Lightning protection and grounding Uninterrupted power systems Assistance in power purchasing and evaluation Plumbing Capabilities Storm and sanitary drainage Process piping systems Distribution systems
Intelligence / Software Development Design of Smart Cities Transit Alerts Transmission Operations Optimizer Event Reporting System Road Permitting system TRANSIT- Real-time Airport Taxi dispatch Advanced traffic Management Asset Management and Maintenance Civil / Site Engineering Site layout and design Utility layout and design Grading and erosion control design Storm-water pollution prevention plans Preparation and permitting Site screening and feasibility studies Green building design and Green infrastructure implementation Athletic field design Force protection and site access design Energy Conservation LEED design Energy audits PV solar systems Life cycle analysis Heat reclamation systems Thermal storage systems Commissioning Retro-commissioning New building / addition commissioning Commissioning process management LEED certification commissioning Construction Phase Services Cost estimation Scheduling Contractor coordination Construction management
Brian Ahern embarked on his professional architectural career in 1993 and was taught the craft of designing luxury high-end residential condominiums and rental apartments under the tutelage of one of New York City’s most prolific architects, Costas Kondylis. After nearly 25+ years of completing unparalleled and significantly noteworthy developments all across the globe, Mr. Ahern has joined the New York City office of IBI as the firm’s Residential and Mixed Use Studio Leader. He brings to IBI Group his vast architectural acumen and collective expertise which he has amassed over the course of designing nearly 2,500 luxury condominiums, over 2,000 rental apartments, 500,000 sf of retail space,1.2 million square feet of hotel space, 7.4 million square feet of residential development and 3.5 million square feet of adaptive reuse. His most recent assignment was overseeing the design and historic restoration of the 125-year-old landmarked building, “The Old Post Office” and repurposing it into the recently crowned five-star Trump International Hotel, Washington, DC which opened in November of 2016.
IBI Group 44 Wall Street - 21st Floor New York, NY 10005-2425 Tel +1 212.477.0900 ibigroup.com
Brian T. Ahern Studio Lead | Mixed Use Email Brian.Ahern@ibigroup.com
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