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Beautiful weather at the Greek Fall Festival last weekend. Lots of food, dancing and culture. Principal Dinos Liollio was at his regular station cooking and slicing gyro. Great to be Greek for the weekend. If you missed all the activities, the Greek Spring Festival will be coming up next May.
Liollio's Dustin Seager, Interior Design Lead, participated in the inaugural IIDA Advocacy Symposium held this year in Austin TX, September 11-13. Over 90 people attended and you can see the recap here. Dustin is featured in the back, right hand side of the first photo and also far right in the second photo.
Principal Rick Bousquet was asked to be on a panel for Industry Day to discuss "How teams are successful in winning and executing federal government work". The panel consisted of Architectural Firms, General Contractors, and Federal Contracting Officers. There were approximately 250 attendees to the conference.
Mark your calendars for the upcoming Todd Walker lecture! Check out archimania's body of work here: archimania.com.
Browse through Liollio's Preservation Benchmarks now on ISSUU!
#preservation #historicpreservation #charleston
Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Charleston Magazine at the Gaillard Center Exhibition Hall. The 40th Anniversary Gala is being held this Thursday, October 15. You can purchase tickets here. Preview the 40 “very Charleston” auction items—to benefit MUSC Children’s Hospital. View the Gala guide here.
The Clemson Solar Decathlon Team has completed their house out in California; its called Indigo Pine! The evaluations are this week. The scores are really close and The Tigers are doing well so far! There is a category for “Viewers Favorite,” take a few mins. to vote for your favorite!
To Vote:
http://energy.gov/vote-your-favorite-solar-decathlon-house
Team Rankings:
http://www.solardecathlon.gov/2015/competition-scores.html
Video Time Lapse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w3vp5ylVts&feature=youtu.be
Drawings:
http://www.solardecathlon.gov/2015/competition-team-clemson.html
This week we celebrated another birthday...this time with an Oreo ice cream cake for our Principal Tommy Schimpf. Happy Birthday Tommy!
The Main Street Children's Museum, located in Rock Hill SC, offers fun and educational activities for children from birth to six years of age. Liollio is proud to have teamed with Snow Kreilich Architects & Argyle Design to complete this project in December 2010. The creative play space is inspired by the artwork of illustrator Vernon Grant, creator of Snap, Crackle and Pop from the Kellogg Company. Visit Main Street Children's Museum's website here.
This week we celebrated Principal Cherie Liollio's birthday with cherry cheesecake. Happy birthday Cherie!
Browse through our Community Benchmarks on ISSUU!
#community #architecture #Lowcountry
Morning sunrise captured by Geoff
Our newest Inspired By: feature highlights the Musée National des beaux-arts du Quebec by Allied Works Architects. The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) is the primary art museum of Québec. The museum sits in a park overlooking the St. Lawrence River and the Plains of Abraham, site of a 1759 battle that changed the course of Canada’s history. Allied Works proposal for a new 110,000 s.f. pavilion contains new space for temporary exhibition, permanent collection galleries and public assembly.
The new pavilion is formed by a series of five interlocking, cantilevered concrete shells that rise from the native bedrock. The form opens to the Grande Allée, Québec’s principal street, serving as a gateway to the museum’s three existing buildings. At the heart of the pavilion, the Grand Hall creates a major new event space for the city and provides views into the galleries above North facing openings, created by the vaulted forms, provide indirect natural light to the exhibition spaces. The shells cantilever at the ground floor, opening the museum to the park and to a landscaped courtyard between the new pavilion and the neighboring Dominican church. Adjacent to the courtyard, a new garden pavilion houses a café, bookstore, and support spaces for the museum.
The proposal for the new pavilion creates a threshold for art – a bridge between city and museum, between architecture and landscape, between old and new. The building is a braid of structure and light that binds the specific forces of landscape, history and art into one calm, powerful and entirely new form.
Visit Allied Works Architecture's website and read more here.
Dan suiting up in his mosquito jacket down in the Everglades! Geoff Mohney and Dan Corte visited the Everglades for a few days to perform some existing site investigations on several projects that we have there.
World Architecture Day was created in 2005 by the Union International des Architects (UIA). It is celebrated on the first Monday of October. Here is a tribute article on ArchDaily.
The 2015 Fall Greek Festival has been rescheduled for Oct 16-18. Stay dry & get ready for a great weekend on the 16th! Opa! #GreekFestival
Geoff Mohney, AIA LEED AP, recently attended the UCI Road Cycling World Championships in Richmond Virginia. Here are some highlights from all the photos he took.
Oktoberfest is next weekend (October 9-11) in Columbia SC http://www.oktoberfestcolumbia.com/
Elissa Bostain, AIA, is a native of Charleston and has worked on a variety of projects, ranging from Historic Preservation and Higher Education to Community and Healthcare Architecture. She is currently a board member for the local AIA Chapter and participates in the Chamber of Commerce Charleston Young Professionals. Elissa has worked at Liollio since 2012 and recently became a licensed architect. We sat down for a short Q&A for this month’s Spotlight On: feature.
How long have you lived in Charleston?
I was born in Charleston! I moved back after graduate school at Clemson just over three years ago.
Where did you grow up?
I grew up in Mount Pleasant. It still shocks me how much Mount Pleasant has grown since the late 80’s. There used to be only one movie theater with three screens (where the VW dealership is on 17).
Do you have any brothers/sisters? Where do you fall in the “line-up”?
Only child….has its advantages and disadvantages
What area of town do you live in?
Mount Pleasant off Mathis Ferry
What accomplishment are you most proud of?
My most recent accomplishment of getting my license! After 6 years at Clemson, 3 years working after graduate school and 7 exams, I finally got my license in June.
What building have you visited that most impressed you?
Sagrada Familia, a large Roman Catholic church in Barcelona, Catalonia, designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí - mainly because I can’t believe it has taken this long to construct. Construction started in 1882 and expected completion date is 2026.
What is your favorite city you have traveled to and why?
Barcelona will always have a place in my heart. I spent an amazing semester studying architecture there in graduate school. A close second would be Budapest; I took a fantastic backpacking trip earlier this summer to Eastern Europe (Prague, Vienna, Budapest, and Munich)! I happened to be in Budapest the weekend of the Red Bull Air Race, which was amazing! The planes were flying over the Danube between the city’s two halves – Buda and Pest.
What is your favorite thing about working at Liollio?
Definitely the people!
What do you like on your pizza?
My order at Your Pie = pesto sauce, cheese, pineapple, spinach, pecans, and chicken
How do you take your coffee?
Not a coffee drinker!
What is your favorite food?
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! I am a frequent customer at Jeni’s.
What is your least favorite food?
Bacon
Do you prefer dogs or cats?
Dogs
Do you play any instruments?
Piano
If you could play an instrument, what would it be?
I have always wanted to learn to play the drums.
If you had one superpower, what would it be?
Teleportation
If you could contribute to a charity, what organization would top your list? Why?
East Cooper Meals on Wheels – I’ve volunteered every summer since I could count! I helped pack and deliver meals to homebound residents in the Old Village in Mount Pleasant. It is a great organization that really takes care of each resident.
