LINDSEY FEOLA

Year: 2015

Location: Naismith Drive, Lawrence, Kansas

Scope: 160,000 sf Ground Up Building including Core, Shell, Interior Design and Graphics

Role: Project Architect and Designer

Specific Design involvement: programming, planning and design of lobby, monumental stair, cafe, lighting, auditorium

Design Director: Brian Vitale & Todd Heiser

“Mount Oread’s memorable first and lasting impressions, its historic foundation, topographic splendor, architectural treasures, river valley vistas and subtle delights are primary elements of the KU experience.”
-Dennis Farney “The American Civilization”

This new building for the School of Business at the University of Kansas will allow the school to realize their pedagogical goals and serve as a hub for students, faculty and local professionals to drive innovation in the business community.  The School of Business challenged Gensler, not only to design “something new” but to design “what’s next” for educational environments.  A central atrium ties together Classroom spaces and Faculty offices thus creating a mixed floor rather than segregating students and faculty.  Like contemporary work-place design, this strategy will engender interaction and serendipitous conversations that drive innovation.  The atrium serves as a campus connection from KU’s all-important basketball facility, Allen Fieldhouse to the central campus. 

Year: 2016

Location: University of California Berkeley, Moffitt Library

Scope: 36,000 sf interior renovation & new enclosure on the east facade

Role: Designer

Specific Design involvement: Design of the East facade enclosure

Design Director: Steve Weindel & Melissa Mizell

Year: 2012

Location: 623 South Wabash, 8th & 10th floors

Scope: Infrastructure upgrades, Programming Document, 2-floor full renovation

Role: Programming, Graphics, Design & Project Architect on first phase

Specific Design involvement: Conducted workshops and created a book for the Programming document phase,  Project architect and designer for infrastructure upgrades, Design for renovation

Design Director: Elva Rubio 

Columbia College Chicago came to Gensler seeking a design for their Art + Design department's studios and workshops. The department is housed in a nearly 100-year-old building with a central core that divides the floor plate. While the college redesigned their curriculum, Gensler worked to design a space that engendered the college's goal of open space that engendered a process of simultaneity. Through a robust programming phase we identified that high-performance design thinking requires an oscillation between working and making. Like many education projects, this spanned several years.  Our team developed a robust program book to capture the initial program and goals, followed by major infrastructure upgrades and finally the realization of the fabrication shop and art classrooms.  The final design demonstrates the benefit of an ongoing partnership.  The design of the fabrication studio allows students to transition from learning to making seamlessly within the restrictions of the existing building rendering a space with historic character that will allow Columbia's A+D department to continually develop and push contemporary design pedagogy. 

All Photography of completed space by Jay Wolke

Year: 2017

Location: 355 East Erie Street, Chicago, IL

Scope: 1.2 million sf, 27 floors.  8 floors of parking, 3 floors medical office building, 9 patient floors with beds, rehabilitation and research. 480 feet tall

Role: Programming, Design & Project Architect Team

Specific Design involvement: programming, planning & design of stairs, elevators, conference center, chapel, sky lobby, dining 

Design Director: Brian Vitale, Carlos Martinez, Sasha Zeljic, Anne Gibson

This new 250-bed Ground-up Hospital has been designed around the way RIC delivers patient care.  Currently the therapists, physicians and staff at RIC are separated on different floors of their current facility, while their approach to patient care is defined by a team approach.  Like many new hospitals, the facility will house research facilities, patient beds and clinical spaces.  RIC will be special because these will be located on one floor, engendering a collaborative approach surrounding the patient.  Patient beds are located according to neighborhoods, each of which focuses on a specific innovation center and is supported by an Ability Lab.  The Ability Lab is the main driver behind the design of the building.  They are celebrated on the facade with a curtain wall that evokes movement.  RIC’s mission is to “Advance Human Ability” and the hard work that it takes to achieve this occurs in the Ability Lab.  RIC’s translational medicine approach is supported in the building with amenities on non-inpatient floors such as a conference center, dining, sky lobby, gardens, parking, and public amenities on the ground floor. Innovation centers will include Brain, Spinal Cord, Nerve Muscle & Bone, Pediatric, Cancer. 

Year: 2012

Location: 20 South Clark St. Suite 200, Chicago, IL

Scope: 12,000 sf Interior Design & Graphics

Role: Project Architect and Designer

Specific Design involvement: overall planning, design, detail of reception desks, retail cash-wrap desk, barn doors, cafe and elevator lobby bench

Design Director: Anne Gibson

The headquarters for the Girl Scouts of America Greater Chicago & Northwest Indiana has to function in many capacities.  It is the workplace for the staff, the C-suite for the executives, the gathering place for local troops of girl scouts and their leaders, a retail store where troop leaders can purchase those all-important patches that verify the hard work the girl scouts put into their activities. The site is a very typical, central core office building.  We designed the space as a journey, with the girls in mind.  Elements such as a history wall surrounding the core draw the girl scouts through the office.  Every day, people working in the open office are reminded quite literally of why they are there.  “It is all about the girls” and this is their place.  The history wall is even an opportunity for the visitors to earn a patch, if they recall the elements they encounter on their journey.  Through the middle of the space is a bridge that echoes, aesthetically, a bridge found in a historic photo of one of the Girl Scouts camp sites.  Use of re-claimed wood and upholsteries add warmth to the sleek office-building environment. The girls learn that their activities in nature and in the city can prepare them to do anything they choose as long as they stay focused and work hard.

Awards:

Crain’s Chicago Coolest Office, 2012

Year: 2009

Location: 901 15th street NW, Washington D.C.

Scope: 16,000 sf interior renovation, monumental stair

Role: Designer & Project Architect

Specific Design involvement: Planning, Design of Monumental Stair, Lobby & Classroom spaces.  Rendering & Construction Documents

Design Director: Brian Vitale

The Washington D.C. Campus for the Chicago School of Professional Psychology represented a major milestone for this organization.  CSoPP is a not-for-profit graduate school with campuses in Chicago, Los Angeles, Irvine and now Washington D.C.  Gensler has worked with this school on their Chicago and Los Angeles campuses developing a brand identity for the institution.  This graduate school of psychology serves students who are passionate about preparation for professional practice.  The school's commitment to a curriculum that prepares their students for the professional world is mirrored in the design of the space.  The Washington D.C. campus is located in a business district and has a ground-floor presence.  The location affords them the opportunity to display their presence to the public through environmental graphics & a monumental stair at the ground floor. The second floor space includes classrooms, a library and administrative offices.  Most importantly, the space includes opportunities for casual conversations in the corridors and cafe, affording the, mostly, working student body a place to study and connect with colleagues and professors before and after class.

Year: 2008

Location: 618 S. Michigan Ave.

Scope: 10-story interior renovation

Role: Designer & Project Architect team

Specific Design involvement: Storefront Design, Lobby Design including ornamental metal work, Custom ceiling panel design, Stair addition & cladding, Construction Documents for project

Design Director: Elva Rubio

618 S. Michigan Avenue was built in 1913 and owned over the years by IBM & the Spertus Institute (now in a new building next-door). Columbia College acquired this building to serve as a flexible academic & event building.  The 100,000 sf interior renovation includes classrooms, event spaces, learning labs & a reading room that serves as a connection to Columbia’s adjacent library building at 624 S. Michigan Ave. The design of each floor maintains open zones along the Michigan Avenue-facing spaces allowing democratic access to views of Grant Park.  This strategy also accommodated the College’s phased plan to replace the facade which occurred in 2010. A new stair enclosure was added to address egress concerns.  The stair tower is one of many opportunities for students to learn about the historic building by coming in direct contact with the historic construction.

Year: 2008

Location: Kuwait City, Kuwait

Scope: The Chicago Office designed the Entertainment district and Souk Retail environment for this 6-district Mixed use retail & hospitality project

Role: Design for the un-realized entertainment district, Research and Design for the Souk, called the SoKu

Specific Design involvement: Planning & Design for the Cinemas, Hotel ballrooms, Research & design for the historically referential Souk retail environment based on traditional middle eastern motifs

Design Director: George Miller-Ramos, Kiet Ta, Uriel Schlair

The Avenues represents a decade-long development of a new retail, hospitality, entertainment and community amenity for Kuwait City.  There are 6 distinct districts including luxury retail, gardens, community amenities an entertainment district and traditional retail experience. Our team worked with the London & Los Angeles offices on the entertainment district including cinemas, dining and ballrooms for the adjacent hotel. The concept for the entertainment district is the role of artificial light in cinema.  Manipulation of light can help us transcend our physical reality.  When we see a film we are transported to another place by virtue of manipulation of light.  Each theater is clad in such a way to manipulate light in a new way.  We also collaborated on research and development of the traditional shopping environment called the SoKu.  We developed motifs based on traditional middle eastern architecture that could be used as a backdrop for retail tenants.

Year: 2010-2012

Location: State Street, Chicago, IL

Scope: Urban Planning & Placemaking Concepts

Role: Designer

Specific Design involvement: Conducted workshops with CLA constituents to develop concepts, Design concepts, Renderings & elevations of urban interventions

Design Director: Elva Rubio

Chicago Loop Alliance creates, manages and promotes high-performing urban experiences, attracting people and investment to the Loop. The CLA engages with Gensler in an ongoing partnership to develop ideas for place-making projects.  The Field of Dreams project re-claims vehicular space along state street in order to create pocket-parks and enliven an under-utilized median. This is a sensitive response to existing programmatic synergies that would benefit existing businesses while creating a wholly new environment along State Street.