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Central Florida's Source for Architecture & Interior Design Expertise Fall 2005
In this Issue:
Design Charettes Make The
Difference
Healthcare Construction Takes Off
That's Right: We're Nifty
Project Focus: Florida Hospital
Orlando Tower
Dear HuntonBrady,
After 20 years in the Southtrust Bank Building designed by HuntonBrady
Architects in 1980, we've "traded places" to a new, more
contemporary office at One Orlando Centre. If you haven't seen it
already, please call the office to schedule a tour of the new space. It is
truly a showplace of our design talents, who we are and the spaces we
create today.We designed our own workspace to be conducive to flexibility
and collaboration throughout the office, with the same keen eye for detail
that we give our clients. The new office also reflects the growth of
our firm in several key areas, namely healthcare and corporate
consulting.
A Community of Caring
On The Boards
Tilt Wall Construction: More Than
Just A Vanilla Box
Princeton House Makes News
Again
Please take a moment to update your address book with our new address:
800 North Magnolia Avenue, Suite 600, Orlando, Florida, 32803-3252. Our

Design Charettes Make The
Difference
phone number, fax number, and commitment to client service remain the
same.
- Fred H. Pryor, Jr., AIA, President
• Healthcare Construction Takes Off
Maurizio Maso, AIA, leads the Father
Lopez Catholic High School charette.
Sketches is here again to clear up
another confusing design term and
describe something we do best: the
design charette.
The term has its origins in the 19th
century. Architecture students at the
famed Ecole Des Beaux-Arts in Paris
placed their last-minute drawings and
models in a cart, called a "charette" in
French, that rushed them to be juried
by the professors. Now the term is
used to describe an intense,
collaborative and on-the-spot
design workshop between architect
and client.
Prior to a HuntonBrady design charette
we define the project through a precharette
effort and come prepared with
conceptual site plans and design
options. We set aside up to two days
away from our office and our
telephones to fully focus on the
particular project. The charette takes
place at the owner's office and involves
all user groups so that specific needs of
the different departments can be
defined. Through intense and
interactive sessions with the owners we
narrow down the options and generate
the final design. Solutions are
generated efficiently and quickly.
Architects at a charette furiously sketch
site plans and perspective drawings,
interns build three-dimensional models,
and owners eagerly watch their dream
space become a reality.
At the end of a charette, all participants
have a sense of design authorship.
Design charettes generate
enthusiasm and consensus even in
the most challenging projects. The
end result of a design charette is a very
specific architectural solution to the
owner's needs with the participation of
all user groups.
Our healthcare experts have
seen a significant increase in
the amount of new projects
throughout the state. One
project we recently started
with META Associates is the
new replacement facility for
Ormond Memorial
Hospital in Ormond Beach,
pictured here.
Chuck Cole, AIA, Vice
President of Healthcare Design, was recently interviewed by
Associated Builders & Contractors, Inc (ABC) for an article on this
surge in healthcare construction in their monthly publication, Building
Central Florida. You can read more about it here.
• That's Right: We're Nifty
Our new website was
described as “nifty” and
“a skillful blend of Slash and
ASP” in the Surf section of
Create magazine’s Fall 2005
issue. Their staff also said,
“I especially enjoy the
constant bottom navigation
system. It’s a reminder that
any project type can be
viewed anytime, allowing
visitors to see that
HuntonBrady’s focus is on
the work.” Thanks for
checking us out, Create. You
can, too at www.huntonbrady.co m
• Project Focus: Florida Hospital Orlando Tower
It may look like a mess of
cranes, construction crews,
and piles of dirt right now,
but we’ve got big plans
at Florida Hospital
Orlando. Three parts of our
600,000 square feet, $255
million project for Florida
Hospital will be complete
this Fall:
• A new Energy Office
Building
• Realignment of Rollins Street
• A Parking Garage addition on Alden Street that will eventually add

“I think it’s the most rewarding part of
the design process. The synergy we
create is very gratifying. We’ve done
hundreds of charettes with clients
and they are always a success,”
said Aurelio Posada, Senior
Architectural Designer for our most
recent charette at Father Lopez Catholic
High School in Daytona Beach.
500 new spaces
Of course, the apex of the project is a new 15- story Patient Tower,
which is scheduled for completion in Fall 2008 in connection with Florida
Hospital’s 100th Anniversary. The Tower will house a new Emergency
Department, Cardiovascular Diagnostic and Interventional Services
Department, and 300 new inpatient beds. Input from Florida Hospital
employee design teams, focus groups and patients have characterized
this project as exceptionally user-driven.
The Education team of Posada, Maurizio
Maso, Zofia Jurewicz, Tommy Hagood,
and Amir Mikhaeil worked until late in
the evening (even spent the night!) this
July to help Father Tim Daly and his
staff create a beautiful, 150,000 square
foot new high school campus which will
be located on LPGA Boulevard.
“Our design charette for Father Lopez
Catholic High School was particularly
rewarding. We created a common
language for the project. The
clients left the charette as owners
of the design,” said Maso. The
Father Lopez user groups included a
Media Center, Chapel, Administration,
Cafeteria, Gymnasium, Classrooms,
and Labs.
The results of the charette are
stunning: an open-air campus designed
with strong geometric lines, and
featuring a distinctive cylindrical chapel
bathed in natural light. The new school
will open for students in 2007.
For more information about how a
design charette can benefit your
project, contact Maurizio Maso at (407)
839-088 ext. 202.
• A Community of Caring
"Organizations are not
just places where people
have jobs. They are our
neighborhoods, our
communities. They are
where we join with other
people to make a
difference for ourselves
and others.” – Doug
Smith, On Value and
Values: Thinking
Differently About We ... in
an Age of Me
• Danny Gordon, AIA, was elected to the Board of Directors
for the Salvation Army's "New Beginnings" Capital
Campaign to raise funds for a new shelter for women, children
and families in Orlando. HuntonBrady Architects will design the
new facility, pictured here.
• We're also a proud sponsor of the M.C. Escher: Rhythm of
Illusion exhibit on display through October 30 at the
Orlando Museum of Art. Escher's intriguing use of perspective
in art is especially appealing to the design community.
• When our staff moved to a new location in July we had a large
amount of extra furniture systems, appliances and filing cabinets
with no place to go in the new space. We found a taker in Jose
Colmenero, an amazing teacher of autistic and special needs
children who recently opened The Academy for Autism, a
private school in Orlando. For more information about the school
call (407) 375-0330.
• We'll be attending and sponsoring the Mid Florida Chapter of the
National Multiple Sclerosis Society's Dinner of Champions
this month. The event honors Bruce Williams, CEO of the Williams
Company, for his commitment to community service and
philanthropy.
• On The Boards
The Metrowest Office
Building (pictured here)
will be a 4-story, 100,000
square feet building for
Highwoods Properties. It
is scheduled for completion
in Fall of 2006.
Talk about a fast-track
project: Our team is
working with META
Associates on a project for Florida Hospital Sebring, which went from
conceptual design through completion of construction in only 14 months.
The project is scheduled for occupancy in 2006.

We’ve teamed with Brasfield & Gorrie to design and build the new
Engineering R&D office and laboratory building in Orlando for Lockheed
Martin Missiles and Fire Control.The new 250,000 square foot, sixstory
office and research building will be located on Lockheed Martin’s
Sand Lake Road campus. Construction will begin in August 2005 and is
expected to be complete in August 2006.
In south Orlando, we’re designing two new Class A office buildings for
Flagler Development. Southpark 1200 (140,000 square feet, 4-
stories)) just completed construction, and Southpark 1400 (115,000sf)
is in the schematic design phase. Both buildings showcase our expertise
in tilt-wall construction (see the tilt-wall article in this issue).
• Tilt Wall Construction: More Than Just A Vanilla Box
Fred Pryor, AIA, kept busy this Summer
as a guest columnist for the Florida
Real Estate Journal. He explained how
recent architectural innovations in
tilt-wall construction have created a
viable alternative for developers and
clients who don’t want to sacrifice an
attractive building when low cost and
speed of construction are priorities.
Baldwin Point, pictured here, is a
great example of our tilt-wall expertise.
The 4-story, 162,000 square foot office
building recently opened in Baldwin
Park.
Wanna find out more? Click here to
read about new design applications for
tilt-wall in Fred's article.
• Princeton House Makes News Again
Email: editor@huntonbrady.com
Website:
http://www.huntonbrady.com
Fred was also interviewed for a
story in Executive Living, Central
Florida’s Lifestyle Magazine, about
his son Evan and the design
work our firm donated to
Evan's school, Princteon House
Charter School for autistic and
special needs children. Read more
about it.
Telephone: 407-839-0886