KlingStubbins was an

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, engineering, interior, and planning firm headquartered in Philadelphia, with offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Raleigh, North Carolina; San Francisco; Washington, D.C.; and Beijing. In 1982, the Franklin Institute awarded

Vincent G. Kling Vincent George Kling (May 9, 1916 – November 23, 2013) was an American architect who co-founded the architectural practice KlingStubbins. Biography Kling was born in East Orange, New Jersey on May 9, 1916. He was the son of a builder and joi ...

the

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Firm history

KlingStubbins was formed through the merger of two offices in 2007. The first, The Kling-Lindquist Partnership, Inc., was founded by Vincent Kling (1916–2013) in 1946, and grew to become the largest firm in Philadelphia. One of the most recognizable buildings designed by Kling is the

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, which was completed in 1991 and remains among the tallest buildings in Philadelphia. Kling also collaborated with Philadelphia city planner Edmund Bacon. The Stubbins Associates was founded by Hugh Stubbins, FAIA, in 1949 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Hugh Stubbins had designed several of the world's most noted skyscrapers, including the Citicorp Center in New York City, the

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headquarters in Boston, and the Yokohama Landmark Tower, the tallest building in

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. Kling became affiliated with The Stubbins Associates in 2003, and the two officially merged on January 1, 2007. The company grew to include engineering, interior design,

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, and several branch offices in other cities.

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, later founder of the popular

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miniature imaginary village, worked for the company as model maker in the 1970s."Lots of Web Traffic in Such a Tiny Town"
– ''New York Times'', March 12, 2010 In 2011, KlingStubbins was acquired by Jacobs Engineering Group and operates as part of their Global Buildings sector.

Notable designs

* Campbell's Employee Center,

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, 2010 * Autodesk AEC Headquarters, Waltham, Massachusetts, 2008 * United States Postal Service Processing & Distribution Center, Philadelphia, 2006 * Merck Research Laboratories Boston, 2005 * University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Research Complex I, Aurora, Colorado, 2005 * The Venetian Resort, Las Vegas, USA, 2003 * Wyeth Headquarters Phase II,

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, Philadelphia, 1991 * Penn Center, Philadelphia, 1950s *

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Pharmaceutical R&D Headquarters Complex,

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, North Carolina *

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Corporate Office Facility, Princeton, New Jersey * SAP AG America Corporate Headquarters, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania * International Monetary Fund Headquarters (Phases I, 2 and 3), Washington, DC 1971–1999 * Congress Hall, Berlin * Yokohama Landmark Tower, Yokohama, Japan * Lankenau Medical Center, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania * Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia * Citigroup Center, New York City *

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, Simi Valley, California * One Cleveland Center, Cleveland *

* PacWest Center, Portland, Oregon * Salesforce Tower,

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Nashville City Center Nashville City Center is a 27-story Class A office tower in Nashville with 480,000 square foot and 800 structured parking spaces. Designed by The Stubbins Associates, Inc., it was completed in 1988. The logo for First Horizon Bank is at its peak. ...

, Nashville, Tennessee

Publications

Both The Stubbins Associates and Kling-Lindquist have published several architectural monographs. Their first combined volume, ''KlingStubbins: Palimpsest'', was published in 2009 by Images Publishing. Drawing on several years of in-house research on laboratory design, KlingStubbins published a design reference book, ''Sustainable Design of Research Laboratories: Planning, Design, and Operation'', through Wiley in 2010, which examines inter-disciplinary design strategies for

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and energy efficiency in the design and operation of research laboratories.

Project delivery innovation

With their Autodesk Headquarters in Waltham, MA, KlingStubbins became the first

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in New England to employ an Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) model. As opposed to traditional project delivery methods in which a project owner employs an architect/ engineering team for design services and a

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team for building services on separate contracts, IPD requires the owner, architect, and builder to sign a shared contract, expediting the design/building process and sharing both liability and profits among the three parties. The project garnered international recognition for the design but also for the novelty of its project structure, which resulted in a significantly faster project schedule, no legal disputes among the various parties, and no change orders on the construction site.

Honors and awards

* Autodesk AEC Headquarters, Waltham, MA, USA, 2008 * Kling elected into the National Academy of Design, 1964

References

External links

*
''DesignIntelligence'' article on Kling-Stubbins affiliation
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