Larry Oltmanns (born 1951, in Rockford,

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. He has achieved recognition for his work as an architect and master planner of large-scale mixed-use developments worldwide. Oltmanns is Design Director and CEO of Vx3 Architects.Strategists.Urban Designers.

Career

Oltmanns graduated from

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in 1973 with a BA in Architecture. Oltmanns spent more than 30 years with

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) is an American architectural, urban planning and engineering firm. It was founded in 1936 by Louis Skidmore and Nathaniel A. Owings, Nathaniel Owings in Chicago, Illinois. In 1939, they were joined by engineer Jo ...

(SOM), initially in their Chicago office and later as Design Partner of SOM London. He led the design teams responsible for many landmarks including

Rondo 1 Rondo 1 is an office skyscraper with a total height of 192 m located in Warsaw, Poland at Rondo ONZ. The building was designed by Larry Oltmanns during his time as the Design Director for the London office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Epstein ...

in Warsaw, 10 Exchange Square at Broadgate in London, the Convention and Exhibition Centre (COEX) at the Korea World Trade Centre and the multi award-winning Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. His competition-winning design for the new extension to the

Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre The Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, colloquially referred to as "Jeff's Shed," is a group of three adjacent buildings next to the Yarra River in South Wharf, an inner-city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The venues are o ...

was awarded a 6 Star Green Star environmental rating by the

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, the first in the world for a convention centre. In 2004, following a round of redundancies and management problems with their NATO Headquarters project, Oltmanns chose to leave SOM. Oltmanns founded Vx3 in April 2007. One of his firm’s first projects was the master plan for the $2 billion redevelopment of

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in London. Current projects include three mixed-use developments in

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of over , plus large-scale residential and commercial projects in Moscow, Warsaw, Calgary, and Dublin.

Awards

Oltmanns has won numerous awards for design excellence, including the

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, the

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and the City of

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. Oltmanns served on London’s International Convention Centre Commission in 2004/5. He is a long-standing member of the International Congress & Convention Association (ICCA).

Notable projects

Chicago Place Chicago Place is a mixed-use high-rise on the 700 block of North Michigan Avenue (between Huron and Superior) in Chicago along the Magnificent Mile anchored by Saks Fifth Avenue. According to the Chicago Tribune, as of February 2009, the mall po ...

at 700 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago *

Adelaide Convention Centre The Adelaide Convention Centre is a large convention centre on North Terrace, Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia. It was the first purpose-built convention centre to be built in Australia. History The convention centre was des ...

Expansion, South Australia *

Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre The Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, colloquially referred to as "Jeff's Shed," is a group of three adjacent buildings next to the Yarra River in South Wharf, an inner-city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The venues are ow ...

* National Trade Centre at Exhibition Place, Toronto *

NATO Headquarters The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is headquartered in a complex in Haren, part of the City of Brussels municipality of Belgium. The staff at the headquarters is composed of national delegations of NATO member states and includes c ...

, Brussels *

, Warsaw * Lopez Centre, Manilla as CEO and Design Director of Vx3 Architects.Strategists.Urban Designers *

Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre The Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) is one of the two major convention and exhibition venues in Hong Kong, along with AsiaWorld–Expo. It is located in Wan Chai North, Hong Kong Island. Built along the Victoria Harbou ...

, Hong Kong *

COEX Convention & Exhibition Center Coex Convention & Exhibition Center (Coex) located in Samseong-dong of Gangnam-gu district, Seoul, is one of South Korea's convention and exhibition centers. Coex is serviced by Samseong Station on line 2 and Bongeunsa Station on line 9 of the ...

, Seoul, Korea *

Dublin Airport Dublin Airport ( Irish: ''Aerfort Bhaile Átha Cliath'') is an international airport serving Dublin, Ireland. It is operated by DAA (formerly Dublin Airport Authority). The airport is located in Collinstown, north of Dublin, and south o ...

, Terminal 1 Pier D, Dublin *

Dallas Convention Center The Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center (KBHCCD) (formerly Dallas Convention Center) is a convention center in the Convention Center District of downtown Dallas, Texas. The "Dallas Memorial Auditorium" was a standalone multipurpose arena, de ...

, Dallas * 10 Exchange Square, London

References

External links

Vx3 Architects.Strategists.Urban DesignersQ & A Larry Oltmanns - Architects Journal 2004Starchitects changing our city design - Adelaide Now May 25, 2012
{{DEFAULTSORT:Oltmanns, Larry Living people American architects American expatriates in the United Kingdom University of Illinois alumni 1951 births Urban designers