KlingStubbins was an architectural, 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 the Frank P. Brown Medal.
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 Bell Atlantic Tower, 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 Federal Reserve Bank of Boston headquarters in Boston; and the Yokohama Landmark Tower, the tallest building in Japan. 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, landscape architecture, and several branch offices in other cities.
Michael Paul Smith, later founder of the popular Elgin Park 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, Camden, New Jersey, 2010 Autodesk AEC Headquarters, Waltham, Massachusetts, 2008 AT&T Headquarters Basking Ridge, New Jersey (1971-1974) 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, Collegeville, Pennsylvania Bell Atlantic Tower, Philadelphia, 1991 Penn Center, Philadelphia, 1950s GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceutical R&D Headquarters Complex, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina Dow Jones & Company 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 North Shore High School, Glen Head, New York Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, California One Cleveland Center, Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank of Boston PacWest Center, Portland, Oregon Salesforce Tower, Indianapolis Nashville City Center, 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 sustainable design 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 architectural firm 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 contractor 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