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| PAA is pleased to announce the addition of three new staff members to the firm. Bryan Fisher joined PAA in May 2005, bringing a wide range of historic, institutional, educational and residential experience to the firm. He earned his Master of Architecture degree from the University of Florida while also serving s a Graduate Teaching Assistant, and a Bachelor of Arts in Historic Preservation and Theater from Goucher College. Brian’s career experience includes positions with the U. S. General Services Administration and such nationally recognized architecture firms as Einhorn Yafee Prescott and Francis Cauffman Foley Hoffman. Bryan has worked on the United States Capitol Building, the Russell Senate Office Building, the U. S. National Arboretum, College Hall, The Textile Museum, Historic Dormitories, Memorial Amphitheater, Dauer Hall Interior Historic Renovation, Rolfs Hall and Johns Hopkins Hospital. Lisa Rasmussen joined PAA in July 2005, after earning both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Architecture from Andrews University, with a minor in Spanish. She has a strong interest in historic preservation and urban revitalization. Anne Mayer rejoined Penza Associates in 2004 after earning her Diplom-Ingenieur Architektur in Berlin, Germany in 2003. She had worked previously for Penza Associates for six months in 2001 as part of an internship degree requirement. |
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| Jeffrey Penza was pleased to organize “Rotary Day at Camp Greentop”, a fair at the camp in the Cacotin Mountains this past June. Rotary Club of Baltimore has been a proud supporter of Camp Greentop, a summer camp for Disabled Individuals for over 60 years. www.campgreentop.org |
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| PAA continues to work with the Stadium School Youth Dreamers on plans to convert a dilapidated house in the Waverly neighborhood into a youth center for after school activities. Currently in planning is Dreamers Day, where volunteers will clear out debris and construction materials to more clearly identify the existing structure and to plan for a change of use. This group received the zoning variance they had sought from Baltimore City. Youth Dreamers is a group of middle school students and faculty from the Stadium School. Their goal is to decrease the negative influences that youth are exposed to after school by creating a youth center. For more information about Youth Dreamers, or to donate or volunteer, please visit their website at www.youthdreamers.org. |
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2005 Festival of the Trees Penza Associates Architects entry in the 2005 Festival of Trees annual tree auction and competition won First Place Chairman’s Chioce (“The Grinch brings (He)art to Baltimore won the same award last year). The Penza team designed “TREE-VOLTA”, a dashing disco revival complete with an internally lit “light box” dance floor, disco ball ornaments and a life-size dancer, fully-costumed evoking memories of John Travolta himself. A light and sound extravaganza set the mood to the tune of “Night Fever” by the BeeGees. Proceeds from the auction, held annually at the Maryland State Fair Grounds’ Cow Palace in Timonium, benefit the Kennedy Krieger Institute Children’s Hospital. |
The entire Staff of Penza Associates Architects, Inc. thanks its friends, clients, and vendors as we celebrate our 16th year in business. |
| PAA has been selected by Sequoia Homes to design the first speculative home to be built in the exclusive community of the Residences at Caves. Construction is underway for this 8000 SF traditional stone home. Contact Jeff Blum of Sequoia Homes at 410-902-9200 for more information. |
| Laura Penza, as Vice President of the Govanstowne Business Association, has been active in the effort to renovate the Curran Memorial at the corner of York Road and Woodbourne Avenue. The current memorial was constructed years ago in honor of Joseph Curran Sr., and it houses rare carillon bells that have been inactive for many years due to a lightening strike. The bells are scheduled to be restored and relocated to Thanksgiving Place at Stadium Place. Penza Associates Architects is assisting in redesigning the current memorial into a striking clock tower, scheduled for completion during spring of 2006. |
This past summer the PAA family (including the kids) participated in the City Sands competition, held annually at Harborplace in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. This year's theme, "Grains of Sucess", correlated with the opening of the new African-American History Museum in Baltimore. Our design, an oyster with a large pearl in the center, symbolized how many African-Americans in Maryland were able to earn a living and their freedom by fishing for oysters in the Chesapeake Bay. |
| Having successfully navigated the preliminary review process, the condominiums at 612 Washington Boulevard are now entering the Construction Documents phase. Working with the Ridgeley’s Delight community over a period of approximately six months, PAA has garnered their support for the project as well as that of the Planning Department and the Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation (CHAP). The project developer is Snyder Development Company. 612 Washington Boulevard involves the conversion of the former Eklof Company, long known in the Baltimore area as a supplier of commercial kitchen equipment and supplies, to twenty residential condominiums with secure parking and retail space on the ground level. The building itself is a mix of six residential and commercial structures combined to form one building sometime prior to 1896. |
| Jeffrey Penza, AIA, LEED AP, is a LEED Accredited Professional committed to environmental responsibility at work, at home and on the drawing board. Penza Associates Architects is a member of the U. S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and Jim Pettit is the firm's primary contact. The Council is the nation's foremost coalition of leaders from across the building industry working to promote buildings that are environmentally responsible, profitable and healthy places to live and work. Council members work together to develop LEED™ products and resources, policy guidance, and educational and marketing tools that support the adoption of sustainable building. Members also forge strategic alliances with key industry and research organizations and federal, state and local government agencies to transform the built environment. The LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System™ is a voluntary, consensus-based national standard for developing high-performance, sustainable buildings. Members of the U.S. Green Building Council representing all segments of the building industry developed LEED and continue to contribute to its evolution. |
