BNIM

BNIM Architects is an architecture and design firm founded in 1970 in Kansas City, Missouri. With offices in Kansas City, Houston, Texas and Des Moines, Iowa, the firm has over 100 design professionals and support staff.

BNIM has completed many significant public and private projects at both local and national levels. The firm’s areas of expertise include sustainable design and community redevelopment, urban planning and design, educational facilities, campus master planning, residential and corporate office spaces.

BNIM is known as a national leader in sustainable design, practice and technology through their work on buildings such as the Lewis and Clark State Office Building in Jefferson City, Missouri (LEED Platinum) [ [http://www.dnr.mo.gov/greenbldg/index.html Lewis and Clark State Office Building - MoDNR ] ] , the School of Nursing and Student Community Center at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (submitted for LEED Gold) [ [http://www.aiatopten.org/hpb/overview.cfm?ProjectID=444 The American Institute of Architects :: Top Ten Green Projects ] ] , and the Omega Center for Sustainable Living in Rhinebeck, New York (designed to achieve LEED Platinum; under construction). The Omega Center for Sustainable Living received recognition at the 2007 GreenBuild Convention as a winner of the Living Building Challenge from the USGBC and the Cascadia Green Building Council [ [http://www.cascadiagbc.org/resources/living-buildings/living-building-challenge/ Living Building Challenge — Cascadia Region Green Building Council ] ] .

Prinicipals

Name principals

*Bob Berkebile
*Tom Nelson
*David Immenschuh
*Steve McDowell

Other principals

*Casey Cassias
*Kathy Achelpohl
*Laura Lesniewski
*Kimberly Hickson
*Rod Kruse
*Mark Shapiro
*Doug Stevens
*Craig Scranton

Projects

*Greensburg, Kansas master plan following May 2007 Tornado Outbreak devastation [ [http://www.bnim.com/greensburg Untitled Document ] ]
*Kaufmann Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas City (Executive Architect for Moshe Safdie)
*New Orleans Make It Right [ [http://www.bnim.com/fmi/xsl/deep/neworleans.xsl New Orleans: Make It Right : Deep Design, Deep Green ] ]
*Nelson-Atkins Museum Bloch Addition (Architect of Record for Steven Holl) [] [http://www.bnim.com/fmi/xsl/portfolio/index.xsl?-token.pnum=00110&-token.pid=pr1-15&-token.cat=cat-1 BNIM Portfolio - Retrieved December 30, 2007] ]
*Union Station (Kansas City) - Science City Addition (in consortium with other architects) [ [http://www.bnim.com/fmi/xsl/portfolio/index.xsl?-token.pnum=96027.01&-token.pid=pr1-17&-token.cat=cat-1 BNIM : Portfolio ] ]
*Fayez S. Sarofim Research Building, Home of The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases - The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston [ [http://www.bnim.com/fmi/xsl/portfolio/index.xsl?-token.pnum=02041&-token.pid=pr6-3&-token.cat=cat-6 BNIM : Portfolio ] ]
*Fort Osage Education Center [ [http://www.bnim.com/fmi/xsl/portfolio/index.xsl?-token.pnum=01114&-token.pid=pr14-2&-token.cat=cat-14 BNIM : Portfolio ] ]
*H. L. Hunley (submarine) Museum, Charleston, South Carolina (in consortium)

History

PBNDML

Two of the principals (Bob Berkebile and Tom Nelson) were members of the PBNDML firm that designed the Hyatt Regency Crown Center that was site of the 1981 Hyatt Regency walkway collapse.

Architect Edward Larrabee Barnes was the formal master of the hotel. However two local Kansas City firms merged to formally design the hotel include a consortium of R. Bruce Patty, Bob Berkebile and Tom Nelson from (PBN), and Duncan Monroe Lefevre (DML). [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B07EFD6163BF93BA15754C0A967948260&sec=travel&spon=&pagewanted=all Hyatt Tragedy Raises Questions Of Responsibility - New York Times ] ]

Investigation of the accident determined the failure to be the fault of the structual engineer. [ [http://www.eng.uab.edu/cee/faculty/ndelatte/case_studies_project/Hyatt%20Regency/hyatt.htm#Causes Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse ] ]

Patty Berkebile Nelson & Immenschuh

Following the collapse which faulted engineering decisions made at the hotel, Patty, Berkebile and Nelson formed a new firm with David Immenschuh, known as PBNI Architects. They were to design One Kansas City Place which is the tallest building in Missouri.

BNIM

After Patty left the firm [http://www.saup.ku.edu/News&Events/News/Fall01.pdf] , Berkebile, Nelson and Immenschuh were joined by Steve McDowell.

The firm has offices in Kansas City, Houston, Texas and Des Moines, Iowa.

References

External links

* [http://www.bnim.com/ bnim.com]