YouTube / A video walk-through of The San Diego New Central Library narrated by Rob is posted on YouTube. Watch video here.
"A New Downtown Landmark" / The Architect's Newspaper critiques the New Children's Museum. Read it here.
Art for Kids / The New Children’s Museum in downtown San Diego opened to wide public acclaim in May. Read the front-page story here.
Green Honors / The New Children’s Museum wins a statewide "Savings By Design" Honor Award, an AIA-San Diego COTE (Committee on the Environment) award, and an Urban Land Institute "Smart Growth" award for sustainable design in a cultural setting. Read how the museum lights, heats, cools, and powers itself here.
Under Budget! / The winning low bid for construction of the Quigley-designed Seven Trees Community Center and Branch Library in San Jose comes in 16% under budget. The 60,000-square-foot project will anchor a 12-acre park site, providing neighborhood residents with a place to conduct meetings, stage performances, hold rallies, play sports, take classes, and enjoy all the resources of a modern library. The facility is slated to open in 2010.
Ennobling Tilt-Up / As the keynote speaker at the Tilt-Up Concrete Association’s 2007 national convention at the University of Maryland, Rob discusses tilt-up construction’s humble warehouse beginnings and the firm’s efforts to develop this economical system as appropriate for civic and academic buildings.
El Faro / Massing models are complete for “El Faro,” a residential high-rise in Ensenada, Mexico, that Rob designed for PICSA Development Group. El Faro is envisioned as the signature tower for PACIFICA at Ensenada Bay, a planned condo-hotel resort community. Watch Rob talk about the project here.
Honor Award / The UCSD Student Services Center is awarded AIA-San Diego’s highest design award, the Honor Award, in 2007. See the project here and the article from the San Diego Union-Tribune here.
Opportunity Center of the Midpeninsula / This new Quigley-designed center lives up to its name, offering low-cost housing and dispensing social
services to Palo Alto's disadvantaged. View the photos from the Grand Opening.
Library Talk / In May of 2006, Rob is invited to speak in Baton Rouge about the design of the San Diego New Central Library. The event, "Celebrate Architecture," was sponsored by AIA Louisiana.
Maybeck Award 2005 / Rob is presented with the AIA California’s prestigious Maybeck Award for lifetime achievement in producing consistently distinguished design. See the Maybeck Award entry here.
Top Ten Nationwide / The Leslie Shao-ming Sun Field Station at Stanford University wins a national award as one of AIA Committee on the Environment’s “Top Ten Green Buildings of 2005.” See the project here. Visit the AIA/COTE link here.
Honor and Merit / Two Quigley projects in the Bay Area receive design awards from AIA Santa Clara Valley in 2004: the Leslie Shao-ming Sun Field Station at Stanford University and the West Valley Branch Library in San Jose. Visit the link here.