Group 70 Architects, designers, and planners focus on community every day. It’s their job, their passion. “We attract people who have a higher calling,” said Group 70’s Cami Kloster. “Our people have a need to be in the community, to give back.” That’s the mission of the Group 70 Fund at Hawai’I Community Foundation (HCF), engaging...
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For many schools and universities, upgrade projects and new construction never cease. While innovative and notable projects are continually taking place throughout the country, School Construction News has selected five projects in particular to follow in 2016, checking in throughout the year to update readers on important design and construction milestones from groundbreaking ceremonies to grand...
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FICOH Continues to Give Back First Insurance Company of Hawaii (FICOH) presented a $48,000 check to Aloha United Way (AUW). FICOH donated more than $600,000 to various nonprofits in 2015. Pictured are (from left) FICOH 2015 AUW campaign co-chair John Stanley, AUW Workplace Campaigns director Melvin Colquitt, FICOH president and CEO Jeff Shonka and FICOH...
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Group 70 International Inc., one of the largest architecture firms in Hawaii, has opened a new office in Jakarta, Indonesia, as part of its international expansion into Asian markets, the Honolulu-based company said Friday. The new office is in partnership with PT. Sentul City, Tbk., an Indonesia-based property development and management company. The new firm —...
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The $17.5 million renovation of the PBS Hawaii’s 31,000-square-foot studio should be ready for staff to move in this April, the designers behind the project said this week. Group 70 International’s Vice Chair and Principal-in-Charge of the Interior Design Division Sheryl Seaman gave PBN an exclusive tour this week of the facility, located at the intersection...
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Armstrong Development and the Burrard Group have launched sales at Makali‘i, a new residential community of 68 townhomes located at the gateway to Mākena, within walking distance of Polo Beach and the Wailea beachwalk. Offering unobstructed ocean, island and sunset views, the hillside community will feature two- and three-bedroom condominiums ranging from $1 million to $2.4...
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Kaoru Lovett is an architectural designer, surfer, and filmmaker—but not necessarily in that order. Last year, he and fellow University of Hawaii at Manoa graduates Ronald Ribao and Graham Hart took home the People’s Choice award and third place overall in the AIA’s Look Up Film Challenge with Mixed Plate: The Architecture of Hawaii, a three-minute...
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Craig Takahata, the head of the Honolulu office for the architecture firm WATG, has left the firm after about 17 years to join Honolulu-based Group 70 International as a principal focusing on that architecture firm’s international expansion, Group 70 said Tuesday. It’s also a homecoming of sorts for the former vice president and managing director for...
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The upcoming $61 million redevelopment of the Waikiki Trade Center as a new condotel will further shrink Hawaii’s available office space. “There has been a steady climb of activity in the sale of office properties in Hawaii over the past 24 months,” says Matthew Bittick, CBRE Brokerage Services senior vice president. Bittick notes that the state...
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