SITIO announces our National Certification as a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) through the National Minority Supplier Development Council, the global leader in advancing business opportunities for certified minority business enterprises. SITIO's certification is a natural extension of our deep engagement and service in the community.
Antonio Fiol-Silva is visiting Georgetown, South Carolina as a member of the ULI Advisory Services Committee focused on transforming the former ArcelorMittal steel mill and the Port of Georgetown into a thriving destination for residents and tourists, and a catalyst for economic development. Together with the Committee, Antonio will be reviewing the 150-acre site, and providing valuable direct experience gained from our recent transformative placemaking projects at SteelStacks in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
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Antonio Fiol-Silva, Founding Partner of SITIO architecture + urbanism, is honored to address the Union League’s Real Estate Club (ULRE) as the keynote speaker during their second annual summit on September 7th.
The ULRE is a group within the League comprised of some of Philadelphia's most influential developers, brokers, designers, bankers, architects and attorneys who are making our marketplace great. ULRE events are dedicated to presenting all that is Real Estate, by the leaders who are making it happen.
The Levitt Pavilion was recently published in the AIA publication ‘Pleasure’ that highlights recent AIA National Award winning Small Projects. SITIO’s Antonio Fiol-Silva was Principal-In-Charge and Karen Blanchard was Project Designer and Architect on this unique and challenging project that continues to gather the community for arts and entertainment at SteelStacks in Bethlehem, PA. Click here to check out the summer concert series at the Levitt Pavilion!
SITIO’s Antonio Fiol-Silva was recently appointed to the Philadelphia Historical Commission by Mayor Jim Kenney. Established in 1955, the Philadelphia Historical Commission is the City of Philadelphia’s regulatory agency responsible for ensuring the preservation of historically significant buildings, structures, sites, objects, interiors and districts in Philadelphia.
The Hoover-Mason Trestle was recently awarded the 2016 ULI Philadelphia Willard G. Rouse III Award. As part of a celebration of the region’s top real estate projects, winners were announced at an awards ceremony on June 15th. SITIO's Antonio Fiol-Silva was Principal-In-Charge and Karen Blanchard was Project Architect of this unique and challenging project while at WRT.
SITIO's Antonio Fiol-Silva participated on a distinguished jury panel of Philadelphia firms representing design excellence for the 2016 Architectural Record Advertising Excellence Awards. Each year Architectural Record recognizes the most effective ads in the building and design marketplace, and the companies and agencies that produce them. The ads are carefully reviewed and judged by a blue ribbon panels of experienced architects representing the breadth of the profession—firms of all sizes working on projects from large-scale commercial to residential and interiors.
Several significant social, economic, environmental and technological factors have emerged in recent years that will have a transformative impact on urban areas in the future. Many cities have been in the forefront in addressing climate change adaptation and mitigation, demographic shifts and changing lifestyle preferences, and fluctuating employment and transportation paradigms. This Panel Discussion: Responding to Change & Building Resilience will highlight some of these external factors and panelists will showcase how different communities are responding to the environmental, housing, transportation, and equity challenges created by these future forces.
Principal Speaker:
Barry Seymour Executive Director, Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, Philadelphia, Pa.
Panelists:
Christine Knapp Director, Office of Sustainability, City of Philadelphia, Pa.
Caleb Stratton Principal Planner, City of Hoboken, N.J.
Antonio Fiol-Silva, FAIA, AICP, LEED AP BD+C Chair, Urban Land Institute Philadelphia District Council and Founding Principal, SITIO Architecture + Urbanism, Philadelphia, PA.
DATE: Tuesday, May 17, 2016
TIME: 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Click here for Registration
WHERE: Michael A. Fitts Auditorium, University of Pennsylvania Law School
SITIO Principal Karen Blanchard joins Tiffany Millner and Fon Wang as the keynote speakers for the 2016 Women in Design Dinner at the AIA National Convention in Philadelphia.
SITIO is proud to welcome Karen Blanchard, AIA as Principal. Karen is excited to continue collaborating with Antonio Fiol-Silva, her colleague and mentor while at WRT.
From the GPHH Newletter : Today's business owner is Antonio Fiol-Silva, Founding Principal of SITIO architecture + urbanism, a firm that he launched this Spring after 15 years as a leading Principal at WRT, one of the city's largest and oldest planning and design firms.
What makes your business different from other similar businesses?
The name of our firm, SITIO, hints at the core values that drive our practice. In Spanish, SITIO means place. SITIO also means site, and it is usually used as a word that connotes strategy, specifically as it pertains to the relationship between a site and its broader context. To us that context is multidimensional. It is of course physical and economic, as it is also cultural and personal. Our work strives to make connections, to leverage resources, and to help make other things happen. It also strives to establish a personal connection, so that people can feel that the site - or place - is their own. Our firm approaches that objective through design - the process that can synthesize the many factors that shape our buildings and spaces, and hence structures the way we live. In that aim we are a mission-driven business, seeking to engage and serve other mission and vision driven businesses and organizations.
Antonio Fiol-Silva, ULI Philadelphia Chair and SITIO founding principal, is excited to welcome the Urban Land Institute to Philadelphia for the annual global ULI Spring Meeting!