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Studio Hillier LLC 190 Witherspoon St. Princeton, NJ 08540 609-688-9999 (t) 609-688-9990 (f) contact@studiohillier.com

Becton Dickinson Campus Center

Table of Contents About Us Introduction.......................................................................................................................................1 Biography...........................................................................................................................................3 Selected Commercial Clients.......................................................................................................5 Selected Projects Urban Trifecta...................................................................................................................................6 Synygy World Headquarters...................................................................................................... 12 Becton Dickinson Campus Center............................................................................................ 18 LVMH Headquarters................................................................................................................... 24 K. Hovnanian................................................................................................................................. 30 GlaxoSmithKline Global Headquarters................................................................................... 36 Vanguard Training Center.......................................................................................................... 42 Firm History................................................................................................................................... 48 Credits............................................................................................................................................. 52

Introduction Studio Hillier LLC is an interdisciplinary design firm in Princeton, NJ, co-founded in 2011 by partners Barbara A. Hillier, AIA, and J. Robert Hillier, LHD, FAIA, PP. For over thirty years, we have formed the backbone of a vibrant, growing full-service architectural studio with the depth of experience and design talent to take on a challenge of any scope.

We work collaboratively with experts in the region and elsewhere who bring excellence and robust knowledge of the latest building technologies, including prefabrication and environmental systems and the preservation of historic structures. Our success is reflected in the number of repeat clients who recognize our rigorous performance standards in meeting occupancy dates, managing the budget, and delivering high-quality design and professional services. With over three hundred and fifty design awards, our reputation for excellence is evidence of our commitment to our clients, place, sustainability, and the built environment.

Over the last two decades, a representation of completed project types includes hospitals, international corporate headquarters, public and private libraries, a US government courthouse, an urban convention center, independent day and boarding secondary schools, colleges and universities, art centers/museums, research buildings, and multi-family projects.

Our work is a mosaic of places, cultures, customs, and economies in locations ranging from bucolic open spaces to urban neighborhoods to densely urban communities. Through these projects, we work tirelessly to achieve our clients’ expectations and create architecture that embodies the vision and spirit of their dreams.

Studio Hillier’s office is located in the heart of the historic Witherspoon Jackson neighborhood in Princeton, New Jersey, and operates out of a converted machine shop and warehouse. We serve clients throughout New Jersey, Philadelphia and New York, Connecticut, Washington, DC, Beijing, and Shanghai from our Princeton base. We are only one hour from 2 international airports. We have projects in 27 states and 32 countries.

The following projects have been completed during Bob and Barbara’s careers, selected from their personal scrapbook, which spans 55 years of Hillier architecture.

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J. Robert Hillier, LHD, FAIA MANAGING PRINCIPAL J. Robert Hillier (Bob) is one of the leading and most highly-respected architects in the United States.

Best known for building one of the world’s largest and most successful architecture firms, Mr. Hillier is distinguished for his design, business acumen, and contributions to the profession as both a practitioner and educator.

Bob and the firm have been widely published in national and international journals, newspapers, and magazines. He has given over 200 lectures and participated in dozens of design juries. In 1992, Bob joined the core faculty of Princeton University’s School of Architecture, where he currently teaches two graduate seminars. He has served on the AIA National Fellowship Jury and as Chair of the Selection Committee for the Dean of Princeton’s School of Architecture. He is also a Trustee Emeritus at McCarter Theater.

More recently, Bob received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and an Honorary MBA from Bryant University. Other honors include the Legacy Award from the Urban Land Institute, the New Jersey AIA’s Michael Graves Lifetime Achievement Award, and the President’s Medal for Lifetime Achievement from NJIT. In May 2019, the New Jersey Institute of Technology renamed its Architecture/Design school the J. Robert and Barbara A. Hillier College of Architecture and Design.

REGISTRATIONS NJ #21AI00438500, CT, D.C., DE, FL, GA, KS, MD, MA, NH, NY, PA, RI, TX, VA, Washington D.C. EDUCATION MFA, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ BA, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ AFFILIATIONS Member, College of Fellows, American Institute of Architects Core Faculty, Princeton University School of Architecture, 1992 to Present Board of Advisors, Architectural Graphics Standards Publication New Jersey Green Building Council, Founding Member

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Selected Corporate Clients Accenture

LG Electronics

ACE USA, Inc.

Lucent Technologies

American Home Products

LVMH

AT&T

Merrill Lynch

Becton Dickinson

Motorola

Bell Atlantic Corporation

Novartis

Campbell Soup Company

PNC Bank

Capital One

Prudential Insurance

Chase Manhattan Bank

Ritz-Carlton

Citicorp

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Deloitte & Touche

Rohm and Haas

ETS

Salomon Smith Barney

Ernst & Young

Samsung Corporation

Federal Express

Sanofi-Aventis

Firmenich, Inc

Schering-Plough

General Foods

StarMedia

Glaxo Smith Kline

Steelcase

Goldman Sachs

Siemens

Herman Miller

Sprint

Hilton International

Tiffany & Co.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Towers Perrin

IBM Corporation

Turkiye Is Bankasi AS

Johnson & Johnson

The Vanguard Group

Urban Trifecta PRINCETON, NJ 10,000 SF

Studio Hillier identified an opportunity to transform a warehouse/ garage on Witherspoon Street in downtown Princeton into a storefront architectural studio. The studio is flanked on either side by a residentialturned-commercial property that was also in need of revitalization.

Studio Hillier sought to further enhance the surrounding neighborhood and community by restoring life to the buildings and the street.

The comprehensive plan to integrate retail, residential, and office space was developed through several meetings with the Witherspoon-Jackson Community. By engaging with residents and community leaders from the beginning of the design process, valuable and helpful information was offered and incorporated into the design.

In addition to the 6,600-square-foot warehouse transformed into an architectural studio, the two adjacent properties were renovated into 2,000 square feet of retail on the ground floor and 2,000 square feet of residential space above. Four apartment units were created, two meeting the affordable housing requirements.

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AWARDS AIA New Jersey Merit Award

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Synygy World Headquarters CHESTER, PA 130,000 SF

Synygy selected Hillier to transform a massive industrial-age power station into Synygy’s new world headquarters. The award-winning project helped the company set the benchmark for industry leadership, corporate responsibility, and community involvement.

Named the “Best Adaptive Reuse Project of the Year” in 2006 by the International Design Association, Philadelphia City Center Chapter, Hillier’s transformation of the aging power station was also honored by the Philadelphia Preservation Alliance and received the 2006 Commonwealth Design Award from 10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania.

The original power station was a monument to the production and marketing of electricity in the early 20th century, featuring advances in power generation and industrial construction. Accommodating modern technology and enabling a design that would facilitate future growth first required removing much of the equipment from the past.

The Turbine Hall, with its 100-foot vaulted ceiling, now incorporates a data center, cafeteria, and conference center housed within two new freestanding structures, whose roofs serve as a plaza, an open patio, and a multi-functional theater/trade show area. Some equipment, however, was preserved; the old power station’s control room was preserved as the executive conference room.

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AWARDS AIA Pennsylvania Recognition Award Building Design and Construction Grand Award for Reconstruction International Interior Design Association Interior Design Award 10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania, Commonwealth Design Awards Silver Award Philadelphia Preservation Alliance Preservation Achievement Award

PUBLICATIONS Construction Today “Four Decades of Design”

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Becton Dickinson Campus Center FRANKLIN LAKES, NJ 35,000 SF

The chosen site for the campus center on the Becton Dickinson corporate campus was the main ceremonial lawn framed by the two massive masonry office buildings. The CEO imagined a new campus center as the virtual knot that would join the two stand-alone office buildings and unify the campus’s executive management and technical staff, becoming the symbol of a new, unified collaborative workforce.

The campus center facility bridges and blurs the boundaries between building/landscape, indoor/outdoor, roof/earth, and the two local business cultures of management/production.

Sustainable design was elemental in the campus center’s plan, which features a vegetative roof, and the site design. The reconstituted lawn reduces storm water run-off, minimizes below-grade structures and piping, and eliminates heat islands.

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AWARDS The Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Award AIA New Jersey Merit Award AIA Pennsylvania Excellence Award American Concrete Institute NJ Grand Award

PUBLICATIONS Metropolis Magazine “Garden State”

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LVMH North American HQ NEW YORK, NY 106,000 SF

Hillier collaborated with Christian de Portzamparc, a Pritzker Prizewinning architect, on this twenty-four-story skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan. Mr. Portzamparc provided the building design, and Hillier served as the coordinating architect, providing design development, production documentation, construction administration services, and interior architecture and design.

Peter Marino designed a ground-level store for Christian Dior. The white-glass-mirrored tower, with a striking oblique line, is as dramatic as the fashion companies housed within its walls. The innovative structure incorporates intelligent building technologies, including fully integrated data and telecommunications systems.

Inside the tower are offices for executives at Guerlain, Louis Vuitton, Givenchy, and several other divisions of the luxury goods conglomerate.

The offices are complemented by nine showrooms and a thirty-foothigh Magic Room on the top floor—a multipurpose room for special events, including fashion shows, product launches, and large meetings.

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AWARDS AIA New Jersey Merit Award BIM Award Citation Business Week/Architectural Record Excellence Award Dupont Antron Design Award Merit Winner, Retail Category, Showroom Spaces

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K. Hovnanian RED BANK, NJ 65,000 SF

K. Hovnanian Companies built a 65,200-square-foot world headquarters in Red Bank, New Jersey, as the new home for its managing executives. Hovnanian, a public home-building company traded on the New York Stock Exchange, is currently the eighth-largest home builder in the U.S. The headquarters houses real estate, accounting, legal and architectural executives. Three floors of offices and the parking levels located beneath them are arranged around a central skylight, utilizing structural glass in the atrium floor and pedestrian bridges to transmit daylight to the lower parking levels.

The 1.5-acre site is located along the Navesink River in downtown Red Bank. The central entry plaza along Front and Riverside Streets features a public plaza and an extensive fountain system.

The building facade along these streets is articulated to complement the downtown area’s scale and traditional architectural vocabulary.

When viewed from the river, the building presents a transparent expression of a glass curtain wall. The glass curtain wall and balconies from the building offer expansive waterfront views.

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GlaxoSmithKline Global HQ LONDON, ENGLAND 790,000 SF

Hillier’s design for a global headquarters for GlaxoSmithKline, one of the world’s leading research-based pharmaceutical companies, initiated a transformation within the organization and introduced a significant presence on a prominent thirteen-acre site outside of Central London at the intersection of the A4 and M4 highways.

The building was designed to bring employees together in an efficient and effective work environment and to create a central space that advances GSK culture, which includes executive visibility and staff interaction. It also creates a gateway landmark that is welcoming to visitors and sensitive to the surrounding neighborhood. The project also made the most of the construction budget by accelerating the design and construction process.

The headquarters for up to 3,500 people encompasses over one million square feet of space within three five-story buildings and a sixteenstory, seventy-one-meter-high glass tower. A dramatic, double-curving façade of glass and natural stone fenestration links the structures.

There is also a 142-meter-long interior “street,” a focal point enlivened by interconnecting bridges suspended from top-level trusses that provide continuous vistas.

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Vanguard Training Center MALVERN, PA 120,000 SF

The Vanguard Group, an organization committed to employee preparedness and superior customer service, wanted an on-site conference and training center at its Malvern Headquarters Campus.

In response, the architects designed a facility capable of housing the latest technological advances and equipped to host large groups of people. The 120,000-square-foot, two-story building, is uniquely suited to public gatherings and employee learning.

The conference and training center is the home to Vanguard University, the financial giant’s employee education program. More than 600 employees each day are involved in training. The conference and training center employs an extensive array of technology systems in its 35 classrooms and several large multi-purpose rooms.

The team wanted to celebrate the unique function of the building by designing a structure of distinction. Still, they also wanted to integrate the building into the built and natural environment of the campus.

Their solution is a two-story, 120,000-square-foot structure that uses material palettes compatible with, but not identical to, the other buildings on the campus.

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AWARDS AIA Philadelphia Honor Award

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Firm History

1966 On April 1, J. Robert Hillier leases his first office at 44 Nassau Street in Princeton, NJ. Bob’s first job was replacing a bathroom vanity for a wealthy Princeton client.

1967 Bob designs a threestory office building, a dormitory for Fairleigh Dickinson University, and a private residence, all three of which win AIA design awards from the New Jersey Society of Architects.

1969 Twin Rivers is the first planned unit development (PUD) in New Jersey, with over 700 townhouses

1970 The business expands to 48 employees and moves to a building at the end of Princeton Airport’s runway that a plane had once crashed into.

1973 Now recognized as a professional corporation, J. Robert Hillier, Architects, P.A. moves into its own building known as the “Treehouse,” the first building in NJ approved to be designed and built in a flood plain.

1974 Our first international project, the American International School in Vienna, is completed.

This is the first of 12 international secondary schools designed by Hillier.

1982 The Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex in Trenton, NJ, was one of the largest projects ever undertaken by the State of New Jersey at the time of its completion.

1984 Hillier opens an office in Tampa, FL, to design and support the development of Harbour Island and is named NJ’s Firm of the Year by the Business and Industry Association.

1985 On the tenth Hillier “Career Day,” Bob invites 100 aspiring architects to spend a day at the firm. 17 “Career Day” participants will eventually become Hillier employees.

1986 In need of more office space, The Hillier Group moves to a new headquarters at 500 Alexander Park and celebrates our 20th anniversary.

1987 The Hillier Group wins a national competition to design an addition to Arizona State University’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design.

1987 The Hillier Group is the country’s 7th largest architectural firm with a staff of 235, having executed over 2,000 projects for 700 clients.

1975 Engineering NewsRecord ranks Hillier at 308 of 500 top design firms in the U.S. based on revenue and size.

1976 Barbara Weinstein creates and leads the Interiors Studio.

1988 Under the leadership of Design and Managing Principal Barbara Hillier, a full-service regional office opens in Philadelphia.

1989 Inc. Magazine names J. Robert Hillier as New Jersey’s “Entrepreneur of the Year” and Hillier publishes “Ten Ways of Looking at a Building: A Guide to the Rights of Clients.”

J. Robert Hillier is elected to the AIA College of Fellows.

1977 The first passive solarheated municipal building in NJ, designed for East Windsor, is profiled by New York Times.

1978 Beneficial Management, Inc., commissions a new 500,000 SF corporate headquarters in Peapack, NJ. This pioneering headquarters would lead to further commissions for corporate campuses from some of the world’s largest corporations.

1980 The firm hires its 100th employee and becomes The Hillier Group, Architects/Planners, P.A.

1981 Now the 9th largest architectural firm in the nation, the firm moves into the building known as the “Solar Wedge.”

1990 With technological advancements, the firm launches its first website and implements CAD across all offices.

1993 The Hillier Group acquires GSGSB Architects, Engineers, Planners of Clarks Summit, PA expanding our market to new areas, such as data centers.

1993 Architectural Record profiles Hillier’s design for the AT&T Corporate Campus in Bridgewater, NJ, an early example of green architecture.

1994 Star City Sydney Harbour MixedUse Development revitalizes the historic Pyrmont Bay waterfront in Sydney, Australia.

We aquire The Eggers Group and form the New York office.

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1995 The result of an initiative to consolidate research operations, the new 1 million SF SmithKlineBeecham Research Center is one of England’s largest capital projects.

1996 The Cogeneration Plant at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York wins accolades and recognition including a profile in the Wall Street Journal.

1997 At the Duke University Center for Human Genomics, an international leader in the study of inherited disorders, futuristic laboratories provide ideal spaces for scientists dedicated to genetic discovery.

1998 Architectural Record features Hillier as one of the best-managed firms in the U.S. A new Hillier website is launched.

1999 Looking to reclaim its position as Newark’s Crown Jewel, the outdated National Newark Building is cleaned and transformed, inside and out.

2000 We complete the design for Turkiye Is Bankasi Headquarters in Istanbul.

2006 Hillier Architecture is named AIA New Jersey Architectural Firm of the Year

2007 J. Robert Hillier receives the Michael Graves Lifetime Achievement Award from AIA-NJ.

2008 The Becton Dickinson Corporate Campus Employee Services Center wins the American Architecture Award from the Chicago Anthenaeum.

2009 We complete the University Medical Center at Princeton in collaboration with HOK and Bob personally designs its new chapel.

2012 Bob and Barbara establish Studio Hillier in downtown Princeton, renewing their focus on smaller scale, local and community projects.

2013 Hillier designs and develops Copperwood, a 153-unit residential development for senior citizens in Princeton.

2000 The revolutionary Niagara Falls High School is featured in the New York Times.

2001 We complete the 5 million SF Sprint Headquarters Campus in Overland Park, KS.

2002 GlaxoSmithKline Global Headquarters in London, UK symbolizes the company’s forward position as one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies.

2004 Hillier opens an office in Shanghai and launches an award-winning website that is people-centric, not just project-focused.

2004 The Solebury School Abbe Science Center receives the AIA PA Silver Medal, the state’s most prestigious award representing the highest level of achievement in design.

2005 Engineering NewsRecord ranks Hillier 5th of the top 100 “pure” architecture firms in the U.S. and the firm wins 14 design awards.

2014 The work of Hillier Architecture, our legacy firm, is featured at the US Pavilion of the Venice Biennale.

2016 J. Robert Hillier celebrates 50 years of architectural practice.

A new dormitory for Iona College opens to rave reviews from students.

2017 New townhouses for the Institute for Advanced Study provide a natural extension of the Institute’s existing campus while allowing a significant expansion of preserved land for Princeton Battlefield State Park.

2018 Studio Hillier is named Design Architect for Port St. George, a net zero-carbon resort in the Bahamas.

2019 NJIT renames its architecture and design school the J. Robert and Barbara A. Hillier College of Architecture and Design.

2020 Today, Studio Hillier is building on our legacy of success and client satisfaction while integrating the latest building technologies, environmental systems, and preservation techniques.

Photo Credits Urban Trifecta Photos Courtesy of Halkin Mason Photography Synygy World Headquarters Photos Courtesy of Jeffrey Totaro and Jeff Tryon Becton Dickinson Campus Center Photos Courtesy of Brad Feinknopf LVMH Photos Courtesy of Paul Warchol Photography K. Hovnanian Photos Courtesy of Elliott Kaufman GlaxoSmithKline Global HQ Photos Courtesy of: Edmund Sumner Photography Vanguard Training Center Photos Courtesy of Peter Mauss/ESTO

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