Santa Clara Square, Santa Clara, CA
YUSUKE OKABAYASHI
AIA, LEED AP, NCARB
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32 Dogwood Lane,
Princeton, NJ 08540
A Bit About Me
I am a licensed architect in NY and NJ, as well as a LEED AP.
After graduating from Princeton University School of Architecture in 2004, I spent 15 years as an architect and eventual Project Manager/Senior Associate at Pei Cobb Freed and Partners (PCF). For the award-winning 1.7 million square foot project at Santa Clara Square in California, as the sole Project Manager from PCF, I was involved in all phases of production over several years, including architectural design, negotiations with the contractor Hathaway Dinwiddie, meetings with the owner, The Irvine Company, and multiple site visits for meetings and punch listing. I am comfortable collaborating with people among the different phases of a large project to successfully coordinate. I gained a lot of experience working closely with Harry Cobb FAIA, Michael Bischoff AIA and Jose Bruguera AIA tackling large site problems down to 3" details.
I balanced my large-scale commercial project experience from PCF with school, residential, and commercial projects working with Bob Hillier FAIA for four years at Studio Hillier. As the Design Phase Project Manager of a developer-owned 190,000 square foot public school in Newark, I juggled tenants’ needs along with those of the developer. We conducted weekly meetings with as many as two dozen participants, including building management and educators, as well as members of the Newark Board of Education and owners’ representatives. This required an attention to detail to school standards and specifications.
Work Experience
March 2020 - August 2024
January 2005 - March 2020
August 2004 - November 2004
January 2003 - June 2004
SENIOR PROJECT ARCHITECT, Studio Hillier | Princeton, NJ
Working with Bob Hillier, FAIA on projects:
- Newark School for Architecture and Interior Design – Project Manager of Design for a 190,000 sq ft school addition to an existing abandoned hospital in Newark Ironbound.
Addition includes full gymnasium and 600-seat theater. Currently under construction, completion target 2025.
- 70-74 Witherspoon St – Architect of Record duties for a high-end, mixed-use restaurant and multi-family building of 7,200 sq ft. After design revisions for code, the project is currently being approved for Building Permit. Construction 2024.
- NJCU Performing Arts Center – Mixed use project residential tower/ parking/ performing arts venue. Served as design lead for the sidewalk curving façade for a 52,305 sq ft Dance and Theater academic building.
- Cintra Estate – Renovation of 1806 mansion and existing barn into apartments. Also developed two townhouse buildings and a 12-unit apartment building. Ongoing.
- Peddie School Graham Athletic Center – Renovations to add over 5,000 sq ft of fitness/cardio space to existing building. Responsibilities include elevator coordination and interiors.
- Project studies for developers: town code research and drawings including furnished apartment layouts and elevations for specific sites to schematic level, including senior centers for Islamic Society of Central Jersey (S Brunswick), and multi-family developments for sites in Princeton, Morristown, and South Amboy, NJ among many.
SENIOR ASSOCIATE, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners | New York, NY
Working directly with partners Harry Cobb FAIA, Michel Bischoff, and Jose Bruguera on award winning projects from Concept through Construction, including years of Construction Administration on commercial projects in California for the Irvine Company.
- Spectrum Terrace – Project Manager for 1.1 million sq ft office campus of 9 office buildings (4 stories) and 5 amenity buildings. Responsible for curtain wall design/shop drawing review (different subcontractors each phase). LEED Gold. Completed 2022.
Irvine, CA
- Santa Clara Square – Project Manager for 1.7 million sq ft office campus: 8 office buildings (6-8 stories) and 3 amenity (fitness, food court buildings). Responsible for curtain wall design/ lobby/ Construction Administration.
“2019 Milestone Project of the Year” Silicon Valley Business Journal Award. “World Design Award” The Architecture Community 2020. LEED Gold. Completed 2018. Santa Clara, CA
- Santa Clara Gateway – Project Manager for 6 office campus buildings. Curtain wall shop drawing review, Construction Administration. Completed 2013. Santa Clara, CA
- Tower 45 – Project Manager for Midtown Manhattan office tower lobby renovation with new quartzite floors, lobby desk, and elevator cab/doors. Construction started 2019, completed 2021. New York, NY
- Bangalore Financial Center – Design of parking garage of 4 levels of over 1,200 vehicles and many types of commuter flow from buses to vans and parking cars, entry design for global investment banking firm. Completed 2016. Bangalore, India.
- Supremus Tower, Lodha Place – Core/shell design of a 15 story office building.
Completed 2012. Mumbai, India.
- New London Embassy Invited Competition Finalist – Coordination of Embassy programming, double-skin curtain wall concept. Meetings with State Dept. Finalist 2009.
- Federation of Korean Industries – Curtain wall incorporating photovoltaics in Sky Garden areas. Invited Competition 2009.
- Soyak Kristalkule Finansbank Headquarters – 35-story crystal prism-shaped tower with changing floor plans throughout tower. Conceptual design of tower shapes and plans.
Design started 2006. Construction completed 2015.
“International Architecture Award” Chicago Athenaeum 2016,
“Design Award of Honor” Society of American Registered Architects 2015. Istanbul, Turkey
- Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City – Parking Garage security booth. Completed 2007
- Palazzo Lombardia – Piazza ETFE dome structure. Publicly accessible piazza with a pneumatic ETFE dome 9 stories in the air. The lattice frame is modeled from the arcs spanning between two curving buildings.
“Best Tall Building Europe,” Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat 2012.
“International Architecture Award” Chicago Athenaeum 2012.
Award of Excellence, AIA NY Chapter 2013.
Completed 2011. Milan, Italy
ARCHITECT, Office for Metropolitan Architecture | Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Penang Tropical City competition with OMA partner Ole Scheeren
- Masterplan design of discrete building typologies in separate areas of the site including extensive site circulation studies with traffic engineer: Mega-office tower, Apartment towers, bungalows, hotel, low-rise, mall.
- Published in El Croquis 134/135, 2007.
ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR, Princeton University School of Architecture | Princeton, NJ
- Three semesters of teaching as Assistant Instructor:
- Graduate Level Structures – two semesters with Professors Guy Nordenson (Guy Nordenson and Associates), and Nat Oppenheimer (Robert Silman Associates)
- Construction – one semester with Terence Smith (Richardson Smith Architects)
- Teaching one class/week
Education
2010
2001 - 2004
1992 - 1996
1992
LICENSED ARCHITECT, New York & New Jersey
LEED AP
MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE, Princeton University School of Architecture
- Princeton University Fellow
- International Exchange Scholar
- Assistant Instructor
BACHELOR OF ARTS WITH SPECIAL HONORS IN ECONOMICS,
The University of Chicago
The Lawrenceville School
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