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St. Ignatius Catholic School Named IBR’s Top 2018 Private Project

St. Ignatius Catholic School of Meridian, Idaho, was recently named First Place among private projects in the Idaho Business Review's 2018 "Top Projects" issue! Full story on all the recipients here. Wright Brothers joined Forces with CTA Architects Engineers to coordinate over 30 subcontractors to construct St. Ignatius, the first newly constructed Catholic School in Idaho in over 55 years. The team build the state-of-the-art, 10-acre, 56,000 sq. ft. school for pre-K to eighth-grade st...

Education team bringing ‘super studio’ to Austin’s Waterloo School

Jim Beal and Corey Johnson (principals and co-leaders of CTA's Education studio), along with architect Alex Bingham and interior designer Sandi Rudy, are designing Austin, Texas's new Waterloo School. The private high school has core values of Belonging, Mentorship, Restoration, Complexity, Flourishing, Growth, and Generosity; and will focus on incorporating the city of Austin as a classroom. Recently, the team presented a design charrette and used an Oculus immersive VR experience to a...

Thompson Lake House Nets Award of Citation from AIA Idaho

The Thompson Lake House, owned by the founders of Scentsy, Inc. and situated on a private lake in Eagle, ID, won a recent AIA Idaho Citation Award. Project manager Josh Hersel and designer Jason Yates (shown here) proudly display the framed award, now hanging above reception at CTA's Boise office. The project team also included: Jason Butler (principal-in-charge); Eric Nagel (CADD design); Tom Poremba, Kara Desaro, and Ryan Scanlin (structural); Ken Butler and Eric Stein (electrical); T...

IN THE NEWS: Community to Supply Ideas for New TVCC Education Center

From argusobserver.com: The project may be in the pre-design phase, but a newly renovated and expanded career and technical education center has begun in earnest. Treasure Valley Community College, along with its hired architectural firm, has begun gathering ideas for what that center will look like. On Tuesday, the community college began its listening sessions, led by hired firm CTA Architects Engineers, out of Boise. The sessions are designed to gather input from not only college fac...

CTA PROJECT IN THE NEWS: Billings’ New 911 Center Built with Dispatchers’ Health and Safety in Mind

Photos by Ryan Welch of the Billings Gazette. From billingsgazette.com: Eight days ahead of the new $5.5 million 911 Communications Center going live, the center's manager, Anne Kindness, took members of the Billings City Council and city staff through the dispatchers new home Monday that has that new-house smell to it. "I've never built a building before, the dispatch center's 28-year director said. "We are hopeful we've hit the mark here." With redundant power, communications, and hea...
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