New Haven, CT – Art, architecture and advisory firm Svigals + Partners has promoted Christopher Bockstael, AIA, to partnership, and Julia McFadden, AIA, to the ranks of the firm’s principals.
Bockstael, who joined the firm in 2004 and was promoted to associate principal in 2009, is now one of the firm’s partners. He will take on an expanded role as a director of design for multiple projects.
As project manager for the award-winning New Haven headquarters of tech company Higher One, Bockstael produced a forward-thinking adaptive reuse design of the circa 1915 Winchester Arms factory. The project included the striking addition of a glass-enclosed atrium that connects two of the older buildings. The result has been heralded as helping to revitalize Science Park, a part of downtown that had struggled with decline.
Other projects have included the interior design and adaptive reuse to Yale New Haven Hospital’s living Well Fitness center, and currently he is engaged in the renovation and expansion of PepsiCo’s research and development laboratories in Valhalla, N.Y.
McFadden, with the firm since 2008, frequently in a project management capacity, will now take the title of associate principal, taking a leading role in directing the marketing efforts firm-wide.
Currently, she serves as project manager for several projects including a renovation and addition for The Little Theatre in New Haven, a landmark facility on the National Register of Historic Places, that is currently under construction, while the new Engineering & Science University Magnet School for grades 6-12 and a new and expanded facility for the Ronald McDonald House of Connecticut – both in New Haven – are currently in the design phase.