Rebecca Yanrong Gao; 917-327-3243 [email protected];

EXPERIENCE

December 2021 to present _ Bories & Shearron Architecture DPC _ INTERMEDIATE ARCHITECT _ Projects: Herro-Franke Residence; 102 Eaton Square; Corl Residence; Suprenant Residence

October 2019 to July 2021 _ Kirkor Architects & Planners _ ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER _ Projects: 1891 Eglinton Ave; Sheppard Meadowvale Development; 7437-7441 Kingston Road; Vine Ridge Boutique Towns; 11300 Yonge Street

March 2012 to July 2019 _ GAP Design LLC _ PRINCIPAL DESIGNER _ Projects: Wenjing Park Project; Sino Steel Building & Sino Steel International Hotel; Yaohua Road Plot 11-3; Jinyang Lake West Bank Community; 755 Caledonia Road; Shenzhen Bay “Super City”; Datong Huayu Commerce & Culture Center; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

September 2010 to September 2011 _ B+H Consulting International Inc. _ SENIOR ARCHITECT _ Projects: Calxon • Times City; Tianjin OCT Lingshui Garden

September 2007 to August 2010 _ Atkins Consultants (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd., Shanghai Branch _ SENIOR ARCHITECT I _ Projects: Phase 2, Plot B of Shenyang New World Garden; Ecological Landscape District of Guitang River, Changsha; Wuhai Bashang Park & Bund 5-star Hotel; Tianjin TEDA Plaza; Wuhan Wangjiadun CBD 5-star Hotel; Chongqing Olympic Garden

March to August 2007 _ Rafael Vinoly Architects PC _ ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER _ Project: University of Pennsylvania, Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine

March 2006 to Feb. 2007 _ TRO Jung|Brannen _ PROJECT DESIGNER _ Project: Amwaj Project

July 1995 to August 2003 _ China Northeast Architectural Design & Research Institute, Shenzhen Branch _ SENIOR ARCHITECT / DIRECTOR ARCHITECT (2000~2003) _ Projects: Futian Transportation Hub; Zhuhai Campus of Beijing University of Technology; Chongqing Museum

ARCHITECT (1995~2000) _ Projects: Shenzhen Futian Port; Fujian Radio & Television Center; Daqing Building; Great China International Exchange Plaza; Seg Dasheng International Investment Building

EDUCATION

Harvard Graduate School of Design _ Master in Urban Planning

Tianjin University _ Bachelor in Architecture

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION/ACCREDITATION

U.S. Green Building Council _ LEED Accredited Professional (2009)

EXHIBITIONS & PUBLICATIONS

-- Tianjin OCT Lingshui Garden & Ecological Landscape District of Guitang River, Changsha _ Peiyang Artisans Ingenuity – The Works Collection of Alumni of School of Architecture, Tianjin University, 2018

-- GAP Design LLC _ Top Chinese Design Brand, “a+u” Extra Issue, 2016

-- Yanrong Gao _ Contemporary Elite Ethnic Chinese Architects, “a+u” Extra Issue, 2015

-- Yanrong Gao _ Contemporary Chinese and Foreign Architects, 2014

-- Yanrong Gao _ Chinese Contemporary Young Architects II, 2013

-- Daqing Building _ Selected into the Fifth National Architectural Rendering Exhibition; Published in “Selected Chinese Architectural Renderings 1999”

-- An apartment in Shenzhen _ Rihan Architectural Renderings, 1998

AWARDS & HONORS

2015 Tianjin OCT Lingshui Garden _ National Excellent Engineering and Consulting Industry Award · Residential and Residential Community Design 2nd Class Award, by China Engineering and Consulting Association (CECA)

2013 Calxon • Times City _ Asia International Habitat Environment Prize, by Asia Housing and Environment Development Association (AHEDA) & Asia International Residential Human Settlements Association (ARSA)

2010 Chongqing Olympic Garden • Olymount Villas _ National Zhantianyou Award · Chongqing Excellent Residential Community Golden Award, by China Civil Engineering Society (CCES); The 18th Chinese Golden Stone Award for Architecture, by China Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Development Association (CESCDA)

2010 University of Pennsylvania, Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine _ The International Architecture Award for Best New Global Design by the Chicago Athenaeum; The Design Award of Special Recognition by the Pennsylvania SARA (Society of American Registered Architects); An Honorable Mention in the Healthcare Sector by World Architecture News (WAN); LEED Silver certification by USGBC

2009 Ecological Landscape District of Guitang River, Changsha _ The 1st Place in International Design Competition

2007 Xiamen International Cruise City, 5-star Hotel _ The Selected Scheme in International Design Competition

2005 Independent Design Ranked No.1 (High Pass) in the urban design studio: Re-imagining Dudley, Harvard GSD

2003 Futian Transportation Hub _ The 1st Place by Jury in International Design Competition

2000 Chongqing Museum _ The 2nd Place in International Design Competition

2000 Selected into The Project of French President “50 Chinese Architects in France”

2000 Shenzhen Futian Port _ The 2nd Place in International Design Competition

1999 “The Integration of Rationality and Sensibility – The Design and Thinking for Daqing Building” _ The 3rd Class Excellent Thesis Prize in 99’ Architectural Design Symposium of CSCEC

1999 Official Delegate of the XX UIA Congress Beijing 1999

1997 Daqing Building _ The 1st Place in National Design Competition; The 2nd Class Excellent Schematic Design Prizes of CNADRI & CSCEC

1996 Great China International Exchange Plaza _ The 1st Place in National Preliminary Design Competition

ART SKILLS

Pencil, Pen, Water Color, Gouache, Airbrush, Marker, Computer…

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