Tono Architects

TONO Creates Vision for Multi-Family Complex

Since late 2011, TONO Architects has spearheaded the master planning and design conceptualization of a multi-family market rate apartment complex in Hummelstown. Located on the site of the former Verdelli family produce facility, the new community features six residential structures containing over 150 dwelling units and including recreational amenity spaces for its occupants.

Led by Douglas Phillips, Design Director of the firm, the TONO team is working to develop the documentation for the first phase of construction slated for a mid-2013 start.

The six acre site presents a number of unique challenges include significant topographical slope, railroad adjacencies, blighted infrastructure and a surrounding context of historical and single-family residences. Deftly composed to address these challenges, the vision conceived by Mr. Phillips and the development partnership, depicts a tightly grouped urban streetscape of three and four-story traditional building forms. With a blend of substantive building ingredients including fiber cement siding and brick masonry, the neighborhood recalls the material palette of Hummelstown while creating a new identity for its residents.

Black Diamond Jet Team moves in…

Opened in time for one of the largest air shows in North America, Sun N’ Fun International Fly-In & Expo, the new headquarters for Black Diamond Jet Team in Lakeland, Florida features a mezzanine level pilot’s lounge for its featured performers. As recently as January 2012, the space resembled a modular trailer before being reconceived by TONO team members Hunter Johnson, Joe Slagle and Amy Brunner. Now the centerpiece of the renowned eight-jet performance team’s home base, the space showcases the team’s identity as a civilian-led group with both Naval and Air Force roots.

Conceived as the interplay between the physical features of land and aircraft carrier-based control towers, the pilot’s lounge contains spaces to recreate, unwind and review performance footage on a series of flat-panel displays. At its apex, the second floor loft houses a state-of-the-art bar for visiting officials and out of area guests.

Presently, TONO continues to work with the team’s leadership to complete its operations center and life support/fitness areas within the 100,000 square foot complex.

Crossway Church on schedule

The 38,000 square foot worship facility for Crossway Church continues to take shape in Millersville, Pennsylvania. Located on 76 acres of undulating meadows and bordering the Conestoga River, the new home for Crossway is now under roof.

As initially imagined by Hunter Johnson, Principal of TONO Architects, the hybrid timber and steel-framed structure employs long-span glue-laminated beams with integral tensile structural steel members. Spanning the 10,000 square foot multi-purpose room, the distinctive truss elements reinterpret the rich heritage of Lancaster County timber framing with new vigor. Working in concert with WBCM, structural engineers of Camp Hill, the TONO design team of Dan Garner, Fran Bridge and Angelique Miller created a holistically refined architectural vision for Crossway.