Jon Pickard

Founding principals of Pickard Chilton are Jon Pickard, ('76, BA & '79 MA - Architecture , FAIA, RIBA, and William Chilton, ('76, BS & '80 MA in Architecture) FAIA, RIBA (both BA 1976 Architecture). New Haven, Conn.-based Pickard Chilton has won a 2012 Green Good Design Award from the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design for the firm's design of BG Group Place in Houston. From thousands of submission from more than 20 countries, the jury selected more than 100 outstanding examples of green design. Completed in March 2011, BG Group Place, located in downtown Houston's historic Main Street, serves as the headquarters for BG Group, an international natural gas company. It is the first LEED-CS Platinum-certified high rise in the state of Texas.