RTKL Associates Inc. is a Baltimore-based architecture and design firm. It is known for a variety of projects including the Shanghai Museum of Science and Technology , the new visitor's center of the U.S. Capitol Building, and several buildings in Baltimore's Inner Harbor.The firm was founded by Archibald Rogers in his grandmother's basement in Annapolis. He soon hired Francis Taliaferro as a draftsman. In 1949 the pair added Charles Lamb, whose design for the Teepee Lodge for the Anne Arundel County Girl Scouts gained the firm attention by winning an award from the American Institute of Architects.
Another early project was Harundale Mall , the East Coast's first enclosed shopping mall, built by the developer James Rouse. The addition of urban design specialist George Kostritsky in 1961 completed the foursome whose names formed "RTKL".
Besides the projects already mentioned, the firm's work has included the Reston Town Center in Reston, Virginia; the Salamanca Rail Station in Salamanca, Spain; and the SingaporeThe Republic of Singapore ( Chinese , pinyin: Xinjiapo Gonghegu Malay Republik Singapura Tamil , Cingkappur Kudiyarasu , is an island city-state in Southeast Asia, at latitude 1°17'35"N longitude 103°51'20"E, situated on the southern tip of Malay Peninsul embassy in Washington, D.C..
In 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co it was announced that RTKL had won the bid to design the Beijing International Sports and Exhibition Center , which will house the 2008 Olympic GamesThe 2008 Summer Olympics officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad will be held in Beijing in the People's Republic of China from August 8 to August 24, 2008, with the opening ceremony to take place at 8 PM on August 8, 2008 (the number 8 stands.
