RS&H has hired award-winning designer Tony Pascocello, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, LC, as a senior design architect. Pascocello will help lead terminal design efforts and data driven strategies throughout the architecture, engineering and consulting firm.
With more than 20 years of aviation design experience, Pascocello has a portfolio of work that includes significant, large-scale projects in the U.S., Middle East and Asia.
“We are delighted to have Tony join the RS&H family,” said RS&H Aviation Practice Director Don Andrews. “He possesses a unique skill set and approach to digital design that clients in all of the firm’s market sectors will find useful and innovative.”
At RS&H, Pascocello will provide an in-depth strategic approach to aviation and collaborative data strategies.
“It’s beneficial to bridge the three primary areas of digital practice, IT and design in order to provide strong client-focused solutions,” said Pascocello.
His hiring continues to reinforce RS&H’s commitment towards innovative design. Within the aviation market, terminals are consistently utilizing data and technology to refine their design programs and bolster the passenger experience.
With these changes in place, airports can generate more funding needed to keep up with infrastructure demands. Pascocello will play a role in leveraging that data to create potential revenue streams for clients.
“Airports and airlines may have differing views on how new technologies will affect their business models,” Pascocello said. “Passengers will begin to intersect these technologies in more interactive ways.”
“One of my most complex projects was working as a senior design lead for the terminal interior at the Hamad International Airport,” said Pascocello regarding an airport CNN proposed as the most luxurious in the world.
In addition to his aviation work, Pascocello is also a NCQLP-certified lighting designer. His international lighting experience includes two of the 10 tallest buildings in 2015 – Shanghai Tower and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company Headquarters.
Pascocello has won several domestic and international design competitions while serving as a senior design architect for SOM, AECOM and HOK Aviation. He has earned 13 AIA national and state, built and unbuilt design awards, including the Progressive Architecture Award for his design work on the Penn Station Redevelopment Project while at SOM in New York – design work that was also exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art.
He holds a Bachelor of Design degree from the University of Florida and has studied at the Vicenza Institute of Architecture and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He holds a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Miami.
