People/Firms

Aug. 11, 2010

WWCOT, a Palm Springs, Calif.- based architectural firm employing more than 120 people, is merging with Christopher S. Mills Architects of Palm Springs to form WWCOT/Mills. Christopher Mills and Pam Touschner will act as co-managing partners of the full-spectrum architectural firm.

Cannon Design has appointed Salwa A. Zakhary and Richard Bacino to VP positions. Zakhary has more than 25 years of experience in architecture and planning for healthcare, and Bacino has more than 12 years of experience as project architect and manager for a variety of building types, with a specific focus on education.

Christopher Gale, who previously owned and operated his own firm, will head the new Kansas City, Mo., healthcare division of Ellerbe Becket. Howard Goltz has joined the firm's Minneapolis office as architectural director after 20 years as principal and VP at Leo A Daly.

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