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It is with profound sadness that we share the news of the passing of our co-founder and leader, Chiu Lin Tse-Chan. Chiu Lin passed away peacefully at home on Thursday, July 18, surrounded by her daughter and family after a year-long battle with lung cancer. Chiu Lin achieved remarkable heights in her career as an architect, and will always be remembered for her strong will and lifelong dedication to her practice.
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Fong & Chan Architects (FCA) was named among the Best Commercial Architects in Palo Alto, California. FCA projects in the San Mateo and Santa Clara areas include the West Tasman Drive Office Campus, Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, and others.
2024
ARCHITECTURE MASTERPRIZE (AMP) celebrates the very best in design excellence and innovation in architecture around the world. We are pleased to share that AMP has selected Fong & Chan Architects as the Top 2023 Architect in Architecture Design/ Healthcare Architecture in San Francisco!
2023
Founding partners David G. Fong and Chiu Lin Tse-Chan are under consideration by the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum and the Society of Architectural Historians in Washington D.C. for their career achievements as Asian American Architects.
2023-2024
FCA unveils design for Stanford University’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, CA.
MARCH 2022
Xi’an Children’s Hospital wins Gold at Grand Prix du Design,
Montreal, Canada
MARCH 2022
California Northstate University Medical Center Masterplan (teaching hospital and medical school) received unanimous approval from Sacramento Planning Commission and Sacramento City Council for their new campus in North Natomas
february 2022
Wesley Harkonen became Licensed Architect
December 2021
Fong & Chan Architects selected to plan and design four office buildings totaling 350,000 square feet for Santa Clara County
NOVEMBER 2020
FCA selected as Master Architect for Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University. With a total project area exceeding 200,000 sf, FCA designed the new Johnson Center for Pregnancy and Newborn Services and numerous other departments.
JULY 2020
ZSFGH wins the Architecture MasterPrize (AMP), celebrating the best in architectural design and innovation worldwide with the aim of increasing our collective appreciation for quality architecture. AMP will host the winner’s event in 2019 at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain.
November 2018
ZSFGH receives Honorable Mention in Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design Awards.
DECEMBER 2018
Fong & Chan Architects selected to design a new cancer hospital in Ramgopalpur, Nepal. This will be the first cancer hospital in the region, serving a population of about 15 million.
AUGUST 2018
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital & Trauma center awarded Society of American Registered Architects (SARA) 2018 New York Design Award of Honor, presented at New York City’s Battery Garden Gala dinner award ceremony.
2018
FCA selected for master plan, programming, and design of a new medical campus in California’s Central Valley. The campus will include a 400+ bed acute-care teaching hospital, parking structures, retail shops, central plant, medical office buildings, medical school, and student dormitory.
may 2018
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital & Trauma Center awarded Society of American Registered Architects (SARA) 2018 National Design Award, presented at the Design Award Dinner Celebration at the Perez Art Museum in Miami, Florida.
2018
Fong & Chan Architects wins 2016 Sustainable Building Award and Architecture Award for San Francisco General Hospital.
2016
“San Francisco’s values at it’s best… a world-class, seismically safe, technologically advanced and sustainably built hospital for all San Franciscans.”
Ed lee, san francisco mayor
“Clients seek out FCA’s expertise due to the firm’s excellent reputation for executing and completing complex and challenging projects.”
| molly shaw, us builder’s review |
2014
