GMZ Design

Victor Gane

Principal 

Victor is an architect with over 7 years of experience in large scale international developments. As a senior designer at Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Victor played an important role in the design of multiple high-rise buildings. His work received international recognition and numerous awards (i.e. Infinity tower in Dubai, UAE). Victor’s background in computational design from MIT prompted his interest in technology transfer from aerospace & automotive industries, which resulted in unique implementation of such advanced technologies as parametric modeling both in the early and later stages of high-rise building design processes. Victor’s current interest is to contribute to improving the energy performance of high-rise buildings and as part of his doctoral research at Stanford he is developing a methodology that will help design teams determine an explicit set of architectural and energy performance requirements and convert these into formally-managed design spaces.

Richard Moreta

Principal

Richard is the architect and designer and team leader for development of hospitality, high end residential, aviation, public, residential, industrial and commercial complex facilities at GMZ Design. He interacts with people from the contracting, project scheduling, financing and marketing sectors of the industry. Richard also works as a consultant to corporate clients based in Europe, Florida, and the Caribbean. For over the last 15 years, he has had an extensive background in Design and Construction, working in continental Europe, Africa, Asia, Caribbean, and the U.S.

He has lectured throughout the United States, Europe and the Americas and has taught in several institutions as "Visitor Professor" in the US, Europe and the Americas.

The work of Richard has been published in local and international magazines even Hospitality Design, US; Aeroflt, Rusia; PM Perspektive, Germany; Abitare, Italy; Kenchi Bunka, Japan, magazine of HOUSE; South Beach and other, he also received the Prize of "AIA Excellence in Design" for his design work "Vertropolis" in Dubai.  Richard is a member founder GMZ, a group of architectural designers recognized with offices in Berlin, New York, Miami, San Francisco, Mexico and the Caribbean. 

Public Service Awards & Professional Achievements

Award for the “Radical Innovation”, Hospitality Design Magazine, Green Global Competition. (2009)

American Institute of Architects, Design Excellence Award 2008 for “Vertropolis” Riyadh, (Design Comp. Vs. Rem Koolhaas) Design Director, HHCP (2008)

Second Price Award for the Shenyang Odeum, (Design Comp. Vs. Zaha Hadi) Shenyang, China. Design Director, HHCP (2008)

American Institute of Architects Design Excellence Award for the “Sarasota Herald Tribune HQ”, Sarasota, USA. Design Team Arquitectonica (2006)

Department of Defense, Achievement Medal for Civilian Services, as Architect and Project Manager[US, Civilian Medal] (1996)

North Atlantic Treated Organization Civilian Medal, Former Yugoslavia, service as Architect and Project Manager [United Nations, NATO / Civilian Medal] (1996)

Operation Joint Endeavor, Award for Civilian Services,as Architect and Project Manager Certificate five years of service in the United Nations (UN) Peace mission in Former Yugoeslavia and Government of the United States of America, service as Architect and Project Manager (1996)

Corps of Engineers Civilian Medal, Former Yugoslavia, service as Architect and Project Manager [United Nations, NATO / Civilian Medal] (1996)

International Partners & Representatives

Arch. Cesar Lucero, Miami, USA 

Cesar@GMZ-Design.com

Arch. Mario Delgado Malagon, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and The Caribbean

Mario@GMZ-Design.com

Arch. Juan Castanos, Estado de Tabasco, Mexico

Juan@GMZ-Design.com

Arch. Robert Knochenhauer, Mexico City D.F., Mexico

Juan@GMZ-Design.com

Arch. Arturo Veve, Shanghai, China

Arturo@GMZ-Design.com

Arch. Adam Mikulicz, Warsaw, Poland

Adam@GMZ-Design.com