One of the firm's nationally known projects is the WashingtonAreaMetropolitan Transit Authority building. Its success helped thefirm gain transitcommissions throughout the country.The firm'snotable local projects include the renovation of theAuditoriumTheatre, the Time and Life Building and the MetropolitanCorrectionalCenter.

The firm was originally known as Harry Weese & Associates.The name changedin 1992 and by that time Weese had left the firm.He died in 1998.

Terms of the new deal with Gensler were not disclosed. However,JamesFollett, managing principal of the Chicago office of Gensler,tellsGlobeSt.com that the arrangement is better described as a"marriage." Bothfirms had worked on several projects together andafter several months ofdiscussions, worked out the joining of thetwo firms.James A. Torvik, president and principal, and DavidMunson, principal of theWeese firm, are formally joining Gensler.George Vrechek, former principal,is joining the engineering firm ofEnvironmental System Design. WeeseAssociates also closed itsWashington, DC office at the end of June.