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- Understanding Grafton Architects, Directors of the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale
- Jardin de l’Ange / Evastomperstudio
- Identity Works / Elding Oscarson
- Nha que / a21 studio
- Daishan Primary School / ZHOU Ling Design Studio
- Bonochhaya Experience Centre / Abin Design Studio
- Oblique House / Studio B Architecture + Interiors
- Knight Cities Challenge Names 2017 Finalists
- Hydropolis / ART FM
- OMA/AMO Designs “Back to Basics” Interior for the Prada 2017 Fall/Winter Runway
- Studio Gang, SANAA Among Winners of 2017 AIA Institute Honor Awards
- Dandurand Residences / NatureHumaine
- Hardenvoort Campus for Youth & Children / BURO II & ARCHI+I
- How To Earn A Six-Figure Salary as an Architect
- Camp Graham / Weinstein Friedlein Architects
- Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara Named Artistic Directors of 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale
- 10 Architecture Offices with Inspiring Workspaces
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| SieMatic / Levin Packer architects Posted: 17 Jan 2017 09:00 PM PST  © Amit Geron
 © Amit Geron  Floor Plan From the architect. In the project we started, facing the current situation – an old warehouse, part of Tel Aviv port complex of restored warehouses (from the Tel Aviv Bauhaus period). The task was to design a showroom of four different kitchen types for two kitchen companies, Le Cornue and SieMatic.  © Amit Geron We decided to use the existing cross plan, thus carrying out the idea of four sleeves – four show spaces, each with its very distinguished and articulated character, offering different experience, while part of an organism that functions and breathes with all its parts as one.  © Amit Geron The building was ripped off, the four spaces were cleaned of all that is unnecessary, left naked on their construction, this way exposing the authentic materials – bricks, metal and concrete structure of the building.  © Amit Geron The four show spaces were knitted together by the overall rough background and the installation ducts passing through it - the electricity and air conditioning, placed in black ducts, while the brass light lines extended like golden threads. The electric installation ducts are exposed and stretched, in order to emphasize the linearity and the horizontality of the space and interconnect everything altogether, being like life veins of the organism, supplying the necessity to each space.  © Amit Geron Materials were chosen to make the linkage and to give the desired atmosphere in a performance. On one hand there is the background that is with the authentic bricks, metal and concrete, on the other hand - the repeating brass theme across the building, seen in the library, the delicate light long threads, the decorative lamps over the working area, as well as the elements in the "Le Cornue" part. The "Le Cornue" kitchens with their particular design like old vintage suitcases gave us a platform to play with materials and forms, turning the space into a scene, giving to it a specific atmosphere. All La Cornue appliances, placed individually, present its real character and pop out like jewels, thanks to the contrast between the luxury metals and the rough background. We added the pot hanger that added character as well as the mirror doors that multiply space and materials, and create illusion.  © Amit Geron Left from the entrance, the "Pure Black" SieMatic island has its video art wall as a modern way to experience the kitchen space. In the front the "Urban" kitchen is treated as a loft which also enables the salesmen to use the space as a working place for them. The fourth kitchen type is the "Classic White" kitchen.  © Amit Geron This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Understanding Grafton Architects, Directors of the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale Posted: 17 Jan 2017 08:00 PM PST .jpg?1484680102 "UTEC / Grafton Architects. Image © Iwan Baan") UTEC / Grafton Architects. Image © Iwan Baan "When you read Love in the Time of Cholera you come to realize the magic realism of South America." Yvonne Farrell, Shelley McNamara and I were in a corner of the Barbican Centre's sprawling, shallow atrium talking about the subject of their most recent accolade, the Royal Institute of British Architects inaugural International Prize, awarded that previous evening. That same night the two Irish architects, who founded their practice in Dublin in the 1970s, also delivered a lecture on the Universidad de Ingeniería and Tecnologia (UTEC)—their "modern-day Machu Picchu" in Lima—to a packed audience in London's Portland Place. Farrell and McNamara, who together lead a team of twenty-five as Grafton Architects, are both powerful thinkers, considered conversationalists and unobtrusively groundbreaking designers. For a practice so compact, their international portfolio is exceptionally broad. The first phase of the UTEC in the Peruvian capital, which began following an international competition in 2011, represents the farthest territory the practice have geographically occupied. The project is, in their words, a "man-made cliff" between the Pacific and the mountains – on one side a cascading garden, and on the other a "shoulder" to the city cast from bare concrete. The scale and character of the UTEC belie a rich portfolio of smaller projects, which began in the mid-1990s. A specialism in higher education buildings has evolved out of successive competitions, culminating (prior to UTEC) in Milan's Universita Luigi Bocconi (2008). Burrowed into a small site along one of the city's wide, tall streets, the monumental twenty-two-meter interior cantilever of the building appears to defy gravity – or, in their words, exists "in dialogue with gravity." The spatial control required to achieve this structural feat was, for Farrell, a simple matter of "positioning the two main beams on the roof, and then hanging the offices so they could act like soffits adjusted."  UTEC / Grafton Architects. Image © Iwan Baan Ireland, where Shelley and McNamara were both born and educated, and from where they now teach and practice, has been crucial to the development of their temperament as architects. The country is topographically defined on the one hand by geological, primal coastlines and landscapes and, on the other, elemental vernacular structures. "The places that you love do seep into your unconscious," McNamara says. "And they have probably also seeped into our way of thinking. We found at a certain moment that in order to find a way of discussing our own work to ourselves—to be liberated from just the plan, section and elevation—required a different sort of language. We would ask: is it a cliff? Is it something floating, like a cloud?" These sorts of terms have partially transposed Grafton's practice from the confines of their own discipline into another area of thought. "At the same time," Farrell argues, "there is also a fantastic heritage of town, sprawl, and street in Ireland. When I was a child I was part of a town structure but I could always run out and into the fields – there exists this duality between urban and rural." "Ruined monasteries, tower houses, and fragments standing in the landscape are all incredibly strong," McNamara believes. And there is certainly a particular sort of elementalism to these images, and in particular where the west coast of the country faces the uninterrupted expanse of the Atlantic. "We're aware of sky and we're aware of wind; we're on an island in which things are constantly changing," Farrell states. "We are very conscious of weather and, therefore, outside and inside change."  Bocconi / Grafton Architects. Image © Grafton Architects "We often say that James Joyce," the great Irish poet and novelist, "held Dublin in the words of a book," Farrell recalls. "In a similar way I think that we also imagine verbally, and then make." Projects become more than just a story or a narrative – they become an inhabited physical reality. "When you read Thomas Hardy's descriptions, for example, you realise that he was an architect. For us literature, words, imagination and making are all very deeply connected." This approach has, in recent decades, become more and more a part of how Irish architecture is perceived around the world. "It's a value system rather an aesthetic," Farrell asserts. "Shelley and I have taught in many architecture schools around the world but the thing about Irish schools of architecture is that students have their feet on the ground, but their eyes on the stars." This culture developed through the generosity of heads of schools, McNamara recalls. "They gave young architects teaching jobs which meant, for instance, that Yvonne and I were working as teachers only one year out of college. It means that we now have twenty-five years of conversation with people about their work, and our work too." For a practice cultivated in such an intimate context, Grafton have emerged as highly international. Alongside their creative leadership of the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, they are currently working on the London School of Economics' Paul Marshall Building in London, the Institut Mines Telecom in Paris, the University of Economics in Toulouse, and a new city library for Dublin. "This sort of global practice," Farrell explains, "can be about learning from new places; being mobile enough to go and understand them. Or it can be about cultural imperialism and homogenisation. Earlier I was reading about what was supposedly the first university in the world, which accommodated primarily Chinese and Indian scholars. It's existence was based on nothing more than the exchange of culture and ideas – and certainly not about one taking over the other. For us, 'globalised' practice is not about conquering something, or asserting your presence someplace – it's about contributing to something that you find is good." Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara Named Artistic Directors of 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Jardin de l’Ange / Evastomperstudio Posted: 17 Jan 2017 07:00 PM PST  © Davide Galli
 © Davide Galli  Floor Plan From the architect. Aim of the architectural intervention of Jardin de l'Ange is the requalification of a square that, for its own nature and position has always been the crucial and strategic hub for the community life. The main goal is to improve and consolidate the fruition of the square, thought as an amphitheatre with permanent bleachers covered by the typical local stones, created in order to mark (delimit) the public space defining the pedestrian access.  © Davide Galli The Jardin de l'Ange, if during the day is an interaction point and an open air living room, by the nights, due to its new conformation becomes an interactive social area.  © Davide Galli The chalet façade, included as well in the intervention, has been elaborated with a technological wall provided by mechanized LED walls that, when needed, reveal a convertible stage, always different in size and shape, adaptable to any kind of event. Sideways now there's an innovated technical covering, a white multifaceted texture that, playing with lights and shadows gives a new alternative imagine to the front building.  Axonometric  © Davide Galli The project also includes a total white covering composed by a metallic structure with circular section elements, variable in length and diameter. This metallic twist, completely visible in the winter season, during the summer months will be upholster with tie rods and a white technical plastic fabric, which allows the shade in the hottest hours, lighting effects during the summer nights and protection from frequent rains.  © Davide Galli The lines that mark the profile of the covering are an explicit reference to the Mont Blanc skyline and its peaks raising behind the chalet. They recall the grandeur and majesty of the majestic "Giant".  © Davide Galli This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Identity Works / Elding Oscarson Posted: 17 Jan 2017 06:00 PM PST  © Åke E:son Lindman
 © Åke E:son Lindman From Office to Creative Atelier  © Åke E:son Lindman The envisioned creative atelier, however with the need of many enclosed rooms, resulted in a layout where enclosed spaces are arranged to form a series of interconnected open spaces. Like buildings, towards a square, these volumes have been given facades with large windows providing light and transparency. Their contrasting cladding of clear lacquered MDF shelving, highlights the spatial organization while functioning as an ever-changing mood board.  Plan This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 17 Jan 2017 02:00 PM PST  © Quang Tran
 © Quang Tran From the architect. The house is nostalgia for Cham ethnic's traditional house with a modern living space.  © Quang Tran The aim of the design is making a house using all familiar local materials and nomal building methods, so the design can speak itself with minimum care for artificial lighting and material use.  © Quang Tran  Plan Sketch  © Quang Tran The house is a 45degree diagonal block, divided the 18mx20m site into 2 triangle gardens. From here, all the views inside the house and toward gardens are framed in various ways - from the combination of basic elements: white brick walls, wooden beams, openings and the roof.  © Quang Tran This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Daishan Primary School / ZHOU Ling Design Studio Posted: 17 Jan 2017 12:00 PM PST  © HOU Bowen
 © HOU Bowen From the architect. The primary school form resembles a cube along with the slope, such as a stone cross-wall embedded in slopes.  © HOU Bowen In order to make the building appear lower, the original three-layer buildings look like only two layers high, which helps create intimate visual experience for children and reduce the pressure of the volume.  Axon This design paid full attention to the creature of public space. An 8-meter-wide north-south corridor runs through the building is an inner street-style pathway inside of the building, which provides two-story high public communication space for children.  © HOU Bowen Through linking teaching space with 25-meter distance in the west and serving space with lower requirements in the east, 'the inner street' makes the building a whole part. This layout, both conducive to the partition, the function does not interfere with each other, but also to streamline the shortest, each part of the users can easily reach the mostly used regions.  © HOU Bowen  First Floor  © HOU Bowen Due to the highway in the east and north side, the design minimized windows in the east and north facade in order to create a quiet environment. To increase th lighting, the architect inserted a variety of large and small courtyard in-between rooms, which constitute interactive small communities for teachers and students together.  © HOU Bowen This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Bonochhaya Experience Centre / Abin Design Studio Posted: 17 Jan 2017 11:00 AM PST  © Ravi Kanade
 © Ravi Kanade 'Bonochhaya' is an exclusive housing project themed around the heritage of Shantiniketan, which as a place, is a tribute to the legacy of Rabindranath Tagore. It is a project for a luxury retreat with a rural, nature-inspired flavour.  © Ravi Kanade Built as the client Interaction zone for 'Bonochhaya', the experience centre for this development is designed to bring out all these aspects and more. It consists all essential functions of meeting spaces, presentation areas, discussion zones, set in the environment showcasing the local flavour as a unique selling feature of the project.  © Ravi Kanade Nature, romanticised through the emphasis on sitting in the shade of trees, is an integral part of the design and is woven in through its conceptualisation. The glass waiting lounge overlooking the open-to-sky deck invites one from the street to taste the environment created through these green connections.  © Ravi Kanade With temperatures soaring upto 45°C, it was imperative that the design keeps out the harsh summer sun. Double brick walls and Southward-tilted terracotta tile roofs were ideal passive cooling measures to employ as they also lent an earthy vibe. The sloping roofs were split into 3 different heights to work as an interesting way to bring greens in to the various volumes. The shaded northern green courtyard capitalised on existing trees and translated into the 'Soul' of Shantiniketan life.  © Ravi Kanade Inspired by Tagore's teachings, tribal art, intrinsic to Shantiniketan, was woven into the design and graphics. Brick walls and Terracotta Tiles complement the Steel Structure and Concrete floors to bring out the contemporary and forward-thinking nature of the true Tagore disciple.  © Ravi Kanade Once the development is fully occupied, the experience centre is planned for re-use as a doctor's clinic for the local community. The facility would include a day care ward, a small diagnostic centre and an out-patient department. This is something the developer had planned at the start of the project as a means to give back to the community. We managed to integrate the social aspect with their requirement of a space for marketing into a single structure, saving cost and time while adding sentimental and architectural value to both functions. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Oblique House / Studio B Architecture + Interiors Posted: 17 Jan 2017 09:00 AM PST  © Draper White
 © Greg Watts  Site Plan  © Draper White This 5-acre site is bound to the Roaring Fork River and sits within a riparian habitat flanked by pastoral grasslands. The low-profile residence deflects in plan, responding to the river's edge.  © Draper White The architectural form defines several exterior courtyards, gardens, terraces and walkways. The interior space is divided into two wings containing a Master Suite on one side and guest bedrooms on the opposite, with the open plan kitchen and living spaces connecting the wings.  © Greg Watts  Floor Plan  © Draper White Product Description:  © Greg Watts Those colors included: pearl, desert and ash. These panels varied in width and height and are 5/16" thick. They were fabricated and edged in the factory and shipped to the project after extensive shop-drawing review+approval. They were instrumental to the exterior of the project in situating the house naturally within the site and require no maintenance. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Knight Cities Challenge Names 2017 Finalists Posted: 17 Jan 2017 08:30 AM PST The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has announced the names of the 144 finalists in the 2017 edition of the Knight Cities Challenge, a nationwide call for innovative ideas aimed at transforming the organizations' 26 member communities into more vibrant places to live and work. Open to innovators and designers from any field, the challenge requested submissions that responded to a simple prompt: What's your best idea to make cities more successful? More than 4,500 applicants answered the call with a variety of solutions ranging from technology implementation, to improved communication between local government with the public to the creation of public spaces and installations – parks, trails, pools, and even treehouses were among the proposals. Each of the ideas focuses on one or more of three drivers of city success as outlined by the Knight Foundation:
The winning proposals will receive a share of up to $5 million, and will be selected later this Spring. "The finalists use creativity and inventiveness to tackle community challenges and realize new opportunities, proposing ideas that are unique to their city, but also hold lessons and inspiration for civic innovators across the country," said George Abbott, Knight Foundation director for community and national initiatives. The Knight Cities Challenge is now in its third year of a 3-year, $15 million initiative. The Foundation has named a total of 69 winning ideas over its first two years. See the full list of 2017 finalists, below. Knight Cities Challenge Finalists 2017Aberdeen, South Dakota: The A Place (submitted by Julie M. Johnson): Opening a pathway to more opportunity and civic engagement by creating a one-stop information and assistance center for immigrants and New Americans. Akron, Ohio: Decked Out (submitted by Da'shika Aliece Wells and Andre Street): Connecting people of different backgrounds through a recurring dance party in downtown Akron that will encourage engagement while adding to the vibrancy of the city. Designing Equity in Our Communities by Congress for the New Urbanism (submitted by Lynn Richards): Creating public spaces that are designed for everyone by ensuring public participation in the development of all city projects, including a plan for the city Innerbelt design. The FREE-FORM Sculpture Project by Groundswell Design Group (submitted by David Fierabend): Bringing new life to downtown Akron with a new art installation that celebrates the movement of the Ohio and Erie Canal through form, color and wind. Innerbelt National Forest (submitted by Hunter Franks): Reconnecting two socially and physically isolated neighborhoods by replacing an inoperative freeway in Akron with a lush forest and public space. New American Enterprise Co-Op by International Institute of Akron (submitted by Susan Wuscher): Increase economic opportunities for New Americans by creating a co-op that will provide entrepreneurial skills including educational and technical resources to the foreign-born community in Akron. @Play Akron by ART x LOVE (submitted by Mac Love): Encouraging deeper community connections through custom games and recreational activities that highlight the unique history, identity and character of each of the city's communities. (Re)Creation Rubber Matches by Stay in Play Recreation LLC (submitted by Andrew Novak): Increasing social and economic vibrancy by rehabilitating two sand volleyball courts in the heart of downtown Akron. Tree House Village at Hardesty Park (submitted by Bridget Ambrisco): Increasing neighborhood vibrancy and connecting people by developing a neighborhood collaborative project focused on constructing a tree house village and fort in the northeast corner of Hardesty Park. Biloxi, Mississippi: Witnessing the Beach by Gulf Coast Community Design Studio (submitted by David Perkes): Engaging the public across race, income and age differences through a series of gathering and community discussion spaces at the beach along the path of the "wade-in" protests, which eventually led to the desegregation of the public beach in 1968. Boulder, Colorado: Boulder Pop-Up Spots (submitted by Wes Tate): Helping citizens find new ways to engage with each other by creating neighborhood pop-up spots: temporary, small-scale, easily accessible inviting places where people can meet and connect. Examples include a mini-garden, a bike rack with seating area, and a public parklet. Park Talk: Community Conversation in Shared Spaces by Warm Cookies of the Revolution (submitted by Evan Weissman): Working with city divisions to encourage greater dialogue between residents and their government by activating libraries and open space parks as gathering spaces for people to connect on civic challenges and opportunities. Bradenton, Florida: Bradenton Champions (submitted by Simone Peterson): Connecting people from different backgrounds, who love Bradenton and want to pursue projects that bring improved public spaces, innovation, events and vibrancy to the city. The Creative Garage ~ A Maker Takeover by Realize Bradenton (submitted by Johnette Isham): Expanding economic opportunity for makers and creative entrepreneurs by transforming the first floor of the city's new parking garage into a retail and entertainment destination. Encounter: Recreating Courthouse Square as a Plaza by Realize Bradenton (submitted by Catherine Ferrer): Encouraging greater community connection by transforming a public space in the city center into a Latin American-influenced pop-up plaza that weaves people, place, memory, commerce, culture and generations. How to Run for Office (submitted by Stephen Boyes): Encouraging more people to play a big role in shaping their city through a new nonpartisan curriculum that trains and educates citizens on how to run for local political office. iAMBradenton by Manatee County Government (submitted by Simone Peterson): Encouraging greater civic engagement by opening up avenues for citizens to participate in government decision-making in non-traditional settings such as bus stops, landmarks and other public gathering places. Charlotte, North Carolina: Activest by Activest (submitted by Ryan Bowers): Fostering more responsive ways of governing by actively engaging city leaders and city bondholders in dialogue about social practices and policies. Charlotte Neighborhood Waypoints (submitted by Idara Umoren): Connecting residents to each other and their city by installing wayfinding signage in high pedestrian traffic areas that encourage conversation, community connection and exploration. Civics Charlotte (submitted by Joshua C. Richardson): Increasing civic engagement through a program that educates people on the law, politics and economics that shape their local area. Dine With Me CLT by Familiar Workshop (submitted by Katie Lloyd): Fostering community engagement and strengthening neighborhood pride by creating spaces that encourage dialogue between residents through shared meals and storytelling. Early Voter Poll Party by City of Charlotte (submitted by John Short): Increasing voter turnout and civic engagement by providing entertainment, food trucks and more at early voting polling places. The Imagine Forest by City of Charlotte (submitted by Eugene Bradley): Creating a space where people can connect by transforming a cove along the Sugar Creek Greenway in the Belmont neighborhood of Charlotte into a natural playground, with paths, trees and other ways to connect with the environment. Neighborhood SparKit by City of Charlotte (submitted by Monica Carney Holmes): Inspiring neighborhoods to rethink community meetings and events by providing a ready-made low-cost kit that includes tools and instructions for reenergizing these gatherings. For example, residents can transform the setting of their neighborhood meeting into a Parisian bistro, or host a pop-up playground or outdoor movie night. Queen City Live! by Charlotte Center City Partners (submitted by Erin Gillespie): Bringing people together and improving neighborhood life with mobile stages that feature built-in instruments and open opportunities for live performances and spontaneous jam sessions. Rail Trail Connection by Charlotte Center City Partners (submitted by Erin Gillespie): Encouraging economic development and city vibrancy by creating a lively place to connect with nature and neighbors along Charlotte's light rail line. The space will also help link a retail employment center to the nearest transit stop. Your Move, Charlotte (submitted by Varian Shrum and Garrett Tichy): Strengthening connections between citizens and local government through a weekly podcast and follow-up roundtable, in which government representatives and millennials engage on local issues. The ZIP Code Project by Queen City Forward (submitted by Amy Chiou): Increasing community attachment, especially for newcomers, by engaging the city's creatives to use art and placemaking to share what people love about their ZIP codes. For example, creating a T-shirt with a photograph of an iconic local restaurant and the ZIP code on the sleeve. Work in the Park! (submitted by Siana Campbell): Promoting innovation and collaboration in Charlotte by transforming city parks into spaces that encourage residents to take work to the park. Columbia, South Carolina: Indie Grits: Two Cities by Columbia Film Society (doing business as "The Nickelodeon Theatre") (submitted by Andy Smith): Increasing dialogue around racial inequality by engaging a team of diverse artists to transform underused spaces into attractive gathering spaces activated through community-generated art projects. The project will include activities such as artist workshops, public forums around racial reconciliation, art exhibitions, film screenings and performances. Paths to Excellence by City of Columbia Planning and Development Services (submitted by Shane Shaughnessy): Encouraging greater community ownership and recognition of neighborhood schools through a project that will use a school's logos, mascots and colors to rebrand the school. Rebranding will be done through the use of street painting, signage and streetscaping as recommended by the Safe Routes to School program. The State's Front Porch by City of Columbia (submitted by John S. Fellows): Encouraging residents to connect with their government by reimagining the State House as a front porch for all, including seating, events and alternative work spaces throughout the State House grounds. Columbus, Georgia: Common Grounds by The Columbus Museum (submitted by Carmen Overton): Fostering community connection by engaging young people to gather stories, impressions and pictures of growing up in the Warren Williams public housing neighborhood or similar areas of Columbus. The project will be shared in an exhibition at the museum. A "Golden" Opportunity: Civic Engagement on Columbus' South Commons by Friends of the South Commons (submitted by Virginia Causey): Creating a "civic commons" where diverse residents engage in recreation and entertainment by redeveloping Columbus' historic South Commons, including a playground, multiuse lawn, benches, trees, and walking and bike paths. Detroit: Atwater Beach by Detroit RiverFront Conservancy (submitted by Jan Shimshock): Further activating the Detroit waterfront by creating an inviting, urban beach along the city's Atwater Street. Better Buildings, Better Blocks by Building Community Value (submitted by Chase L. Cantrell): Fostering talent in Detroit, and providing a pipeline for minorities into real estate jobs, by teaching the fundamentals of small-scale property development and providing initial project financing. Bus Stoplets by Southwest Detroit Business Association (submitted by Greg Mangan): Improving the commute for transit riders by creating inviting bus stops that have the feel of an intimate city park. Crossing Trumbull by Woodbridge Neighborhood Development Corp. (submitted by Angie Gaabo): Bringing together the residents of Woodbridge, often divided geographically and socio-economically, through adult walking and youth biking clubs. City Asset Map: Mapping Mobility in Motown by Detroit Experience Factory (submitted by Matt Chung): Fostering connection and civic involvement in Detroit by creating a map that highlights cultural, educational and mobility resources, such as libraries, health centers, museums, educational spaces, bike infrastructure and parks. Design Center in a Box: A Place for Informed Community Exchange by City of Detroit Department of Planning (submitted by Maurice D. Cox): Promoting civic engagement by creating "pop-up" city planning offices where residents can connect with city planning staff and others to exchange ideas and become informed about the design and planning work happening in their neighborhood and the city at large. Detroit Youth Council of Urban Explorers by Bleeding Heart Design (submitted by Rebecca Bucky Willis): Helping the next generation advocate for good city planning by sending Detroit teenagers to pioneering cities to learn best practices they can execute back home. Dip 'N' Dive Detroit by City of Detroit Planning and Development Department (submitted by Maurice D. Cox): Creating spaces where residents can meet, connect and share experiences by creating pop-up swimming events at a temporary "River Pool" at the Detroit River. The Discovery Place by Detroit Future City (submitted by Allandra Bulger): Activating open spaces in Detroit as meeting places and libraries run by and for residents who otherwise lack these amenities. Green Culture Shift by Detroit Future City (submitted by Alex Kellogg): Creating innovative, experiential tools that change how Detroiters think about planning and transforming green spaces in urban neighborhoods. Happy 18th Birthday! Local Citizenship Kit by CitizenDetroit (submitted by Sandra Stahl): Celebrating Detroiters becoming eligible to vote by sending them a local citizenship kit in the mail on their 18th birthday. Las Luces de la Noche by Invest Detroit (submitted by Michael R. Smith): Making Clark Park, a neighborhood recreation hub, a safer place for residents to come together through new public lighting and programming. Mack Lot: A New Kind of Gathering Place by MACC Development (submitted by Ezekiel Harris): Bringing people of different backgrounds together by transforming a vacant 8,000-square-foot lot into a meeting space that will include a performance stage, a playground, rain gardens, public work spaces and space for food vendors. Mine Your Own Business by Michigan Women's Foundation (submitted by Carolyn Cassin): Offering education, mentorship and capital for aspiring women entrepreneurs through business accelerators at neighborhood churches. Motor City Matchbox by Detroit Economic Growth Corp. Small Business/Motor City Match (submitted by Helen Broughton): Making it easier to launch pop-up business and art events in the city's vacant buildings – and demonstrate what could happen in disinvested areas – by creating a mobile how-to toolkit. Neighborhood Voice: Increase Civic Engagement by Equipping Community Connectors (submitted by Garlin Gilchrist II): Improving ways to obtain feedback from neighborhoods by supporting the best connected people – such as barbers, bartenders and baristas – to get and share feedback through technology, tools and training. Reaching Across the Border: Detroit and Grosse Pointe by Mash Detroit (submitted by Marlowe Stoudamire): Inspiring residents near the border of Detroit and Grosse Pointe to collaborate on reimagining their common public spaces by offering mini-grants to teams of residents from both areas. Shovel Share by Michigan Community Resources (submitted by Lydia Rae Levinson): Sparking neighborhood revitalization by providing community groups with the tools and resources they need to maintain and revamp their neighborhoods. Sign ON by Grandmont Rosedale Development Corp. (submitted by Martha Potere): Enlivening Grandmont Rosedale by pairing local artists with small business owners to create a "gallery of signage" that treats commercial signs as public art. Slow Roll – The Power of 25,000 by Detroit Bike City LLC (doing business as Slow Roll) (submitted by Jeff Herron): Exploring why 25,000 Detroiters joined a cycling movement and sharing the learning with other cities so they can replicate the model. The Table (submitted by Orlando P. Bailey): Giving people a voice in what happens next in their neighborhoods by convening them regularly to share ideas that can move the city forward. Duluth, Minnesota: Making Canal Park Pop: A Pop-up Parklet Project by City of Duluth (submitted by Emily Larson): Connecting residents to both Canal Park and to each other by creating a pop-up parklet that will encourage more people to visit. One River, Many Stories by University of Minnesota, Duluth (submitted by John Hatcher): Building community through a citywide storytelling project that asks everyone along the 3,600-square-mile watershed for their stories about the iconic St. Louis River. Seize Duluth Workshops (submitted by Sara Mowchan): Expanding opportunity in Duluth by connecting young residents and job seekers with professional opportunities through workshops in the city's many unused, historic buildings. Ft. Wayne, Indiana: Ft. Wayne Alumni Association by Big Car Collaborative (submitted by Jim Walker): Keeping and attracting talented workers to Ft. Wayne through a digital platform that connects local graduates, with the goal of encouraging those who leave the city to return. My Town Square by Hoch Associates (submitted by Dan Baisden-Kennedy): Helping Ft. Wayne be a vibrant place to live, work and play by creating #MyTownSquare, a workspace where small and mid-size cities can learn about and test placemaking ideas. The Porch Project by Bridge of Grace Compassionate Ministries Center (submitted by Réna Bradley): Creating more public spaces for residents to come together through a new community design studio that activates informal gathering spaces, including front porches. Student Storefront (submitted by Steve Franks): Creating more economic opportunity for youth in Ft. Wayne by opening a student-managed storefront selling student-made products in the heart of downtown. Gary, Indiana: Ballpark Plaza Idea (submitted by Brenda Scott-Henry on behalf of Kenneth A. Parr): Bringing life to a vacant lot across from Gary's baseball park by turning it into an outdoor entertainment center and farmers market. Gary Ruins Garden Project by city of Gary, Indiana (submitted by Jack Eskin):Making downtown more vibrant by transforming a historic, abandoned Gothic church in downtown into a ruins garden and event space. In Love in Gary, Indiana, by SmithGroupJJR (submitted by Dana Crawford): Expanding economic opportunity in Gary, and changing the city's narrative, by establishing the city as a creative and cost-effective urban wedding destination. Grand Forks, North Dakota: Global Friends Coalition by Global Friends Coalition (submitted by Cynthia Shabb): Connecting new Americans to Grand Forks and its longtime residents by turning a home into a place where immigrants can learn English, find resources, develop skills and more. Grand Forks Freezeway (submitted by Nicholas Jensen): Inspiring winter fun and city pride by turning unused bike paths into ice skating paths during winter. Winterize Grand Forks by Greater Grand Forks Young Professionals (submitted by Corey Mock): Helping residents enjoy winter more with a series of interactive winter programs in public spaces that bring people out of hibernation. Lexington, Kentucky: Booths to Bricks by National Main Street Center (submitted by Jodie Hiveley): Promoting entrepreneurship by helping vendors at the popular, monthly Night Market open brick-and-mortar stores. Build Up by NoLi CDC (submitted by Griffin VanMeter): Opening a neighborhood-owned hardware store that provides tools and services to physically improve the North Limestone neighborhood in addition to providing job training. Civiclex.org: A Platform for an Informed Civic Democracy by ProgressLex (submitted by Richard Young): Informing and engaging more people about the issues facing city government through a new digital platform. Plant & Play by NoLi CDC (submitted by Griffin VanMeter): Building an adventure playscape and community garden in Castlewood Park, a 30-acre neighborhood park on the north end of Lexington. Retrofitting the RETRO: Rediscover Southland by LexArts (submitted by Nathan Zamarron): Reinvigorating a suburban neighborhood by taking a page from urban centers and commissioning site-specific art and pop-up installations along a disjointed strip mall. That High Lonesome Data by the Office for Creative Research (submitted by A'yen Tran and the Office for Creative Research): Strengthening civic engagement by working with bluegrass musicians in Lexington to demystify civic data through song and performance rooted in Kentucky's heritage. Long Beach, California: Busker Booth by Long Beach Public Library (submitted by Susan Jones): Providing opportunities for the unsung heroes of street music with a portable micro-recording booth for up-and-coming musicians. Coolidge Down – Under Park by City Fabrick (submitted by Brian Ulaszewski): Connecting neighborhoods adjacent to Coolidge Triangle and increasing access to Coolidge Park by transforming an unused service yard under the Artesia Freeway into 2 acres of public space featuring playing courts, a skate park and roller rink. The Growing Experience Program (submitted by Jimmy Ng): Engaging youth in underserved neighborhoods and teaching them new skills by inviting them to create an "edible green wall" network that can harvest herbs, flowers, fruit and vegetables throughout Long Beach's nine council districts. LA River Stories: Creative Public Engagement Through Local Storytelling by River LA (submitted by Julia Guy): Inspiring public planning that puts the needs of city residents first by promoting human-centered design and policy through a multimedia public engagement project showcasing stories about the diverse residents that use the Los Angeles River. POPulated: Parklets for All by Studio One Eleven (submitted by Shannon Heffernan): Providing greater opportunities for community engagement and play by transforming on-street parking stalls into inclusionary public spaces that provide amenities to local neighborhoods. Macon, Georgia: Back Lot Drive-In at the Tubman by Tubman Museum (submitted by Jared Wright): Expanding the reach of Macon's art and museum district by transforming the parking lot of the Tubman Museum into a drive-in theater with screenings that coincide with exhibitions that support the museum's mission to educate visitors about African-American art, history and culture. Hammock Time (submitted by Gloria Stanley): Promoting more community connections in Macon by installing pop-up hammocks in parks and other venues in the busy downtown area. Handsome Town Seeking Skilled Carpenters for Long-Term Relationship by Historic Macon Foundation (submitted by Ethiel Garlington): Creating new opportunities for jobs through the establishment of an 18-month carpentry apprenticeship program that will attract artisans to Macon to fill the demand for skilled carpenters in the workforce. It's Hotter Here (submitted by Shannon Fickling): Encouraging more engagement between residents and college students by creating a more inclusive and attractive city pool with programming and updated furnishings. Pop-Up Garage Park (submitted by Cole Porter): Converting an abandoned parking garage into a vibrant, environmentally-friendly community space by introducing green space, art, tables and event programming. Miami: 395 Park by Omni Community Redevelopment Agency (submitted by Jason Walker): Giving the Omni community a place to gather by converting three blighted, vacant city blocks into a large urban park with businesses, a skate park, art installations and restaurants. Dan Paul Park Recreation Center (submitted by Mauricio Velazquez): Transforming Dan Paul Park into an active recreation hub by installing soccer fields, bike paths and a playground. Green Space Pop-ups by Audubon Florida (submitted by Eric Draper): Creating incentives for developers to lend private vacant land for green spaces in urban Miami-Dade. Instant City: A micro-urban infrastructure (submitted by James Brazil): Creating a network of mobile pop-up containers to activate underused public spaces and carparks around the city. Ludlam Days by Green Mobility Network (submitted by Mari Chael): Building momentum for the Miami Loop, a proposed 70-mile greenway, through a series of events and demonstrations. Magic City Innovation Challenge by Venture Cafe Miami (submitted by Leigh-Ann Buchanan): Nurturing Miami's native talent and emerging innovation ecosystem through a competition that challenges college students to solve real-world civic and business problems. Miami Great Streets Program by Street Plans Collaborative (submitted by Anthony Garcia): Establishing a program within Miami-Dade County in partnership with local transportation nonprofit Green Mobility Network that advances low-cost, quick-build transportation and open space projects. The MIA Market (submitted by Mauricio Velazquez): Reinvigorating Overtown while creating opportunities for residents and chefs by repurposing a vacant warehouse into a neighborhood market. OurSchoolYards (submitted by Wifredo Fernandez): Bridging the divide between communities and their public schools by transforming underused school yards into public parks. Rep(resentative) MIA by Engage Miami (submitted by Rob Biskupic-Knight): Breaking down barriers to civic participation by putting clear, actionable information about local elected officials directly into citizens' hands. WiFi Parks @ Overtown by Venture Cafe Miami (submitted by Leigh-Ann Buchanan): Bringing public Wi-Fi to parks in Overtown to improve digital access and encourage people to connect in the outdoors. Milledgeville, Georgia: The Year of Voting Dangerously by Twin Lakes Library System (submitted by Stephen Houser): Engaging the community with a mobile voting booth that prompts residents to respond to pressing local issues and initiatives. Myrtle Beach, South Carolina: Meeting, Eating and Jamming on the Rail by City of Myrtle Beach (submitted by Diane Moskow-McKenzie): Creating a venue for better community relations by repurposing railcars at the Myrtle Beach Train Depot for community meetings, catered events and concerts. Palm Beach County, Florida: 12 for 12: Pop-up to Rent by city of West Palm Beach (submitted by Christopher Roog): Expanding on the success of a pilot pop-up gallery project by inviting local talent to activate 12 empty storefront spaces as an economic catalyst for West Palm Beach. The Tie Beam by city of West Palm Beach (submitted by Sybille Welter): Connecting east and west downtown residents by creating a public space parallel to the railroad tracks that encourages pedestrian activity and integrates public art, transportation and urban design. Philadelphia: 24-Hour Philadelphia: City Planning After Dark (submitted by Michael Fichman): Discussing the essential, yet hidden, role of entertainment and nightlife in Philadelphia's economy through broadcast interviews, highlighting local voices. APM Pop-up Market Place (PUMP) by Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha (submitted by Angel Rodriguez): Developing a sharable method for community members to transform blighted commercial corridors into vibrant creative spaces. Atlas of Philadelphia Local Elections by DataScribe Consultants (submitted by Megan Gall): Educating high school students about local elections through the creation of a comic book-style atlas for distribution in schools and libraries. Chinatown Street Market by Interface Studio (submitted by Stacey Chen): Bridging the Chinatown and Callowhill neighborhoods of the city – physically, conceptually and economically – with a street vendor marketplace. Collective Power Concerts by Urban Creators (submitted by Jeannine Kayembe): Increasing civic engagement in North Philadelphia by leveraging corporate festival resources to invest in community-driven festivals and redirecting a portion of these resources to local community organizations, stakeholders and artists. Doors Open PHL: The City Belongs to Us by Center for Architecture and Design (CFAD) (submitted by David Bender): Increasing city vibrancy through a weekend-long, citywide festival that will open more than 75 indoor, outdoor and subterranean spaces with programming and activities around Philadelphia. Germantown Cooperative Coffee House (submitted by Yolanda Wisher): Establishing the first community-owned and operated coffee house in Germantown where residents can gather and connect. Just Space Audit by University City District (submitted by Sarah Davis): Creating and deploying an audit tool to assess the accessibility and equity of a public space network. The Links at Bartram's Garden (submitted by Pete Angevine): Encouraging civic engagement and participation through a nine-hole artist-designed miniature golf course that will highlight the city's history. Mobile Civic Toolbox by New Kensington Community Development Corp. (submitted by Shanta Schachter): Developing a mobile resource kit to support neighborhood organizations and individual residents in creating diverse civic projects. A Place at the Table by Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations (submitted by Pamela Bridgeforth): Launching A Place at the Table, featuring great food, community building and cultural exchange in Philadelphia's neighborhoods. Philadelphia Before, During and After Redlining by Little Giant Creative (submitted by Tayyib Smith): Highlighting inequality and the negative effects of denying services to specific residents through the practice of redlining with an interactive data map and exhibition. Philadelphia Mobile Design Lab by Office of Open Data and Technology (submitted by Liana Drogoman): Providing a space for Philadelphians to design city service solutions with a mobile, participatory city design lab that will travel from neighborhood to neighborhood. Reimagining Police Plazas as Community Centers by Tiny WPA (submitted by Renee Schacht): Strengthening neighborhoods by transforming often vacant spaces in front of police stations into vibrant places for community engagement and play. Resources in Motion (submitted by Laura Deutch): Converting three Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) buses into mobile resource centers for vibrant exchange and creative community building. Storyboarding Neighborhood Change (submitted by Andrew Jacobs): Installing mural maps depicting the history of surrounding neighborhoods at bus stops with community input; the project aims to provoke an open dialogue about neighborhood change. Tabadul: Cross-Cultural Exchange Across Philadelphia by Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture (submitted by Hazami Sayed): Creating forums for cultural exchange that connect communities and activate public spaces through photographic displays of youths' expressions of identity. Turning Corners by The Food Trust (submitted by Jean Wallace): Reinvigorating neighborhoods by transforming vacant lots and nearby bodegas into activated spaces for healthy living. Up Up & Away: Building a Programming Space for Comics & Beyond by Amalgam Comics and Coffeehouse Inc. (submitted by Ariell Johnson): Creating a space where diverse communities of aspiring comic creators can attend workshops and receive professional development. Vending to Vibrancy: Ethnic Cuisine in the Park by Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Association Coalition (submitted by Andy Toy): Providing entrepreneurial opportunities and connecting diverse communities by opening a marketplace for immigrant cuisine in Mifflin Square Park. San Jose, California: Local Color by Exhibition District (submitted by Erin Salazar): Activating vacant commercial sites with a creative bazaar featuring artist studios alongside modular, open spaces for multidisciplinary community learning and teaching. A Mobile Street Amenity Builder by Better Block Foundation (submitted by Jason Roberts): Developing a mobile unit that includes the resources and tools needed to improve city blocks and construct public benches, wayfinding signage, bus stops, planters and other resources. Reimagining the city: Chief Architect of San Jose by Office of Mayor Sam Liccardo, city of San Jose (submitted by Shireen Santosham): Working to ensure San Jose develops into a walkable, green and engaged metropolis by hiring a visionary chief architect. San Jose Pedestrian Paradise Project by Concrete Gardens (submitted by Liz Ruiz): Artistically reinforcing the established Pedestrian Priority Zone by further developing a pedestrian-focused environment–including sidewalk murals, vacant storefront installations, wayfinding signs–in downtown San Jose's core. San Pedro Square Great Public Plaza by Department of Transportation, city of San Jose (submitted by Laura Wells): Piloting a space for community engagement, the Great Public Plaza on San Pedro Street, to inform the design of a potential permanent plaza. SoFA Playground by Public Space Authority (submitted by Ryan Sebastian): Creating a meeting place for residents to meet and connect with a food truck playground in the heart of San Jose's arts and culture district. #TogetherWeVote > Together We Are San Jose! by PACT (People Acting in Community Together) (submitted by Akemi Flynn): Deepening ongoing civic engagement by engaging new and first-time voters in discussions to learn about their experiences with voting; the project will also use community events as a forum for sharing how voting makes a difference and how to become more civically involved. Young Placemakers by City of San Jose Department of Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Services (submitted by Zacharias Edward Gabriel Mendez): Facilitating youth-driven neighborhood improvement projects, by creating opportunities to learn, design and execute ways to enhance and activate public spaces. St. Paul, Minnesota: Black Market MN (submitted by Tana Hargest): Advancing a deeper awareness of black creativity and culture with a digital directory of black artists and organizations; the project aims to better connect the black creative community with other civic and public organizations interested in diversifying their boards, staff, vendors and programming. Lily Pad Gardens: Frogtown Residents Grow Beauty, Economic Opportunity (submitted by Patricia Ohmans): Transforming a lot on Frogtown's main artery, Dale Street, into a space, offering both beauty and economic opportunity, by providing public seating and room for food trucks, and greenhouse space for Hmong women to grow vegetables and flowers for extra income. Little Africa InsideOUT by African Economic Development Solutions (submitted by Tayler Nelson): Expanding economic opportunity in St. Paul's Little Africa by working with business owners to design better street visibility for African businesses, including façade improvements and streetscape updates. Pop-up Hot Pot (submitted by Osberg): Inspiring winter fun and connecting people, with a bicycle-powered hot tub fleet accompanied by programming in wellness, art and ecology. Sharing Pop-up Meeting With the People by city of St. Paul (submitted by Catherine Penkert): Creating a suite of fun civic engagement tools that give St. Paul residents the power to design their own community meetings. State College, Pennsylvania: State College Outdoor Social Dance Festival by Fraleigh Dance (submitted by Dana Ray): Creating new community connections through a regular outdoor, social dance festival. Tallahassee, Florida: Capital City Night Market (submitted by Mike Field): Building stronger neighborhoods and expanding economic opportunity with the Capital City Night Market, which will act as an incubator for small businesses. The Secret Life of Benches by Blueprint Intergovernmental Agency (submitted by Megan E. Doherty): Helping to create engaging public spaces by studying how seating such as park benches encourages or limits neighborhood life, and determining if all seating is truly created equal. Tactical Urbanism Toolkit (submitted by Devan Leavins): Bringing together resources and tools that help residents launch fast, fun projects to improve their neighborhoods. Wichita, Kansas: Horizontes (submitted by Armando Minjarez): Connecting two neighborhoods by painting murals depicting neighborhood residents through an industrial corridor that separates them and engaging residents to reflect on what a "new horizon" for the neighborhood would look like. ICT Initiation (submitted by Thea Pajunen): Engaging young professionals that are new or returning to the city through a formal "Welcome to Wichita" program. Yellowbrick Street Team (submitted by Alex Pemberton): Encouraging greater civic engagement by mobilizing an army of urbanists, who will implement small-scale projects to make Wichita more livable and lovable. Multiple Cities: Creative Cities Lab Convenings by Little Giant Creative (submitted by Tayyib Smith): Building more equitable communities by launching a series of convenings across several cities where decision-makers, social entrepreneurs, activists and innovators discuss equitable community development. Design to Better [Our City] by Creative Reaction Lab (CRXLAB) (submitted by Antionette Carroll): Empowering and challenging community members to design and solve problems to address racial disparities in communities. Celebrating Our City's Streets: Open Streets Events for Knight Cities by CicLAvia Inc. (submitted by Romel Pascual): Convening and engaging Knight cities to plan effective, scalable, replicable open streets events, which repurpose streets for people rather than vehicles. Civic Incite: Citizens Setting the Agenda (submitted by Civic Incite): Inspiring civic engagement with an online platform that tracks public meetings and legislation across cities to promote in-person engagement with local governments. Tuning In and Scaling Up: Increasing Open Streets Frequency by 8 80 Cities (submitted by David Simor): Developing a replicable model to reduce known financial and administrative barriers to open streets programs, which repurpose streets for people rather than vehicles. More information on the Knight Cities Challenge can be found on the official website, here. News via the Knight Foundation. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 17 Jan 2017 07:00 AM PST  © Maksymilian Majoch
 © Shotmate "Hydropolis" was established in an underground clean water reservoir. It belongs to the Water & Sewage Treatment Company - Wrocław and is one of the architectural monuments of the water supply system.  © Europejski Instytut Miedzi The clean water reservoir was built between 1890 and 1893 as one of the elements of the water supply system "Na Grobli" and originally served as a filtering system until 1904. The pumping station adjacent to it from the west was built in 1924.  © Maksymilian Majoch  Underground Plan  © Shotmate "Na Grobli" is one of the few so well preserved historical water supply plants in Europe. As a site entered in the register of monuments, it is subject to strict protection and conservation. After the building was closed down, its further degradation could only be prevented by adapting it to new general interest functions.  © Maksymilian Majoch The clean water reservoir, the old filters, and the pumping station adjacent from the west to the reservoir, are part of the "Na Grobli" water supply system. The reservoir cross section has a rectangular shape measuring approx. 72.8 x 63.9 meters. It is covered with a green roof, with air vent stacks which primarily served to reduce the air pressure within the reservoir. The western and eastern elevations are in the historicist Neo-Gothic style with towers steeples, fortified towers, turrets and gates. The northern elevation includes twelve semicircular arcades, while the southern elevation formed an earthen slope dropping from the roof level. The façades are built of ceramic face bricks with details underlined by glazed bricks and shaped ceramics.  © Shotmate The interior of the reservoir consists of four chambers which, for the purpose of the new function, are connected via openings made in the walls allowing to pass from one section to the other. Each chamber is covered with a three-bay reinforced concrete arched structure resting on the walls separating them and two rows of pillars.  Ground Plan An annexe building was constructed on the southern side of the entrance zone creating a new façade which matches the Water Tower situated nearby. The predominant material used in the new part of the building is classic copper which due to the process of oxidation darkens in a natural way, harmonising well with the brick – the main material of the reservoir and Water Tower.  © Europejski Instytut Miedzi The body of the building consists of an entrance with an adjacent ramp leading to the roof and the technical wing. The stairs leading to the roof of the reservoir are located in the green space in between. The whole is crowned with a copper roof. The building façades were covered with horizontal copper plate panels. Sliding perforated panels were used for covering the glazing at the entrance point, whereas the fixed panels mounted on both sides of the façade together with the roofing are the framework for the water printer measuring 46.5 meters in length. The water falling from the printer creates pre-programmed patterns and captions – a prelude to the theme of the exhibition and the main primary accent of the entrance elevation.  © Shotmate Thus created water curtain fills the front elevation. It constitutes its integral part. It opens up in front of the passing visitors allowing for interaction and first contact with water.  © Maksymilian Majoch The water printer is made up of twelve modules concealed beneath the copper lining of the elevation, connected with the technical section of the building. Each module has a set of controlled solenoid valves and nozzles responsible for the effects created by the printer. The water in the printer circulates in a closed system.  © Maksymilian Majoch Copper is also the finishing touch of the entrance hall; it illuminates the interior and harmonises with the matt surfaces of black metal sheets, slabs of concrete and reinforced concrete. The sunlight penetrates through irregular holes in the perforated panels, fills the space and creates a unique interplay of light and reflections. Pre-oxidised vertical panels of copper sheet are used here.  © Europejski Instytut Miedzi The main accent within this space is a vortex captured within a closed transparent cylinder measuring 2.8 m in height and 1.6 m in diameter. It is located centrally between the staircases on level -1.  © Maksymilian Majoch Product Description: The decision to use copper from the beginning seemed to be the most appropriate solution. Because of its durability, beauty, and natural variability, the new part of the building covered with copper sheets complements the unique character of the historic reservoir at the same time emphasizing its new architecture. Used inside, it intensifies the perception of space in the hall thanks to its subtle glow and reflections. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| OMA/AMO Designs “Back to Basics” Interior for the Prada 2017 Fall/Winter Runway Posted: 17 Jan 2017 06:30 AM PST  Photograph by Agostino Osio, Courtesy of OMA For their latest fashion show scheme for Prada, AMO has gone "back to basics." Envisioned for the fashion house's 2017 Fall/Winter Collection, "Continuous Interior" borrows from domestic design, taking the form of a series of curving wooden partitions paired with ordinary materials and emblematic furniture pieces to create a stage that speaks to the importance of authenticity in the political climate of today.  Photograph by Alberto Moncada, Courtesy of OMA "In the current moment – when issues of simplicity and essentiality are becoming increasingly relevant – AMO and PRADA felt the need to go back to basics, to abandon the construction of hyper-realistic and fully immersive sets in favor of a modest and domestic design, in which the experience of the audience is triggered more by the relationship with the physical space than by visual impact," said the architects in a press release. "They also advocate a return to reality and to the possibility of an intimate, unmediated experience between audience and fashion."  Photograph by Agostino Osio, Courtesy of OMA  Photograph by Alberto Moncada, Courtesy of OMA AMO has created the sense of domesticity through the use of familiar materials such as terrazzo, tile and formica – the warm, smooth textures of the chosen materials contrasting with the rough, cool surfaces of Milan venue's interiors – and through the introduction of key furniture pieces such as beds and benches. Together, the elements "define a rhythm for the overall composition."  Photograph by Agostino Osio, Courtesy of OMA  Photograph by Alberto Moncada, Courtesy of OMA Audience members are accommodated along the structure, the curving walls giving each guest a unique perspective from which to view the show. "The partitions, with their limited height, act as a screen between the different rooms, providing an individual perspective to each observer, while still allowing views of the models behind the boiserie," explain the architects. "All the guests share the same personal yet collective experience." News via OMA/AMO.  Photograph by Agostino Osio, Courtesy of OMA  Photograph by Agostino Osio, Courtesy of OMA  Photograph by Agostino Osio, Courtesy of OMA  Photograph by Agostino Osio, Courtesy of OMA OMA/AMO's Latest Prada Runway is Inspired by 17th Century Auto-Da-Fé Trials This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Studio Gang, SANAA Among Winners of 2017 AIA Institute Honor Awards Posted: 17 Jan 2017 05:05 AM PST  The American Institute of Architects (AIA) have named 18 architectural and interior projects as recipients of the 2017 Institute Honor Awards, the profession's highest recognition for excellence in design. According to the AIA, "the 2017 Architecture program celebrates the best contemporary architecture regardless of budget, size, style, or type. These stunning projects show the world the range of outstanding work architects create and highlight the many ways buildings and spaces can improve our lives." The awarded projects were selected from nearly 700 submissions. The winners will be honored at the 2017 AIA National Convention in Orlando. 2017 Institute Honor Awards for ArchitectureAspen Art Museum / Shigeru Ban Architects  Aspen Art Museum / Shigeru Ban Architects. Image © Michael Moran Founded in the late 1970s as a non-collecting institution, the Aspen Art Museum worked in tandem with the design team to determine programmatic needs and to ensure its new home completely supported the art it hangs. Adhering to a strict 18-month construction schedule, the new museum opened in 2014 and has seen a 400 percent increase in visitorship and a 1,140 percent increase in the number of students served by the museum's educational outreach initiatives. Three floors—two above ground, one below—are dedicated to gallery space, while the top floor includes an ample multiuse space, café, and public terrace with sweeping views of the Rockies.  Carmel Place / nARCHITECTS. Image © Pablo Enriquez Winner of the 2012 adAPT NYC competition for New York City's first micro-unit apartment building, Carmel Place represents a new housing paradigm for the city's growing small household population. The design of the 9 story building's 55 units aims for spaciousness and luminosity through the implementation of 9'-8" ceilings, 8' tall sliding windows and Juliet balconies. With a goal of conveying the residents' nested scales of community, afforded by varied interior and exterior shared spaces, the building's brick exterior massing resembles four slender "mini-towers" – a microcosm of the city's skyline. Carnegie Hall Studio Towers Renovation Project / Iu + Bibliowicz Architects LLP  Carnegie Hall Studio Towers Renovation Project / Iu + Bibliowicz Architects LLP. Image © Jeff Goldberg The Carnegie Hall Studio Towers Renovation Project centered on: renovation, reorganization, and repurposing of 167,000 square feet of non-performance venues at the National Historic site. The 7-year project encompassed the creation of a Music Education Wing, new roof terrace, consolidation of administrative offices, expanded backstage space and functionality, and façade lighting to showcase the landmark. Substantial interior structural modifications and infrastructure upgrades aided in the success of the renovation. The project was awarded LEED Silver Certification, one of the oldest and most notable buildings in the country with such distinction. The Cotton Gin at the CO-OP District / Antenora Architects LLP  The Cotton Gin at the CO-OP District / Antenora Architects LLP. Image © Brian Mihaelsick The reuse of the two existing cotton gin structures is the first piece of a 2012 master plan to revitalize the site, which was purchased by the City of Hutto. Both structures were selectively deconstructed and reused to create a single open-air 6,500-square-foot public events space. The new building is wrapped in perforated stainless steel that reflects the hot Texas sun during the day and provides intriguing transparency at night. The design team succeeded in creating a flexible space for public and private events that complements everything from programmatic functions of the local library and farmer's markets to artisan fairs and wedding receptions. Grace Farms / SANAA  Grace Farms / SANAA. Image © Iwan Baan Grace Farms was established with the idea that "space communicates" and can inspire people to collaborate for good. To realize this vision, Grace Farms Foundation appointed SANAA to create a porous, multipurpose building nestled within an 80-acre landscape that would encourage people to engage with nature, the arts, justice, community, and faith. The River building emerged as a new kind of public space that embodies these aspirations. Its sinuous structure is comprised of 203 individually curved glass panels containing five volumes: a sanctuary; library; commons; pavilion; and partially submerged Court. Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts / Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects  Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts / Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. Image © Tom Rossiter Sitting on the southern edge of Chicago's Midway, the Center houses the University of Chicago's visual arts, film, music, and theater programs, finally uniting the programs under one roof. The building comprises a 10-story tower and an adjacent two-story "podium." Both are clad in Missouri limestone cut into four-foot lengths and laid as bricks. The material echoes the limestone found on the University's neo-Gothic structures as well as Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House, also located on campus. Bathed in natural light, the smaller building is lit by north-facing skylights throughout its many creative spaces. St. Ann's Warehouse / Marvel Architects  St. Ann's Warehouse / Marvel Architects. Image © David Sundberg/ESTO Beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, Marvel Architects has brought the brick and mortar ruins of the historic Tobacco Warehouse back to life, creating a new theater space for renowned presenter St. Ann's Warehouse. Leading a team of Silman, Buro Happold and Charcoalblue, Marvel created a controlled acoustical environment using natural state materials - concrete, blackened steel, Douglas fir plywood. With a respectful sleight of hand, a new roof floats atop a ribbon of solid glass brick. Adjacent to the theater is a trapezoidal garden designed with Michael Van Valkenberg Landscape. The Six Affordable Veteran Housing / Brooks + Scarpa  The Six Affordable Veteran Housing / Brooks + Scarpa. Image © Tara Wujcik The SIX is a 52-unit LEED Platinum affordable housing and support services building for disabled veterans. Located in the MacArthur Park area of Los Angeles which has one of the highest densities in the USA with a total population of 120,000 people in 2.72 square miles. The SIX breaks the prescriptive mold of the traditional shelter by creating public and private "zones" in which private space is deemphasized, in favor of large public areas. The organization is intended to transform the way people live-away from a reclusive, isolating layout towards a community-oriented, interactive space. Stanford University Central Energy Facility / ZGF Architects LLP  Stanford University Central Energy Facility / ZGF Architects. Image © Matthew Anderson The Central Energy Facility is the heart of Stanford University's transformational campus-wide energy system, projected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 68%. The centerpiece of this composition of large, industrial components is a central courtyard pivoting around a 2.5-million-gallon hot water thermal storage tank, showcasing the energy plant's mission. The architecture takes its cues from Stanford's rich heritage: the Stanford arcade is reimagined as PV trellis; integrally colored cast-in-place concrete nods to the prevalent limestone; and weathered CorTen steel accents suggest terra-cotta tile roofs that give the campus much of its character. THREAD: Artists' Residency and Cultural Center / Toshiko Mori Architect  THREAD: Artists' Residency and Cultural Center / Toshiko Mori Architect. Image © Iwan Baan Located in the remote village of Sinthian, Senegal, this project offers multiple programs for the community, including a gathering space, performance center, and residency for visiting artists. In the design, a parametric transformation of the traditional pitched roof inscribes a series of courtyards within the plan of the building while also creating shaded, multi-purpose areas around the perimeter of the courtyard. The inversion of the roof creates an effective strategy for the collection and storage of rainwater, capable of fulfilling substantial domestic and agricultural water needs for the community. Relying exclusively on local materials and construction techniques, the building's traditional structure is formed primarily of bamboo and spaced-brick walls that absorb heat and promote airflow through the building interior. Yale Center for British Art Building Conservation Project / Knight Architecture  Yale Center for British Art Building Conservation Project / Knight Architecture. Image © Richard Caspole Following nearly forty years of continuous operation, the Yale Center for British Art, designed by Louis I. Kahn and recipient of AIA's Twenty-five Year Award, faced mounting programmatic, infrastructural, and operational pressures which threatened to degrade its extraordinary architectural character. The multi-year conservation project renewed interior finishes that had grown tired and worn; restored and expanded teaching spaces that were oversubscribed and underequipped; fortified spaces for exhibition, storage, and study of the growing collection; and replaced vital building systems which had reached the end of their practical life. 2017 Institute Honor Awards for Interior Architecture30 Rockefeller Plaza: 65th Floor, Rainbow Room, SixtyFive / Gabellini Sheppard Associates  30 Rockefeller Plaza: 65th Floor, Rainbow Room, SixtyFive / Gabellini Sheppard Associates. Image © Paul Warchol Gabellini Sheppard Associates opened a new chapter for the 13,160-square-foot Rainbow Room and 65th floor, blending contemporary needs with design that rekindled the room's original Art Deco-inspired spirit and radiant notoriety of 1934. In the Rainbow Room, the revitalization of the rotating dance floor, addition of mesmerizing crystal window veils, and restoration of the chandelier and central dome, reinforce the modern-day grandeur. In Bar SixtyFive, a faceted ceiling composed of glass-reinforced gypsum panels anchor the space, reinterpreting the open-air height the room once had as a sun parlor. General Motors Design Auditorium / SmithGroupJJR _James_Haefner_Photography.jpg?1484672262 "General Motors Design Auditorium / SmithGroupJJR. Image © James Haefner Photography") General Motors Design Auditorium / SmithGroupJJR. Image © James Haefner Photography In 1956, the General Motors styling team moved from Detroit to a new design space. The complex, originally designed by Eero Saarinen, has become a legendary corporate master piece of planning and design. For SmithGroupJJR, the overall design intent was to modernize the facility but to do so in a manner consistent with the original Saarinen detailing. Technologies of materials, lighting and audio/visual have progressed dramatically and the revised Design Dome is now poised for General Motors to re-establish the relevance of this significant space for the design community. George Washington University, Milken Institute School of Public Health / Payette  Milken Institute School of Public Health / Payette. Image © Robert Benson Located on iconic Washington Circle Park in the heart of the nation's capital, this School of Public Health is a rigorous, innovative response to site and program. With its most sustainable solutions so deeply embedded as to be nearly indistinguishable, it keenly demonstrates the symbiotic relationship between sustainability and public health. The building's unusual skylit atrium, in which classrooms and study areas overlook the city through an open latticework of floor openings, invites exploration and discovery. The building supports a highly effective learning and interaction environment that is equally memorable for its intimacy and transparency. In Situ / Aidlin Darling Design  In Situ / Aidlin Darling Design. Image © Matthew Millman Located in the recently reopened San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), In Situ represents a unique intersection of art, design, food and community. The restaurant features a curated collection of culinary innovators from around the world to make their contributions accessible for greater public engagement. Its design operates at many scales from urban to the intimate, and is intended to engage all of the senses with an emphasis on tactility and acoustics. The exposed interior shell of the building provides a backdrop for discreetly placed "artifacts" which include commissioned art, custom designed lighting, custom furniture and a sculptural wood ceiling. Pinterest HQ / IwamotoScott Architecture with Brereton Architects  interest HQ / IwamotoScott Architecture with Brereton Architects. Image © Bruce Damonte The new Pinterest headquarters is inspired by the redesign of the company's web platform — clean, simple, intuitive. It occupies a concrete structure in the SOMA district that previously housed a John Deer factory. A key aspect of the design extends the existing atrium through to the ground floor, spatially connecting all four floors. The Knitting Stair occupies this newly-activated heart of the building. The workspace program is organized as porous, concentric layers around the atrium and Knitting Stair, opening up to the city at the ground floor's lobby, café, all-hands space and maker lab. University of Massachusetts (UMass) Dartmouth, Claire T. Carney Library / designLAB architects  University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Claire T. Carney Library / designLAB Architects. Image © Jonathan Hillyer Conceived in 1963 as a utopian community by architect Paul Rudolph, the UMass Dartmouth campus remains a tour de force of late 20th-century architectural exuberance and optimism. The Claire T. Carney Library is the 160,000-square-foot centerpiece of the concentric campus plan. designLAB's transformation celebrates the historic architecture, while creating a state-of-the-art learning environment, improved group study spaces, a cafe, a lecture space, and a new campus living room. Inspired by Rudolph's original design intentions, the renovation included the re-introduction of a vibrant color palette, bold supergraphics, and dynamic social spaces. _Hedrich_Blessing.jpg?1484672230 "Writers Theatre / Studio Gang. Image © Hedrich Blessing") Writers Theatre / Studio Gang. Image © Hedrich Blessing While functional requirements of performance venues often dictate opaque volumes, the 36,000-square-foot Writers Theatre is instead a transparent cultural anchor that embraces its community. A double-height lobby provides a flexible space for outreach, gatherings, and performances, with glass doors that open to the adjacent park. Clad in wood hewn from the site, box office and concessions are treated as furniture, integrated into flexible lobby tribune seating. A canopy walk hung from timber trusses provides an open-air gathering place before, after, and between shows. The two stages are configured to enhance the intimacy for which Writers is known while creating new opportunities for innovative performance. More information on the awards can be found here. New and project descriptions via AIA. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Dandurand Residences / NatureHumaine Posted: 17 Jan 2017 05:00 AM PST  © Adrien Williams
 © Adrien Williams  Diagram  © Adrien Williams From the architect. Carried out in a residential area of the Rosemont–La-Petite-Patrie borough, the project consisted in renovating and expanding a duplex built in the 1920s that housed three dwelling units. The added storey harmonized the building with the size of the surrounding constructions.  © Adrien Williams  Plan  © Adrien Williams  Plan  © Adrien Williams The intervention was minimal on Dandurand Street, rather extending along the perpendicular street. In the existing section, the brick was replaced, but the original openings were mostly retained, while large angled windows were built on the addition, multiplying the views on the urban landscape. The glass and white steel volume that was added on top of the first two levels stands out through both its angular shape and its materials. On each level, spacious decks equipped with glass railings lighten volume perception. A shared deck was inserted into a breach made in the volume, which also captures light.  © Adrien Williams This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Hardenvoort Campus for Youth & Children / BURO II & ARCHI+I Posted: 17 Jan 2017 03:00 AM PST _Danica_Kus_01.jpg?1476306701 "© Danica O. Kus") © Danica O. Kus
_Danica_Kus_25.jpg?1476306422 "© Danica O. Kus") © Danica O. Kus This project consists of a new child and teenager campus, comprising a kindergarten, a primary school and a secondary school. The building location for this new project lies in Antwerpen-North, along the Hardenvoort street, on the edge of the Park Spoor Noord. _Danica_Kus_13.jpg?1476306622 "© Danica O. Kus") © Danica O. Kus The building has two faces: a city side with higher building volumes and the tower, and a 'softer' park side with several levels, making the building a transition zone between the park and the Hardenvoort street side, and linking it to the education facility building. The plan is to create a central lobby to connect the street and the park sides and provide double access to the complex. There is a student entrance on the park side and an entrance for visitors, neighbours and students who are late on the street side. _Danica_Kus_22.jpg?1476306399 "© Danica O. Kus") © Danica O. Kus  Flor Plan 00 _Danica_Kus_16.jpg?1476306507 "© Danica O. Kus") © Danica O. Kus The site has a twofold relationship with the park: on the west side, a part of the park is focussed on teenagers (skating bowl, graf ti, part-time art education), while the south side is connected to the facilities for younger children (playground, recreational water features,...). Therefore, the basic concept is to situate the secondary school and the general rooms on the west side, and the kindergarten and primary school on the south-east side. This will create a logical connection to the park. The general rooms, such as the gym, will be located in the head of the building, the hinge between park and city. The neighbours can use this gym after hours.  Section AA  Section CC The separate departments can be clearly seen within the building, just like the cascade of accompanying outside areas. _Danica_Kus_10.jpg?1476306650 "© Danica O. Kus") © Danica O. Kus The kindergarten is oriented towards the inner area that offers more cover, while the departments for the older children are more open to the park and street sides of the project. The ground oor will include a separate play ground for the toddlers, which will be closed to the other students. Large stairs will lead to another, communal playground, on the level of the cafeteria and the entrance to the primary school. As the child becomes older, the approach will become more open. Once the child becomes a teenager, they will have a wide view over the city and its surroundings. Because the plot is relatively small for the number of students that has to be housed here (680 students), most of the roofs will be used as playgrounds. _Danica_Kus_21.jpg?1476306474 "© Danica O. Kus") © Danica O. Kus The building can be considered a passive school because of its thick insulation, the meticulous attention to soundproo ng, sun screens, a ventilation system with heat recuperation, and exterior carpentry with triple glazing. _Danica_Kus_02.jpg?1476306689 "© Danica O. Kus") © Danica O. Kus This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| How To Earn A Six-Figure Salary as an Architect Posted: 17 Jan 2017 01:30 AM PST  © Skitterphoto via Pixabay (Public domain image) This article was originally published by The Architect's Guide as "How To Earn A Six Figure Architecture Salary." Architecture salary. Perhaps one of the most talked about and passionately debated topics in the design community. I receive more emails on this subject than almost anything else. Previously, in 5 Factors Affecting Your Architecture Salary, I covered several variables that contribute to your income. However, for this article I want to highlight the areas that will produce the best return on your investment of time and money. While earning six figures doesn't mean what it used to, it is still a very admirable (and achievable) goal. So how do you go about reaching this significant architecture salary milestone? Let's discuss.
Just a quick note, I will be discussing how you can earn a large salary through an employer. I won't cover running your own office for this post. However this can be a route to a high income—potentially very high. 1. Start nowIf you are just beginning your architecture career it is unlikely you will be able to earn $100,000+ per year today. However, now is the time to focus on developing the points below. By the time you are twenty years into your career and earning half of what you should be it is often too late to make up the difference. The architecture profession is a relatively slow accumulation of experience and qualifications. The sooner you can master the following points the better positioned you will be in the [near] future to command a higher salary than your less capable peers. 2. Develop your skillsThe definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. The same is true for your architecture career. If you are doing the same thing everyday and expecting a higher salary it is unlikely to happen. What can you do today that will make you more valuable tomorrow? Increasing your "hard skills" is a relatively easy first step to implement. Hard skills examples:
However it is just as important to develop your "soft skills." Soft skills examples:
These typically take longer to perfect so you need to start now. Focus on one topic per day and try to tweak one aspect of your work day or routine to improve one of these skills. The book The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy explains this process beautifully. 3. Switch jobsThe average salary increase an employee receives when starting a new job is between 10% and 20%. Based on an average "Unlicensed Architecture / Design Staff 1" salary of $58,200, this translates to an annual increase of $5,800 to $11,600! Often it can be difficult to get substantial raises from your current employer, beyond the standard 3% - 5% cost of living increases. However, making calculated, strategic moves can greatly boost your base salary. If you are looking for a new position, start by checking out the 7 Reasons Why Your Architecture Job Application Is Being Ignored. 4. Reduce the stress of othersIn a recent interview with Mark Cuban, he stated one of the keys to success is to "reduce the stress of your co-workers". When you are at work, reduce the stress of your colleges and supervisors. If you can reduce other people's stress, those people will gravitate towards you. You will be seen as the leader and your colleagues will eventually want to work for you. Here is a link to Mark's excellent interview, I highly recommend watching. 5. Be the bestWithout a doubt specialization is key to a high salary in architecture. In other words, "what do you do better than anyone else?" This can be as broad as expertise in a certain building typology or as specific as airport BIM Management (who, by the way, can make substantial incomes). In a recent U.S. News article on Architect Salaries, "the best-paid 10 percent in the profession made approximately $121,910, while the bottom 10 percent made about $44,940." The top 10% makes almost 3x the bottom 10%! It pays to be the best. Looking at the data from the AIA Salary Calculator: For example, an Architect III position: In New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) the mean salary is $104,600.  Courtesy of The Architect's Guide Keep in mind this is the average, so while some made less, others made more. While this does require 10+ years of experience there are ways to reduce this number by working through school to compress the post-graduation years required. 6. Take responsibilityAs the saying goes, "don't ask permission just ask for forgiveness". Responsibility is not something that is just handed out, you need to take the initiative and go above and beyond what is expected. You can't be at the bottom of the pyramid and expect to be well compensated. If you want to climb the pay scale you must challenge yourself by taking on more responsibility, which will ultimately translate to more income. This doesn't necessarily mean working long hours but you need to be as efficient and productive as possible. If you are just beginning your career, start small. Take on the task of leading a small portion of a project. By proving to others that you are reliable and dependable you will be rewarded over time. 7. Have regular performance reviewsThis is an opportunity for you to discuss with your supervisor(s) what you have contributed to the firm and will provide in the near future. Depending on the size of the office these may be organized by the HR department or you may need to take the initiative to set up a meeting. Make sure you are well prepared with specific examples. How and where you have been successful? What do you want to provide moving forward? You can think of this as re-interviewing for your own job. While that may sound scary it is meant to emphasize the importance of your review and why you are asking for a raise. Generally you should have this sit down once a year but if there has been a major change in your role or responsibilities it could be sooner. Remember, just taking up office space and breathing air for a year does not qualify for an increase. Neither does the cost of living or your personal financial situation. 8. Get your licenseOne of the best places to begin on your journey to a high architecture salary is to become licensed. Yes, it is expensive and takes a lot of time but it is very important to advance in the profession. If you don't believe me just look at the senior members of your or other architecture offices. Are they licensed? Odds are most of them are registered architects. There are exceptions, but it is best to follow a proven path. In the U.S. NCARB is making it easier to complete your license by reducing the number of tests and required hours of internship experience. Tear off the band-aid. Just get it over with. The longer you wait the more difficult it will become to finish the exams. Depending on your state you can complete the exams BEFORE you complete the Intern Experience Program, and you can record MORE than 40 hours per week. Both of these techniques can greatly reduce the time it takes to become licensed. The longer you hold a license generally the more you are worth in the marketplace. 9. Move to an urban areaThis may not be the best solution for everyone but since we are putting all the options on the table, this can be the quickest route to a six figure income. Often by following the cyclical construction booms you can take advantage of a hot market looking for talent. The big benefit of working for an architecture office in a prominent city is that the salary will almost always be higher than the equivalent job in a rural environment. Of course the reason often cited for this is the higher cost of living. However, if you are willing to live below your means and skip the penthouse apartment you will be financially better off in the long run. Setting your salary high as early as possible will be a huge advantage throughout your career. 10. Develop Multiple Income StreamsThis topic is perhaps outside the scope of what we have been discussing but if we are strictly talking about breaking the $100k annual figure, it is relevant. I recommend that everyone have multiple income streams. The riskiest position to be in is where one company provides your only source of income. Think about your skill set and what you can do on the side to generate additional income. There are hundreds of ways to earn additional cash related to the architecture profession. Who knows, that side work may turn out to be even more profitable than your day job. Pick up freelance architecture work? Provide model building or rendering services? This can not only provide income in the short term but also create long term connections and contacts. Ultimately, this may lead to additional work or even a more lucrative position. One note on side jobs, depending on the type of work you are performing your employer's liability insurance can prohibit freelance work, so be sure to do your homework. I hope this has been helpful for your architecture salary goals. So what are you waiting for? This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Camp Graham / Weinstein Friedlein Architects Posted: 17 Jan 2017 01:00 AM PST  © Mark Herboth Photography LLC
 © Mark Herboth Photography LLC At a lakeside camp, where tented and cabin campsites are proven attractions, the Girl Scouts set out to add a different sort of shelter. They wanted treehouses, something to evoke the sense of adventure, fantasy, delight found in the lofty constructs of backyards and forest getaways. The new 36-person site at Camp Graham consists of a series of pole structures along the wood's edge, linked by an elevated path that winds among the trunks of the native trees. The challenge in treehouse making is to build without doing harm to the trees, and to extend access to all campers.  Site Plan  © Mark Herboth Photography LLC  Section  © Mark Herboth Photography LLC The Camp Graham structures are supported on tall wood poles that lightly touch the ground. They lean toward one another amid the surrounding, irregular tree trunks, becoming part of the forest. These frames are draped in canopies that combine both solid and translucent materials, which playfully catch or transmit the dappled sunlight that makes its way through the natural tree canopy. Each of the all-weather shelters accommodates six campers in bunks and cots, and each one includes a daylit central core, a place for playful mingling. The stick-framed forms soar overhead, reaching up to the branches of the trees that surround. The edges of end panels and floor boards stop short, allowing screened slots to naturally ventilate the space.  © Mark Herboth Photography LLC The connecting path begins at grade, rises gently and meanders a near-level course through the trees. Galvanized wire farm fencing minimizes the feeling of enclosure and promotes a sense of height, of being above the ground, in the trees. The elevated walk connects all six sleeping shelters and leads to the common troop house, located where the falling terrain allows a lower level for showers and storage. Stairs and a chair lift provide direct access between the troop level and the forest floor, which also provides location for the central firepit that is a feature of all the encampments at the lake.  © Mark Herboth Photography LLC Product Description. The lean-to frame is built with the same simple utility poles used most commonly as infrastructure. These poles fit comfortably among the trees with which they stand. As a product, the poles were economical and readily available up to the 45' length required. To join the poles to the foundation, workmen on site saw kerfs for the steel plates which pin the structure together.  Diagram This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara Named Artistic Directors of 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale Posted: 17 Jan 2017 12:00 AM PST  Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia In a meeting yesterday, The Board of La Biennale di Venezia appointed Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Grafton Architects as curators of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition in 2018. This marks the second time that the Venice Architecture Biennale will be directed by women, after Kazuyo Sejima's role as director for the 2010 Biennale.  Engineering and Technology University - UTEC. Image © Iwan Baan The architects, who founded their firm in 1977, have been involved in the Venice Biennale three times previously, exhibiting their work in 2002 and 2016, and winning the Silver Lion in 2012 for their design of the Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología (UTEC) campus in Lima, Peru. Completed in 2015, the UTEC campus also recently won the inaugural RIBA International Prize.  Engineering and Technology University - UTEC. Image © Iwan Baan Much of Farrell and McNamara's works have been completed in their home country of Ireland, where they are well-known for their educational and institutional buildings such as the University of Limerick Medical School, which in 2013 was a finalist for the RIBA Stirling Prize. In recent years, their work has increasingly expanded outside of Ireland; in addition to their UTEC project in Peru, they were also recently selected to design the London School of Economics' new Paul Marshall building.  Engineering and Technology University - UTEC. Image © Iwan Baan In a statement issued by President Paolo Baratta, he explained:
The 16th International Architecture Exhibition will take place from Saturday, May 26 to Sunday, November 25, 2018. Grafton Architect's "Modern Day Machu Picchu" Wins Inaugural RIBA International Prize Jane Drew Prize Jointly Awarded to Grafton Co-Founders Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara Engineering and Technology University - UTEC / Grafton Architects + Shell Arquitectos Venice Biennale 2012: Architecture as New Geography / Grafton Architects, Silver Lion Award University of Limerick Medical School / Grafton Architects Solstice Arts Centre / Grafton Architects News via La Biennale di Venezia. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 10 Architecture Offices with Inspiring Workspaces Posted: 17 Jan 2017 12:00 AM PST
The spaces in which great architecture firms produce their work are a source of endless curiosity for architects. By understanding these workspaces, architects hope to understand the environment in which their favorite ideas and drawings are shaped, and gain a more intimate understanding of their favorite practices. For this reason, we have searched our archives for the architectural offices that have previously been published on our website. Among our selection are international names such as MVRDV and Selgas Cano alongside other offices which, though not so well known, also demonstrate how your workspace can be a source of inspiration for design. See the offices after the break.  © Ossip van Duivenbode  Casa MVRDV / MVRDV  © Ketsiree Wongwan  Apos2 / Apostrophy's Selgas Cano Architecture Office by Iwan Baan / Selgas Cano  © Iwan Baan   © Tanja Milbourne  Assemble Studio / Assemble Lyttelton Studio Retreat / Bull O’Sullivan Architecture  © Patrick Reynolds  Estúdio em Lyttelton / Bull O'Sullivan Architecture Architects Office / Skylab Arquitetos  Cortesia de Skylab Arquitetos  Escritório dos Arquitetos / Skylab Arquitetos Blurlogroño Studio / Blur Arquitectura  © Berta Buzunariz  Estúdio Blurlogroño / Blur Arquitectura AUÁ Arquitetos Office / AUÁ arquitetos  © Luiz Carlos Bulla Jr.  Escritório AUÁ arquitetos / AUÁ arquitetos Terra Studio / Arquitetos Associados  © Eduardo Eckenfels  Estudios Terra / Arquitetos Associados ARUP Downtown Los Angeles / ZAGO Architecture  © Joshua White  ARUP Downtown Los Angeles / ZAGO Architecture Você trabalha num ambiente legal? Poste uma foto nos comentários e nos mostre! This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Below The Extraordinarily Textured Surface of This Unique Polish Concert Hall Posted: 16 Jan 2017 10:00 PM PST  © Patryk Lewinski This article is part of our new "Material Focus" series, which asks architects to elaborate on the thought process behind their material choices and sheds light on the steps required to get buildings actually built. The CKK Jordanki (Jordanki Cultural and Convention Center) by Fernando Menis is located in the historical center of Torun. It respects the shorter height of the surrounding buildings to preserve the views of the river and better fit the natural environment that surrounds it. The building was designed to have a more natural look, like a 'rock' that marks the transition from the urban plot to the park that surrounds it. In this interview we spoke with Fernando Menis who explained in depth how the selection of project materials contributed to the design process, helped in the inclusion of universal accessibility, and the project's construction.  © Malgorzata Replinska What were the main materials used in the project? FM: Concrete and "picado." "Picado," coming from the Spanish word for chipped, is a new material, certified by both Spain and Poland's Institute of Construction Research, and consists of mixing concrete with other materials, and breaking it up after assembly, to achieve certain acoustic effects. In the case of CKK Jordanki the "chipped" effect has been achieved by mixing concrete with recycled red bricks or with volcanic stone.  Courtesy of Fernando Menis In terms of materials, what were your main sources of inspiration and influence in selecting them? FM: The greatest source of inspiration has undoubtedly been the historic city center of Torun, the city where CKK Jordanki is located. Torun, a UNESCO heritage city, has a strong Gothic legacy and its façades are almost all red brick.  © Jakub Certowicz Can you describe how decisions on materials were considered within the conceptual design? FM: The essential concern was to obtain an excellent acoustic container since the focus of the project was a Concert Hall. As such we have been concerned about materials that could give good results in terms of reflection, distribution and sound absorption. In this sense, the "picado" made with brick complements the geometry of the Concert Hall and reflects and distributes the sound very well. We also always try to make the most of local companies and resources, so in addition to the concrete, we used waste bricks from a local company (Ceramsus). Finally, in terms of materiality and from a contemporary interpretation of a traditional material, we wanted to reference the Gothic legacy of the city of Torun, whose red brick is omnipresent: in CKK Jordanki the "picado" red brick permeates the interior as well as appearing in the facade, in an expressive contrast with the white concrete that was also used there.  © Jakub Certowicz  © Jakub Certowicz  © Patryk Lewinski What were the advantages of these materials during construction? FM: The concrete provided by CEMEX Poland and the bricks provided by Ceramsus are both locally produced materials, so that in addition to helping to boost the local economy, their prices were very affordable. Moreover, the brick we used was waste, we recycled it creatively, giving it a new form and function. The "picado", acts as a tool within the acoustic system we designed for the building.  Courtesy of Fernando Menis Did you face any challenges due to your material selection? FM: The word challenge is very fitting when discussing this project because everything is pure invention and innovation. We wanted to try new methods for acoustics, to demonstrate that it is possible to create a new type of auditorium without wood, to demystify the baroque. Then all these challenges were conquered when the new concrete was approved in official laboratories and certified in Spain and Poland.  © Patryk Lewinski Were there any other possible materials considered for the project? If so, how would the design have changed? FM: From the outset, when I first visited Torun and discovered that the essence on which that historic city was built was the red brick, I decided to use that material mixed with concrete. In other words, the end path had been chosen from the beginning, although the idea was developed and perfected along the way, with the different tests and trials that we were carrying out.  © Patryk Lewinski How did you research and choose the suppliers or contractors for the materials used in the project? FM: When I arrived in Poland, I looked into how they worked there, what customs they had, what they were best for, what the most competitive prices were, after taking all of this into account, we designed the construction system, always according to the constructive culture of Poland.  © Jakub Certowicz *CKK Jordanki recently received the 2016 CEMEX Building Award in the Universal Accessibility category for the international team. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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