The Yale Sculpture Building and Gallery complex is composed of three new buildings; the four-story Sculpture Building, the single-story storefront Gallery, and the four-story parking garage with retail space at the ground floor. While the Gallery and parking structure define the perimeter of the block, the sculpture building is slightly set back and forms the core of the project.
The Indian Community School of Milwaukee (ICS) is a privately owned and operated urban intertribal school educating American Indian children from kindergarten through the 8th grade and employing approximately 95 individuals.
Scheduled to officially open its doors in September, Concordia's all-new John Molson School of Business will unveil its new facilities to students and public alike in downtown Montreal. Canadian firms Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects and Fichten Soiferman and Associates formed a consortium, KPMBFSA, for the project.
Step Up on 5th is a bright new spot in downtown Santa Monica. The new building provides a home, support services and rehabilitation for the homeless and mentally disabled population. The new structure provides 46 studio apartments of permanent affordable housing. The project also includes ground level commercial/retail space and subterranean parking.
Every once in a while comes a project that we feel strongly about. It could be due to the vocation of the center and the sensibility of the function it addressed, or theapproach taken by the architects and the city of Dallas in creating a complex intended as a safe haven within the heart of its community.
If a developer wants to push for sustainable design, he should opt, when feasible, for the option of reutilizing the existing structure. Breathing a new life into an existing building while transforming their vocation avoids the wasteful process of demolition and can yield very interesting results.
Bob Henry of Robert D. Henry Architects has invoked all of the senses in the design for SHO Shaun Hergatt, the exquisite new restaurant at The Setai New York, the luxury condominium, private club and spa located at 40 Broad Street, a few steps from the New York Stock Exchange. Known for his spa design work, Henry, who is also creating the spa at The Setai, brought that same sensibility to the design of SHO Shaun Hergatt.
This Hugo Boss store is located in the Meatpacking district, New York. It brings together four of the HUGO brands together, creating a complete look at the brand. The architects wanted a shop that “mixes together urban surfaces, the texture of art, concrete and iron and pouring everything inside to state its own naked aesthetics into the spirit of the place”
The new National Library, named after the first President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, encompasses an estimated 33.000m2. The winning proposal was chosen by the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan K. Masimov together with Astana’s akim I.Tasmagambetov and a council of architects. The design was hailed as being both modern and rational and anchored in a classical vocabulary of traditional libraries. The circular organisation of the archive at its inner core combines the clarity of a linear organisation with the convenience of an infinite loop.
Zaha Hadid Architects’ pavilion design for Chicago’s Burnham Plan Centennial celebrates the city’s ongoing tradition of bold plans and big dreams. The project encourages reinvention and improvement on an urban scale and welcomes the future with innovative ideas and technologies whilst referencing the original organizational systems of Burnham’s plan. The design aims at continuing Chicago’s renowned tradition of cutting edge architecture and engineering, at the scale of a temporary pavilion.
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Seattle based Vandeventer + Carlander Architects designed this attractive residence on a steep slope corner lot within a prestigious neighborhood. Existing conditions included neighbors to the west and north, a busy arterial below, and a residential street to the east. Although the existing residence got demolished, the site requirements have established the vertical datum to which the new design responds.
Previously featured on Archinnovations for their Sustainable Prototype, Studio 804 is a design/build program at the University of Kansas School of Architecture and Urban Planning. Studio 804 provides students with critical knowledge that prepares them for their future work as young architects in a rapidly changing and challenging profession.
This project constitutes New York based OBRA Architects contribution to the Ordos 100 projects, a development for 100 villas set in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China. While FAKE Design, Ai Wei Wei studio in Beijing, developed the masterplan for the 100 parcels of land and will curate the project, while Herzog and de Meuron selected the 100 architects to participate. The collection of 100 Architects hail from 27 countries around the globe.
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Concordia's John Molson School of Business in Montreal
Pugh + Scarpa Step Up on Fifth in Santa Monica, California 
The Bridge - Homeless Assistance Center in Dallas, Texas by Overland Partners Architects 
Courtyard Lofts in Long Beach, California - Studio One Eleven at Perkowitz+Ruth Architects in association with Interstices, Inc. 
New Wall Street Restaurant, Sho Shaun Hergatt, Celebrates the Five Senses 
Matteo Thun, Architect - Hugo Boss Retail Store in New York City 
BIG to design Kazakhstan’s new National Library in Astana 
The Burnham Pavilion by Zaha Hadid Architects 
