ArchitectureWeek Issue No. 577 - 2013.0327
KieranTimberlake Upgrade Saarinen's Yale Dorms
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KieranTimberlake designed a major renovation of Eero Saarinen's Morse and Stiles Colleges dorms at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Photo: Peter Aaron/ OTTO
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Eero Saarinen originally designed the Morse and Stiles Residential Colleges dormitory buildings at Yale University, completed in 1962. As the final part of the university's phased plan to modernize its twelve student-housing colleges, KieranTimberlake designed a series of respectful modifications to the Modernist master's structures.
In keeping with recent trends in college housing, the dorm rooms were upgraded from stand-alone single rooms to suites. Additional space is also devoted to student recreation and living activities, including a 25,000-square-foot (2,300-square-meter) subterranean addition in the crescent-shaped main courtyard, which was also reconfigured to emphasize greenery over hardscapes.
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Section rendering through courtyard, addition, and upgraded recreation areas. Image: KieranTimberlake
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Patrice Bideau in Baden, France
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Patrice Bideau designed this new single-family residence in Baden, France. Photo: Armel Istin
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When it became evident that the metal framed, concrete panel construction of an existing 1970s home would make it impossible for the building to comply with 2005 French regulations for energy efficiency and windproofing, architect Patrice Bideau designed a new low-energy house with a total annual energy consumption of 47 kilowatt-hours per square meter (4.4 kWh per square foot).
The new three-story home, located in Baden, France, features a wood and concrete structure, and was built on the highest point of the lot, restoring the original slope of the site. The lowest floor is built into the slope, while the middle "ground floor" accesses small terraces to the west and south.
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Overview from southwest. Photo: Armel Istin
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Ralph Rapson's Glass Cube
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"In 1972 my wife and I purchased forty acres near Amery, Wisconsin, on which to build a vacation house. Every time I suggested a scheme, however, Mary complained that the views of the meadows, the bluffs, the pines or the Apple River would be blocked. The result was an all-glass cube. By day the views – and the sunrises and sunsets – are magnificent. At night, the house becomes a luminescent jewel." – Ralph Rapson
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Overview of the Rapson Cube. Photo: Tony Soluri / Architectural Digest
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Charles Correa RIBA Exhibition
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| Jawahar Kala Kendra arts center, in Jaipur India, by Charles Correa. Photo: Courtesy RIBA |
In an exhibition designed by David Adjaye, the Royal Institute of British Architects will look back across the multidecade career of Indian architect Charles Correa. The architect has donated an archive of 6,000 drawings to the RIBA library and this work is a particular highlight of the exhibit.
Along with numerous buildings in India, noteworthy projects in the United States and Portugal, some of Correa's designs for housing and cities, looking closely at climate change, affordable housing, and improved cityscapes, will be featured.
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| View of a balcony in the Kanchanjunga Apartments (1983), in Bombay, India. Photo: Courtesy RIBA |
Elderly Obama & Boehner Daughters Arrive In Time Machine...
Breaking News from Climate Progress:
Elderly Obama And Boehner Daughters Arrive In Time Machine To Demand Climate Action
House GOP pass emergency bill criminalizing research into time travel even as their own grown children return from future with irrefutable evidence of climate catastrophe
In one of the epochal moments in human history, the grown-up children of our leading politicians have returned from the future in a time machine to warn humanity that the worst fears of climate scientists have come true and that we must act now to save billions of people from starvation and endless wars over land and water.
DNA testing has confirmed that the group is led by a now-elderly Sasha and Malia Obama together with Lindsay and Tricia Boehner. They emerged with dozens of others from a remarkably small blue ship that bore a striking resemblance to a 1960s-style London police box, which materialized on the National Mall.
Read more:
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/04/01/1767431/elderly-obama-and-boehner-daughters-arrive-in-time-machine-to-demand-climate-action/
Elderly Obama And Boehner Daughters Arrive In Time Machine To Demand Climate Action
House GOP pass emergency bill criminalizing research into time travel even as their own grown children return from future with irrefutable evidence of climate catastrophe
In one of the epochal moments in human history, the grown-up children of our leading politicians have returned from the future in a time machine to warn humanity that the worst fears of climate scientists have come true and that we must act now to save billions of people from starvation and endless wars over land and water.
DNA testing has confirmed that the group is led by a now-elderly Sasha and Malia Obama together with Lindsay and Tricia Boehner. They emerged with dozens of others from a remarkably small blue ship that bore a striking resemblance to a 1960s-style London police box, which materialized on the National Mall.
Read more:
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/04/01/1767431/elderly-obama-and-boehner-daughters-arrive-in-time-machine-to-demand-climate-action/
Pelli Clarke Pelli at UT in Austin
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| Pelli Clarke Pelli designed the new Bill and Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex at UT in Austin, Texas. Image: Pelli Clarke Pelli |
A two-building complex on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin is a new home for the school's computer science program. The 232,000-square-foot (21,600-square-meter) development has been named for Bill and Melinda Gates, while the northernmost of the two buildings is named for Michael Dell.
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| The two buildings are connected by a central atrium. Image: Pelli Clarke Pelli |
Clad in bond-patterned Texas brick and cast limestone, the Gates Computer Science complex, designed by New Haven, Connecticut-based Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, unifies the department's functions in a single place for the first time, with 60 faculty offices, and 40 more for visitors and technical staff. The building also accommodates up to 350 graduate students and boast about 20,000 square feet (1,860 square meters) of flexible lab space, as well as a 200-seat lecture hall, 10 seminar rooms, seven classrooms, eight conference rooms, and dozens of other seminar, discussion, and computer lab spaces.
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| The wood-clad center staircase is suspended from upper floors. Photo: |
SmithGroupJJR in Lake View, Illinois
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| Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center for Advanced Care. Image: SmithGroupJJR |
Ground has broken on a new outpatient facility for Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, a three-story building in the Lake View area of Chicago, Illinois. SmithGroupJJR designed the building, which is the first of a planned two-phase development that will add 156,000 square feet (14,500 square meters) to the Advocate Illinois Masonic hospital.
The new building adds major new care facilities to the hospital, including six outpatient operating rooms, 18 prep and recovery rooms, two linear accelerators, 16 infusion bays, and a medical teaching area. Once completed, the Center for Advanced Care will also accommodate digestive health and cancer care services.
Its front facade will comprise a curving glass curtain wall supported by a metal backing structure. The structural frame continues past the wall at its end, marking the building's entrance, leading to a three-story atrium.
AIA Minnesota Design Awards
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| The Lakewood Cemetery Garden Mausoleum, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, designed by HGA. Photo: Paul Crosby Photography |
A serene mausoleum, a respectful addition to the American Swedish Institute, a new staff support facility for the shipping hub of the Dollar General store chain, and the conversion of a historic Chicago landmark by Target Stores were among the eight projects recognized by the AIA Minnesota Design Awards.
The roster of winners also comprised a colorful new main library for the city of McAllen, Texas and three diverse residential projects encompassing historic preservation, homage to a mid-Century master, and contemporary urban infill.
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| The ground floor of Louis Sullivan's Schlesinger and Mayer Department Store in Chicago, Illinois is now a Target department store. Photo: Scott Gilbertson |
Ralph Rapson - In & Around Tehran
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| Azadi Tower, in Tehran, Iran, designed by Hossein Amanat, 1971 Color sketch by Ralph Rapson, from Ralph Rapson Sketches and Drawings from Around the World, courtesy of the Afton Press. |
"A former Iranian graduate student of mine was a member of the Shah's inner circle. He had been given the commission to design a new arts college in Tehran and asked me to be his associate. I visited Iran several times, preparing preliminary designs for the project. The last trip happened shortly before the Shah fled into exile in 1979.
"En route from the airport to the city center, my car would always pass an impressive modern monument to the Shah's accomplishments. But this was mostly window dressing as much of Tehran was not modernized. The capital I recall was a city of contrasts, a maze of beautiful gardens, heavily trafficked streets, low-quality housing, and covered bazaars loaded with fascinating goods: jewelry, rugs, fabrics.
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| A traditional small village in Iran with wind scoop towers used to passively cool buildings |
Marlon Blackwell Architect in Springdale, Arkansas
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| The new St. Nicholas Eastern Orthodox Church, designed by Marlon Blackwell Architect. Photo: © Timothy Hursley |
A former shop building has been transformed into a beautifully minimalist modern church building for a small Eastern Orthodox congregation in Springdale, Arkansas. The St. Nicholas Eastern Orthodox Church was designed by Marlon Blackwell Architect of Fayetteville.
The building's new corrugated siding echoes its industrial origins, and its steel structure was largely preserved, but this is where the similarities end. A deceptively simple western front facade recalls Le Corbusier: a slightly off-center entrance with cantilevered awning, a church tower, and carefully arranged window openings at either corner.
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| Under the skylit tower, with vestibule (right) and sanctuary (left) in view. Photo: © Timothy Hursley |
The glazing is tinted to hint at stained glass. The two corner windows are tinted blue and yellow respectively. And in the tower, narrow ribbons of red glass form a blazing Latin cross, marking the church. The tower is also a skylit lightwell that stands at the point where the slender vestibule–oriented at 90 degrees to the entry sidewalk–makes a right-angle turn on the center line of the 100-seat sanctuary.
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| Floor plan drawings. Image: Marlon Blackwell Architect |
Ralph Rapson on Frank Lloyd Wright
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| Fallingwater, near Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1934, 1938, 1948. Color sketch by Ralph Rapson, from Ralph Rapson Sketches and Drawings from Around the World, courtesy of the Afton Press. |
"While a student at Michigan, I traveled to Taliesin with two of my peers to meet the greatFrank Lloyd Wright. The architect had started a fellowship program at Taliesin, where students worked and studied in the shadow of the master.
"While I admired Wright's designs, his Spring Green, Wisconsin retreat seemed to me too somber and monastic. There wasn't the laughter, joy, and chaos that I was used to.
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| Taliesin West, in Scottsdale, Arizona, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1937 onward. |
Renzo Piano - Harvard Art Museum Addition
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| The glass-roofed addition to the Harvard Art Museum, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was designed byRenzo Piano. Image: Renzo Piano Building Workshop |
The renovation and expansion of a 1927 Harvard Art Museum building at 32 Quincy Street continues in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Designed by Renzo Piano, the facility will bring three Harvard museums and their collections together under one roof for the first time.
Begun in June 2008, the project has included demolition of older additions to the 1927 building and extensive excavation to make room for the construction of additional galleries and other space–a total of 100,000 square feet (9,300 square meters) in all.
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| Inside one of the studios of the new Harvard museum building. Image: Renzo Piano Building Workshop |
HOK in Istanbul, Turkey
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| Solar "trees" are part of the HOK masterplan for the Istanbul International Financial Center in Turkey. Image: HOK |
Site work has begun on a new finance center complex in Istanbul, Turkey. Masterplanned by HOK, theIstanbul International Financial Center (IIFC) will occupy a 170-acre (69-hectare site) will also include two high-rise office towers designed by the firm.
Located on a site between the Ataşehir and Ümraniye districts, HOK's masterplan divides the complex into four districts with cultural, commerce, governance, and civic functions.
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| Aerial view of IIFC plan. Image: HOK |
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