20th Street Residence / SF-OSL
Architects: SF-OSL
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Architect In Charge: Casper Mork Ulnes, Andreas Tingulstad, Grygoriy Ladigin
Landscape Architects: Flora Grubb
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: Bruce Damonte
Caring Cabin / TVA Architects
Architects: TVA Architects
Location: Pacific City, Oregon, United States
Project Team: John Heili, Tom Douville, Nick Williams
Lead Design: Bob Thompson – Design Principal
Photographs: Rich Strode, Stephen Cridland
Riverbank High School / Darden Architects
Architects: Darden Architects
Location: Riverbank, California, United States
Principal In Charge: Martin Dietz
Project Architect: Antonio Avila
Project Designers: Alvaro Velasquez, Martin Illic, Mauricio Nachmann
Project Area: 29,039 sq ft
Photographs: Mullins Studio, Bill Wood
La Muna / Oppenheim Architecture + Design
Architects: Oppenheim Architecture + Design
Location: Aspen, Colorado, United States
Project Area: 3,500 sq ft
Photographs: Laziz Hamani
Barrier Island House / Sanders Pace Architecture
Architects: Sanders Pace Architecture
Location: Vero Beach, Florida, United States
Architect In Charge: Brandon F. Pace
Project Team: Michael A. Davis, Shane Elliott, Matt Hutchinson
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: Bruce Cole
Smart Growth: Tactical Urbanism Event
Taking place at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. on October 11, the Smart Growth: Tactical Urbanism Event features Mike Lydon, the primary author of Tactical Urbanism Volumes 1 and 2. He will discuss chair bombing, site-previtalization, depaving, open streets, intersection repair, and numerous other placemaking tactics at a time when cities and citizens are increasingly using short-term action to spur long-term revitalization. The event, which starts at 12:30pm, is free and presented in association with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Smart Growth Network. For more information, please visit here.
modeLab Simulation Lab
Taking place October 20-21, modeLab is putting on Simulation Lab, a two-day workshop on the topic of simulation with processing. In a fast-paced and hands-on learning environment, they will cover technical programming concepts such as syntax, control, and modularity. Utilizing a suite of libraries to extend processing’s functionality, they will explore and incrementally develop force-based, physics-based, and agent-based simulations. Additionally, they will examine strategies for visualizing the dynamic nature, unexpected tendencies, and behavioral effects present in our simulations. For more information, please visit here.
Rosie the Riveter Visitor Center / Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects
Architects: Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects
Location: Richmond, CA, United States
Design Team: Marcy Wong, Donn Logan, Ketki Shah
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 12,400 sq ft
Photographs: Courtesy of Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects, Sharon Risedorph, Billy Hustace
625 Rhode Island Avenue / Suzane Reatig Architecture
Architects: Suzane Reatig Architecture
Location: Washington DC, United States
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: Alan Karchmer
North Carolina Museum of Art Sculpture Park Pavilion / Tonic Design
Architects: Tonic Design
Location: North Carolina, United States
Builder: Tonic Construction
Photographs: Jim West
Architects in Conversation: Jeanne Gang + Paul Goldberger
Visionary architect, MacArthur Fellow and National Academician Jeanne Gang joins Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and architecture critic Paul Goldberger as part of the Academy’s annual Architects in Conversation series. Together they will discuss Studio Gang’s past, present, and future projects, as well as Gang’s role within the important architectural tradition of Chicago. The talk will be on Wednesday, October 3, 2012, at 6:30pm at the National Academy Museum. For tickets and for more information, please visit here.
Street Seats Design Challenge
Design Museum Boston recently announced the call for entries for Street Seats Design Challenge — an international outdoor furniture design challenge that will culminate in new waterfront seating, an outdoor design exhibition, and a walking tour around the channel. The Fort Point Channel links the waterfronts of downtown and South Boston – the seam between the Financial District and the emerging Boston Innovation District. o=Open to local and international artists, designers, and enthusiasts, Street Seats falls into the stated goals for the Fort Point Channel Watersheet Activation Plan, a 2002 vision to establish the Fort Point Channel as the next great (public) place in the City of Boston. Submissions are due no later than February 1. For more information, please visit here.
Lighthouse for the Dutchman / Urban Playground
Designed by Urban Playground, the ‘Lighthouse for the Dutchman’ project was proposed for the chapel at the entry of the Los Dutchman State Park in Phoenix, Arizona. Through a rearrangement of an embryological, mathematical reference known as “Shrek’s Surface”, spatial varieties are derived as a way to alter the combined experiences of both the spiritual and natural environment in the Arizona desert. The prototypical, curved surface is morphed and manipulated, creating contextual and functional relationships that are then translated into a series of parameters for the building’s morphology. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Bayside House / Grzywinski+Pons
Architects: Grzywinski+Pons
Location: Bayside, New York, United States
Design Team: Matthew Grzywinski, Amador Pons
Project Year: 2008
Project Area: 3,200 sq ft
Photographs: Floto + Warner/OTTO
RA-50: HOME Competition Mention / in situ studio + David Hill
The RA-50 proposal for the HOME Competition, designed by in situ studio and David Hill, AIA, focuses on building density through alleyway living. By assessing each existing residential parcel in the city of Raleigh, it was apparent that most downtown parcels are larger than the current zoning requirements and will be even larger proportionally once the new UDO is ratified. Therefore, their proposal establishes a new zone within the UDO – alley residential, or RA-50. This new zone would be allowed in any block that is bisected by an existing or potential alleyway and where lots backing up to the alleyways have a surplus of land to shave away and form new, smaller lots that could front the alleyway. More images and architects’ description after the break.
W New Orleans – French Quarter / Nemaworkshop
Design Architects: Nemaworkshop
Architects of Record: Eskew+Dumez+Ripple
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: Michael Kleinberg
Bechtel Conference Center at PPIC / Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects
Architects: Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects
Location: San Francisco, CA, United States
Design Team: Marcy Wong, Donn Logan, Tai-Ran Tseng
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 4,620 sq ft
Photographs: Sharon Risedorph, Billy Hustace
Battery Conservancy Americas Design Competition 2012: Draw Up A Chair
The Battery Conservancy Americas Design Competition 2012: Draw Up A Chair is a unique open call to design students and design professionals living in the North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean. Design an iconic, movable outdoor seating element for NYC’s 25-acre historic Battery Park, AKA The Battery. The winning design will be fabricated for use in The Battery, which annually welcomes six million visitors. They are offering an earlybird registration rate for all who register by this Sunday, Sept. 30. All design entries are due October 30. To register and for more information, please visit here.
ArchiNATI 2012
Starting today, September 28, and running until October 5, ArchiNATI 2012 is week-long festival celebrating Cincinnati’s built environment, partners with institutions city wide to organize and highlight events that showcase Cincinnati’s architecture. Hosted by the Young Architects and Interns Forum (YAiF), a committee of the Cincinnati Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, the events will give everyone the opportunity to experience the built environment in a new way where their interests intersect with architecture and design. Films, talks and tours will take place in the greater Cincinnati area, which kick off with an exhibition of Miami University and University of Cincinnati student design work and open house at the Miami University Center for Community Engagement. For more information and details about the event, please visit here.
Los Gatos Public Library / Noll & Tam Architects
Architects: Noll & Tam Architects
Location: Los Gatos, California, United States
Project Team: Christopher Noll, AIA, PIC
Project Designer : Matthew Wadlund
Project Architect : Tad Costerison, AIA
Signage Designer: Matthew Williams Design
Interiors Architect: Trina Goodwin
Lighting: Illuminosa Lighting Design
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: David Wakely
The Bridge Building / Hastings Architecture Associates
Architects: Hastings Architecture Associates
Location: Nashville, TN, United States
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: Jim Roof Creative
