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Blue Table Chocolates Workshop and Retail Space / Arch&Type

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 16:00:00 +0000

Tasked to imagine a ~780 square foot space for an artisan chocolatier, Arch&Type asked how built space can enhance the crafting & consumption of chocolate. Rather than focusing on the superficial image (how chocolate appears) and painting cocoa beans on the walls, designers Seth Amman & Adam McCullough explored chocolate’s emotional & physiological impacts and how to evoke such feelings through material and space. The impetus for this exploration came from client Ben Johnson, who presented an image of untempered crystallized chocolate: melted, silky, and flowing. Design began by extracting the feelings from the image and Ben’s product— comfort, mystery, warmth, decadence—then transposing these into the realm of building craft.

Space as a Collaborator for Design: Get to Know the Works of Davidson Rafailidis

Paula Pintos — Fri, 17 May 2024 07:30:00 +0000

There's something quite exciting about imagining how a particular space within an existing built form can dictate its use and vice-versa, how the function of a determined space can shape the space's appearance, and the endless possibilities that this entails. This reciprocal process is a concept we often find in the works of the experimental architecture duo Davidson Rafailidis, whose projects evidence a thorough understanding of the existing form that results in a careful and thoughtful ensemble of dynamic architecture.

Great American Cities That Teach Architecture

Mark Alan Hewitt — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 03:30:00 +0000

This article was originally published on Common Edge.

Buffalo AKG Art Museum / OMA

Paula Pintos — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 07:00:00 +0000

We often say that there are only two types of museums: a museum in the park, embedded in the tranquility of nature, and a museum in the city, implanted within the energy of urbanism. The Buffalo AKG Art Museum is both. It sits at the northern edge of the historic Delaware Park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. The city is known for its history of industrial revolution and the current revitalization of remnants from that past. It has a rich architectural history—from silos and manufacturing facilities to buildings by Eero Saarinen, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright.

OMA's Expansion and Renovation Project of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum Will Open in May 2023

Christele Harrouk — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 05:30:00 +0000

The Buffalo AKG Art Museum (formerly known as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery) has announced that it will welcome its first visitors on the 25th of May, 2023. Revamped and expanded, the new campus designed by OMA/Shohei Shigematsu in collaboration with Cooper Robertson features “new work of signature architecture, the Jeffrey E. Gundlach building, and extensive renovation to existing buildings”.

He, She & It / Davidson Rafailidis

Paula Pintos — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 17:00:00 +0000

He, She & It is a collection of three distinct buildings for three different spatial needs, collaged into a single structure. The 1500 sq ft building houses workspaces for a painter, a ceramist/silversmith, and a greenhouse. Each space offers an atmosphere which differs radically from the others. The distinct atmospheres of the spaces reflect not only their respective uses but also, the predilections of the clients.

D’Youville College Health Professions Hub / CannonDesign

Paula Pintos — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 18:00:00 +0000

D’Youville College’s Health Professions Hub confronts two critical challenges in the Buffalo region. First, the city’s West Side community, rich with immigrants and refugees, is woefully underserved and faces complex challenges around limited access to care and prevalent poverty and food insecurity. Concurrently, the region anticipates a critical shortage of healthcare professionals in excess of 10,000 by 2024.

Together Apart Cat Café / Davidson Rafailidis

Paula Pintos — Sun, 17 Oct 2021 17:00:00 +0000

Built in approximately 1900 with a 1940s extension, the historic structure has operated as a grocery store, strip club, attorney’s office, and hair salon, among other businesses, in its past.

Big Space, Little Space / Davidson Rafailidis

Andreas Luco — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 19:00:00 +0000

Davidson Rafailidis has turned a general contractor’s former office space into a small apartment dwelling, in interior adaptive re-use that treats space as constantly evolving and ever-changing. Over time, most spaces stray from their original programs and develop lives of their own.

The Transformation of Silo City Signals a New Future for Buffalo

Osman Can Yerebakan — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 03:30:00 +0000

This week's reprint from Metropolis explores the ongoing renovation and transformation of an iconic site in Buffalo, Silo City, in order to create ambitious residential and public projects.

SO-IL and West 8 Design Artpark for New York's Niagara Gorge

Eric Baldwin — Wed, 22 May 2019 13:00:00 +0000

Design practices SO-IL and West 8 have won a competition to redesign a 37-acre cultural hub along New York's Niagara Gorge. The project will include a renovated main stage and an outdoor ampitheatre, as well as a series of pathways, galleries and viewing stations integrated into the canyon. The teams are tasked with the development of a strategy to revitalize the Artpark grounds, while improving connectivity, facilities and programs.

Call for Entries: International Design Ideas Competition - A Multi-Use Urban Nature Trail and Greenway in Buffalo, New York

Rene Submissions — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 06:02:00 +0000

Reimagining the DL&W Corridor: International Design Ideas Competition for a Multi-Use Urban Nature Trail & Greenway in Buffalo, New York

The Western New York Land Conservancy invites designers, architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and artists to submit visionary concepts to a juried competition laying the groundwork to transform the abandoned, 1.5-mile elevated DL&W rail corridor connecting Buffalo’s downtown with its waterfront through three distinct and historic neighborhoods.

This Design Ideas Competition is the next step in reimagining the DL&W corridor, following the work of community leaders, residents, planners, and advocates who have championed the potential of this site for years.

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Last Remaining Tenant Refuses to Leave Paul Rudolph-Designed Housing Complex, Stalling Demolition

Jonathan Hilburg — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 09:30:00 +0000

This article was originally published by The Architect's Newspaper as "Demolition of Paul Rudolph’s Shoreline Apartments stalled by single tenant."

8 Extraordinary Examples of Abandoned Architecture

Thomas Musca — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 09:30:00 +0000

Throughout history shifting economies, disasters, regime changes, and utter incompetence have all caused impressive architectural structures to be tragically abandoned.

Read Dozens of Historical Architecture Books for Free Online Thanks to New Library Exhibition

Megan Schires — Sun, 28 May 2017 09:30:00 +0000

Buffalo and Erie County Public Library of Buffalo, New York, has recently opened a new exhibit at their Central Library titled Building Buffalo: Buildings From Books, Books From Buildings. The exhibit will feature a large selection of rare, illustrated architectural books from the Library’s collection dating from the fifteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. The bonus for those who are geographically distant from Buffalo is that, as part of the exhibit, the Library has also made dozens of historical architecture books available online, completely digitized and free to the public.

Metropolis Magazine Asks: Could Refugees "Save" America’s Rust Belt?

Sharon Lam — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 08:00:00 +0000

The "Rust Belt," a region of north central United States, is well known as an area where once thriving industrial cities have declined in economic health and population. As a result, many of the region's cities have been subject to grand proposals that aim to fix these city's problems--but could such schemes also provide a way to intervene in other serious global issues? In a recent article, Metropolis Magazine’s Web Editor and former ArchDaily Managing Editor Vanessa Quirk argues that refugees could reinvigorate such cities, describing how refugees are “boosting American’s legacy cities,” but simultaneously “encountering resistance from residents.”

OMA Selected for Buffalo's Albright-Knox Art Gallery Expansion

Vladimir Gintoff — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 12:15:00 +0000

Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Art Gallery has selected OMA to expand and refurbish the historic museum and its campus. The project team is being lead by OMA New York’s Principal, Shohei Shigematsu, who will spend the next year in partnership with the museum and in consultation with the community on how to renew and revitalize the august institution. Known as AK360, the building will be OMA’s first art museum project in the United States, and the Albright-Knox’s first expansion in more than a half-century. According to the museum, the project’s name is a reflection on this being the institution’s third expansion in its 154-year history, in addition, it establishes an embrace of public feedback and the acknowledges the condition of being encircled by parkland.

5 Major Practices Shortlisted to Expand Buffalo's Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Karissa Rosenfield — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 12:00:00 +0000

Five major firms have been shortlisted for the Albright-Knox Art Gallery's $80 million expansion in Buffalo, New York. Chosen for their "design intellect" and ability to collaborate, the competing firms will envision ways to expand the gallery's exhibition space and create a new public urban area that maximizes the site's potential, as the Albright-Knox campus is located on the edge of Delaware Park - one of Frederick Law Olmsted’s major works.