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Element Labs at University Research Park / Perkins&Will

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 18 May 2025 09:00:00 +0000

University Research Park in Madison, WI, introduces a new model of research park typology. This site challenges the tradition of research park planning by integrating natural habitats amongst mixed-use buildings to create a vibrant community that is walkable and prioritizes the wellbeing of wildlife. The Perkins&Will-designed Element Labs, the new gateway to the campus, sitting prominently at the Northeast corner of the park, will house multiple research companies, including Invenra, a Madison-based lifesciences company. The building is the centerpiece of the emerging Element Collective district, which will contain apartments, a hotel, a fitness center, and restaurants.

Spring Harbor House / Johnsen Schmaling Architects

Andreas Luco — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 15:00:00 +0000

This small, unassuming family residence occupies a steeply sloped site in Madison’s Spring Harbor neighborhood, a post-war suburb within the city limits and in close proximity to downtown and the University of Wisconsin campus. The lot had sat idle for decades, considered too difficult to build upon because of its narrow triangular shape, limited buildable footprint, and hilly topography.

Ascendium Education Group Office Headquarters / Flad Architects

Valeria Silva — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Ascendium Education Group partnered with Flad Architects to establish Ascendium’s headquarters in a new three-story office building on the north side of Madison, Wisconsin. Ascendium is a nonprofit organization that helps borrowers repay student loans and provides additional solutions to make education and training beyond high school a reality for more people. Ascendium’s goal of elevating opportunity is reflected in the building’s dynamic design, which gives the impression that it is rising from the landscape, poised to take flight.

Thumb House / Lazor / Office

Daniel Tapia — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 14:00:00 +0000

It can be challenging enough to find the right frame for a painting. But what if you want to frame an ever-changing natural environment—and you also want to live inside the frame?

Seven27 Apartments / Valerio Dewalt Train Associates

Karen Valenzuela — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000

VDTA’s working relationship with Madison, Wisconsin’s premier developer, Urban Land Interests (ULI), spans over twenty years. During that time, VDTA was commissioned for many design assignments in Madison’s city center mainly focusing on office buildings, retail and parking developments, both new and renovation, but never for a residential building.

Midvale Courtyard House / Bruns Architecture

Jonathan Alarcón — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 01:00:00 +0000

Balancing the introverted nature of a courtyard with the bold personality of an extrovert all while managing matters of privacy, this renovation builds on its solid mid-century roots. Located on a busy boulevard in the state’s capital, the 1,685 sf half-century old ranch home was confined and uninviting, leaving its spaces dark and disconnected from the site. The renovation and 840 sf addition of Midvale Courtyard House adds a proper entry, elevated master suite, and covered parking, but also pierces and stretches the solid forms to create connection between indoor and outdoor spaces.

The Chazen Museum of Art / Machado and Silvetti Associates

Daniel Sánchez — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 01:00:00 +0000

From the project’s earliest stages, the goal has been to create a strong physical connection and sense of continuity from the existing museum to the addition. Building on this initial concept, two other very important relationships that have been a focus of the project are the connection from outside to inside and from the addition’s entrance level to its main gallery level.

Nexus House

Daniel Sánchez — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The Nexus House, a compact home for a young family of four, occupies a small site in University Heights, a historic residential district in Madison with iconic homes by Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Keck & Keck, and many others. Successfully contesting the local preservation ordinance whose strict guidelines advocated stylistic mimicry while failing to recognize the neighborhood’s rich architectural diversity, we designed a quiet but unapologetically contemporary building, its formally restrained volume discreetly placed in the back of the trapezoidal site, where it avoids direct visual competition with its two dignified neighbors, a hundred-year old Spanish Colonial home and the Ely House from 1896, a cherished landmark on the National Register of Historic Places.

Madison Children's Museum / The Kubala Washatko Architects

John Rizor — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 01:00:00 +0000

The new Madison Children’s Museum by the Kubala Washatko Architects is an imaginative, adaptive reuse project that was completed in August 2010. The MCM now occupies the 1930’s multi-story historic building that originally housed a Montgomery Ward’s department store on Madison’s Capitol Square. The reuse was implemented as a result of a need to expand the museum’s capacity, thereby expanding the museum’s interdisciplinary capacity to serve the needs of its audience. The end result is a creative and cost-efficient exercise that revamps outdated office space and transforms the space into an interactive and dynamic learning environment.

First Unitarian Society Meeting House / TKWA

Christopher Henry — Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000

In Fall 2008, the First Unitarian Society of Madison completed a major new addition to its Frank Lloyd Wright-designed National Historic Landmark Meeting House. Commissioned by the First Unitarian Society in 1946 and completed in 1951, the original Meeting House has been hailed as one of the world’s most innovative examples of church architecture. In 1960 the American Institute of Architects listed the Meeting House as one of seventeen buildings to be retained as an example of Wright's contribution to American culture.

Ross Street House / RWH Design

Nico Saieh — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Carol Richard, founding partner of the Atlanta-based architecture firm Richard Wittschiebe Hand, returned home to Madison, Wisconsin last summer to build her house. “When I was a young architect,” says Carol, “I designed and built a house for myself in Atlanta and I've always wanted to build again and take advantage of the things I've learned over my career.” Carol’s most recent design is a collaboration with her mechanical engineer husband, Fred Berg. Their residence, known as the Ross Street House, was recognized as Wisconsin’s first LEED for Homes Platinum rated residence in July 2009. The home has captured the attention of green enthusiasts throughout the country for far exceeding the requirements to achieve the highest LEED rating of Platinum.