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Shipping Container Architecture: Debunking the Design Trend of the Decade

Kaley Overstreet — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 07:30:00 +0000

Almost 500,000 buildings have arrived at the Port of Los Angeles in 2021. Well- not exactly. Over 490,000 shipping containers have arrived, though. If there’s a design trend that has caught the world by storm over the past decade, it’s been the rise in transforming shipping containers into buildings as a form of architecture. But are shipping container buildings just a fad that was used to propel ideas about taking every day or is there more substance to creating giant Jenga-inspired structures?

Princeton University Residential Colleges / TenBerke

Andreas Luco — Sat, 27 May 2023 12:00:00 +0000

TenBerke has completed two new residential colleges at Princeton University, each serving 510 students. The 485,000 square-foot project sits on 11 acres and represents a major expansion of the campus and a first step in their 2026 Campus Framework Plan. The project is TenBerke’s most ambitious completed work to date—not just in size but also in mission. Since opening in the fall of 2022, it has given architectural expression to Princeton’s commitment to ground its social life in a campus characterized by inclusion and belonging. As a capstone project in Princeton’s 40-year implementation of a residential college system—the buildings are the seventh and eighth colleges on campus—it achieves the university’s longstanding objective to have all undergraduates affiliated (and, for the most part, living in) four-year residential colleges. By strengthening social identities through the residential college community, the project recenters campus social life within the colleges, providing a counterbalance to options elsewhere. As the institution looks to grow its student body, the new residential colleges are designed to be approachable and inclusive: easy to navigate, easy to find your place, easy to make your own. Altogether, the new colleges enrich the daily lives of undergraduates across all four years of college with spaces for socializing, dining, making, living, and learning.

Park and Shore Apartments / Woods Bagot

Andreas Luco — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 19:00:00 +0000

Located along the Hudson River waterfront, Park + Shore is a reimagined iteration of the brick-clad rental apartment buildings that were characteristic of the original Newport Development’s Master Plan. The site is comprised of two distinct buildings—75 Park Lane and Shore House—which stand at 38 and six stories, respectively. The taller of the two, containing 358 residences, is articulated into three distinct stacked, horizontal zones with a podium that maintains the narrow pedestrian street frontages with a low- rise base that extends to the street.

The Women of Woods Bagot: Architects Building New Futures

Eric Baldwin — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 07:30:00 +0000

Building more equitable futures begins with community. For international practice Woods Bagot, the firm's three US studios are now each run by women, and their combined leadership is creating more inclusive and dynamic designs that rethink past traditions. Each Director has taken the reins before the global pandemic was underway, and now the trio is working to rethink how the practice can address diverse challenges in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

New York's Interiors: Apartments, Penthouses and Lofts in the Big Apple

Mónica Arellano — Sat, 28 Mar 2020 04:00:00 +0000

One of the most important cities in the world –and the most populated in the United States of America–, New York is home to a great mix of cultures and history that has been shaped over the years, while art and architecture play a fundamental role in this development.

Deborah Berke and Barry Bergdoll Appointed to Pritzker Architecture Prize Jury

Eric Baldwin — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 05:00:00 +0000

The Pritzker Architecture Prize has appointed Deborah Berke and Barry Bergdoll as the newest members of the prize jury. Replacing Richard Rogers and Ratan N. Tata, the new appointments of Berke and Bergdoll mark the upcoming 2020 edition of the Pritzker Prize and the 42nd anniversary of the accolade. The Pritzker Prize is internationally known as architecture's highest honor.

High Street Residence Hall, Dickinson College / TenBerke

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 22 May 2019 19:00:00 +0000

On a site that faces the main thoroughfare of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Deborah Berke Partners designed this new residence hall at Dickinson College to present a formal front to the street and a more casual face to a lawn (and future quadrangle) to the south. Stone facades on the public side provide a modern interpretation of the stone of the historic Dickinson campus across the street.

27 Projects Win 2019 AIANY Design Awards

Eric Baldwin — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 10:00:00 +0000

The New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects has presented 27 projects with 2019 Design Awards. AIANY announced the results after two days of deliberations by a a jury of independent architects, educators, critics, and planners. For each of the five categories, winning projects were granted either an “Honor” or “Merit” award, and were chosen for their design quality, innovation and technique.

CitizenM Bowery / Concrete + Stephen B. Jacobs Group

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 16:00:00 +0000

Concrete Architectural Associates and Stephen B. Jacobs Group in collaboration with DeSimone Consulting Engineers, completed the design of CitizenM Bowery, the tallest modular hotel in the United States. Located in Lower East Side, Manhattan, the 21-story building measures approximately 100,000 square feet with 300 modular guestrooms and an assortment of hotel amenities. he hotel includes a rooftop bar and lounge, a bistro-style restaurant and coworking space on the ground level, and a 4,000-square-foot plaza.

Cummins Indy Distribution Headquarters / TenBerke

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 19:00:00 +0000

For the Cummins Indy Distribution Headquarters, Deborah Berke Partners wanted to reinforce an active pedestrian experience on Market Street, a major thoroughfare in downtown Indianapolis, and create multiple connections to the new urban plaza and lush park from the city. "We started from an urban idea," said Noah Biklen, principal at Deborah Berke Partners, "the form of the building undulates at its base to shape views and movement between the street and the urban plaza and park."

AIA Announces Winners of 2018 Small Project Awards

Ella Comberg — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 06:00:00 +0000

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has selected eleven recipients in its 2018 Small Projects Awards. Established fifteen years ago by AIA’s Small Project Practitioners, the program “recognizes small-project practitioners for the high quality of their work” and “aims at raising awareness about the value and design excellence that architects can bring to projects, no matter their size or scope.”

Rockefeller Arts Center at the State University of New York at Fredonia / TenBerke

Rayen Sagredo — Fri, 18 May 2018 14:00:00 +0000

The New York's State University Construction Fund hired Deborah Berke Partners to design a significant addition to and a dramatic reconception of a 1968 I.M. Pei arts complex on the State University of New York's Fredonia campus. The architects created a linear addition at the west façade, allowing the former back and service side of the building to become the new primary entrance. This strengthens the building's connection to the campus and reinforces the role of the arts at the institution.

35XV / FXCollaborative

Cristobal Rojas — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Rising 347 feet above its mid-block site, 35XV is a unique, hybrid residential-academic building located in Manhattan’s vibrant Chelsea neighborhood. Utilizing excess development rights from the historic Xavier High School, the design artfully resolves the project’s principal requirements: providing needed expansion space for Xavier; creating highly crafted residential units that take advantage of their elevated location; conforming to highly restrictive municipal bulk controls, including sloped sky exposure planes; and being a “good neighbor”, relating to the both the Xavier Campus and to the neighboring streetscape, despite the project’s overall size.

Faith & Form's 2017 Religious Architecture Awards Recognizes the Best in Religious Architecture and Art

Alya Abourezk — Sat, 23 Dec 2017 09:30:00 +0000

How does contemporary religious architecture adapt to the needs of the modern world? Each year, Faith & Form magazine and the Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture (IFRAA) award acknowledges the best in religious art and architecture. This year’s winners included 27 projects spanning in religious denomination, size, and location. Beyonds this, the award recognizes three common trends present in religious architecture today: re-adaptation of existing facilities, community-based sacred spaces, and simplicity in design. Read on to see all 27 winners.

21c Museum Hotel Nashville / TenBerke

Rayen Sagredo — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 16:00:00 +0000

Celebrating the authentic culture and sense of place of Nashville, the newest edition of the 21c Museum Hotels transforms a former hardware store and warehouse into a 21st century boutique hotel and destination restaurant.

Method in Modular: 10 Floor Plans Using Shipping Container Architecture

Fabian Dejtiar — Sun, 03 Sep 2017 08:00:00 +0000

Shipping container architecture has developed its own niche in both design and representation. Colorful or grungy? Economical or gentrified? Either way, you look at it, designing with shipping containers is a serious exercise in modular planning. The physical constraints of the object make designing projects with containers a complex task, which demands specific studies in spatial organization.

Biotrial North American Headquarters / Francis Cauffman

Daniela Cardenas — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 15:00:00 +0000

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Faith & Form's 2016 Religious Architecture Awards Recognize 28 Projects from Around the Globe

Rory Stott — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 09:30:00 +0000

Each year, Faith & Form magazine and the Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture (IFRAA) reward the best religious architecture, design and art for religious spaces. In their 2016 awards, the jury recognized 28 projects across 10 categories, with almost half of the winners designed for sites outside of North America. Aside from this diversity of location, another trend in the awards was a tendency toward material honesty and simplicity. "Several jurors were impressed with how designers used an economy of means with simple, elegant materials to meet the needs of congregations," said Michael J Crosbie, editor-in-chief of Faith & Form, adding that "a reverence for natural materials was seen in many submissions, and in winning projects." Read on to see all 28 winners.