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Pantone’s Color of the Year 2021: Yellow and Grey in Architecture

Lilly Cao — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 07:30:00 +0000

On December 9, Pantone announced its color(s) of the year for 2021: PANTONE 17-5104 Ultimate Gray and PANTONE 13-0647 Illuminating. Selecting two colors for only the second time in 22 years, Pantone described the chosen yellow and gray as independent but complementary, representing a theme of unity and mutual support. Whereas PANTONE 13-0647 Illuminating is bright and vivacious, PANTONE 17-5104 Ultimate Gray is firm and dependable, the marriage of which represents strength, optimism, and fortitude following a markedly challenging year. In architecture, this palette combining playfulness and solemnity has been used in social spaces, domestic spaces, care spaces, and more to communicate similar themes of resilience and positivity.

Below are 14 examples of projects using Pantone’s 2021 colors of the year.

John J. Bowen Center for Science and Innovation at Johnson & Wales University / Architectural Resources Cambridge

Andreas Luco — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 16:00:00 +0000

In 2012, Johnson & Wales University purchased 40 acres of property that had become available due to the relocation of I-195 in downtown Providence. As the first completed building constructed on this reclaimed land, the building serves as a new beacon on the edge of the campus and is designed to support the evolving urban street grid with a cafe, outdoor courtyard, lobby event space, and learning activities visible from the street.

Grow Box / Merge Architects

Rayen Sagredo — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 13:00:00 +0000

Grow Box is a 1,975 sf home in Lexington, MA, designed for an MIT University Professor of Engineering, his wife, and their young son. The landscape surrounding the house was (and still is) in pristine condition, with elaborate plantings and over 40 different varieties of Japanese maple trees painstakingly cultivated and maintained by the clients. The extents of the existing gardens limited the footprint of the new house, but inspired an architecture that utilizes landscape to affect space that expands beyond the physical limits of the house. The resulting design is a compact volume penetrated by slot gardens and entry decks that both deﬁne space within the house, and erode the boundary between interior and exterior.

Marginal Street Lofts / Merge Architects Inc

Cristobal Rojas — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:00:00 +0000

This new nine-unit residential building occupies a small but unique site on the waterfront in East Boston. Located between the residential neighborhood of Jeffries Point and an active shipyard, public art gallery and cafe, the design utilizes industrial materials to effect a contemporary interpretation of context while dissolving the boundary between building and city. Planning limitations, including height restrictions imposed by neighbors, parking requirements from the city, and the developer’s desire to provide water views for every unit, presented an opportunity to strategically rework standard residential typologies. The result is tube-like stacked units opportunistically interlocked to effect sectional and proportional shifts within the space of the unit. Living, dining, and cooking areas on the front of the building are compressed and horizontal, leading the eye through a series of layered spaces toward framed views of the water and the Boston skyline beyond. Sleeping spaces in the rear of the building are compact in plan and tall in section, focusing the eye upward.

Boston Society of Architects Announce 2015 Design Award Winners

Sabrina Santos — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 08:00:00 +0000

The Boston Society of Architects/AIA (BSA) has announced the winners of the 2015 BSA Design Awards. Awards were presented in eight categories for accomplishments in interior design, campus and urban panning, and unbuilt projects, among others.

MIT Beaver Works / Merge Architects

Karen Valenzuela — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This multi-use research and collaboration space was developed for students, faculty, and technical professionals in the Tech Square hub near MIT’s campus in Cambridge. Beaver Works, a joint center for MIT Lincoln Laboratory and MIT School of Engineering, serves as a work space and showcase where students and faculty develop and test ideas for incorporation into the National Defense portfolio. Along with a research lab, the space incorporates a café/lounge area, meeting rooms, and a prototyping shop, where affiliates can carry out design/build research projects.

AIA Announces Winners of National Healthcare Design Awards

Rory Stott — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The AIA has announced 8 projects as winners of their annual National Healthcare Design Awards, rewarding the best in medical architecture from built projects to research excellence. The 8 projects were selected in four categories: built (less than $25 million); built (more than $25 million); Unbuilt; and Innovations in Planning and Design Research.

Paschke Danskin Double Loft / 3six0 Architecture

Brian Pagnotta — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000

An artist and her engineer husband had recently purchased a loft in Providence's jewelry district. 3six0 Architecture was asked to convert the loft into a live/work area for the two individuals, maintaining distinct spaces to be uniquely designed for each client.

Shepherd of the Valley Chapel / 3six0 Architecture

Brian Pagnotta — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Shepherd of the Valley, a United Methodist Church in Hope, Rhode Island, hired 3six0 Architecture to prepare a study for their needs to expand. The existing church, built in 1970 using pre-fabricated vinyl-sided wooded construction, had grown too large and was no longer adequate for meeting the needs of worship, ministry, education, and other activities. 3six0's study revealed pressing needs for a new eduction wing, restructured sanctuary, reorganized entry, and an overall renovation of the existing building's exterior. For the first phase of expansion, 3six0 was instructed to design an appended chapel to the existing establishment.

Macallen Building Condominiums / office dA

Nico Saieh — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Project Team: Ghazal Abassy, Remon Alberts, Hansy Luz Better, Scott Ewart, Katja Gischas, Anna Goodman, David Jeffries, Krists Karklins, Ethan Kushner, Christine Mueller, Julian Palacio, Penn Ruderman, Ahmad Reza Schricker, Harry Lowd