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Tasting Rooms Culinary Center / Abruzzo Bodziak Architects

Andreas Luco — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:00:00 +0000

Norwalk, CT, USA - Abruzzo Bodziak Architects (ABA) has designed an innovative culinary center that reimagines post-pandemic work and production spaces within an underutilized facility in Norwalk, Connecticut. After taking over a vast kitchen and warehouse originally designed for large-scale food service, ABA's client—a team of cooking and event planning professionals known for innovative cuisine, bespoke presentation techniques, and an award-winning cookbook—approached the Architects with what they described as a "happiness project." Their goal was to attract both current and potential employees back to in-office work post-pandemic by transforming their new space into a welcoming, light-filled workplace for planners and chefs alike, and to craft an immersive experience for their own clients.

Stick House, Brick Garden / Abruzzo Bodziak Architects

Paula Pintos — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 02:00:00 +0000

A wood rowhouse in Brooklyn is re-imagined for a British family, drawing from New York and London architecture to create large open spaces, generous daylighting, and outdoor rooms with abundant greenery while protecting the house from future storm-surge flooding. Using ingredients from Greenpoint’s historical wood-framed townhouses – wood cladding, masonry base, stoop, double hung windows with flower boxes – “Stick House, Brick Garden” re-shuffles elements of its context while focusing on resilience.

College of the Holy Cross Prior Performing Arts Center / Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 19:00:00 +0000

The 84,000 sf Prior Performing Arts Center for the College of the Holy Cross has been designed to be an incubator for multidisciplinary learning grounded in the performing and visual arts for students from all academic disciplines. Standing as the cultural center of the school—with venues for both fine arts and performing arts—the building houses the 400-seat concert hall, a 200-seat flexible studio theatre, and the relocated Cantor Art Gallery.

Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center / Marble Fairbanks Architects

Andreas Luco — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 11:00:00 +0000

The Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center is one of the fifty-eight neighborhood libraries that make up the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) system. Distributed throughout the borough of Brooklyn, this network of libraries provides essential educational, cultural, and social services to the diverse communities they serve. Funded in part from a Legacy Grant from the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund, this project is the result of an active engagement between BPL and the community.

Empire Stores / S9 Architecture

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Empire Stores is emblematic of Brooklyn’s transformation from lapsed industrial powerhouse into a growing creative sector. This award-winning mixed-use development reimagines a vacant, 19th century warehouse on the DUMBO waterfront as a contemporary creative workplace and community hub. The conversion of this 450,000sf complex provides Brooklyn’s burgeoning Tech Triangle with much-needed office space, and brings retail, dining, public space, and exhibition galleries to the neighborhood. The campaign of adaptive re-use celebrates and preserves the building’s monumental presence on the waterfront, while improving circulation between DUMBO’s urban fabric and the 85-acre Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Providence College: Ruane Friar Development Center / Perkins Eastman

Daniel Tapia — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 20:00:00 +0000

Few programs have had the success and impact that the basketball programs have had on the unique culture of the Providence College Friars. As the program has grown and achieved success after success—both on the court and in the classroom—it was clear the College needed new, state-of-the-art spaces to support its student-athletes. The Ruane Friar Development Center (RFDC) at Providence College houses brand new practice, locker room, and office facilities for the College’s basketball programs as well as training and recovery facilities for the school’s wider Division I Athletics program. Beyond Athletics, the RFDC creates a destination on campus that captures the unique spirit of Friartown: “Us. We. Together. Family. Friars.”

Pratt Institute, Higgins Hall Insertion / Steven Holl Architects

Andreas Luco — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 19:00:00 +0000

The new Higgins Hall Center Section is an urban insertion which draws from the sections of the two adjacent historic landmarked buildings. Floor plates of the north and south wings do not align. By drawing this misalignment into the new glass section to meet at the center a “dissonant zone” is created which marks the new entry to the school. The two masonry buildings together with the new glass insertion form an “H” in plan. New courts facing east and west are paved in the reused red brick which was salvaged following the fire that took place in 1996.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture / Adjaye Associates + Freelon Adjaye Bond / SmithGroup

Florencia Mena — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Winning the competition to design the National Museum of African American History and Culture has consolidated the practice’s US portfolio with arguably the nation’s most prestigious new building. Located on Constitution Avenue, adjacent to the National Museum of American History and the Washington Monument, the museum will house exhibit galleries, administrative spaces, theatre space and collections storage space for the NMAAHC. As lead designer for the Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup (FAB) team, David Adjaye’s approach has been to establish both a meaningful relationship to this unique site as well as a strong conceptual resonance with America’s deep and longstanding African heritage. The design rests on three cornerstones: the “corona” shape and form of the building; the extension of the building out into the landscape – the porch; and the bronze filigree envelope.

Renovation of Sotheby’s New York Headquarters / OMA

Andreas Luco — Mon, 06 May 2019 06:00:00 +0000

Sotheby’s galleries were designed to provide the optimal exhibition space for everything from single objects to expansive collections, and can accommodate works of art of any scale – the tallest gallery measures more than 20 feet in height, while the smallest gallery is 350 square feet.

Atlantic Plumbing Building / Morris Adjmi Architects

Daniel Tapia — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 13:00:00 +0000

Atlantic Plumbing was the first building completed in a three-phase development project. The 310-unit rental building features a cantilevered glass and aluminum box framed in a Corten steel truss. Resident amenities include a fitness center, club rooms, rooftop pool, and landscaped terraces.

Hill Office / Andrew Franz Architect

Andreas Luco — Sat, 23 Mar 2019 03:00:00 +0000

In a double-height penthouse of a 1913 Beaux Arts building near Manhattan’s Hudson Yards neighborhood, a former publisher’s executive suite is restored and modernized as a connected and transparent workplace. Designed for openness and collaboration, the space balances centrally located open areas with a variety of more intimate areas. A new, floating bridge connects two sides of the historic mezzanine floor, facilitating encounters, while a wide stair becomes a place for gatherings. Circulation paths intersect with different programmatic areas, encouraging movement while also generating happenstance meetings and exchanges of ideas.

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."

Simons Center for Systems Biology / Pelli Clarke & Partners

Rayen Sagredo — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 16:00:00 +0000

The new home for the Simons Center for Systems Biology at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), designed as an addition, seamlessly integrates with the existing three-storey Bloomberg Hall. Configured to eliminate corridors, the building has offices for faculty members, visiting scholars, and administrative staff as well as formal and informal meetings spaces. The programmatically distinct lower floor contains the campus wide IAS computer center.

Hill House / LSS

Daniel Tapia — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 13:00:00 +0000

The Hill House is a modern year-round refuge located on a wooded hillside. The house, acting as a threshold, marks the transition from trees to rolling fields that extend to the distant waterfront. Because it is situated on a nature preserve and protected wetlands, great care was taken to design a home reverential to its location. The client, a trustee of the Shelter Island Nature Conservancy, requested a home that was sensitively knit into the site with intimate spaces for the family and a large outdoor event space for entertaining.

Pool House / Robert Young Architects

Daniel Tapia — Thu, 24 May 2018 13:00:00 +0000

A lot of design projects start with problem-solving, and this pool house, on Long Island’s East End, was no exception. Building codes in the Hamptons specify that a pool house can only contain 200 square feet of interior space.

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.

Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU / Steven Holl Architects

Rayen Sagredo — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 09:00:00 +0000

Sited at the edge of the Virginia Commonwealth University campus in Richmond, Virginia, the new Institute for Contemporary Art links the University with the surrounding community. On the busiest intersection of Richmond at Broad and Belvidere Streets, the building forms a gateway to the University with an inviting sense of openness. The main entrance is formed by an intersection of the performance space and Forum, adding a vertical “Z” component to the “X-Y” movement of the intersection. The torsion of these intersecting bodies is joined by a “plane of the present” to the galleries in “forking time.”

Dumbo Townhouses / Alloy Design

Cristobal Rojas — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 13:00:00 +0000

The DUMBO Townhouses are located at the corner of Pearl and Water Streets in the Borough of Brooklyn. The project involves the demolition of an existing one story, warehouse located in the DUMBO Historic Section of Brooklyn and the new construction of 5 single family townhouses. The total project includes approximately 18,000 gross sf.