Today’s News - Wednesday, August 14, 2019
● Nonko delves into how "the community hub of the future isn't a library or a shopping center. City halls around the world are opening their doors" to their communities, with architects and city planners creating "more human and playful" spaces (now, if only the U.S, would catch up).
● King cheers David Baker's 222 Taylor, "a visually striking addition" to San Francisco's "ever-troubled Tenderloin with 113 apartments for low-income residents," that "manages to be jaunty and earnest at once" - but he bemoans its back-story and why it took 11 years.
● Alter cheers Brooks+Scarpa turning "air shafts into architecture" at a Skid Row building in Los Angeles: "It's wonderful to see architects take small interventions for housing for the homeless so seriously - our cities would be so much better if more architects took little projects for social housing clients so seriously and creatively."
● Stinson reports on Ikea's prefab, flatpack homes for people with dementia: "You know something's a hot-button design issue when Ikea gets in on it."
● Davidson finds high culture in a "bucolic swath of Western Massachusetts": Rawn's Linde Center at Tanglewood is "elegant without being precious, rustic but not picturesque"; Mass MoCA is "a tour de force of invisible transformation"; and The Clark is "a perfectionist's pursuit of the sublime."
● Franklin cheers Rawn's Linde Center and its sunlit series of performance spaces" - the "informality of setting - combined with the intensity of the music - is embodied in the new architecture."
● Eyefuls of BIG's MÉCA - "thrilling" and "a hive of contemporary creativity" in Bordeaux, France, that allows people "to actively participate in the creative community."
● Tulane School of Architecture launches new research studios on climate change and water management: "Combining both rigorous research engagement as well as traditional design studio methods, the goal is to produce scholarship and real-world solutions to some of the most pressing problems affecting the architectural profession today."
● Greenwald's Q&A with Chakrabarti re: his new role as dean at UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design, "his current projects, America's political climate, his immigrant roots, and how we can design cities in a way that - as he puts it - doesn't look like crap."
● Landscape architect Elizabeth K. Meyer to receive the National Building Museum's 19th Vincent Scully Prize.
● Dwell dwells on its top 9 design and architecture podcasts to "nerd out with" (we're thrilled to see Roman Mars' 99% Invisible, George Smart's US Modernist Radio, and Anderton's DnA lead the pack!).
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Emily Nonko: The community hub of the future isn’t a library or a shopping center. It’s city hall: Cafés, museums, dance classes: City halls around the world are opening their doors and ushering community members inside. Now if the United States could just catch up: ...a stark contrast to the monumental city halls of yore...a group of designers, architects, and city planners are rejecting that vision and replacing it with something more human and playful...city halls are quietly becoming the communal living room of the future....there’s more hesitation from U.S. city officials...“There’s more of an obsession with security"... -- Louis Becker/Henning Larsen; Foster + Partners; BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group; PLUKK; Adamson Associates Architects; Project for Public Spaces; Antoine Predock; Cotera + Reed Architects- Fast Company |
John King: Much-needed Tenderloin housing makes architectural splash - after an 11-year wait: There’s a visually striking addition to the ever-troubled Tenderloin - a 9-story structure clad in colorful brick that holds 113 apartments for low-income residents, plus a pair of community-oriented retail spaces...I emphasize the backstory to 222 Taylor,...because it offers vivid insight into why the construction of such housing never keeps pace with the obvious need. At the same time, the very real quality of the end result bears witness to the determined talent that San Franciscans continue to bring to the task at hand...manages to be jaunty and earnest at once...as good or better than most market-rate projects being built... -- David Baker Architects; Gary Strang/GLS Landscape Architecture- San Francisco Chronicle |
Lloyd Alter: Brooks+Scarpa turn air shafts into architecture: It's wonderful to see architects take small interventions for housing for the homeless so seriously: ...renovating and upgrading a Skid Row building in Los Angeles as housing for the formerly homeless, they found three of these "courtyards"...suggested to the client that at minimal costs these service areas could be transformed into usable shared social spaces that could have a dramatic impact for the tenants within...our cities would be so much better if more architects took little projects for social housing clients so seriously and creatively...- TreeHugger.com |
Liz Stinson: Ikea is designing prefab homes for people with dementia: An offshoot of the company’s work in affordable housing: You know something’s a hot-button design issue when Ikea gets in on it: The flatpack homes will offer the same layout as BoKlok’s other affordable housing units, but include a few design tweaks that will allow dementia patients to live independently for longer. -- Skanska- Curbed |
Justin Davidson: The Berkshires Have the Cultural Life of a Major City - and Architecture to Match: ...the bucolic swath of Western Massachusetts...you could spend a week in summer...vacuuming up modern dance, early music, popular illustration...The county’s cultural King Kong is Tanglewood...The experience of outdoor music is the product of some deftly self-effacing architecture...Linde Center...a Goldilocks trio of studios - one large, one small, and one just right...that can let birdcalls in and Beethoven out...Elegant without being precious, rustic but not picturesque...rooms function like high-end musical toolboxes...Mass MoCA...a tour de force of invisible transformation...The Clark...a perfectionist’s pursuit of the sublime. -- William Rawn; Tadao Ando; Daniel Perry (1955); Pietro Belluschi; Annabelle Selldorf- New York Magazine |
Sydney Franklin: Boston Symphony Orchestra gets a sunlit series of performance spaces for its Tanglewood campus: BSO may boast one of the most luminous performance halls on the East Coast thanks to a recent $32.5 million expansion at its Tanglewood campus in Lenox, Massachusetts...Linde Center for Music and Learning...the first climate-controlled buildings on the bucolic campus...informality of setting - combined with the intensity of the music - is embodied in the new architecture. -- William Rawn Associates; Reed Hilderbrand- The Architect's Newspaper |
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group Design a Thrilling Hub of Contemporary Culture in France: Bordeaux has cemented its status as a top destination in France for art and culture with the opening of MÉCA.
sprawling creative hub...is home to literary, film, performing arts, and contemporary art institutes. The resulting architecture is filled with public and private spaces that allow [people] to actively participate in the creative community...a hive of contemporary creativity.- My Modern Met |
Tulane launches new research studios on climate change and water management: School of Architecture...multi-year Research Studios...each designed to address environmental issues and climate change. Combining both rigorous research engagement as well as traditional design studio methods, the goal is to produce scholarship and real-world solutions to some of the most pressing problems affecting the architectural profession today...school’s setting in New Orleans...has put students and faculty on the front lines of pressures from receding coastlines and escalating natural disasters. -- Iñaki Alday; URBANbuild research studio- The Architect's Newspaper |
Rebecca Greenwald: Vishaan Chakrabarti on His New Deanship at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design: Metropolis caught up with the architect and planner, who discussed his current projects, America's political climate, and more: ...his immigrant roots, and how we can design cities in a way that - as he puts it - doesn’t look like crap. -- Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU)- Metropolis Magazine |
National Building Museum Awards 19th Vincent Scully Prize to [Landscape Architect] Elizabeth K. Meyer: ...the Merill D. Peterson professor of landscape architecture at the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Architecture, in Charlottesville, Va. [and] founding director of the cross-disciplinary UVA Center for Cultural Landscapes.- Architect Magazine |
Top 9 Design and Architecture Podcasts to Tune Into: Nerd out with our favorite design podcasts...(including, of course, our very own, Raw Materials 3 Ways). -- 99% Invisible/Roman Mars; US Modernist Radio/George Smart/Frank King; KCRW Design and Architecture/DnA/Frances Anderton; The Urbanist/Monocle; Archinect's Sessions; Design Matters with Debbie Millman; Design Milk's Clever; Young House Love- Dwell |
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