Metz · 2006.1107
Construction has begun on the €40 million Centre Pompidou-Metz, a new museum for contemporary art in Metz, France. Japanese architect Shigeru Ban and his Tokyo-based firm, Shigeru Ban Architects, designed the museum with French architect Jean de Gastines. The roof's structure and form are reminiscent of the Chinese peasant hat that inspired Ban. The 295-foot- (90-meter-) wide canopy will be made of Teflon-coated fiberglass over a woven wooden frame. It will reach over and around the gallery spaces, which will be rectangular prisms aligned like spokes around a central 250-foot (76-meter) spire. The design emphasizes connectivity with the surrounding 49-acre (20-hectare) park, with large windows at the ends of the galleries, and many of the other spaces openable to the outside. Centre Pompidou-Metz is scheduled to open in 2008.
Chicago · 2006.1105
Two prominent Chicago, Illinois-based architects have supportive housing projects underway to provide housing and services to homeless people in Chicago. Both projects were designed to meet LEED standards. Helmut Jahn and his firm, Murphy/ Jahn, Inc. Architects, designed the $18 million, five-story Near North single-room occupancy (SRO) facility with a stainless steel facade and rounded roof. Its energy-efficient features include rooftop wind turbines and solar panels that should generate 15 percent of the building's electricity, and Chicago's first graywater collection and reuse system. The facility is scheduled to open in early 2007. Stanley Tigerman and his firm, Tigerman McCurry Architects, designed the new $24 million Pacific Garden Mission building, which will combine previously dispersed services. The 156,000-square-foot (14,500-square-meter) building comprises four wings arranged around a courtyard, with classrooms, computer labs, exercise rooms, and family lounges in addition to the large dormitories. A large greenhouse will provide a facility for residents to grow produce. Environmentally friendly features include solar panels, energy-efficient heating and cooling systems, and a 16,000-square-foot (1,500-square-meter) green roof, being designed by Peter Lindsay Schaudt Landscape Architecture, Inc. of Chicago.
Baltimore · 2006.1105
Construction is underway on the Silo Point condominium project, an adaptive reuse of an abandoned grain elevator in the peninsular Locust Point neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. Twenty-four stories of condos will fill a 300-foot- (91-meter-) high tower, with a 600-car garage and health club in a silo building. A glass bridge will connect the garage with the residential facilities. Baltimore firm Parameter Inc. designed the project to retain many features of the original buildings, such as massive octagonal concrete columns and several shafts passing through the ceiling in the new 27-foot- (8.2-meter-) high lobby. A new 13-story building, wrapped around 12 silos, will house an additional 182 housing units.
Ørestad · 2006.1102
Steven Holl Architects of New York City has unveiled its design for T-Husene, a mixed-used development in the "new town" of Ørestad, Denmark. The project includes five T-shaped towers, with 194,000 square feet (18,000 square meters) of residential space, atop 135,000 square feet (12,500 square meters) of commercial space, within an 86,000-square-foot (8,000-square-meter) constructed landscape. Aesthetic features include folded, colored, and reflective surfaces, and rotated tower positioning. Groundbreaking is planned for the latter half of 2007.
Oxford · 2006.1102
Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, has broken ground for a new $65 million building for its Richard T. Farmer School of Business. Richard A.M. Stern Architects LLP of New York City designed the 210,000-square-foot (19,500-square-meter) building in the classic Georgian revival style to match existing campus architecture. Farmer Hall will provide facilities for undergraduates as well as graduate students, including a trading room, cluster rooms, breakout rooms, and a 500-seat auditorium. Completion is expected by the end of 2008. The University will seek a LEED Silver rating.
Dallas · 2006.1102
Construction nears completion on the new corporate headquarters of architecture firm Corgan Associates, Inc., in the historic West End district of Dallas, Texas. The 58,000-square-foot (5,400-square-meter) building follows a T-shaped plan to maximize daylighting through large windows. Corgan will seek LEED certification for the building, which features rainwater collection, sun shades, recycled building materials, and sophisticated energy management controls. Completion is slated for February 2007.
Oakland · 2006.1101
Oakland - 2006.1101
Jill Williams, AIA, designer and principal of Irvine-based architecture and planning firm KTGY Group Inc., will head the firm's new Oakland, California, office. A residential design specialist, Williams has 22 years of experience, with a focus on northern California. Her past projects include Bayside at Hercules, home-business-oriented three-story apartments; Arbor Real in Palo Alto, at the former Hyatt Rickey's site; and various downtown infill developments from Davis to Gilroy. Williams has been with the company since 1991, previously based in the Irvine office. KTGY's Oakland studio is currently managing a variety of residential, retail, and mixed-use projects, including the Brisbane Quarry, an active quarry site planned for redevelopment with single-family homes and live/work lofts.
Los Angeles · 2006.1031
Architecture, design, and planning firm Perkins+Will has acquired CNI Design, a Los Angeles interior design practice with a focus on healthcare, corporate, education, and retail projects. CNI has designed interiors for a wide spectrum of clients, such as the University of California, Bank of the West, Maguire Properties, Santa Barbara Cottage Health System, and La Opinion newspaper. The staff of CNI will join the Los Angeles office of Perkins+Will. CNI cofounders Clara Igonda, Jay Nordsten, AIA, and Jo Carmen join Perkins+Will as principal, associate principal, and L.A. interiors discipline leader, respectively.
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