Raleigh · 2006.1206
The North Carolina Museum of Art has broken ground for a $138 million expansion at its campus in Raleigh. The project includes construction of a new 127,000-square-foot (11,800-square-meter) building for the museum's permanent collection, as well as renovation and alteration of the existing building and creation of gardens and outdoor galleries. The design architect for the project is Thomas Phifer and Partners of New York City. Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee Architects of Raleigh is the executive architect. The landscape architect is Peter Walker and Partners of Berkeley, California, with Lappas + Havener of Durham as executive landscape architect. The new building will be a long, low, rectangular volume clad in satin-finished stainless steel. The roof design evokes waves or hills, its curves expressing the gallery lighting system within, which allows a tiny, adjustable fraction of daylight into the galleries, in addition to electric lighting. Thomas Phifer and Partners designed the system in collaboration with electric lighting consultants at Fisher Marantz Stone of New York City and daylighting consultants at the New York office of international engineering firm Arup. The expanded facility is scheduled to open in 2009.
Los Angeles · 2006.1204
An adaptive reuse of a 1986 skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles, California, nears completion. In form, the 380,000-square-foot (35,000-square-meter) building is a tall, narrow pyramid on top of a rectilinear parking structure, with an exterior of blue glass and granite. The 21 stories of offices have been converted into 228 high-end condominium units, with 12,000 square feet (1,000 square meters) of ground-floor retail. Operable windows have been installed while preserving floor-to-ceiling windows and the views they provide. The Los Angeles office of Thomas P. Cox: Architects, Inc. designed the residential units. Johnson Fain of Los Angeles designed the building's common areas. The Los Angeles office of AC Martin Partners, the building's original architect, served as executive consultant.
Los Angeles · 2006.1203
The new Billy Wilder Theater has opened at the Hammer Museum, located on the Westwood-district campus of the University of California, Los Angeles. Michael Maltzan Architecture of Los Angeles designed the state-of-the-art, 295-seat theater, which will be the new home of UCLA Film & Television Archive's public screenings and also a venue for museum programs. It is equipped to screen the full historical spectrum of film and video. The theater is part of a two-phase renovation and addition project to transform the museum's courtyard, involving 83,200 square feet (7,700 square meters) total. The project also includes a restaurant, bookstore, and public classrooms, and the introduction of an abstract topography of translucent elements to organize circulation routes. Phase II is scheduled for completion in 2008.
Wilmington · 2006.1203
Construction nears completion on a new $37 million building for Barclays Bank Delaware in Wilmington, Delaware. Located on the Christina River waterfront, the six-story, 280,000-square-foot (26,000-square-meter) building is crescent-shaped in plan, with a facade of glass and brick. Moeckel Carbonell Associates Inc. of Wilmington and Architecture Plus of Newport, Delaware, collaborated on the project, which features 20,000 square feet (1,900 square meters) of ground floor retail and a 50,000-square-foot (4,600-square-meter) green roof. The nearby Riverwalk is accessible through a breezeway. Mitchell Associates of Wilmington is designing the interiors with an open plan to preserve views. Mark Hitchcock is the architect of record. Occupancy is expected by March.
St. Petersburg · 2006.1201
Gazprom, Russia's largest company, has selected the London, United Kingdom, office of RMJM to design its new building on the Neva River in St. Petersburg, Russia. RMJM's current design for Gazprom City features a twisted, multifaceted spire, 1,299 feet (396 meters) in height, inspired by the city's many Baroque spires. The extreme height of the proposed building has provoked controversy in this historic, relatively low-rise city, and Gazprom has said it is willing to reconsider the building's height.
New York · 2006.1130
Construction is complete on the adaptive reuse of an early-20th-century manufacturing building in the Landmark District of New York City's Tribeca neighborhood. New York firm Oaklander, Coogan, & Vitto Architects, P.C. (OCV Architects) transformed the building to house four residential units. The lofts retain the building's original 12-foot (3.7-meter) ceilings, exposed brick, and deep spaces, with glass doors and other elements added to maximize interior light. Features include radiant-heated stone floors and recessed marble baseboard and windowsills. Stylander DesignGroup of New York designed the interiors.
Durham · 2006.1130
Duke University has opened a new $11 million integrative-medicine center on its medical campus in Durham, North Carolina. Duda/ Paine Architects of Durham designed the 27,000-square-foot (2,500-square-meter) building to reflect the center's holistic approach to medicine, with such features as daylighting, views of the nearby Duke Forest, curved walls, wooden design elements, and courtyard gardens. The building comprises meditation spaces, fitness facilities, conference and workshop spaces, a kitchen, and a library, in addition to examination and treatment rooms.
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