St. Louis · 2007.0403
Metro.Arch of Niles, Illinois, has revealed its design for Skyhouse, a new 22-story residential tower for downtown St. Louis, Missouri. A "ribbon" element will flow through the building, culminating at the 19th-floor roof deck, with its green roof, pool, and other amenities. The building's base, with three floors of parking, will incorporate the design presence of cars rather than hiding them. Metro.Arch designed the project for LEED certification.
New York · 2007.0330
Construction recently began on Linden78, a $38 million residential tower on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The New York City office of Handel Architects LLP designed the the 35-unit, 95,000-square-foot (8,800-square-meter) building. The facade features warm, weathered brick, with contrasting elements in dark, painted metal. A steel-and-glass marquee canopy is the lower terminus of an inset metal reveal. Linden78 rises six stories to the east of a neighboring four-story building, then cantilevers over it via a steel truss and continues up to 20 stories. Completion is scheduled for summer 2008.
Also by Handel Architects and under construction is Arbor Condominiums in the Riverdale neighborhood of The Bronx. The 127-unit, 240,000-square-foot (22,300-square-meter) project will feature a second-floor lobby and central courtyard, with floor-to-ceiling windows in the residential units. Construction is scheduled for completion in February 2008.
Gijón · 2007.0330
The new LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Center has opened in Gijón, Spain, with two exhibits designed by New York City-based Leeser Architecture. For the "Feedback" exhibit, a retrospective of electronic and new media art, the firm envisioned a "map," created by creasing, scoring, cutting, turning, folding, and unfolding a single surface, with the artworks mapped onto and into the thin skin.
"Gameworld" is modeled after virtual environments and cast in a video-game blue, echoing its subject: the video game as an art form. The design allows for multiple visitor routes through the gallery, with fluid boundaries between different sections and flexibility to accommodate changes to the exhibit. Leeser Architecture collaborated closely with exhibit curators Christiane Paul of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Jemima Rellie of the Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom, and Carl Goodman of the Museum of the Moving Image, New York.
West Hollywood · 2007.0329
Ground has been broken for the RedBuilding at the Pacific Design Center (PDC) in West Hollywood, California. The building is the third and final component of the 14-acre (5.7-hectare) PDC campus, designed by Cesar Pelli, FAIA, senior principal of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, based in New Haven, Connecticut. A striking red-glass exterior will define the RedBuilding, a 400,000-square-foot (37,000-square-meter) office building for design, media, and entertainment companies. Charles S. Cohen is the PDC owner and developer.
New York · 2007.0328
Construction has begun on a new 23-story residential tower on the Hudson River in Manhattan. French architect Jean Nouvel and his Paris firm, Ateliers Jean Nouvel, designed the project with a curved curtain wall comprising almost 1,700 panes of colorless glass in a variety of sizes, with different degrees of transparency, and tilted at varying angles. Referencing West Chelsea's industrial architecture, the north and west facades will be clad in black brick, with a complex pattern of punched windows. All 72 condominium units will feature floor-to-ceiling window wall on the main facade. The executive architect is New York City firm Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners, LLP. Scheduled for completion in late fall 2008, the project is expected to receive LEED certification.
Boston · 2007.0323
Italian architect Renzo Piano and his firm Renzo Piano Building Workshop have withdrawn from a controversial Boston, Massachusetts, project to construct a slender 80-story glass tower. Developer Steve Belkin (Trans National Properties) seeks to demolish a 1960 building designed by Paul Rudolph as part of the project. Boston architecture firm CBT will now control the project.
San Diego · 2007.0322
Construction continues on the "Journey into Africa" tour at San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park in San Diego, California. Redwood City, California-based Rudolph and Sletten General Contractors, Inc., is serving as construction manager for the $28.8 million project, which includes over two miles (3.2 kilometers) of road bed and an accompanying station, a new animal containment building, a camouflaged barrier between the enclosures of African and Asian animals, a temporary monorail link to allow operation of the existing railway during construction, and an elevated tree-canopy walkway. Journey into Africa opened March 14, 2007; completion is planned for October 2007.
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