ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 342
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Fri Jul 20 12:30:30 PDT 2007
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COOP HIMMELB(L)AU ART IN AKRON
by ArchitectureWeek
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A major addition, just opened, to the Akron Art Museum in
Ohio, is the first public project in the United States by
Vienna's Coop Himmelb(l)au.
The Austrian firm designed the new John S. and James L.
Knight Building as a combination of intersecting irregular
and rectilinear forms that grow from and extend around the
existing museum building - an Italian Renaissance
revival-style building originally built in the 1890s as a
post office. The 63,300-square-foot (5,880-square-meter)
steel-and-glass addition provides a sharp contrast in mass
and form to its historic brick-and-limestone counterpart,
but also embraces and engages the old building.
Three distinct architectural elements define the new museum
building. The "Crystal" is a three-story glass lobby that
serves as the main public entrance and connecting space. The
"Gallery Box" is a large, flexible exhibit space, clad in
aluminum panels, that comprises 7,300 square feet (680
square meters) for temporary exhibitions and 13,000 square
feet (1,200 square meters) for permanent collection
galleries. The "Roof Cloud" is a narrow, waferlike crown to
the facility: a 327-foot- (100-meter-) long cantilevered
steel armature that extends in four directions over both the
new and old buildings, and over the adjacent street.
The new construction minimizes physical impact to the
historic post office, a building listed in the National
Register of Historic Places. Only a small part of one
exterior wall was removed to link the two buildings.
Wolf D. Prix, one of the two cofounders of Coop
Himmelb(l)au, served as principal-in-charge for the project,
which received a 2005 American Architecture Award from the
Chicago Athenaeum. The executive architect was Westlake Reed
Leskosky of Cleveland. Westlake Reed Leskosky - then under
the name of Dalton, van Dijk, Johnson & Partners - had also
overseen the adaptation of the existing old post office
building for the museum when it originally moved onto the
site in 1981.
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Virginia Arena
by Brian Libby
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When designing the new basketball arena for the University
of Virginia, local Charlottesville firm VMDO Architects had
two significant legacies to uphold. First there was the
celebrated campus, originally designed by Thomas Jefferson,
and symbolized by the Pantheon-inspired Rotunda (circa 1826)
and the extensive green Lawn upon which it sits. The
university grounds were the first in America to be centered
upon a library (then housed in the Rotunda) rather than a
church.
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Note from New Orleans
by Leigh Christy
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Dear ArchitectureWeek,
In April of this year, I joined roughly 180 other
"voluntourists" visiting the now-notorious city to do a
little work and have a little fun. The instigator was the
biennial principals' retreat held by Perkins+Will, this year
focusing on corporate social responsibility and what form it
should take in the firm. Appropriately starting the dialogue
in New Orleans, we spent our first afternoon aboard buses on
a tour of the city ― the whole city.
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