ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 352
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Fri Oct 5 05:38:33 PDT 2007
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ALDO LEOPOLD LEGACY CENTER
by ArchitectureWeek
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"That land is a community is the basic concept of
ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an
extension of ethics." - Aldo Leopold, A Sand County
Almanac, 1949
Located on land that Aldo Leopold loved, deep in the
mid-Wisconsin countryside at Baraboo, not far from the
Wisconsin Dells, the graceful buildings of the new Aldo
Leopold Legacy Center house the guardians of his legacy
with a warm and gentle, yet astringent, almost
Shakeresque simplicity of beautiful form and
construction.
Certified LEED Platinum in 2007, the Leopold Center
incorporates wood grown and harvested on-site. Because of
construction scheduling complications - as well as an
extremely deep commitment to the project - Leopold
Foundation members, neighbors, and the staff who now
occupy the structures logged and peeled a significant
portion of the wood used in the 12,000-square-foot
(1,100-square-meter) complex.
Kubala Washatko Architects of Cedarburg, Wisconsin,
arranged the buildings in a composition of two facing
ells, together defining a pair of open courtyard spaces.
The chaste-while-earthy buildings balance inside and
outside elegantly, with narrow wings, open or creatively
partitioned interiors, and generous glazing. Most of the
exterior siding is oak and ash boards harvested
sustainably on-site.
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Seattle Public Library - Detailing the Skin
by Steve DelFraino, LMN Architects, with Christine Killory and Rene Davids
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1003/building_1-1.html
The twelve-story, 362,987-square-foot
(33,723-square-meter) Seattle Public Library sits on a
steep urban site with a 29-foot (8.8-meter) height
difference between its boundaries on Fourth and Fifth
Avenues.
The library's distinctive exterior skin, a steel, glass,
and aluminum diamond-shaped grid, began with the simple
concept of wrapping the entire building in a continuous
layer of transparency. This layer, with its faceted
planes, outlines the elevated platforms on the exterior
while creating a variety of interconnected spaces on the
interior. Unifying these shifting planes of glass, a
common diamond module has been utilized for the mullion
framing across the entire envelope.
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People and Places
by Nancy Novitski
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Steven Holl Architects in New York, New York -- Hamilton
Anderson and SmithGroup in Detroit, Michigan -- Hodgetts +
Fung, with Thornton Tomasetti in Valencia, California --
RTKL Associates Inc. in Washington, D.C., District of
Columbia -- ArchitektenRuediger in Braunschweig, Germany --
Frank Lloyd Wright, with Anthony Puttnam and Hamilton
Houston Lownie Architects in Buffalo, New York -- Handel
Architects in San Francisco, California -- HOK in Atlanta,
Georgia...
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House sizes around the world have been increasing even as
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