ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 447
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Fri Oct 9 12:37:13 PDT 2009
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PORTOLA VALLEY TOWN CENTER
by Lauri Puchall
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When Portola Valley, California, sought an updated,
seismically safer civic complex, the existing
mid-20th-century wood-and-concrete-block campus was
deconstructed and its parts repurposed, along with other
salvaged components, to create a sustainable new
facility on another portion of the site.
The resulting Portola Valley Town Center is targeted for
LEED Platinum certification and was named one of the Top
Ten Green Projects for 2009 by the AIA Committee on the
Environment (COTE).
Idyllic Green
The town council members - among them longtime
resident Bill Lane, publisher of Sunset magazine -
selected an experienced Bay Area architectural team to
direct the project. Siegel & Strain Architects
joined forces with Goring & Straja Architects to
conceive three separate wood structures, clustering the
low-lying library, community hall, and town hall around
a village green.
The $20 million complex relates to a bucolic setting
marked by redwood groves and gently sloping oak
woodlands. A low earth berm at the edge of the playing
field highlights the rise of an orchard beyond, while a
small grove alongside the town hall shelters an outdoor
picnic area.
The natural world inspired subtle building details like
the ornamental branches decorating the building
department counter (salvaged from the school) and
delicate leaf imprints etched into the concrete paving
at building entrances. While redwoods and oaks on site
were preserved, four eucalyptus trees were removed and
used to create the finished floor of the multipurpose
room, while the trunks of felled alders were fashioned
to encapsulate metal columns in the library.
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AIA Maryland Design Awards
by Brian Libby
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More than 30 years ago, as an art student in Baltimore,
George Holback would occasionally convince his brother,
a police officer, to help him gain entry to the city's
vacant American Brewery (then called the Wiessner
Brewery).
Once inside the unusual 1887 industrial structure, with
its three dramatic pagoda-like towers, Holback would
draw or take pictures; he cites it as inspiration for
becoming an architect.
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Postcard from Klamath Falls
by Kevin Matthews
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Dear ArchitectureWeek,
Seeing them as pure object form in the landscape, a poignant
aesthetic of contrasts entwines these manmade elements with
their landscape - muscular diversion canal snaking improbably
high along the canyon walls, diminished river following below -
huge steel penstock tubes dropping hundreds of feet from some
apparently random spot on the hillside - the two round
generators themselves, framed by their own dedicated traveling
crane, bridging over the outwash beneath, loud rushing to rejoin
the native waters.
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