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"An urban strip extending use over time"
Located in the South London suburb of Tulse Hill, Brixton, the school acts as a community hub both visually and physically. The original project brief called for a building of high quality to house a complex program of multiple educational needs.
The building employs sustainable design features including natural ventilation via wind chimneys, natural lighting, a green roof planted with sedum and an insulation material made from recycled newspaper.
The school was created with a total design approach pairing architects AHMM with Martin Richman (an artist known for his work with light manipulation), furniture designer Andrew Stafford, and graphic designer Morag Myerscough.
Link: Better Public Buildings
Link: School Works Lessons From Jubilee School (pdf)
Article: BBC - Lessons of a well-designed school
Photo Gallery: BBC In Pictures: Jubilee school
Architecture Firm: Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM)
Furniture Design: Andrew Stafford
Artist: Martin Richman
Graphic Design: Studio Myerscough
Student project for the Salford Docks site in Manchester, U.K.
We first "met" Lorenza Casini, a student in the Materiality College at Manchester School of Architecture, when she contacted us last year regarding our post on MPreis supermarkets in the course of her research for this project. We are very pleased now to share the finished product now with you.
With an abandoned brownfield site chosen by the instructors, the studio presented an urban design and architectural design challenge: to propose a program for the site and to develop the architectural scheme.
Lorenza's proposal merges architecture, landscape, infrastructure, and food supply chains to develop an urban farmland and public space in the heart of Manchester.
This last week has been a busy one for us outside of Land+Living, not to mention the obvious distraction of hurricane Katrina and her catastrophic aftermath. Fortunately, none of us here at Land+Living has been directly affected by proximity to the disaster.
Also needless to say, there has been no shortage of news coverage of the disaster. Our good friends at Archinect have done a great job of aggregating information on the web related to the hurricane in addition to posting places for people in architecture related fields or studies to find opportunities. We highly recommend visiting their emergency information page to stay abreast of things.
Link: Archinect Emergency
Link: NY Times - Internet mapping
Link: NY Times - Impact maps
"At a site where the blast furnace heat was almost unbearable you can now cool down and relax"
Archinect points us to an article in Stars & Stripes about the Landschaftspark "country park" at Duisburg-Nord in central Germany. We have featured the work of Peter Latz before, as well as a few other post-industrial landscape regeneration projects. The Landschaftspark no doubt inspired projects such as Amsterdam's Westergasfabriek and North Sydney's BP Site Parkland, yet it retains and reuses even more of the industrial infrastructure than either of these more recent projects.
Link: Landschaftspark
Firm: Latz und Partner
Article: Stars & Stripes - Urban decay now a family climbing getaway in Germany
Reference: Latz + Partner (L+L)
Reference: "From Ruin and Artifice, Landscapes Reborn" (L+L)
Reference: Manufactured Sites (L+L)
Transcendent freeway infrastructure - a modern gateway to Melbourne
It is the rare example where infrastructure and design meet to produce an outstanding result, especially when it comes to a freeway. Here the design for noise attenuation blurs the boundaries between what are functional noise walls, sculptural features and gateways.
The project is 5 kilometers in length, passing between two distinct conditions: the Craigieburn grasslands and the expanding urban fringe. The design is a result of expressing the relationship between the freeway and these two distinct conditions.
Link: Architecture Australia - Craigieburn Bypass
Link: VicRoads - Craigieburn Bypass
Firm: Taylor Cullity Lethlean
Firm: Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects
Artist: Robert Owen
Via: Archinect
Via: Arquitectearte
"For one's health it is necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing."
Last week we Clipped an article in the Washington Post about healing gardens, and a kind reader wrote in to tell us about the Therapeutic Landscapes Resource Center.
This not-for-profit organization is dedicated to providing information to the public about restorative landscapes, healing gardens, wellness gardens, and other research-based healthcare design. Their website features a wealth of reference materials, garden locations, and links regarding landscapes for healing.
Link: Therapeutic Landscapes Resource Center [Thanks, Lara!]
Reference: In gardens, patients find a calm place for healing (L+L)
Historic Register recognizes Ludwig Mies van der Rohe campus plan
Earlier this week we featured a Clipping regarding the reopening of IIT’s Crown Hall set for this weekend. With the most recent news of the campus's historic designation, we'll take a larger look at the IIT campus.
The National Park Service has announced that the academic campus of Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) has been added to the National Register of Historic Places. Designed by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in close association with landscape architect Alfred Caldwell, the design concept of pavilions within a park setting is one of the most important examples of modern planning in the United States.
"The addition of our campus to the National Register is a reflection of the historical, cultural and architectural importance of IIT within Chicago and throughout the world," said IIT President Lew Collens.
In addition to the modernist structures by Mies and other modern architects, the school has launched a recent building campaign with new buildings by Rem Koolhaas and Helmut Jahn. Eextensive landscape restoration and extension of Caldwell's original landscape of native prarie terrain has been undertaken by Peter Lindsay Schaudt Landscape Architects.
Many links to articles and photo galleries for you to enjoy along with our own brief image montage.
Link: IIT
Link: Mies van der Rohe Society
Article: Chicago Sun Times - All of IIT named to historic register
Via: Archinect
Update 10/4/05:
Link: Coudal's Crown Hall page - film & photos
Creating Sculptures from the Ornamental Systems of Sullivan
This exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, Illinois, runs August 28 - October 8, 2005.
A new series of works that manipulate the decorative patterns found in the Chicago area landmarks by the architect Louis Sullivan. An updated version of Sullivan’s mantra "form follows function", Williams insists that "form functions as structure'. Williams injects these sculptures with shapes excavated from our city’s landscape and freed from their facades provoking the viewer to reconsider the decorative features that surround us.
Link: Hyde Park Art Center - Bernard Williams
Winning entry in the "Cradle to Cradle" International Design Competition
We've talked about Cradle-to-Cradle quite a bit here at L+L, but have never featured the winning professional entry in the C2C Home Competition. Designed by Matthew Coates and Tim Meldrum with Brendan Connolly, Rich Franko, Kristine Kenney, Julie Petersen and Ron van der Veen, the concpet embraces environmental responsibility, social responsibility and community interdependence as a complete manifestation of the guiding principles and design issues laid out in the competition brief.
The design is thoroughly modern in appearance and function while embracing the neighborhood and natural context of Roanoke, Virginia. The large "front lawn" of native vegetation wraps up to become a vegetated roof system which collects and filters storm water for use in the house. The horizontal plan is pierced by the vertical "core" which acts as a stack ventilation tower as well as the energy collection armature. The core is clad with a spinach-protein based photosynthetic plasma cell skin that is able to generate enough power to share with the neighborhood.
Link: Cradle To Cradle Home
Via: Future Feeder
More: Archidose
Reference: C2C Home Competition Winners (L+L)
Reference:
Designing the Future (L+L)
Publish your work in Pamphlet Architecture 28!
Founded in 1977 as an alternative to mainstream architectural publishing, Pamphlet Architecture encourages architects and writers to put forth their ideas, theories, and designs in modest, affordable booklets. Its success is legendary: Pamphlet Architecture has helped launch the careers of architects from Steven Holl and Lebbeus Woods to Zaha Hadid, and has had influence far exceeding the ad-hoc nature of these humble books.
Could your work spark the next generation of architectural discourse?
Pamplet Architecture is seeking practicing or aspiring architects, urbanists, and landscape architects with visually provocative and intellectually compelling ideas for the future of the designed and built world.
Link: Pamphlet Architecture
Deadline: October 10, 2005
Midcentury St. Louis architect
St. Louis, Missouri based architect Andrew Raimist's blog features many images and anecdotes about modern architect Harris Armstrong as part of his research for a book he is writing about Armstrong.
Raimist's Flickr galleries are chock full of great images of Armstrong's works including photos from the Magic Chef Headquarters which features a ceiling designed by Isamu Noguchi (shown right).
Link: Architectural Ruminations
Photos: Flickr - Harris Armstrong
Rooftop Architectural Parasites
We've run across a couple of "rooftop parasite" items this week; at Archinect regarding an article regarding rooftop additions in Manhattan, and at Life Without Buildings where they posted a book called The Green House which features a project called P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. (shown right) designed by Dutch architects Korteknie Stuhlmacher.
The idea of parasitic additions and rooftop interventions holds a certain appeal; from habitable appendages to planted roofs to watertanks, etc. And it got us thinking about some projects we have seen before, a few of which we have listed. Tell us about others.
Link: Archinect
Link: Life Without Buildings
Article: Newsday
Celebrating London and the UK's creativity
The third London Design Festival is taking place all over London, September 15 – 30, 2005.
The festival of exhibitions, events, seminars, lectures and parties will highlight a broad range of design disciplines including: Applied Arts, Architecture and buildings, Creative business, Fashion, Furniture, Graphics and branding, Interiors, Product, and Photography.
Link: London Design Festival
Chicago Athenaeum architecture exhibition and awards program
The Chicago Athenaeum, an International Museum of Architecture and Design, is exhibiting their 2005 American Architecture Award winners.
Thirty-three projects are featured including a few we've shown here at Land+Living: the Sun Valley Residence by Allied Works Architecture, the U. C. San Diego Price Center Expansion by Yazdani Studio of Cannon Design, the Caltrans District 7 Headquarters by Morphosis, the Art Center South Campus by Daly Genik and Modern Modular (a.k.a. the Dwell Home) by Resolution: 4 Architecture.
Link: 2005 American Architecture Awards
Reference: "Sun Valley Surprise: Chalet So Spare" (L+L)
Reference: "There's something going on in San Diego that's right" re. Price Center Expansion (L+L)
Reference: A Building as a Beacon for a City's Plans" re. Caltrans District 7 Headquarters (L+L)
Reference: The Wind Tunnel Re. Art Center (L+L)
Reference:
The Dwell Home - (L+L)
Land+Living was invited to post for Design Public's "children and design" blogging event
When Design Public, an online purveyor of contemporary home products, invited us to participate in their current blogging event, we were happy to oblige. The guys over at Design Public are super cool, the offer great products, and they have their own blog as part of the site.
Their current blogging event entitled "Baby Blog-a-polooza" is themed around children and design, and they have invited parenting bloggers and design bloggers to provide their outlook on the topic. To go along with the theme I wrote a bit about the childhood experiences that shaped my views about design and the environment. Take a look around...
Link: Design Public Blog
Early modernist house in Prague designed by Adolf Loos
Designed in the late 1920's and completed in 1930 by architect Adolf Loos, famous for his essay entitled Ornament and Crime which contributed to Modernist ideology. Located in Prague, the Villa Müller is one of the Twentieth Century's most significant modern villas.
I remember this building from architectural history classes, but must admit that it had slipped into the deep recesses of my memory until I saw an article in the Prague Post published this week.
The house was purchased by the City of Prague in 1995 and is administered by the City of Prague Museum. The structure underwent extensive restoration and opened to the public in 2000. The design displays Loos' ideas of the "Raumplan" with its severe external facade and interior comprised of interconnected multilevel rooms, with the space and height of each room suited to its function.
| Visit: | Nad Hradním vodojemem 14 |
| | CZ 162 00 Prague 6 - Strešovice |
| | Czech Republic |
Link: Villa Müller
Article: Prague Post Online - Visionary villa
CA Boom II wrap-up
It has now been just over a week since CA Boom II closed, and after bombarding you with coverage from the event all last week, we are finally ready to put CA Boom II to rest.
To conclude our coverage, we offer a compilation of links (below) as well as some final thoughts on the second year effort to provide a top-rate modern design show on the West Coast.
DAILY REPORTS:
CA Boom II Opening Night
CA Boom II Day One
CA Boom II Day Two
CA Boom II Day Three
HOME TOURS:
Church/Loft - Aleks Istanbullu Architects
Ehrlich Residence - John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects
Entenza Residence - Harwell Harris
511 House - Kanner Architects
Irani House - Glen Irani Architect
Kozely/Farmer Residence - Sant Architects with Griffith & Cletta
Kumagai Residence - Glen Irani Architect
McKinley Residence - Syndesis / David Hertz AIA
Troxell Residence v.2 - Richard Neutra
SPEAKERS CONFERENCE:
"Breaking Ground" Panel Discussion
Eco-friendly home by David Hertz as seen at CA Boom II day two
I have been a fan of this house since the first portion was built some years ago, and was able to tour the expanded home last year at CA Boom. When I saw that the home would be featured again this year, I was not disappointed... actually I was excited to have the chance see it again. I hyped this tour above all others to Anthony as CA Boom approached, and upon our visit, his enthusiasm matched mine as is evident in the wealth of images in our extended photo gallery.
Photo Gallery: McKinley Residence
Link: Syndesis / David Hertz AIA
Article: Outside
Reference: CA Boom II Day One (L+L)
Reference: CA Boom II Day Two (L+L)
Reference: CA Boom II Day Three (L+L)
Residence by Glen Irani as seen at CA Boom II day two
Also on the second day of the home tours was the home of architect Glen Irani, which I had the opportunity to see last year at CA Boom. If the Kanner House is a riot of color, then the Irani house is an orgy.
Located on one of the Venice canals on a 30' x 95' lot, the house is a modernist grid of steel, glass and brightly colored planes. The house is painted mainly in shades of bright blue offset by lime green, orange, red, blackened steel, natural maple, and polished concrete floors.
Photo Gallery: Irani House
Link: Glen Irani
Reference: CA Boom II Day One (L+L)
Reference: CA Boom II Day Two (L+L)
Reference: CA Boom II Day Three (L+L)
Residence and garden designed by Sant Architects and Jay Griffith as seen at CA Boom II day two
The second day of home tours started off on a good note. The Kozely/Farmer Residence by Sant Architects is designed to make great use of indoor/outdoor space. The landscape by Jay Griffith forms a lush frame for the house, and extends garden rooms from every room of the house.
The building is designed as three simple volumes that are shifted in relationship to each other to define exterior spaces as well as to modulate volume and light within the house.
Photo Gallery: Kozely/Farmer Residence
Link: Sant Architects
Link: Griffith & Cletta
Reference: CA Boom II Day One (L+L)
Reference: CA Boom II Day Two (L+L)
Reference: CA Boom II Day Threee (L+L)
A design by Richard Neutra restored and updated by SH_Arc as seen at CA Boom II
Originally built in 1956, the Troxell House in Pacific Palisades, California has been rigourously renovated by architecture firm SH_Arc. The house had been occupied by the original owner until recently, and few changes had been made over the years.
A prime example of Neutra's California Modernism, the stucture is a simple post and beam grid with a broad flat roof. The house is approached from one end where a carport and storage area tuck beneath the roof with an entry path located between the house and the hill sloping up to the street. A long hallway inside bisects the east end of the house with four small bedrooms along the street side and the bathroom, laundry and kitchen along the other. The living room, entry and dining room are arranged in an "L" at the heart of the house with floor to ceiling windows and doors opening to a broad terrace perched on the hillside. The far west end of the house contains the master bedroom.
Photo Gallery: Troxell Residence
Link: SH_Arc
Reference: CA Boom II Day One (L+L)
Reference: CA Boom II Day Two (L+L)
Reference: CA Boom II Day Threee (L+L)
Speakers Panel hosted by Land+Living at CA Boom II Day One
It was a pleasure to host a wonderful panel of landscape design professionals on Friday at the CA Boom Speaker Conference. A thousand thanks to my guests David Fletcher, Tom Leader and Katie Spitz for their time, effort and thoughtful presentations. Many thanks also to Sandra Bartsch and the CA Boom staff who invited me to participate and who worked so hard to produce the speakers series. And a final thank you to all who attended the presentation.
CA Boom had originally planned to provide a podcast of the Speaker Conference, alas some things must fall by the wayside when putting on a large and complicated event with limited resources. Instead we will provide a glimpse of our panel discussion with a few images from each panelist's presentation along with a bit of text to give you a taste of what was covered.
Reference: Breaking Ground: New Directions in Landscape Architecture (L+L)
Residence by Kanner Architects as seen at CA Boom II Day One
We had the opportunity to tour the 511 House, the private residence of architect Stephen Kanner and his family. This is the second year that Mr. Kanner has graciously opened his home for CA Boom, but we were unable to participate in the first day of the home tours last year.
Located in Pacific Palisades, California, the 511 House is a riot of form, color, texture and materials in an almost post-modern mix of California Modern and Googie road-side architecture.
Link: Kanner Architects
Related: Canyon View by Kanner Architects (L+L)
Reference: CA Boom II Day One (L+L)
Reference: CA Boom II Day Two (L+L)
Reference: CA Boom II Day Threee (L+L)
Our summary of the first day
Today was the big first day! We ran the whole house tour circuit which included Neutra's Troxell Residence as restored by SH_Arc, Kanner Architects' 511 House, Harwell Harris' Entenza House restored by Michael W. Folonis, AIA and Associates as the highlights. Individual write-ups and photo tours of these homes are coming soon... in the mean time, some pictures below for your perusal.
I haven't heard my name over a PA system since I almost missed a flight in Dallas... until today when the speakers panel Breaking Ground which we hosted was announced.
Day One Home Tours
511 House
Entenza Residence
Troxell Residence v.2
Modernist house in Mexico City
If you are not familiar with the work of Mexico City architect Alberto Kalach, then we are pleased to be the first to introduce you to his work. If you have seen his work before, and that of the his former firm Kalach & Alverez, then you no doubt will enjoy seeing his work again.
The GGG House, built in 1999, is an abstracted modern structure inspired by the work of the sculptor Jorge Yazpik. It is also obviously influenced by the great Mexican architect Luis Barragán and recalls shades of Tadao Ando, Louis Kahn, Carlo Scarpa and even Le Corbusier (look for the windows à la Ronchamp). The building and landscape commingle beautifully with broad indoor/outdoor terraces, contained courtyards and planted roof tops.
Link: Alberto Kalach GGG House (many more pics)
Mid-century Catalan architect
Some of you may recall the contest that DWR was holding to identify the architect of a modern home last month.
The veil has been lifted, and the author has been revealed as Barcelona-born architect José Antonio Coderch (1913–1984), one of the most prominent post-war architects working in Spain.
Link: MEAM Net - José Antonio Coderch
Photos: El Poder de la Palabra
Photos: Casas - Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Granada - Casa Ugalde
Photos: Casas - Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Granada - Casa Rozes
Book: William Stout Books - Jose Antonio Coderch Houses
Reference: Name that modernist! (Land+Living)
Dedicated to awareness and preservation of important American landscapes
The Cultural Landscape Foundation's mission is to preserve the living heritage of American landscapes including public parks, historic sites, gardens, scenic highways, college campuses, farmland, cemeteries and industrial sites.
The TCLF website is provides a wealth of information about significant "cultural landscapes." Sections of particular interest include Landslide which profiles endangered landscapes; Pioneers which documents the lives and careers of people who have shaped the American landscape; and Classroom which aims to teach people to read the landscapes that are part of their surroundings.
Link: The Cultural Landscape Foundation
Reference: Pioneers of American Landscape Design (Land+Living)
I don't have any money left to fill it with food but it sure looks good
I had to confess to my wife today that I am in love with another... a stainless steel refrigerator. Ironically, I have just been talking about my on-going obsession with free standing commercial stainless refrigerators, the chunky old-school kind with multiple compartments and doors, glass a-top and solid below. And then I stumble across this beauty... if only it had big ol' pull-lever latches...
Stainless steel inside and out, this refrigerator conforms to the US Department of Energy's stringent standards for residential use - consuming less energy than a 100 watt light bulb. The styling is a wonderfully simple, with fine attention paid to the details: dual compressors, three evaporators, auto-closing hinges, exterior drawers with glazed lids for both crisper and freezer.
Set to debut this fall, we can only imagine the cost of this 'fridge considering that Sub-Zero is the Rolls Royce of refrigeration. But damn if it isn't a beauty.
Link: Sub-Zero PRO 48
Contemporary interpretation of medieval timber framing in the south of England
Designed by London based Adam Richards Architects, the Flinthouse in Wiltshire provides an entrance and kitchen to a subdivided wing of an 18th century manor house.
The new structure is anchored by a gabion garden wall filled with reclaimed flint. The cedar framed building is a modern version of a medieval cruck timber framing which provides an open roof volume within. Horizontal cedar slats float over large areas of glazing, modulating light and views as well as relating to traditional horizontal wood cladding.
Firm: Adam Richards Architects
Eminent landscape architect Robert Murase, FASLA, passes away
The positioning of stone in the landscape is an ancient and sacred tradition and has always interested me - from the stone walls and megaliths in Europe - to stone gardens in Japan.
• Robert Murase
We would like to pay tribute to the life of distinguished landscape architect Robert Murase who passed away suddenly this week. An article by Randy Gragg in The Oregonian chronicles Mr. Murase's life and career.
Article: The Oregonian - Robert Murase dies at age 66
Firm: Murase Associates, Inc.
Via: The Dirt [Thank you, Dave]
