This week, we’re sharing projects from Ontario to Denver and the United Kingdom, with several stops in between. In addition to the projects that we cover in detail, we highlight work that architecture firms share with us every day through Project Gallery, the user-generated portion of ARCHITECT’s website. To date, we have more than 15,000 projects.
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Amagansett House, Amagansett, N.Y.
Hacin + Associates
“Amagansett House is a three-story, 7,000-square-foot vacation home in the Hamptons on Long Island. Secluded on over 2 acres of untouched woodland near the ocean, the new construction includes six bedrooms and eight bathrooms as well as a two-car garage, in-ground pool, and pool house.”
Bruce Damonte
A cedar rain screen finished with a sustainable mineral sealant wraps the existing and the new building volume
801 San Ramon Valley, Danville, Calif.
Sidell Pakravan Architects
“Varied textures and scales of wood create a new identity for this formerly bland, languishing office building. This commercial refurbishment in Danville, a small Northern California town, transforms and expands the existing space with a bold volumetric statement that remains sensitive to the materials, history, and scale of the neighborhood.”
Fivedot
Orchard House
Orchard House, Seattle
Fivedot
“Orchard House is a custom home designed to pay homage to an orchard that used to cover the area north of Seattle’s Green Lake neighborhood in the early 1900s along with the heritage trees that remained in the home’s rear yard. The 3,320-square-foot house consists of a series of stacked volumes that create indoor/outdoor spaces with their overhangs and intersections.”
Ed Massery
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh-Beechview, Pittsburgh
GBBN Architects
“A complete transformation brings a 50-year-old wallflower prominently into the spotlight. A front addition creates a welcoming and accessible presence that proudly ‘greets the street’ and provides extra interior space.”
Tom Arban
Laurentian University Student Centre, Sudbury, Ontario
Gow Hastings Architects, Yallowega Bélanger Salach Architecture
“The Student Centre functions as a vital juncture along the campus spine, linking the university’s east and west campuses and giving students a centralized gathering place. Its browlike shape is inspired by Greater Sudbury’s changing landscape, its industrial heritage, and its new spirit as a ‘brutally beautiful city.'”
Christopher Barrett
Yannell PHIUS+ House, Chicago
HPZS
“HPZS has designed the very first certified single-family Passive House Institute US (PHIUS 2018+) renovation in Chicago. The objective of this groundbreaking retrofit low-energy project was to transform the speculative renovation market in the Midwest.”
HYDRO Building, Colorado State University, Denver
Hord Coplan Macht
“The HYDRO building will offer a unique user experience in a one-of-a-kind facility. Inspired by the flowing nature of water, the building invites the public into the large entry lobby, connecting three levels via a spiral ‘river eddy’ stair to a bridge on the third floor.”
New Town Quarter, Edinburgh, U.K.
10 DESIGN
“The proposed mixed-use development will create a new urban centre, providing a significant addition of public realm, and includes a hotel, 80,000 square feet of office space, and 350 homes. Proposed new buildings to Fettes Row are designed to respond sensitively to the adjacent listed buildings, whilst retaining and strengthening the existing ‘green edge’ boundary of the site.”
Moody Nolan
Ithaca College Athletics and Events Center in Ithaca, New York by Moody Nolan.
Ithaca College Athletics and Events Center, Ithaca, N.Y.
Moody Nolan
Acting as an anchor for Ithaca College in upstate New York, the 179,000-square-foot Ithaca College Athletics and Events Center provides the institution with an indoor field house, a natatorium, and an outdoor turf field. Designed by the national firm Moody Nolan, also AIA’s 2021 Architecture Firm of the Year, the space also features a sculptural tower that “serves as a natural ventilator powered by the stack effect of warm air rising and expelling hot air out the top of the tower with minimal mechanical means, while drawing cooler air into the building through louvers low on the prevailing wind side of the building,” according to the firm’s description.
Along with its sensitivity to efficiency and space for recreational projects, Moody Nolan has investigated a number of architectural strategies to support health care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more about how the firm has seen the pandemic exacerbate inequities in health care access and how it suggests that architects help increase the quality of care to underserved communities in “Post-Vaccine Health Care Design,” one of six building typologies featured in ARCHITECT’s 2021 “What’s Next” feature on post-vaccine architecture.
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