The addition to Congregation Beth Shalom in Overland Park, Kansas, features tilting, wrapping forms that reinterpret the act of unrolling and reading the Torah.
A new building at the Metropolitan Community College in Omaha has become a versatile research, development, and training resource for students and industry.
Program: A two-story, 60,000-square-foot home for the Kansas City Ballet. The project, an adaptive reuse of a coal-burning power plant from 1914, includes a performance theater, dance studios, locker rooms, administrative offices, a prefunction space, and a basement wardrobe workspace. A ballet school operates in some of the studios, offering classes to children and adults. Design concept and solution: When BNIM started work, the steel and masonry structure had been abandoned since the 1970s and was battered by structural deterioration and standing water. Since the building no longer needed to support heavy coal-processing equipment, the architects were able to brace
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