It’s a considerable challenge to make a large, windowless, one-story floor plate of a neighborhood health clinic into a tectonic play of solids and voids, somehow drawing daylight into the interiors from 14 small terraces, and, all the while, staying within a tight budget and adhering to the exacting standards of a public project.
Perusing Gerardo Broissin's portfolio, it's hard to believe the depth and breadth of work the 32-year-old has built in his short career, especially considering he wasn't always sure of what he wanted to do.
Two young architects, Eric Höweler and J. Meejin Yoon, stepped into the architectural limelight in 2004 not with a building but an interactive LED light installation, created for the Athens Olympics.
The form of the city rises from the convergence of legislation, imagination, ambition, and resistance. This complex of forces is getting a workout a few blocks from my office in Lower Manhattan, where Donald Trump and partners are building the Trump SoHo, a 45-story “condominium hotel” containing 400 apartments—ranging in size from 425 to 10,000 square feet—priced at $3,000 a square foot and said to be selling briskly. The tower, which is going up fast and is scheduled to open in spring 2009, sits adjacent to SoHo and will be, by far, the tallest building in an area characterized by
One obvious question is why Trump and his partners aren’t simply building an actual hotel on the site. According to Julius Schwarz, executive vice president of the Bayrock Group (which initially secured the site with the Sapir Organization before bringing in Trump for his inimitable cachet) and the managing partner for the project, “It’s a financing mechanism” designed as a hedge against a potential glut of hotels. “You can model it out 10 years. Right now, there’s a shortage of hotels. So people are going to be building hotels and the rates will eventually come down. Hotel rooms will always
Project Specs Young Centre for the Performing Arts Toronto, Ontario Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects << Return to article the People Architect Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects 322 King Street West Toronto, Ontario M5V 1J2 416-977-5104 (TEL) 416-598-9804 (FAX) Tom Payne Partner Chris Couse Senior Associate Mark Jaffar Project Architect Project Team: Goran Milosevic Ann Lok Ramon Janer Thom Seto Krista Clark Steven Kopp Carolyn Lee Architect of record Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects Engineer(s): Structural: Read Jones Christofferson Ltd Electrical/Mechanical: Crossey Engineering Inc Consultant(s) Acoustical: Aerocoustics Engineering Inc John O’Keefe, Tom Neudorfl Other: Heritage: ERA Architects Inc Michael McClelland,