1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is beginning to recall Mar-a-Lago with the recently paved-over Rose Garden and plans for an ‘exquisite’ 650-person ballroom off the East Wing.
Stewarded by the new Charles & Ray Eames Foundation, the Eames House recently reopened in Pacific Palisades while the Bay Area-based Eames Institute reveals plans for a museum designed by Herzog & de Meuron.
Challenges such as steep terrain and the desert climate were addressed with monumental shading structures and complex site work allowing for universal accessibility.
The five new grantees include significant academic buildings and churches designed by Black architects in Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and elsewhere.
The foundation that operates the Pritzker Prize winner’s first major U.K. project said that the cost of maintaining the building had become unsustainable.
Polk Stanley Wilcox’s park-topped Alice L. Walton School of Medicine and Marlon Blackwell Architects’ stone-clad Heartland Whole Health Institute debut months ahead of an expansion of the philanthropist’s Arkansas art museum.
Gina Bocra, Emily McGlohn, Chandra Robinson, Roberta Washington, and Cynthia Weese will be honored at a September 9 event held at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.
Aiming to ‘foster collaboration and solidarity across the city’s design sector’ during difficult times, the network launched with 15 founding organizations.
