Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects' hospital and medical office building avoids an institutional look through natural materials and evidence-based design.
In designing St. Anthony, a privately funded hospital in the wooded area outside Seattle, the architects at Zimmer Gunsul Frasca (ZGF) asked themselves, “What would you want to see in a five-star hotel?” says ZGF interior designer, Anita Rossen.
Ben van Berkel, principal of the Amsterdam-based architectural firm UNStudio, is known for his breathtakingly swoopy designs of sleek surfaces that never seem to end. The gleaming, aluminum-clad Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, with its double-spiral-ramped concrete structure, convincingly argues the case [RECORD, November, 2006, page 128]. After completing that nine-story-high, 270,000 square-foot building, you might think that a 5,840-square-foot (gross) residential loft would be too rinky-dink a commission. Van Berkel argues otherwise: “I’m not interested as much in the scale of a project as with the program,” he explains. In this case, he was asked to design a loft
As one more sign of the decline of the West and its dominance in things ultra-chic, Milanese fashion designer Giorgio Armani chose the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai for the setting of his touted debut in the hotel business.
A former business partner of acclaimed architect Philip Johnson recently unveiled an archive of nearly 25,000 sketches, tracings, and renderings from between 1968 and 1992, a sparsely documented period of Johnson’s prolific career.
In museum circles, curators and artists are well known for kvetching about architects who compete with the art on view by foisting major design statements onto willing clients.
Project Specs Herning Museum of Contemporary Art (HEART) Denmark Steven Holl Architects << Return to article the People Architect Steven Holl Architects 450 West 31st street, 11th floor (212) 629-7262 (212) 629-7312 Steven Holl – design architect Noah Yaffe – associate in charge Chris McVoy – project advisor Associate architect: Kjaer and Richter – local architect Engineer(s): Niras – mechanical,structural Transsolar – mechanical Consultant(s) Landscape: Schønherr Landskab Climate: Transsolar General contractor: C.C. Contractor, Herning Photographer(s) Iwan Baan Susan Wides the Products Structural system: Concrete & Concrete floors: EMR Murer & entreprenør A/S, Nørre Snede Supply concrete: IBF, Ikast Concrete
While the symbolic program for a synagogue is distinct, as an iconic structure it lacks the identifiable architectural typology of, say, a Gothic-style cathedral or a domed mosque.
Photo courtesy Margo Warnecke Merck John Carl Warnecke, c. 1975 John Carl (“Jack”) Warnecke, FAIA, died of pancreatic cancer at his ranch in Healdsburg, CA, on April 17. Warnecke, considered by those who knew him as a “larger than life” figure, was a tall, burly architect, known for his ebullient personality and his ability to win clients and friends. One of his best known works was the redesign of the Lafayette Square area in Washington, D.C. [RECORD, April 1968, page 147]. This urban development near the White House included not only the preservation of historic houses, but the construction of