After a period of neglect, efforts have grown to rescue the Oklahoma City theater that Harvard Five architect John Johansen considers his masterwork. Click on the slide show button to view additional images. In Oklahoma City, John Johansen’s 1970 Mummers Theater has long been one of those love-it-or-hate-it buildings. Now called the Stage Center, the structure is a whimsical assemblage of brutalist concrete forms and brightly colored steel ramps. Hovering above it all are three corrugated metal boxes containing the building’s mechanical systems. A member of the Harvard Five, Johansen, now 95, called the theater “not a building as we
Photo courtesy Rob Pyatt The students will build the first four homes on this site, located on the OLC campus in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Related Links: Design Build Bluff Teaching by Example The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, in South Dakota, home to an estimated 40,000 members of the Oglala Sioux tribe, is one of the poorest areas in the country. The unemployment rate is well above 80 percent, and an astonishing 97 percent of the population lives below the federal poverty line. Many of the houses on the reservation are considered substandard and lack basic water and sewage
Shigeru Ban talks to Architectural Record about his design for the new 30,000-square-foot building in central Colorado. Shigeru Ban is designing a new art museum for Aspen, Colorado. Related Links: Newsmaker: Shigeru Ban Ban Conceives Post-Disaster Solutions for Japan, New Zealand Metal Shutter Houses by Ban Ban Centre Pompidou-Metz At nearly 8,000 feet above sea level, Aspen, Colorado, is known for its mountain splendor. The ski slopes of Ajax Mountain rise from the heart of the resort town’s central business district, with its high-end shops and restaurants. It’s fitting, then, that Japanese architect Shigeru Ban brings up skiing when describing
Brad Cloepfil takes Architectural Record on a tour of his 'introverted' building'a $29 million project that exceeded his expectations. Photo by Jeremy Bittermann/courtesy Clyfford Still Museum The new Clyfford Still Museum, by Allied Works, is located next to the Daniel Libeskind-designed Denver Art Museum. Photo by Jeremy Bittermann/courtesy Clyfford Still Museum Northwest corner of the Clyfford Still Museum. Related links: Cloepfil Unveils Design for Clyfford Still Museum Museum of Contemporary Art by Adjaye Denver Art Museum by Libeskind Denver Art Museum Shop by Roth + Sheppard Brad Cloepfil walks through the second-floor galleries of Denver’s Clyfford Still Museum, taking it
Photo ' Caroline Stevens Emil Bach House (1915), designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Global TrendCities around the world have launched open house events as a way to engage the public in architecture and design. Slovenia’s Chamber of Architects, an advocacy organization, has taken the idea a step further, hosting an open house featuring more than 100 sites throughout the country. Barcelona Launched: 2010 Next: October 22–23, 2011 Denver Launched: 2005 Next: April 14–15, 2012 Dublin Launched: 2005 Next: October 7–9, 2011 Galway, Ireland Launched: 2009 Next: October 13–16, 2011 Helsinki Launched: 2011 Next: September 2012 Jerusalem Launched: 2007 Next: November
Last summer, Denver International Airport officials announced, with great fanfare, the selection of Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava to design a $650 million expansion, including a 500-room hotel, public plaza, and commuter-rail station.
Images courtesy Given Institute Built in 1972, the 12,000-square-foot Given Institute is owned by the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Related Links Demolition Looms for Modernist Building by Weese Expansion for Weese’s Arena Stage Upgrade to Harry Weese’s Marcus Center Demolition appears imminent for the Given Institute, a 1972 concrete-block building in Aspen, Colorado, designed by the late Chicago architect Harry Weese. Despite rescue efforts by city officials and preservationists, the Given’s owner, the University of Colorado School of Medicine, plans to bulldoze the building on April 15 and sell the 2.25-acre property to a next-door neighbor for $13.8
Image courtesy Pelli Clarke Pelli Transbay Transit Center. Click the slide show icon to see more images. When the wrecking ball came down on San Francisco’s 71-year-old Transbay Terminal bus station in December, it marked the end of an era—and the beginning of a new one. The drab concrete structure will be replaced with the long-planned Transbay Transit Center, perhaps the most ambitious transportation hub to be built in the United States in the past few decades. The $4.2 billion project, designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, includes a multimodal transportation hub, a 5.4-acre rooftop park, and a 1,000-foot-tall tower