Clare Jacobson

UCSF Joan & Sanford I. Weill Neurosciences Building by SmithGroup with Mark Cavagnero Associates

San Francisco

October 27, 2021

Mark Cavagnero Associates collaborates with SmithGroup to foster well-being at the Joan & Sanford I. Weill Neurosciences Building at UCSF Mission Bay.

Design Vanguard 2015

OBBA, Seoul

A couple pushes the boundaries of local materials and methodologies to create a new design language.

Clare Jacobson

December 1, 2015

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“The way we work together is like a ping-pong game,” says Sojung Lee, 36, about her partnership with Sangjoon Kwak, 35, in the Seoul-based OBBA (Office for Beyond Boundaries Architecture).

Poly Grand Theater

Any Way You Cut It: A Pritzker Prize–winning architect carves tunnels through a concrete-and-glass box to create a bold theater complex for a burgeoning district in Shanghai.

Clare Jacobson

May 16, 2015

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A Pritzker Prize–winning architect carves tunnels through a concrete-and-glass box to create a bold theater complex for a burgeoning district in Shanghai.

Garden School by OPEN Architecture

Beijing

Clare Jacobson

January 16, 2015

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A sprawling high school on the outskirts of China's capital connects students to environmental issues and offers a progressive approach to teaching.

News of the Weird

Clare Jacobson

Clifford A. Pearson

December 31, 2014

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China's president wants to put a stop to strange buildings. Does MAD Architects' Sheraton Huzhou Hot Springs Resort, completed in 2012, fit Chinese President Xi Jinping's definition of weird architecture? Kooky buildings or innovative architecture? Playground for extreme forms or testing ground for new ideas? The remarkable results of China’s recent construction boom have been viewed in various—often contradictory—ways. Chinese President Xi Jinping expressed his own judgment on the matter at an arts symposium in Beijing in October, when he called for the end of “weird architecture.” While his definition of weird, alternatively translated as “strange” and “bizarre,” has not

Vector Architects,Beijing

After studying and working in the U.S., an architect returns to China and stays out of the mainstream.

Clare Jacobson

December 16, 2014

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In the big, big world of Chinese architecture—big projects, big sites, big firms, big country—Vector Architects is keeping it small.

Songpa Micro Housing

Living Small In The Big City: Adapting to a changing program, an inventive project in Seoul mixes micro and small apartments with arts-focused functions.

Clare Jacobson

October 16, 2014

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Adapting to a changing program, an inventive project in Seoul mixes micro and small apartments with arts-focused functions. Although they used repetitive units and simple construction in their Songpa Micro Housing in Seoul, Jinhee Park and John Hong of Single Speed Design (SsD) brought variety and style to the 5,500-square-foot project by animating the spaces in between and around the tiny apartments.

Quick Take: Shinseon Play Pavilion

Clare Jacobson

September 4, 2014

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The Young Architect Program's inaugural project in Asia marks an exciting time for design and construction in Seoul. Moon Ji Bang's installation is made of 60 cloud-shaped balloons. In Seoul, the Shinseon Play pavilion is a walk in the clouds. Visitors meander along an elevated walkway among 60 cloud-shaped balloons, stopping for a game of baduk or a jump on a trampoline along the way. Cool mist machines provide both an ethereal cast to the area and very real relief from the summer heat. Eventually, the pavilion ascends to a grass-covered plaza with a view back to the picturesque Inwang

Long Museum West Bund

Catalytic Converter: A new art museum transforms an old coal-conveying platform into a different kind of power generator, jump-starting the redevelopment of an industrial part of Shanghai.

Clare Jacobson

August 16, 2014

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A coal-conveying platform from the 1950s and a parking garage from the first decade of the 21st century act as unlikely form-givers to Atelier Deshaus’s new Long Museum West Bund in Shanghai.

Along the Huangpu River: The Future of Shanghai

Clare Jacobson

June 30, 2014

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A view from the Huangpu River toward construction of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s White Magnolia Plaza in the North Bund.

NOW ON DEMAND

Credits: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 IACET CEU
May qualify for learning hours through most Canadian architectural associations

This webinar illustrates how workplace questions are studied and answered, with a focus on the Armstrong World Industries (AWI) Living Lab, a dynamic pilot space at Armstrong’s campus in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Credits: 1 AIA LU/Elective; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 IACET CEU
May qualify for learning hours through most Canadian architectural associations

Join us for an engaging, live webinar presented by Steven Burns, FAIA, Chief Creative Officer at BQE Software as he explores 10 project performance KPIs that, when tracked properly, will transform the way your business operates, and subsequently how profitable each project is.