Articles by Clifford A. Pearson

California Academy of Sciences

Renzo Piano designs a living, breathing building in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park for the California Academy of Sciences.

Clifford A. Pearson

January 19, 2009

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To support the expansive roof, RPBW designed a set of four masonry structures—one at each corner—incorporating two of the original academy’s Neoclassical limestone walls in the northeast structure and using poured concrete for the others.

Clifford A. Pearson

January 19, 2009

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Project Specs California Academy of Sciences San Francisco, California Renzo Piano Building Workshop << Return to article the People Architect Renzo Piano Building Workshop in collaboration with Stantec (formerly Chong Partners Architecture) 2000-2008 California Academy of Sciences San Francisco, California Client: California Academy of Sciences Renzo Piano Building Workshop, architects in collaboration with Stantec Architecture (San Francisco) Design team: M.Carroll, O.de Nooyer (senior partner and partner in charge) with S.Ishida (senior partner), B.Terpeluk, J.McNeal, A.De Flora, F.Elmalipinar, A.Guernier, D.Hart, T.Kjaer, J.Lee, A.Meine-Jansen, A.Ng, D.Piano, W.Piotraschke, J.Sylvester; and C.Bruce, L.Burow, C.Cooper, A.Knapp, Y.Pages, Z.Rockett, V.Tolu, A.Walsh; I.Corte, S.D’Atri, G.Langasco, M.Ottonello (CAD

Clifford A. Pearson Ruth Verde Zein

November 19, 2008

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Project Specs Ibere Camargo Museum Porto Alegre, Brazil Álvaro Siza Vieira << Return to article the People Architect Álvaro Siza Vieira Principals in charge Barbara Rangel (until 2001) Pedro Polónia (after 2001) Project team Michele Gigante Francesca Montalto Atsushi Ueno Rita Amaral Consultants Structural engineers Gop, Lda Eng. Jorge Nunes da Silva Eng. Ana Silva Eng. Raquel Dias Eng. Filipa Abreu Mechanical engineers Climatization/HVAC Gop, Lda Eng. Raul Bessa Electrical Gop, Lda Eng. Raul Serafim Eng. Maria da Luz Eng. Alexandre Martins Hidraulic Gop, Lda Eng. Raquel Fernandes Acoustical Gop, Lda Dr. Higini Arau the Products

Ibere Camargo Museum

'lvaro Siza shows how architecture can be a journey at the Iber' Camargo Museum.

Clifford A. Pearson Ruth Verde Zein

November 19, 2008

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Given an awkward site squeezed between an 80-foot-high cliff and a busy avenue, Álvaro Siza Vieira’s design for the Iberê Camargo Museum (ICM) secures the building to its particular setting while reaching out both physically and metaphorically to a larger notion of place and culture.

Parkview Terraces

Kwan Henmi and Anne Fougeron give senior housing a hip new look at Parkview Terraces.

Clifford A. Pearson

October 19, 2008

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Rather than assume that senior citizens want their housing gussied up in wood shingles and faux Victoriana, the architects of Parkview Terraces in San Francisco treated the project’s residents as people looking to the future rather than the past.

Clifford A. Pearson

October 16, 2008

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With a series of projects in Bangladesh, Anna Heringer has turned modest resources and traditional materials into architecture that is both vigorously contemporary and attuned to local social forces. . Years before she became an architect, Anna Heringer traveled to Bangladesh as a young volunteer with Dipshikha, a nongovernment organization dedicated to rural development. “I got to know Bangladesh by spending a year studying its agricultural ways, its schools, and the health issues facing its people,” recalls the German-born architect, who has since built a series of small projects in the village of Rudrapur. Photos © Team Rudrapur Anna Heringer’s

Stix Restaurant

In Boston’s Back Bay, 3SIX0 developed a design that lets stix restaurant transform itself from one kind of space into another.

Clifford A. Pearson

September 1, 2008

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Bardt and Leski, partners in the Providence firm 3SIX0, both teach at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and explore ideas by making models—wire frame, paper, cardboard, wood, you name it—and mock-ups at various scales.

National Swimming Center

PTW, Arup, and CSCEC wrap a set of pools with high-tech bubbles.

Clifford A. Pearson

July 19, 2008

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They started with the idea of a box made of bubbles enveloping a set of swimming pools.

Linked Hybrid

Steven Holl Architects makes connections in the sky.

Clifford A. Pearson

July 19, 2008

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Reacting against the isolated high-rise housing projects going up all over Beijing these days, Steven Holl and his partner Li Hu designed a 720-unit complex that emphasizes connections between its various buildings and the city around them.

Clifford A. Pearson

July 19, 2008

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Project Specs Digital Beijing Beijing, China Studio Pei-Zhu << Return to article the People Architect Studio Pei-Zhu, Urbanus Partner Pei Zhu, Tong Wu, Hui Wang Project architect: Wentian Liu Project team: Xiaoming Zeng, Chun Li, Fan He Structure/Havc/Plumbing/Mechanical/Electrical engineering: China Institute Building Stander Design & Research Landscape design: Studio Pei-Zhu Associates in charge: Frisly Colop-Morales, He Fan, Yang Chao, Xue Dong Design Team : Liu Wentian, Li Chuen, Lin Lin, Tian Qi Associate architect(s): Mark Broom, Xiaoming Zeng the Products Structural system: