James Gauer

James Gauer, an architect and author based in Victoria, B.C.; Chicago; and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, contributes regularly to RECORD.

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GEMS World Academy Lower School

GEMS World Academy Lower School

A private day school in downtown Chicago makes the most of its park-side southern exposure to bring light into the building.
James Gauer
January 1, 2016
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How do you give civic scale and stature to a mid-rise school in a high-rise context? This was one of the challenges faced by bKL Architecture in designing the new lower school of GEMS World Academy in Chicago.


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747 North Clark Street, Chicago

747 North Clark Steet

Frame for Living: A Seattle firm adheres to Miesian history in renovating a building in the master's adopted hometown.
James Gauer
October 16, 2015
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Chicago’s gentrifying River North neighborhood is a gritty mix of older commercial and newer residential buildings. Among these is 747 North Clark Street, a 22,000-­square-foot condominium completed last year. 


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Colonel James Nesmith Readiness Center

Marching Orders: THA Architects embraces a barnlike vernacular for the Colonel James Nesmith Readiness Center.
James Gauer
March 16, 2014
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The military does not leap to mind as the most likely patron of distinguished design. But the Colonel James Nesmith Readiness Center, a new facility for the 162nd Engineer Company of the Oregon National Guard, in Dallas, Oregon, could change that thinking.


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UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Medicine Chest: In Vancouver, a new campus building for pharmaceutical studies conceived by Gilles Saucier makes a bold statement while reshaping its context.
James Gauer
May 16, 2013
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Iconic designs don't always make good places. Photogenic buildings that assert themselves as individual landmarks may ignore their context and fail to enhance the public realm.


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Blair International Baccalaureate Middle School

The Learning Curve California Style: The design of a new middle school within a residential community uses a classical plan to achieve modernist goals.
James Gauer
January 16, 2013
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On a sunny afternoon in Pasadena, California, an energetic sixth grader runs between the ginkgo trees in the large circular courtyard of Blair International Baccalaureate Middle School.


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