This month, Architectural Record highlights civic projects including a New York nature center and YMCA, a New Haven arts incubator, a Florida library, and a Minneapolis public service building. This issue’s CEU addresses the role of buildings in removing atmospheric carbon. The News also delves into efforts to target existing building emissions alongside how architects at SHoP have dropped their unionization bid; vanishing midcentury modern houses; George Keck’s 1933 Solar House exhibition; and Theaster Gates’s 2022 Serpentine Pavilion design. March also spotlights “Modern Redux” projects at Indiana University and Berkeley, Seoul’s Nodeul Island, and the illumination of large urban structures in Cincinnati and Copenhagen.
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From a library complex to a nature center at the beach, these projects showcase a range of civic buildings throughout the U.S. by local and international firms.
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Preservation matters, not only for saving architecture’s valuable legacy but to create richly textured urban neighborhoods that enhance the civic realm.
Architectural Workers United has announced that they are withdrawing their petition to unionize the New York-based architecture firm SHoP, but at least six other firms in the city are reported to be organizing.
The sudden demolition of Marcel Breuer’s influential 1945 Geller House is symptomatic of the larger trend of disappearing midcentury modern homes and the informal lifestyles they promoted.
The Chicago-based artist pays homage to British craft and manufacturing traditions while alluding to notions of communion, music, and public participation.
Part of China’s Rural Revitalization Initiative, the project speaks to its rural context while interweaving its industrial setting with an organic form reminiscent of its ecological products.