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Architectural Record - June 2023

2023 June

In June, RECORD honors 2023’s Design Vanguard firms and focuses on wood, from mass-timber construction to sustainable sourcing to engineering innovations and seismic feats. The issue explores spiritual projects including a multi-denominational complex in Abu Dhabi; a Cape Town church; and a dual-congregation house of worship in Cologne. Stateside, Studio Gang’s Gilder Center at the American Museum of Natural History and a revamped Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts are both profiled. Also in the issue, June’s House of the Month finds inspiration in California’s strict energy code, our correspondent reports from Milan Design Week, and we catch up with David Adjaye.

Check back throughout the month for additional content.

Yukinoshita Farm House

Design Vanguard 2023 Winners

RECORD's selection of this year's top emerging firms

June 1, 2023

These 10 emerging practices from across the U.S., Mexico, Germany, China, Japan, Nigeria, and Australia represent the promise of the next generation of architects.

Poplar Grove

Design Vanguard 2023: BLDUS

Washington, D.C.

Deane

June 1, 2023

With a “farm-to-shelter” mentality, BLDUS founders Andrew Linn and Jack Becker have taken a hands-on approach to designing structures with a sustainable aesthetic that challenge mainstream stick-built construction.

Central World

Design Vanguard 2023: Linehouse

Hong Kong/Shanghai

Jennifer Krichels

June 1, 2023

Based in Hong Kong and Shanghai, Briar Hickling and Alex Mok of Linehouse build site-sensitive projects around knowledge of local materials and Chinese craftsmanship.

La Ribera

Design Vanguard 2023: Zeller & Moye

Mexico City / Berlin

June 1, 2023

A decade into their shared practice, Mexico City–born Ingrid Moye and Berlin-born Christoph Zeller use their bicontinental arrangement to execute projects in both Latin America and Europe, allowing their experiences to inform one another.

Fly Gallery

Design Vanguard 2023: Studio J. Jih

Boston

A. Krista Sykes

June 1, 2023

According to firm principal J. Jih, whose studio works out of a converted warehouse in Boston’s South End arts district, architecture is a place “to dissect value, encounter the values of others, and continually evolve one’s own values.”

Institute of Contemporary African Art and Film

Design Vanguard 2023: Studio Contra

Lagos, Nigeria

Izzy Kornblatt

June 1, 2023

A circuitous path led Olayinka Dosekun-Adjei and Jeffrey Adjei to found their Lagos-based firm Studio Contra, which has executed increasingly prominent projects, culminating in the Institute of Contemporary African Art and Film in the Nigerian city of Ilorin.

Sun Shed

Design Vanguard 2023: MIX Architecture

Nanjing, China

June 9, 2023

Founded in 2016 by Zhou Suning, Tang Tao, and Wu Ziye, the Nanjing-based practice got its start in rural China, where government investment aims to revitalize areas that have long suffered from lagging economic development and depopulation.

A B House

Design Vanguard 2023: Office MI—JI

Melbourne

June 1, 2023

Classmates Millie Anderson and Jimmy Carter began moonlighting on small freelance projects—today, Office MI–JI has introduced a refreshing new approach to the Melbourne design scene and completed several intriguing projects in low-cost local materials.

Gradient House and Studio

Design Vanguard 2023: Linden, Brown Architecture

Portland, Oregon

June 1, 2023

Among other projects, Brent Linden and Chris Brown's Portland-based firm has transformed a postwar house into a new residence and home studio for a local design business.

Tsuruoka House

Design Vanguard 2023: Kiyo Takeda Architects

Tokyo

Naomi Pollock, FAIA

June 1, 2023

For the young Tokyo architect, who worked under Kengo Kuma for a decade, integrating natural elements with concrete, glass, and steel has become second nature.

Flatiron Reflection

Design Vanguard 2023: Future Expansion

Brooklyn, New York

Matt Hickman

June 15, 2023

Based in Brooklyn's Gowanus neighborhood, husband-and-wife partners Nicholas and Deirdre McDermott founded their firm “on the belief that the future provides us with opportunity to constantly improve on the past.”

Abrahamic Family House

Like a Prayer: On David Adjaye’s Abrahamic Family House

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Izzy Kornblatt

June 13, 2023

A religious complex designed by Adjaye Associates aims to link the three Abrahamic faiths.

Christ Church Somerset West

Sacred Circle: A New Building in Cape Town by Noero Architects Faces Its Predecessor with a Very Different Form

South Africa

June 14, 2023

The architects transformed an existing suburban setting into a compound for Christ Church Somerset West by providing a landscape for both religious and secular activities.

Erloserkirche

Crossing Over: Harris + Kurrle Architekten Crafts a Hybrid Building in Cologne

Germany

Mary P

Mary Pepchinski

June 22, 2023

The compact yet monumental volume is part dual-congregation church, part day-care center, and part apartment complex.

Focus on Wood

Focus on Wood 2023

June 1, 2023

This month's special section examines timber construction, including strategies for sustainable sourcing, policies facilitating the material’s use, and engineering innovations accommodating unexpected typologies and unique locations.

COB3

Sourcing Sustainable Timber Starts with the Forest

Joann Gonchar

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

June 1, 2023

Architects grapple with the carbon impacts and benefits of building with wood.

PDX Main Terminal Expansion

ZGF's Portland Airport Expansion Takes Its Cues from the Forests of the Pacific Northwest

Portland, Oregon

June 1, 2023

Stumptown's mass-timber airport terminal prepares for takeoff.

Aquatics Complex for 2024 Olympics

Starts and Stumbles: The Rocky Road to Europe’s Ambitious Timber Construction Targets

Katharine Logan

June 1, 2023

European countries and cities have a slew of initiatives underway to incentivize building with wood. However, major obstacles persist.

Weathering Steel

Rising from the Ashes: Mass Timber Helps Resurrect a Fire-Torn Town in Rural California

Greenville, California

June 1, 2023

The Sierra Institute and atelierjones propose the use of fire-hardened, cross-laminated timber to replace the nearly 600 Greenville homes destroyed by California's Dixie Wildfire in 2021.

World of Volvo

Mass-Timber "Trees" Support the World of Volvo Experience Center

June 1, 2023

The carmaker gears up to showcase its brand with a sculptural, glass-enclosed structure topped with a cantilevered, timber-framed roof.

Innoasis

Helen & Hard Revamps an Outmoded Office Building in Norway with a Timber Insertion

Stavanger, Norway

Katharine Logan

June 1, 2023

An outdated modernist office building is spruced up for the 21st century.

Esbjerg Maritime Center

Projects from Around the World Demonstrate Diverse Approaches to Building with Wood

June 1, 2023

In-process, completed, and on-the-boards projects featuring wood, including housing, office towers, museums, and academic buildings from Europe and North America.

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts

Double Vision: Studio Gang Takes on Renovations and Expansions at Two American Museums

New York / Little Rock, Arkansas

Cliff P

Clifford A. Pearson

June 15, 2023

Studio Gang-designed additions to the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock open to the public.

Park entrance to the newly renovated Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts by Studio Gang and SCAPE

Studio Gang and SCAPE Integrate Old and New, Building and Nature, at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts

Little Rock

Cliff P

Clifford A. Pearson

April 24, 2023

Jeanne Gang's eponymous firm and the New York-based landscape architecture studio have completed the much-anticipated expansion and reimagining of the beloved arts institution at Little Rock's MacArthur Park.

Paris Aquatic Center

June 2023 Editor's Letter

Next Generation

Josephine Minutillo

Josephine Minutillo

June 2, 2023

The June issue takes a close look at wood construction and the next wave of emerging architects with the 2023 Design Vanguard.

The tallest primarily mass-timber structure to be tested for seismic resilience on an earthquake shaking table is located at the UC San Diego Englekirk Structural Engineering Center.

Shaken Not Stirred: Tallest Mass-Timber Shake-Table Test

May 16, 2023

A 10-story mass-timber tower designed by LEVER Architecture in collaboration with several university and industry partners withstood a recent seismic resiliency test at UCSD's Englekirk Structural Engineering Center.

Mass-Timber Exhibition, installation view

Mass-Timber Exhibition in Chicago Barks Up the Right Tree

Review: ‘REFRAMED: The Future of Cities in Wood’ at the Chicago Architecture Center through October 2023

May 10, 2023

A new exhibition at the Chicago Architecture Center showcases an array of technologies and designs seeking to go beyond minimizing the negative environmental impact of construction.

The 61st edition of Salone del Mobile

A Downsized Salone del Mobile Anchors Milan Design Week 2023

It’s still the world’s biggest design event, but is it past its prime?

Andrew Ayers

May 9, 2023

This year, Milan Design Week, including the 61st edition of Salone del Mobile along with SaloneSatellite and a slew of auxiliary events, returned to its normal April slot.

Euroluce 2023 New and Future Lighting Trends

Euroluce 2023 Exemplified the Best in Today's New and Future Lighting Trends

Milan

Andrew Ayers

June 19, 2023

Lighting was once again showcased in Milan with the return of Euroluce after a four-year absence, illuminating trends from both Fiera Milano and the Fuorisalone events.

Furnishings at Milan Monster Design Week 2023

The Furnishings at Milan's Monster Design Week Represented Both Historic and Technology-Forward Style

Milan

Andrew Ayers

June 19, 2023

Milan Design Week featured striking new furnishings at not one but multiple events: the legendary Salone del Mobile and alternative events around town.

Zero Carbon Women Centre on Bamboo Stilts, Moak Sharif, Tando Allahyar, Sindh–2011 © Heritage Foundation of Pakistan -min.jpg

Yasmeen Lari Awarded 2023 RIBA Royal Gold Medal

Matt Hickman

May 2, 2023

The 82-year-old Pakistani architect and activist was recognized chiefly for her late-career devotion to humanitarian design.

Courtyard Houses

A Pair of Courtyard Houses by Inaba Williams Architecture Responds Nimbly to Strict Energy Codes

Santa Monica, California

June 16, 2023

A bicoastal architecture studio finds formal inspiration in California's stringent energy codes, which are intended to make new construction and renovations increasingly sustainable.

Touch Wood

A New Book Explores the Material Consequences of Wood for Architecture

Review: ‘Touch Wood: Material, Architecture, Future’ by Carla Ferrer, Thomas Hildebrand, and Celina Martinez-Cañavate

June 13, 2023

Dedicated to wood, this anthology explores the medium through multiple lenses from sourcing to forestry management to construction methods and technical innovations.

American Cathedral

Guess the Architect: June 2023

June 14, 2023

A 1960s A-frame structure designed by a prominent Los Angeles architect defines the tentlike interior of a cathedral located in an inland American city known for its lively architecture.

Mendes da Rocha Sketch of a Private Residence

Currents: Retrospectives for Two Pritzker Prize-Winning Architects

June 9, 2023

In May, two exhibitions opened exploring the decades-long careers of British starchitect Norman Foster and late Brazilian modernist Paulo Mendes da Rocha.

NeoCon Products for 2023 and Beyond

NeoCon Products for 2023 and Beyond

Chicago

Sheila Kim.

June 12, 2023

Contract furniture’s biggest showcase is back and taking over Chicago, at the Merchandise Mart—and beyond. The furnishings here are just a hint of what’s on view.

New Wood Products for Summer 2023

New Wood Products for Summer 2023

Sheila Kim.

June 19, 2023

Versatile and warm, with countless applications for building materials and furnishings, wood has endured through the ages by evolving with today's manufacturing processes.

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