https://www.architecturalrecord.com/rss/1208 en-us This year's winners include the founders of former RECORD Vanguard firms WORKac and de Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop.  

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16137 Fri, 03 Mar 2023 08:43:11 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16137-american-academy-of-arts-and-letters-announces-2023-architecture-award-honorees The winners of the AIA’s 2022 Architecture Awards span from the modernization of Seattle’s Space Needle to a high school in suburban Massachusetts to the new U.S. embassy in London.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15517 Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:43:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15517-aia-announces-winners-of-2022-architecture-awards US-Embassy-London U.S. Embassy in London (2017) by KieranTimberlake. Photo © Richard Bryant Shed-AIA-Award-2022 The Shed (2019) by Diller Scofido + Renfro, Lead Architect, in collaboration with Rockwell Group. Photo © Iwan Baan Courtesy of DS+R Olmstead-AIA-Award-2022 Richardson Olmsted Campus (2017) by Deborah Berke Partners with Flynn Battaglia and Goody Clancy. Photo © Christopher Payne Courtesy of Deborah Berke Partners Billerica-AIA-Award-2022 Billerica Memorial High School (2020) by Perkins&Will. Photo © Chuck Cloi Owsley-AIA-Award-2022 The Owsley Brown II History Center (2017) by de Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop. Photo © Roberto de Leon Jr. Menil-AIA-Award-2022 Menil Drawing Institute (2018) by Johnston Marklee. Photo © Richard Barnes Courtesy of the Menil Collection Marine-AIA-Award-2022 Marine Education Center at the University of Southern Mississippi (2018) by Lake|Flato Architects with Unabridged Architecture. Photo © Casey Dunn Thaden-AIA-Award-2022 Home Building at the Thaden School (2019) by EskewDumezRipple. Photo © Tim Hursley Kendeda-AIA-Award-2022 Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design (2019) by Miller Hull Partnership. Photo © Jonathan Hillyer Century-AIA-Award-2022 The Century Project at the Space Needle (2018) by Olson Kundig. Photo Courtesy of Hufton + Crow Adlinger-AIA-Award Adlinger Center for Energy & the Environment (2016) by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | Partners. Photo © Michael Moran goncharj@bnpmedia.com (Joann Gonchar, FAIA) A venerable institution expands in a historic neighborhood in Kentucky.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13179 Thu, 28 Dec 2017 06:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13179-owsley-brown-ii-history-center-by-de-leon-primmer-architecture-workshop The History Center is clad in Norman bricks, which are long and thin. Precast concrete vertical fins at the windows give the impression that the masonry skin is peeling back. Photo © de Leon & Primmer The History Center is clad in Norman bricks, which are long and thin. Precast concrete vertical fins at the windows give the impression that the masonry skin is peeling back. Photo © de Leon & Primmer The History Center’s stair hall has been designed as an inviting social space. Its suspended steel structure is wrapped in stained poplar slats, CNC-cut and arranged to create a sculptural form based on a traditional balustrade. Photo © de Leon & Primmer The History Center’s stair hall has been designed as an inviting social space. Its suspended steel structure is wrapped in stained poplar slats, CNC-cut and arranged to create a sculptural form based on a traditional balustrade. Photo © de Leon & Primmer As with the main stair, the event rooms feature poplar slats. The ceiling of the upper room incorporates Lucite strips, whose unpolished edges subtly glow with reflected light. Photo © de Leon & Primmer Extending through the archives are passageways accessible to visitors and staff, offering views of the Filson’s treasures. Photo © de Leon & Primmer Image courtesy de Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop Image courtesy de Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop Image courtesy de Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop Image courtesy de Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop As it courts a new clientele, the Wild Turkey distillery opens a visitor center by De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop that pays homage to the landscape that gave birth to bourbon.

]]> 1406-wild-turkey-bourbon-visitor-center-de-leon-and-primmer-architecture-workshop.asp Mon, 16 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/7255-wild-turkey-bourbon-visitor-center Wild Turkey Bourbon Visit Center For the cladding and shading lattice on the visitor center, De Leon & Primmer chose cypress stained a rich black to mimic the charring on the inside of bourbon barrels.   Photo © De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop Wild Turkey Bourbon Visit Center For the cladding and shading lattice on the visitor center, De Leon & Primmer chose cypress stained a rich black to mimic the charring on the inside of bourbon barrels.   Photo © De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop Wild Turkey Bourbon Visit Center The architects designed the chevron pattern of the wood cladding to give visual interest to the otherwise simple form, basing the scheme on the quill structure of a turkey feather.   Photo © De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop Wild Turkey Bourbon Visit Center Perched on the edge of a steep slope, just downhill from the distillery, the visitor center’s bold geometry makes it a focal point on the Wild Turkey campus.   Photo © De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop Wild Turkey Bourbon Visit Center The reception desk and gift shop.   Photo © De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop Wild Turkey Bourbon Visit Center Ramp to the tasting room and the exhibition wall.   Photo © De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop Wild Turkey Bourbon Visit Center Exhibition space and distillery tour waiting area.   Photo © De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop Wild Turkey Bourbon Visit Center An exhibition wall narrates the distillery’s history and honors noteworthy Wild Turkey drinkers—Evel Knievel, Hunter S. Thompson, and Harry S. Truman, among them—while a ramp leading to the tasting room echoes a nearby railroad trestle visible from the windows above.   Photo © De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop Wild Turkey Bourbon Visit Center Distillery tours culminate in a whiskey-tasting in the shadow of an antique copper still.   Photo © De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop Wild Turkey Bourbon Visit Center Distillery tours culminate in a whiskey-tasting in the shadow of an antique copper still.   Photo © De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop Wild Turkey Bourbon Visit Center A ramp leading to the tasting room echoes the structure of a nearby railroad trestle.   Photo © De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop Wild Turkey Bourbon Visit Center A loftlike tasting room has spectacular views of the Kentucky River.   Photo © De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop Wild Turkey Bourbon Visit Center A loftlike tasting room has spectacular views of the Kentucky River.   Photo © De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop Wild Turkey Bourbon Visit Center Boomer.   Photo © De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop Wild Turkey Bourbon Visitor Center Image courtesy De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop Wild Turkey Bourbon Visitor Center Image courtesy De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop Wild Turkey Bourbon Visitor Center Image courtesy De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop Wild Turkey Bourbon Visitor Center Image courtesy De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop